Email – Year 6

Messages emailed to Year 6 parents

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6 years ago
Posted on 07th Apr 2020 by

Free School Meals

Families can apply for Free School Meals if they are entitled to certain benefits and have an annual income of £16,190 or below.

Please see below link for further information on the criteria.

Free School Meals Flyer

Although schools are currently not open, applications are still being processed, if you are successful you will receive vouchers via email for a selection of supermarkets worth £15 per child per week whilst school is closed due to the current situation.

Please follow the below link, this will take you to the Telford & Wrekin website where you are able to access more information download an application form to send directly to the team.

If you have any problems accessing please email into newdale.primary@taw.org.uk as this email address is monitored regularly.

https://www.telford.gov.uk/info/20028/school_meals/9/free_school_meals

 

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6 years ago
Posted on 31st Mar 2020 by

Scam Emails

We wanted to make you aware of a scam which effects families who are eligible for free school meals. The following extract has been taken from an official Government website that was updated today –

Be aware of scam emails

We have been informed that some parents have received an email stating the following: ‘As schools will be closing, if you’re entitled to free school meals, please send your bank details and we’ll make sure you’re supported’.

We can confirm that this is a scam email and is not official. We urge parents that if you receive any emails like this, please do not respond, and delete it immediately.

6 years ago
Posted on 25th Mar 2020 by

Information for the parents of children with SEND

Please see the following message from Vicky Ford MP for the parents of children with SEND, particularly those that have an Education and Health Care Plan (EHCP).

As ever, the document is asking Parents to consider whether their child’s needs can be met at home safely. This is to keep as many children as possible at home during this time to help reduce the transmission rates of Covid 19.

 

Minister Ford’s open letter to the SEND sector

6 years ago
Posted on 19th Mar 2020 by

Timetable for Parents

Dear Parents/Carers,

Our teams are continuing to work tirelessly to ensure we are as prepared as we can before school closure.

If you feel your child would respond well to a regular routine whilst they are away from school,  please see below of an example of how you could structure their day.

This is just a suggested timetable for you to use, clearly this is only for you to use if you would like to.

 

Time Activity Ideas
9-10:30am Literacy/Reading/

Spelling/Phonics

 See class pages for ideas.

 
10:30am Break Play Time

Exercise e.g. kids Zumba/www.supermovers.co.uk

Have some fruit/vegetables.
11am-12pm Maths See class pages for ideas.
12-1pm Lunch Help to make lunch

Eat/tidy up

Exercise, play outside/ dance/ride your bike
1-2pm Topic-based learning See class pages for ideas.
2-2.15pm Mindfulness break Quiet reading/drawing/colouring in/watch a mindfulness video on Youtube/listen to music.
2.15 – 3pm Science See class pages for ideas.

Please regularly check your child’s page on the school website for information for regular updates on home learning tasks.

 

Miss Cook

Headteacher

6 years ago
Posted on 19th Mar 2020 by

More information for key workers

Dear Parents / Carers,

 

We are still awaiting the list of who qualifies as a key worker. Thank you to all of those families who have returned their forms already.

We are now required to ask you what your partners job is, as we are being led to believe that in order to qualify for a school place, BOTH parents need to be in Key Worker professions. Please note that we may require evidence of the role you play and how that fits the description of a Key Worker.

 

Please could you return this information to school as soon as possible, if you have not already done so, to help us to continue to plan.

 

Thank you for your support

6 years ago
Posted on 19th Mar 2020 by

Important Coronavirus update – school closure to most pupils

Dear Parents/Carers,

Re: Coronavirus update – school closure to most pupils

As you will already know,  we have now been instructed to close the school to almost all children after this Friday, until further notice.

As advised by the government, we will do all we can to stay open for the children of key workers (e.g. NHS staff, police, others in frontline services) and children with certain needs.

We are waiting for the government to publish more information on what this means and exactly who this applies to. We will let you know shortly, as to how to let us know, if you believe your child falls into one of these categories.

All other children will need to stay at home, so we ask that you do not send your child into school from Monday onwards unless you have received notification from us.

Please note that this is a national closure – so while it is a challenging situation, we are not alone. We’ll re-open fully as soon as we can and will let you know when this is.

Home Learning –

Your child’s learning is of course important to us, so we’ll continue to help your child to learn.

Teachers have been and continue to be very busy organising ‘Home Learning’ for your children.

Today there will be a suggested timetable sent out for you to use, clearly this is only for you to use if you would like to.

Your child’s teacher will inform you as to how communication will be managed. In the majority of cases this will be digital, but we know there will be exceptions and that will be arranged separately.

If your child usually receives free school meals we will also be in touch with more information about how we will continue to provide this, with support from a scheme that the government has just announced.

This is as much as we know right now and we appreciate your continued patience with as we deal with this ever-changing situation. We understand that this latest news will have an impact on you and your family and it’s far from ideal, but we’ll continue to keep in touch with any updates as the situation develops.

As you can imagine the office staff are under enormous pressure trying to answer as many questions as they can.

We will undoubtedly get a lot more information from the Local Authority today and in the meantime are very busy planning how our partial opening and home learning offer will operate.

We ask that you trust that we are doing our best under very difficult circumstances and that as ever, we have children at the centre of all of our decision making.

And remember: if you or your child feels ill and you want to know what to do next, please use NHS 111 online.

Thank you again for your continued support, and we will be in touch with more information when we can.

Miss Cook

Headteacher