Dear Parents and Carers,

Although late in the evening, I wanted to get in touch with you all as soon as possible, to communicate our plans following tonight’s government announcement that all school’s will move to remote learning.  This means that our school has been asked to close for the majority of pupils, apart from children of critical key workers and those children deemed vulnerable.  In order for school staff and leaders to set this up safely and effectively, we will  need to be closed to all pupils tomorrow. I am aware this is not ideal and am equally frustrated, however I hope you will understand that it would be unsafe to expect staff to set this up overnight ready for tomorrow morning.  Our staff are striving to provide the best online learning they can and will need tomorrow to ensure they can offer high quality provision.  We will be in touch with you tomorrow morning with further details of critical key worker emergency childcare and our online learning provision.

Many thanks for your ongoing messages of support and your continued understanding in these difficult times.

Yours Sincerely

Clare Allsopp

If your child or anyone else in your household shows the following symptoms;

• A high temperature – this mean you fell hot to touch on your chest or back (you do not need to measure your temperature)
• A new, continuous cough – this means coughing a lot for more than an hour, or 3 or more coughing episodes in 24 hours (if you usually have a cough, it may be worse than usual)
• A loss or change to their sense of smell or taste – this means you’ve noticed you cannot smell or taste anything, or things smell or taste different to normal

PLEASE DO NOT BRING THEM INTO SCHOOL

Contact school to inform us

Self- isolate the whole household

Get a Covid 19 test

Inform school immediately of the test result

Below is the link to the latest up to date information from the NHS

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/

Here are some links to support websites;

https://www.annafreud.org/coronavirus-support/

https://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/coronavirus/coronavirus-and-your-wellbeing/#

If you are self-isolating at home, here are some ideas for some activities for your child:

Read with them

Help teach them the time

Encourage them to practise their handwriting

Play TT rockstars and spelling shed

Write a story

Write a diary

Write a description of a picture/scene

Write a fact file about a favourite character from a book

Bake/cook and learn about measure

Go for a run or do home exercises – body coach type thing

Thank you.