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Year 3 Message

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4 years ago
Posted on 14th Feb 2022 by

Safer and Stronger Communities- questionnaire reminder

Dear Parent/Carer,

We would be most grateful if you could spend just a few minutes filling in this Safer and Stronger Communities questionnaire form. The closing date is Monday 28th February.

As a school, we are always keen to develop not only what goes on in school, but also what goes on in our local community.

https://forms.office.com/r/SmvLVQ5ryF

The results of this survey will be shared with the Safer Stronger Communities team and they will work with us in making some positive changes for everyone.

There is a Safer & Stronger launch event to be held for the Ketley and Overdale ‘Neighbourhood Action Plan’ (NAP). The Ketley launch will be on Saturday March 5th at the Ketley community centre and the Overdale launch has a potential save the date of Saturday 30th April, location is to be confirmed. More information will follow.

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4 years ago
Posted on 04th Feb 2022 by

Safer & Stronger Communities

Dear Parent/Carer,

We would be most grateful if you could spend just a few minutes filling in this Safer and Stronger Communities questionnaire form. The closing date is Monday 28th February.

As a school, we are always keen to develop not only what goes on in school, but also what goes on in our local community.

https://forms.office.com/r/SmvLVQ5ryF

The results of this survey will be shared with the Safer Stronger Communities team and they will work with us in making some positive changes for everyone.

There is a Safer & Stronger launch event to be held for the Ketley and Overdale ‘Neighbourhood Action Plan’ (NAP). The Ketley launch will be on Saturday March 5th at the Ketley community centre and the Overdale launch has a potential save the date of Saturday 30th April, location is to be confirmed. More information will follow.

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4 years ago
Posted on 02nd Feb 2022 by

Year 3 Update- 02.02.2022

Dear Parents/Carers of children in Year 3,

We are so appreciative of the patience parents have shown as we navigate through a very difficult time for our school with Covid and staffing.

The pressures are ongoing and we are trying so hard to ensure what we do has the least impact on your children.

We are going to gradually begin the process of merging the 3 classes into 2 as follows –

Miss McCullagh is thankfully now back and has plotted in a series of mornings/afternoons this week for the children to work with their new classmates and for some, new teacher.

Mr McFarland will be working across both classes at this time to ensure they settle in brilliantly.

Next week, the children will spend full time in their new classes. Now that they have started their transition sessions, the pupils in Mr McFarland’s class will receive a note in their diaries to let you know which class they will be in from Monday 7th February. This will inform you who their new teacher/ teaching assistant will be, as well as where to drop them off and collect from.

I am very confident in the abilities of the Year 3 team and know this process will run smoothly.

Thanks again for your understanding.

Miss Cook

Headteacher

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4 years ago
Posted on 27th Jan 2022 by

Message from Miss Cook

27.1.22

Rising Covid cases

Dear Parents/Carers of children in Year 3,

We have got one member of staff and 8 children who are off having tested positive for Covid in this year group.

We are desperately trying to protect everyone and preserve the workforce so that we do not have to move any year groups to online learning, which of course is tricky for children, staff and for working parents.

As numbers are increasing in your child’s year group, we are asking you to please carry out lateral flow tests on a daily basis please for the short term.

We cannot insist this happens at this stage, as we have not reached the threshold for positive cases yet.  We hope you understand we would rather put in measures to prevent this from happening.

At this time we will trust you have carried out the test and only sent your child in if they are testing negative.

Many thanks for your support at this time, we absolutely know it is tricky for everyone.

Miss Cook

Headteacher

Newdale Primary School and Nursery

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4 years ago
Posted on 25th Jan 2022 by

Safety Online

Dear Parents/Carers,

We are really keen to support in the battle to keep children safe online. We have very many systems in school which mean we have a tight grip on what children can access. Unfortunately, this pandemic has meant that children have been couped up way more than usual over the last 2 years and for many this has meant significantly more time spent on devices. As a parent of teenagers I know how hard it is to keep control of what children do and what they access. We are aware that a significant number of our children have access to apps that have a much older age limit on them. We know from research that the age limits are very much set inline with the maturity levels of children. Miss Newport has arranged some really worthwhile training and support for parents which will be delivered by the NSPCC. We do hope you can attend.

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4 years ago
Posted on 24th Jan 2022 by

Covid update – staff shortages 24.01.2022

Dear Parents/Carers,

Just a quick message to warn everyone that we are suffering very significant staff shortages due to teachers and cover teachers testing positive.

We have managed to cover today by rejigging people, but I just want to make everyone aware that we are potentially looking at having to close a year group and moving them to online learning should we have to.

It is so hard to give much notice for this, as very often we don’t know that staff are not going to be in until the morning they test positive.

I absolutely know how inconvenient this would be for working parents and also know that children get so much more from face-to-face teaching, so we will continue to try our best to keep fully operational.

I just wanted to give parents the heads up so they can start thinking about possible childcare issues should we have to move some children to online learning.

We will of course keep you posted and in the meantime, help us by not risking sending your child to school if they are displaying symptoms and by testing regularly.

Thank you for your ongoing support during this ongoing challenging time.

Miss Cook

Headteacher