In 2025, the Government introduced EYFS nutrition guidance that asks schools to move away from handing out birthday gifts and treats from home to celebrate birthdays. We follow this guidance across the whole school and therefore kindly ask that you do not send your child into school with sweets, confectionary or gifts for staff to hand out to children to celebrate their birthdays.

Instead, we will continue to celebrate birthdays in an inclusive manner whereby children can wear their own clothes to school on their birthday and either before or after a weekend or school holiday, if their birthday falls on these dates.

If we receive cakes/sweets these will be handed back to the parent at the door if possible and if not, they will be taken to the office where parents can collect them at the end of the day.

Thank you all for your support in this.