Dear Parents and carers,

I am sure that you will have seen the governments ‘Living With Covid’ announcement regarding the changes to the self-isolation guidelines, testing and vaccination passports. It is positive that after two long years, we are edging towards life without Covid restrictions, although as a community we must be mindful that this elicits different responses in those around us.

The DfE wrote to schools sharing information which I am sharing with you. The bold text comes directly from the DfE email.

Changes to self-isolation and daily testing of close contacts

 From Thursday 24 February, the Government will remove the legal requirement to self-isolate following a positive test. Adults and children who test positive will continue to be advised to stay at home and avoid contact with other people for at least 5 full days, and then continue to follow the guidance until they have received 2 negative test results on consecutive days. In addition, the Government will:  No longer ask fully vaccinated close contacts and those aged under 18 to test daily for 7 days, and remove the legal requirement for close contacts who are not fully vaccinated to self-isolate.  Staff, children and young people should attend their education settings as usual. This includes staff who have been in close contact within their household, unless they are able to work from home.

 You will see that the advice is for people who have Covid to remain at home for at least 5 full days and then follow the guidance until they have received two negative lateral flows.

Although these are now guidelines rather than legal requirements, we hope that parents will choose to adhere to these guidelines. This will help to ensure that our staff remain Covid-free and therefore able to continue to provide high quality education to your children. Your support will hopefully allow us to avoid another situation where we were struggling to staff our classes.

We have been asking visitors to wear masks when they are on school grounds in order to help reduce the risk of transmission. As I mentioned earlier, members of the school community feel differently about the changes in restrictions so if you feel able to do so, it would be appreciated if parents and visitors would continue to wear masks when they come into the school grounds or building.

The sun is shining and the days are getting longer. We hope that the rest of this year can include more school trips, face to face parent meetings and events, which will all contribute to a greater sense of well-being and normality for our school community.

We hope you have all had a restful half term and look forward to seeing you on Monday 28^th February.

Many thanks for your support as always to help keep our school a healthy and happy place.

Kind regards,

Mrs Williams

Dear Parents,

I am sure that you would have seen the announcement earlier this week regarding the changes to the self-isolation guidelines which start from today. It is wonderful that after two long years, we are edging towards life without Covid restrictions, although as a community we must be mindful that this elicits different responses in those around us.

The DfE wrote to schools sharing information, which I am sharing with you. The bold text comes directly from the DfE email.

Changes to self-isolation and daily testing of close contacts

From Thursday 24 February, the Government will remove the legal requirement to self-isolate following a positive test. Adults and children who test positive will continue to be advised to stay at home and avoid contact with other people for at least 5 full days, and then continue to follow the guidance until they have received 2 negative test results on consecutive days. In addition, the Government will:

No longer ask fully vaccinated close contacts and those aged under 18 to test daily for 7 days, and remove the legal requirement for close contacts who are not fully vaccinated to self-isolate.

Staff, children and young people should attend their education settings as usual. This includes staff who have been in close contact within their household, unless they are able to work from home.

You will see that the advice is for people who have Covid to remain at home for at least 5 full days and then follow the guidance until they have received two negative lateral flows.

Although these are now guidelines rather than legal requirements, we hope that parents will choose to adhere to these guidelines for the health and well being of all our families. This will also help to ensure our staff remain well and therefore able to continue to provide high quality education. Your support will hopefully allow us to avoid a situation where, as before the half term break, we were struggling to staff some our classes.

We hope you have all had a restful half term and we looking forward to seeing you all on Monday 28th February.

Many thanks for your support with this matter.

Mrs Williams and Mr Glover

Last Session of Running Club – Wednesday 16th February
PD Day School Closed – Friday 18th February
Return to School – Monday 28th February
World Book Day (Dress as your favourite book character)- Thursday 3rd March
Myddle Muddle  https://www.entrycentral.com/MyddleMuddle – Saturday 27th March
Shropshire Half Marathon (Final Mile) – Saturday 9th April

We will let you know the date for the annual Red Nose day and what activities we will be taking part in over the next few days.

It will be Roast Chicken on Wednesday not Turkey as advertised.

Please see attached letter regarding this year’s Shropshire Primary Schools Half Marathon.

If you have any questions, please contact Mr Hughes or the school office.

Thanks

Shropshire Half Marathon

Due to recent incidents at lunchtime with regards to playing football, we have decided to removed all footballs/basketballs from the PE boxes that the children have access to for tomorrow (4th Feb) and all of next week.

We appreciate that these incidents are not a reflection of all of the pupils but for everyone’s safety and well being we feel this is an appropriate response.

We will reintroduce the footballs/basketballs the week beginning the 14th February.

Thank you