Due to icy conditions across the infant and junior playgrounds and several routes around the school, the White Hart Lane entrance WILL NOT BE OPEN this morning.

Children should use the main Castle Street entrance only as the route into the building at the front of the school has been cleared. Registers will remain open a little later for those children that usually use White Hart Lane and are therefore delayed. Thank you for your co-operation.

Dear Parents/Carers,
Regrettably, school will be closed tomorrow due to health and safety reasons. These are:
* the current levels of snow on the school site and the surrounding roads are likely to be unsafe tomorrow
* the forecast for further snowfall throughout the day
* the freezing conditions that are likely to cause ice on roads and pavements
* the low numbers of staff that are likely to be able to reach the school in the morning
We hope to reopen on Monday. We are informing parents this evening so that sufficient time is available for parents to plan for tomorrow.

The current Met office forecast is light snow in Portchester and Fareham from 16:00. (yellow warning)

With this in mind we are currently intending to stay open for the whole school day.

After-school club is currently running until usual closing time, but if forecasts shift and mean that we will need to close before 18:00, Mrs Goodger will message the relevant users of the After-school club.

The children look fantastic in their world book day costumes by the way!

We thought the phone lines were quiet this morning! We currently have no working phone lines, so please email the office (office@castle.hants.sch.uk) to contact us.

Work is currently being undertaken to restore the lines (as a high priority).

Thursday 1 March

School is currently open. However, we will continue to monitor the situation which may result in a partial closure for this afternoon.