Should your child become unwell and have any one of the COVID-19 symptoms:

1. High temperature
2. New, persistent cough
3. Loss of taste and/or smell

They should NOT attend school. They should remain at home and self-isolate and arrange a COVID-19 test.

Ventilation: We plan to take learning outside whenever possible. Indoors- windows will be open as much as possible.

IMPACT on SCHOOL UNIFORM: Please ensure that as the weather becomes colder, children are dressed in removable layers, maybe think about adding a vest, buying warm school hoodies and jogging bottoms. A warm waterproof coat this term is an essential.

Protect Trace and Track:

It is vitally important that should you or any of your household test positive to COVID-19 that you inform school as a matter of urgency.

Tel:01639882579

Text:Teacher2Parent

 

Healthy Choices:

Please reinforce healthy food choices in lunch boxes- try to make treats a healthy option. Please avoid chocolate. To encourage children to engage in active play during dinner hour, please be realistic about portion size.

This term our School is working on:

• Safely getting back into the rhythm of new school life
• Rebuilding friendships, being kind and loving, curious and active.
• Revising self-help skills; putting coats on, going to the toilet independently, eating with a knife and fork and tying laces.
• Developing literacy and numeracy skills across the curriculum
• Developing pupils’ ability to listen to others and focus purposefully in independent tasks.

Let’s get FIT: Mrs O’Leary will be working with Ms Beaumont to set a family fitness challenge. Please send your photos in on See Saw. Also take a look at Premier League Primary Stars- website of the week*

Can you walk a 2 km a day?

Can you cycle 5km a week?

Website of the month!*

Premier League Primary Stars (for inspiration)

It has been fantastic to get back to the pattern of life in school. Children, Parents and Staff are getting used to the new daily rhythm of school.

Thanks to Chloe Lyons from the Road Safety Team for her session delivered using distance learning.

Dear Parents/Carers,

Welcome back – we have missed you!!!

A warm welcome back to the Autumn Term, which promises to be, in a different way, action packed and full of exciting leaning for all.

Thanks for working with us

Important to share this information with Grandpas and Grandmas.

Time Slot Reminder: Please remember to keep to time slot. To ease congestion children in Mrs Turner’s to class arrive at 8:50. Please WAIT in CAR/house to help social distancing.

	Arrive	Depart
Miss  Wellington(Y2)	8:45	2:45
Mrs Turner(Y1)	8:50	2:50
Mrs James(Y1/R)	8:55	2:55
Mrs Mapp/Mrs Torrance(Reception)	8:558	2:55
Mrs Coughlin (Nursery)	Morning 9:00	11:30
	Afternoon 12:15	2:45

 

Social Distancing: Please remember one way system for drop off and try to keep 2m distance within the school yard (Use footprints to help). Could you also move away promptly to allow the next bubble of parents to drop off.

Challenges Ahead

Our main aim is to keep children safe whilst educating them spiritually, academically and particularly this term we will be supporting children’s wellbeing.

Beakfast Club: We are taking a cautious approach to the reintroduction of Breakfast Club and to using the school Dining hall for lunchtime. No Breakfast Club will run yet. This will allow children to remain in Class bubbles. We will closely monitor developments.

School Dinners: Hot food is available daily in the form of grab bags. Please use Parent Pay or take advantage of Free School Dinners. Dinner Money is payable on a Monday at a cost of £2.35 per meal (£11.75 weekly)

Dear Parents and Carers,

Please take some time to look again at the video linked to this post. I am sure it will help prepare our children for the new norm when school nurses visit later this year.

 

 

This is a message from our School Nurses:

“Our school nurses will look different this year when they visit pupils to give them the annual flu vaccine nasal spray.

Instead of wearing normal clothes, they will be wearing scrubs and personal protective equipment (PPE), such as a mask and face visor.

This is in line with national Covid-19 infection prevention guidance.

As the PPE significantly alters the nurses’ appearance and may be off-putting for some children, we have produced a show and tell video to help familiarise the children with the new arrangements.

In the three-minute video school nurse Sian Richards directly addresses primary school pupils in simple terms, explaining clearly why she and her colleagues will be wearing these funny outfits.

She also demonstrates the nasal spray for those who haven’t had it before.

We hope the video will prepare the pupils, helping them to feel more comfortable on the day the vaccinators visit.

We ask that you show this video to every class and also share on your social media feeds and in your electronic newsletter to parents.”

Link to video: English version – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uToIQn_wiBA

1. Great News:

Headteacher has worked closely with NPT Catering Service, Mrs Cheryl Beddoes and Mrs Jane Dennis to get our daily hot dinner service back into school. Please work with us, as we manage delivering daily, a hot food option to children in their class bubbles during the Autumn Term. As far as possible we will try to deliver the Primary Schools Meals Menu below. Thanks to our School Cook Mrs Pat McGimpsey, Teaching Assistant Mrs Ejimofor and Lunch supervisors, Lisa, Gina, Mandy and Brigid for working with us on finding new ways of working.

Meals are priced at £2:35

please could we remind you to use Parent Pay when Paying for school dinners.  If you need any assistance setting up your Parent Pay account please ring Mrs Jones in the office on 01639 882579.

We are doing our best and God will do the rest:)

Primary School Meals Menu

 

Autumn 2020 Menu	Menu Week 1	Menu Week 2	Menu Week 3
Week Commencing – (Monday)	7th September 2020	14th September 2020	21st September 2020
Week Commencing – (Monday)	28th September 2020	5th October 2020	12th October 2020
Week Commencing – (Monday)	19th October 2020
Week Commencing – (Monday)
Week Commencing – (Monday)

Food Allergies and Intolerances

Please speak to our kitchen staff about your child’s requirements.

Thank You

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Monday Week 1	Monday Week 2	Monday Week3
Cheese & Tomato Pizza	Frikadellen	Cheese & Tomato Pizza
Potato Smiles or Jacket Potato or Pasta	Potato Waffles or Jacket Potato or Pasta	Sauté Potatoes or Jacket Potato or Pasta
Baked Beans or Seasonal Salad	Baked Beans or Carrot Sticks and Beetroot	Baked Beans or Seasonal Salad / Coleslaw
Homemade Chocolate & Mandarin Sponge	Homemade Chocolate Cookie	Homemade Peach Sponge
Tuesday	Tuesday	Tuesday
Oven Baked Pork Sausage with Gravy	Oven Baked Pork Sausage with Yorkshire Pudding and  Gravy	Homemade Minced Beef Pie and Gravy
Creamed Potatoes or Jacket Potato	Boiled Potatoes or Creamed Potatoes or Jacket Potato	Creamed Potatoes or Jacket Potato
Broccoli, Carrots or Seasonal Salad	Broccoli or Carrots or Seasonal Salad	Green Beans or Garden Peas or Carrots
Chocolate Rice Krispie Cake	Homemade Fruit Sponge & Custard	Assorted Fruit Yogurt Pots
Wednesday	Wednesday	Wednesday
Homemade Chicken Curry with Homemade Bread	Homemade Meatballs / Garlic Bread	Crispy Crumbed Breaded Chicken Breast Fillet
Boiled Rice or Jacket Potato	Pasta or Jacket Potato	Boiled Potatoes or Jacket Potato or Spaghetti Hoops
Garden Peas & Sweetcorn or Seasonal Salad	Garden Peas or Sweetcorn or Seasonal Salad	Sweetcorn or Grated Carrot and Beetroot Salad
Raspberry Ripple Ice Cream Roll	Mini Donut	Homemade Biscuit & Fruit Wedges
Thursday	Thursday	Thursday
Roast Turkey & Yorkshire Pudding with Gravy	Roast Chicken with Homemade Stuffing & Gravy	Roast Turkey with Homemade Stuffing and Gravy
Boiled or Creamed Potatoes or Jacket Potato	Boiled or Creamed Potatoes or Jacket Potato	Boiled Potatoes or Jacket Potato
Peas or Carrots or Seasonal Salad	Garden Peas or Cabbage or Seasonal Salad	Carrots or Broccoli or Seasonal Salad
Homemade Biscuit & Fruit Wedge	Fresh Fruit Salad & Ice Cream	Mandarin Orange Jelly & Ice Cream
Friday	Friday	Friday
Breaded Birds Eye Fish Fingers	Baked Breaded Fish	Breaded Birds Eye Fish Fingers
Chipped Potatoes  or Jacket Potato or Pasta	Chipped Potatoes  or Jacket Potato or Pasta	Chipped Potatoes or Jacket Potato or Pasta
Baked Beans or Seasonal Salad	Baked Beans or Cucumber Sticks / Seasonal Salad	Baked Beans or Garden Peas
Homemade Marble Sponge	Homemade Sponge	Eves Sponge Pudding

The Welsh Network of Healthy School Schemes

 

Secondary Schools – Getting back to school and the school run

To keep your children safe and free from Coronavirus, schools have been making some important changes. Families can also play a part in keeping everyone safe.

 

Here are some tips on how you and your children can help.

Getting to and from school

•  If children are able to walk or cycle to school, this is a great option. Remember to maintain a 2 metre distance with anyone that isn’t part of your extended household.
• If travelling by car, to avoid crowding at the school gates, park further away from the school and then walk.
• For young people aged 11 and over and adults it is recommended that car sharing is only undertaken by people from your extended household bubble.

Make sure:

– everyone washes or sanitises their hands before getting in the car

– windows are kept open

• If dropping your child off remember to maintain a 2 metre distance if stopping to talk to other parents or staff
• If you use public transport, everyone needs to wash their hands or use hand sanitiser before and after travel. Try to keep at least 2 metres apart from other passengers. Parents and children over the age of 11 also need to wear a mask or face covering.

 

In school- Secondary setting

Wear a mask as requested

In secondary school, students may be required to wear masks within communal areas of the school where 2m social distancing is difficult to maintain. It is important that they know how to put masks on, use them properly, take them off and store or dispose of them safely.

When wearing a mask they should:

– Wash or sanitise their hands before putting their mask on.

– Cover both the nose and the mouth and make sure it fits snuggly under the chin.

– Use the ties or the ear loops to remove it once no longer needed.

– Put disposable masks in a bin with a lid or into a plastic bag to bin at home

– Place reusable masks into a plastic bag to take home and wash.

Ideally pupils should have a number of dry, clean masks to use throughout the day. If this is not possible and the same mask has to be used again during the same day, the ties or loops should be used to take the mask out of the plastic bag being careful not to touch the front of the mask.

• When wearing a mask they shouldn’t:

– Touch the front of their mask with their hands. If they do, they should wash/sanitise their hands immediately.

– Put the mask on their forehead or around their neck.

Undertake frequent handwashing

– Ensure your child knows that they should wash their hands thoroughly with warm water and liquid soap for 20 secs, frequently throughout the day.

Staying away from school

• Do not attend school and self-isolate if you or your child:

– have any symptoms of Coronavirus (self-isolate for 10 days)

– live in a household with a person who has tested positive for Coronavirus (self-isolate for 14 days)

– have been contacted by a contact tracer and told that you must self-isolate (self-isolate for 14 days)

 

Arrange a test for anyone who has any of the following symptoms by going to www.gov.uk/get-coronavirus-test or dialling the free number 119:

– New continuous cough

– High temperature (above 37.8oC)

– Reduced taste or smell (anosmia)

•  If your child has symptoms and you are waiting for their test results they must not attend school and must self-isolate.
•  If your child is a contact of a case, they must self-isolate for the full 14 days even if they have a negative test result.

 

Thank you – If we all do our bit to stop the spread of coronavirus,

the sooner we can all get back to normal.