September 2026 Admissions Open Events

Our tours have now finished for this year.  If you would like to look around our school please email office@greatleighs.essex.sch.uk.  Statutory national closing date for reception admissions starting September 2026 is 15th January 2026.  Applications should be made online via www.essex.gov.uk/admissions.

Whether your child is starting with us in Foundation Stage, or moving to another class in the school, you will find all the information you need below.

Great Leighs Uniform        How to order      Second hand Uniform 

We expect all children to wear school uniform and to take a pride in it. The main item of uniform is the red school cardigan or jumper, with an embroidered logo, and our school tie which can be purchased from the School Office. We encourage children to wear black trousers/skirts, a white shirt/blouse and black trainers. All clothing should be clearly named. Girls can wear red gingham dresses in the summer months. Foundation Stage pupils may wear either a white polo ‘T’ shirt or white shirt, but are not expected to have a school tie until they enter Year 1.

Long hair should be tied back and sensible hair accessories – preferably with school colours – should be used.  No jewellery should be worn to school.  A watch and small stud earrings are permitted, but these must be removed for PE lessons.  Nail polish, make-up false nails of any type and hair dye are not allowed.

You can also purchase second hand uniform from our Friends of Great Leighs School (FOGLS) uniform shop.  All money raised from the sale of this uniform goes to the school as part of the FOGLS fundraising efforts.  Click here to visit the second hand shop.

PE

All Children should have a white school T-shirt with logo, and a pair of red shorts for PE. Plimsolls or trainers are needed for games/fitness outside. A plain tracksuit is needed for games in the cooler months. For safety earrings should be taken out for PE activities.  If your child cannot remove their earrings by themselves, then please ensure they do not wear them to school on a PE day.  All children should wear their PE kit to school on their PE days, with the exception of Foundation Stage, where we ask that all PE kit is named and stored in a named PE bag at school.

Book bags/Ruck sacks

All children from Foundation Stage to Year 3 should use a named, school book bag to bring their reading book, home learning activities and letters to and from school.

Where can I purchase the uniform?

One Stop School Gear, who are based in Chelmsford, supply all our uniform.  They have a shop at Unit 1, Beehive Business Centre, Beehive Lane, Chelmsford, Essex CM2 9TE, where you can see and purchase the uniform, as well as ordering online. You are able to visit this shop during this year’s summer holiday if this is your preferred way of purchasing uniform.

Online Ordering

Orders can be placed at any time online and be delivered to your home address but will be charged postage according to the weight of the items purchased.  For further orders please see their website, www.onestopschoolgear.com.

Shop

The shop is located on Beehive Lane in Chelmsford, where they have adequate parking.  The school will only stock a small amount of ties which can be purchased for emergencies.

To order school tracksuits, please contact the school office.

  • Breakfast Club Monday to Friday 7.45am – 8.30am at £4.50 per session
  • Stay ‘n’ Play after school Monday to Friday 3.10pm – 6.00pm at £12.00 per session

Other Clubs available before or after school run by outer school agencies are:

  • CMXSC Gymnastics Club – Thursday after school from 3:15
  • Chelmsford City Football Year 5/6 – Wednesday after school from 3:15
  • Brogan’s School of Dance – Wednesday after school from 4:15pm

Peripatetic Lessons available during school that are run by outer school agencies are:

  • Drums – Monday
  • Keyboard – Tuesday
  • Brass/Woodwind – Friday

Payment for these is made direct to the organisation.

Should your child wish to take up any of these peripatetic music lessons please let the office know ASAP.

Remote Education plan

Views of the children

About school lunches

Free School Meals and Pupil Premium Information

Our policy

Being at Great Leighs school is not all about learning and fun! We are healthy too. We believe strongly that happy healthy children learn, grow and develop into wonderful people. Our children agreed, with the help of the school council, that our school policy was to have a healthy fruit or vegetable based snack Monday to Thursday and, as is healthy in life, a treat day would be Friday.  We also have a Healthy Crew who meet half termly to discuss how we can continually make the school a healthier and happier place.

The Learning Council presented to the school to promote healthy snacks and good hygiene.  They also created a poster about e-safety

and if you are looking for ideas for a healthy lunchbox, here are their ideas for a healthy lunch box.

Links

Below are some very useful web links to recipes, advice and fun activities that can be supportive for yourself, and your child.

At Foundation Stage our children use specific programmes directed by the teacher to support their learning.

As the children enter Key Stage 1 children are expected to use the internet to research a variety of topics. From this age upwards all children receive an annual internet safety session at the beginning of the autumn term in line with our Responsible Internet Use Agreement

At this time parents are asked to discuss internet safety with their child and both child and parent need to sign and return our Responsible Internet Permission Form which is required in order that children can use the Internet in a supervised manner at school.

Following a recent meeting with local headteachers, it has been recognised that, at times, schools have needed to deal with issues arising from a negative use of social media websites, where inappropriate comments regarding the school or members of its community have been made.

We would urge all our parents to refrain from posting negative comments about individuals or the school on social media websites, as it has detrimental effects on the school community which is continually striving to provide the best learning and nurturing environment for our pupils. Should you have any concerns regarding your child we encourage you to meet with your child’s class teacher and then with me should the problem continue.

Likewise we would urge you to keep an eye on any social media sites your children are using – bearing in mind that most social media platforms require children to be 13 years of age to register. Although used out of school, issues regarding the bullying of children via social media sites come to school and affect the relationships of pupils and their learning. I hope that we can work together on this matter as we all want our school to flourish and to nurture your children who are at the heart of all that we do.

We regularly publish internet e-Safety tips on our newsletter.

Please find below word forms that you can download, click on enable editing, complete and return via email to office@greatleighs.essex.sch.uk.