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Year 6 Message

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7 years ago
Posted on 02nd Apr 2020 by

Value of the Month- April

Our value of the month for April is Freedom

What is Freedom?

  • Rights and responsibilities
  • Self-expression
  • Freedom of speech

Suggestions for parents to work with children at home:

  • Together, talk about people in history who were being ruled by someone else and wanted freedom, e.g. Moses and the Israelites, slaves in the US before the Civil War; Hanukkah; Nelson Mandela.
  • Discuss with your child about historical slavery and modern day human trafficking.
  • Discuss with your child about the Syria Refugee Crisis.
  • Different Rules of Law around the world. Discuss with your child democracy in Britain and how this may be different from countries around the world.
  • Freedom of self- expression. Discuss with your child the importance of their identity and being able to express themselves. Explain that people living in Britain are able to express themselves how they choose; as long as it doesn’t break the law (Individual Liberty).
  • Discuss inner freedom– having positive thoughts. What does inner freedom feel like? When do you feel most free? What kinds of thoughts make you feel free? Constrained?

 

7 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

7 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

7 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

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7 years ago
Posted on 17th Mar 2020 by

Home Learning- Year 6

Dear Parents

We are aware that over the coming days and weeks, many children may be in a position where they will need to self isolate. As a school, we want to make sure that children are not missing out on valuable learning. We have therefore put together some work that children can complete at home, whilst away from school. Children have access to their passwords for various online resources in their home/ school books and should not have any problems with accessing these sites.

Home Learning Year 6

Many thanks for your support during this difficult time.

Mrs Thomas and Miss Clay