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Winter holidays support
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Snow / adverse weather procedure plan
Fri 02 Jan 2026On occasions, adverse weather may mean that the school site is unsafe and poses possible health and safety risks to the school community.
We aim to maintain safe access across the school site as far as reasonably practical within the resources available to us.
The school will always attempt to stay open in snowy or other adverse weather conditions with a particular view to facilitating work arrangements for essential workers.
The Headteacher, Chair of Governors and the site team will assess the safety risk to pupils and staff and the Head teacher, taking Local Authority advice into consideration, will take the final decision as to whether the school will remain open or will close.
The following factors will be taken into consideration when deciding whether to open the school:
- Safety of the children
- Safety of the site
- Warmth of the site
- Risk to staff/pupils travelling to the site
- Forecasted conditions and whether parents will be able to collect children
- Numbers of teaching staff able to be on site
Any decisions about any school closure will be made each morning by 7:30am, after a risk assessment and health and safety check of the school site.
School will remain open unless you have received a communication from the school.
Decisions will be communicated by one or more of the following means:
- App message to staff and parents
- Published on the school website and school instagram
- Message on school answerphone
- Learning activities and tasks published on Google Classroom on 2nd day of any school closure
- Waltham Forest website.
Please ensure your child is appropriately dressed for the cold weather.
If we are able to keep the school open, we will ensure the school is safe and that walk ways are clear of hazards. Salting in and around the school footpaths will take place but caution is advised when attending school.
In the event of school closure, a member of staff will, where possible, be available on site to ensure that messages and communication are maintained for the first few hours of closure (until 11am); thereafter the school site and office will be closed and unmanned.
- Parents are asked NOT call the school as staff will be busy and cannot answer the phone. Calling the school also blocks the lines for essential calls to be made.
- If conditions deteriorate during a school day a decision may be made to close the school early. An app message will be sent parents to inform them of any changes.
- If you do not hear from the school, and you have checked the school app and website, it is a normal day and we are OPEN
Breakfast Club and After School Club
In the case of severe weather or snow we may be unable to open Breakfast Club or After School Club. In the case of heavy snow you should expect that Breakfast and After School Clubs are closed or may have reduced hours.
Please visit the Met Office for updates on cold weather and weather warnings for Leytonstone and our local area.
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PLATINUM School Games Award
Fri 05 Sep 2025We are delighted to announce that we, George Tomlinson Primary School, have achieved the School Games PLATINUM Mark Award for the 2024/25 academic year.
The School Games Mark is a Government-led award scheme launched in 2012, facilitated by the Youth Sport Trust to reward schools for their commitment to the development of competition across their school and into the community, and we are delighted to have been recognised for our success.
With 100% of KS2 pupils attending a sports event, 82% attended more than one event and 48% of our KS1 young people competed in local inter-school competitions, we are extremely proud of our pupils for their dedication to all aspects of school sport.
As part of our application, we were asked to fulfill criteria in the areas of participation, competition, workforce and clubs, and we are pleased that the hard work of everyone at our school has been rewarded this year.
A special thanks to: all of the children here at GT and to Jade, Mr Brown, Mrs Loonat and all our support staff who support on PE trips
#proud2beGT
We look forward to applying once again in 2026!
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Back to school 3rd September 2025
Wed 20 Aug 2025We are excited to welcome our children and families back to school on Wednesday 3rd September.
Please note gates for entry for Years 1 - 6:
Year 1 and 3 - small gate on Harrington Road, next to Myrtle our school boat.
Years 2, 4, 5 and 6 either playground gate on Vernon or Harrington Roads into our large playground.
Please support our staff by dropping off your child at the school gate.
Please visit the following links for more information for 2025/26:
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Cold weather information
Fri 12 Jan 2024Please visit the Met Office for updates on cold weather and weather warnings for Leytonstone and our local area.
If due to heavy snow or other severe weather we will let parents and carers know of any school closure by 7:30am on the day using the school app, website, X twitter, Instagram and Waltham Forest website. Any decisions about any school closure will be made each morning after a risk assessment and health and safety check of the school site.
Please ensure your child is appropriately dressed for the cold weather.
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2023/24 and 2024/25 term dates on the website
Sat 28 Oct 2023Term dates for this year 2023/24 and next year 2024/25 are on our school website term date page and on the school calendar.
Please check these carefully and note that we do not authorise holidays during term time.
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Saluting our sisters art work 2023
Sat 28 Oct 2023Some of our children created portraits of the wonderful black women who work at George Tomlinson as part of the theme for Black History Month 2023 "saluting our sisters". We entered the portraits as 1 piece in the Waltham Forest Black History Month art competition and we came 2nd in our category!
You can read more about the competition here
https://www.theskillswithin.com/post/celebrating-black-history-month-with-waltham-forest-schools
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GTTV
Fri 13 Jan 2023Do you know you can watch our sporting achievements on our YouTube channel GTTV.
Click here to watch our videos and share in our achievements.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjgXiAkvzcYO3NCDEzNniFg?app=desktop
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Our school app is now live! ✅
Mon 21 Mar 2022We are excited to announce that our new app is now live!
You should receive a permission form soon so we can invite you to our new app. Once you have signed this you will be sent a text with instructions to get going.
Please Click here for more information, if you need any help please don't hesitate to contact us.
