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Friday 20th March 2020
Dear Parents and Carers
As you know, school is closing today until further notice due to the coronavirus outbreak. This is a very sad day, which none of us could have imagined just a few weeks ago.
Schools are now being ‘re-purposed’ to provide emergency childcare for the children of key workers. As a school, we are totally committed to supporting the wider community to ensure everyone is kept safe. At this stage, this service will be provided here in school from 8am to 5pm, Monday to Friday, staffed by our school staff. This will be constantly reviewed and it is possible that the facility will move to a local ‘hub’ at another school in the community.
This is currently for the children of parents who work for frontline services ie NHS staff, Police, Fire service, Prison workers, Social workers, Care workers, school workers. It is likely that this provision will be extended to other families and I will let you know as soon as I have details on this.
Thank you for completing the online questionnaire as this helps us to identify the families in greatest need. If you didn’t complete the questionnaire and you fall into the above categories please contact me as a matter of urgency.
Please contact us today, if you haven’t already, to let us know if you need this emergency provision. We need to know which days you will be working and how many children need care. I will let you know about catering for this provision as soon as it becomes clear.
There is a scheme being developed for providing lunches for all children entitled to free school meals. I am still unclear about how this is going to work but will contact you once I know.
As we don’t know how long the school closure will last and how this virus will spread there are still so many unanswered questions. I will continue to do my best to keep you updated through text and through the website. Please ensure school has your most up to date mobile number and that you are registered with sQuid so we can keep in touch.
There is a lot of uncertainty around summer term events such as the year 5 and 6 residential. A decision about this will be made soon and in the event of a cancellation we will almost certainly be able to give full refunds to those who have already paid.
We hope you are clear about the home learning work which your child has been set by their teacher. This should have been communicated through the class page on the website or via DoJo. Your child’s teacher will update this if the school closure continues.
Please remember that the most valuable thing you can do with your child is to read to them and listen to them read. Any reading material is useful including online books, Newsround and any children’s books you may have at home.
Most children will now have brought home spare exercise books from school. We still have a few left and these can be collected from the school hall after school today.
If you are unsure about any logins your child needs eg hwb please contact school at any time as there will always be someone here.
We wish you and your families well over the coming weeks and hope you keep safe and healthy. This seems like the saddest end of term ever and I hope we never see anything like this again.
Please stay in touch and don’t hesitate to call me if you need any advice regarding your child’s learning. I will be here in school every day.
Kind regards
Mrs C M Hewitt