5 years ago
Posted on 08th Jan 2021 by Mrs Millington

Information for children who have been allocated a critical worker/vulnerable child worker – 11th – 15th January 2021

Parents/Carers will be contacted by 12.00 pm via text message on Friday 8th January informing them their child has been allocated a space at school between 11th – 15^th January.

School day starts at 8.40 am, please wait at the gate for a member of staff to welcome you onto school site. Parents/carers will continue to follow the one way system to drop off their child/children. Please remember to wear a face mask when on site.

Children are to wear school uniform. On days that children take part in PE please wear PE kit (exactly the same as before Christmas). Individual PE days are found on class news feed.

School lunches will be available to order however we do have a limited menu and may not be able to offer what is currently advertised.

Parents/Carers are asked to wait at the school gates to collect their child at 3.00 pm, a member of staff will welcome you on site.

Breakfast Club – will only be available to those children who are currently registered, we will not be taking any extra bookings.

After School Club – is only available to those who are currently booked, we will not be taking any extra bookings.

Kind regards

5 years ago
Posted on 06th Jan 2021 by Mrs Millington

New critical worker/vulnerable child form – Monday 11th – Friday 15th January

Please complete the form below if your child is eligible for a school place during the current school closure. All applications will be reviewed and considered once the form has closed at 9.00am on Thursday 7th January.

Please note that the filling in of this form does not guarantee you a place.

A member of school staff will contact you by Friday afternoon to inform you if we can safely offer your child/ren a place. If we are unable to, we will support you in directing you to the remote learning offer we have in place.

All school staff would like to thank you for your unwavering support in these testing times.

https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=2s8TOK9SpUy44yMVeXcKujfWR1zrUJ1JhQgacqv0-RBUMDRNQko4NUZQTFNYV0paS1gzQ1JNUFEwSS4u

5 years ago
Posted on 06th Jan 2021 by Mrs Millington

Critical worker / vulnerable worker form

Unfortunately there is a glitch with the current form. We are working on it and will send a text out once this has been rectified.

If you have completed a form for next week you will need to complete the new form as this will have been deleted.

Please note that we will not offer places on a first come first served basis. We look at each child individually.

5 years ago
Posted on 04th Jan 2021 by Mrs Millington

Critical/Essential Workers

Thank you for those parent/carers that have responded to our survey sent out tonight. I can confirm if you have not been contacted by either email or text message to provide further information we will see you in the morning.

5 years ago
Posted on 04th Jan 2021 by Mrs Millington

Update

Thank you to all those parents and carers who have responded so promptly to the form requesting a place for their child/ren.

This form link will no longer be accepting responses tonight to allow staff to plan provision for tomorrow.

School staff will now go through responses and plan provision accordingly.

If you are a parent / carer who has not responded to the form by the cut off, we will be sending another form tomorrow for only those parents who think they are eligible to complete.

Many of our staff are working parents as well and we can appreciate how you are feeling now! Thank you for your unwavering support and flexibility.

5 years ago
Posted on 04th Jan 2021 by Mrs Millington

Update from Miss Cook

Update 4.1.21

Dear Parents/Carers,

As many of you will have seen, schools across the country are closed with immediate effect.

We are as frustrated as many of you are with this last minute change of direction.

As ever, we want to support you in whatever way we can. Our teaching teams are all set for online learning and will contact you either later on tonight or in the morning with more information.

We will be operating a limited offer in school to support some specific groups. Please open and complete this form if you think you qualify for this support.

We have already operated very successful online learning for 2 year groups in school and are confident that we can roll this out across the whole school quickly.

Clearly the big issue could well be access to digital devices for our children, especially if you have more than one child in need of access at the same time. Teachers will be delivering live sessions which will be recorded and shared. The intention being that children can tune into the sessions when a device becomes available to them.

https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=2s8TOK9SpUy44yMVeXcKujfWR1zrUJ1JhQgacqv0-RBUNVlMN0I4UzMyWFRGMEZBN1ZDTkhYWDc0TS4u

We really do need your support. Children may well need an adult to help them log on and get started! Again, if you are stuck, email in to your child’s year group email that was posted earlier.

More information to follow tomorrow.

Miss Cook

Headteacher

5 years ago
Posted on 04th Jan 2021 by Mrs Millington

Message from Miss Cook

Update 4th January 2021

Dear Parents/Carers,

The Newdale team have all been working very hard today, making sure we are ready to welcome your children back to school tomorrow.

We are aware that there is a Government announcement at 8pm tonight that may change things, but we wanted to share as much information as we can now, with things as they currently stand.

We have further reviewed our risk assessment and consulted staff on measures we feel would limit risk to a greater degree.

Procedures that stay the same –

Parents are required to continue using the one way system, maintaining safe distances to other people and must wear face coverings at all times on our site.
Parents must air on the side of caution and not send children into school if they are displaying any symptoms of the virus, or any other illness.
Lunches will be delivered to class bases so that children can remain in their allocated seats to avoid additional close contact with others.
PE will continue as normal but adults leading PE will ensure that children are moving around for the whole session, again to avoid close contact.
Very regular hand washing and sanitising will continue to take place throughout the day.
Children in KS 1 and 2 will continue to have allocated seats so that we have seating plans to access should a positive case arise. (This is more difficult for our youngest children, but rest assured safety measures are in place to minimise risk).
Staff are to continue to wear face coverings in communal areas.

Additional measures –

Staff are now invited to take more regular rapid tests to ensure they are not carrying the virus into school.
Staff will continue to whole class teach throughout the day, but will not be running intervention groups and focus group teaching sessions.
Staff will not be hearing individual children read. We therefore ask you to read as often as you can with your children at home.
Parents need to keep on the move when dropping off and picking up children. We therefore ask you to not stop to deliver messages to teachers or teaching assistants and to do this via telephoning school or via year group email addresses which are posted below.
Reading diaries will be collected in tomorrow and not handed out again until Monday. From then on reading diaries will be collected in every Friday and handed out again every Monday until further notice. This is to reduce risk of transmitting the virus.

If you require any further information about your child’s class, please use the year group email. This will be monitored daily and staff will get back to you as quickly as they can. Also don’t forget to refer to the class pages on our website which will be updated regularly.

Reception: newdale.yearrteam@taw.org.uk

Year 1: newdale.year1team@taw.org.uk

Year 2: newdale.year2team@taw.org.uk

Year 3: newdale.year3team@taw.org.uk

Year 4: newdale.year4team@taw.org.uk

Year 5: newdale.year5team@taw.org.uk

Year 6: newdale.year6team@taw.org.uk

Obviously this is an ever changing picture and we are only able to work with the information we have at this time. We appreciate it is a very difficult situation and rest assured we always have your children at the centre when decision making. We will send further information should anything change overnight.

Thank you for ongoing support.

Miss Cook

Headteacher

5 years ago
Posted on 03rd Jan 2021 by Mrs Millington

Message from Miss Cook

Despite all of the media confusion, we are still on track for full reopening on Tuesday 5th January. Teachers are in on Monday 4th January carrying out our pre planned training day and getting ready to welcome back your children.

Please note all procedures concerning preventing the spread of the virus, remain in place until further notice. See you on Tuesday!

5 years ago
Posted on 10th Dec 2020 by Mrs Millington

School lunches – menu change

On Monday 14th December we will be changing the menu to meatballs and spaghetti.

Kind regards

5 years ago
Posted on 09th Dec 2020 by Mrs Millington

Important update for the Christmas holidays

9th December 2020

Dear Parents/Carers,

You may have seen on the news or social media that the Government have given Headteachers the right to close school a day earlier than scheduled. The reason they have done this is outlined here…

‘Education providers are asked to remain contactable so they can assist with contact tracing where necessary. This will allow enough time for positive coronavirus (COVID-19) cases to be identified and confirmed by a test and for relevant contacts in the education setting to be traced. We are clear that beyond 6 days after the final day of teaching, school and further education staff are not asked to play a role in any contact tracing. It is also likely that the need to support the tracing process will reduce dramatically over the course of the 6 days as the majority of cases should be identified earlier in the week.’

We have made the decision that we will NOT be closing a day early. We already had our systems in place before this announcement and we really do want to prioritise the time children spend in school catching up on missed learning. We also factored in the disruption this would cause to working parents at such short notice. As ever, we are continuing to do all we possibly can to minimise risk in school and we continue to need your help with this at home. Most importantly, by not sending in your child if they are unwell. Please air on the side of caution.

Please note these important messages concerning the holiday period –

If your child tests positive for coronavirus (COVID-19), having developed symptoms more than 48 hours since being in school (Monday 21^st December onwards), the school should not be contacted. Parents and carers should follow contact tracing instructions provided by NHS Test and Trace.
For the first 6 days after teaching ends, if a pupil tests positive for coronavirus (COVID-19), having developed symptoms within 48 hours of being in school (Saturday 19^th December and Sunday 20^th December), the school is asked to assist in identifying close contacts and advising self-isolation, as the individual may have been infectious whilst in school.

If you have a situation linked to point 2, here is what you must do immediately please –

Call the main school contact number of 01952 387720 and email newdale.primary@taw.org.uk and leave a message with the following details, name of child, class teacher and best contact number.

This number will be manned throughout the Christmas period (up to the 24th December).

We would then contact you for more details and then contact school staff to discover ‘direct contacts’. Following this all ‘direct contacts’ would be notified to self-isolate immediately.

Clearly, we are so hopeful this does not happen, as we want all of our families to have a fantastic Christmas without the restrictions of self-isolating.

Again, we thank you for your support in this important matter.

Miss Cook

Headteacher

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