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Monday 4th January, 2021

Year 3 Home Learning Spring 1

Hello Year 3!

We hope you have all had a lovely Christmas. We were really looking forward to seeing you tomorrow and hearing all about it. Don’t worry though you will still get to see us and interact with us on Google Classrooms and Purple Mash. At 11.30am tomorrow (Tuesday 5th) we would love you to join us on Google Meet to say hello, Happy New Year and to share a short story.

The link for the Google Meet session tomorrow is:

https://meet.google.com/lookup/fddngmobl5

Or, you can login to Google Classroom with your logins (which are in your reading diaries) and click on the link at the top which will also let you join the Meet. There is a parent guide on this post for accessing Google Classrooms.

Don’t worry if you find this a little tricky it is just a practice run and we are all learning together. If you are having any issues and would like some help at any point in the next few weeks, the Year 3 team can be contacted with the following email address:

newdale.year3team@taw.org.uk

We can’t wait to see you online!

Mrs Trevor, Mrs McLaughlin and Mrs Pablos :) :) :)

Google classroom information for parents

Monday 4th January, 2021

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.

Monday 4th January, 2021

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

 

Monday 4th January, 2021

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

Sunday 3rd January, 2021

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!

Friday 18th December, 2020

Star of the Week- KS1

Aria-Rose from Miss McCullagh’s class- for always having a positive attitude at school and for being a kind and considerate friend.

Marco from Mrs Plimmer’s class- for going up a band in his reading book!

Demi from Miss Newport’s class- for always following the SMART code and for being a good friend.

Grace from Miss Broadhurst’s class- for always following the SMART code and being kind to other children

Lilly from Miss Jones’- for being an absolute star in all areas of her learning and beyond! You are a credit to your family 😊

 

Friday 18th December, 2020

Last letter of 2020

 

Dear Parents/Carers,

 

We would firstly like to thank you for all of the support we have had over this tricky period. It has not been easy and despite our best efforts, we have had to deal with a very small number of cases in school this term. Our number of cases is relatively few in comparison to many other schools and we know that our partnership working with you, the Health Protection Hub, the Local Authority along with our strict procedures have helped to keep this figure so low.

 

Should your child(ren) develop symptoms or have a positive test on either Friday 18th, Saturday 19th or Sunday 20th December then you MUST let us know. Could you please do this by using the following email address newdale.primary@taw.org.uk, this will be monitored over that period by two members of staff who remain on call or alternatively calling the school office on 01952 387720.  The school number will be diverted until 6.00pm on 24th December.  Please only call this number to report symptoms or a positive test and not for general enquiries.

 

If your child(ren) develops symptoms or tests positive outside of this time period (Monday 21st December onwards) then please use the NHS Track and Trace system and you do not need to let us know, unless they are continuing to self-isolate once we return on 5th  January. This is because it will have been longer than 48 hours since they were in school and will therefore, not affect any other staff or students. Please note as of Monday 14th December, the isolation period is only 10 days.

 

Thank you for your continued support with this and I sincerely hope it will not be needed for any family over the festive period. I hope you all have a well-earned rest and have the opportunity to spend it with loved ones.

 

Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from all of the staff at Newdale primary School and Nursery. We look forward to welcoming you back on Tuesday 5th January 2021.

 

Miss Cook

Thursday 17th December, 2020

Winter Free School Meal Vouchers

All vouchers have been sent by the council by email a week ago today, the only exceptions being the ones that have come directly to the school that we have sent home today.

 

If you have not received a voucher for a child that receives FSM,  please email the winterfunding.grant@telford.gov.uk  giving your name, the child/children’s names you haven’t had the voucher for and the home address.

 

If you have not applied for free school meals and your child receives them under the universal Free School Meal offer, where by all reception and year one students get a hot meal each day, you will need to head to www.telford.gov.uk/FSM and make an online application. Eligibility can be checked and if you qualify they will be notified and can issue the voucher.

 

If you have any problems redeeming the voucher this is the number you will need to contact  0344 693 9901

 

Thursday 17th December, 2020

T&W message from Santa

Telford & Wrekin Council have had a special video produced for the children of Telford and Wrekin. It’s a message from Santa himself and we thought you might wish to share this with your classes or perhaps in any emails you send out to parents.

You can view the video on YouTube here https://youtu.be/fgtCkyIcpIk

We hope this brings some joy to those who see it. Please share with everyone you can.