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Tuesday 5th January, 2021

Message for Year 3 home learners!

Hello to our children currently at home.

As you are aware we are having a google meet session today at 11.30. In the meantime we would like you to let us know if you have any issues with accessing a device to use this learning platform. Similarly, if you have any issues with accessing the internet. This is so we can make arrangements to provide the correct provision for the children over the next few weeks.

Please email us directly as soon as possible to our class email newdale.year3team@taw.org.uk

Many thanks, Year 3 team

Tuesday 5th January, 2021

Update 5.01.21

Good morning,

 

Many staff working in our school have children of their own and therefore can completely sympathise with you this morning. We know that the last minute decision by the Government will undoubtedly cause mass disruption on so many levels. Many schools have closed their doors today in order to plan for the forthcoming weeks. We worked very late into the night in order to be able to at least allow some of our critical, key workers access to school places for their children, so that they can go to work to support us all. As you know, it is so important that everyone supports each other over this difficult time.

 

We understand that some people may have missed the communication that we sent more or less immediately after the announcement last night and we will look at what further we can offer later on today after we have processed the applications we have already received.

 

Please help us by not turning up for school if you are in anyway unsure as to if your child qualifies for a place. We are only able to accept certain children as per the guidance and only children that we have received a form from at this point. A ‘lock down’ is a ‘lock down’, and we need to only have children in school whose parents really do qualify as key workers please. Please also only take up the place if you really need it e.g. shift work patterns may mean you can in fact safely keep you child at home. Please do not be offended if we ask for proof of key worker status and even ask for shift patterns so that we can plan accordingly.

 

School staff will be contacting parents of children who we believe qualify for places who have not yet been in touch. Please wait for communication from school and access the online learning offer for your child today.

 

If you are struggling with accessing the online offer, please contact either the office or your child’s teacher through their email contact.

 

Again, thank you for all of your support.

 

Miss Cook

Headteacher

Monday 4th January, 2021

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.

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 😊