17th March 2020

Dear parents and carers,

I have received several emails today from worried families, some with symptoms and some choosing to self-isolate due for their own reasons.
If you are worried – keep your child at home. Parents should make their own decision and many of you have; our numbers are very low today and we have also had to send several children home during the day. Whatever decision you make will have my full support. Under these exceptional circumstances it will not affect their register mark. I would rather a child miss school for a short period of time than lose a relative for life. I have a duty of care to protect children and in a wider sense their families.

I also have a duty of care to protect the staff workforce. Many of these have their own children, older parents or underlying health conditions themselves.

Although the government are advising the working population to work from home and against mass gatherings, I feel that the education workforce has been overlooked and placed in a vulnerable and unacceptable position where they too could be being exposed to transmission of the virus on a daily basis, coming into contact with children and families. Again I would rather staff miss school for a short period than take the virus home and infect vulnerable family members.

The staff have been working hard on preparing work to be provided on the school website and the school is prepared for closure. This work is optional and of course it will depend on your family circumstances. If your child is ill, they should not try to complete school work. Our teachers will be available to you via Class Dojo during school hours to answer questions about the work, but please appreciate that if we close, many will have their own children to look after and could potentially be ill themselves. In these cases, I would not expect them to be able to correspond with parents.

Current Government advice is that if one person in any household has a persistent cough or fever, everyone living there must stay at home for 14 days. Please follow this advice.

With kind regards,

Mrs C. Williams
Executive Headteacher

Please check your child’s bag for this important letter from Mrs Williams, headteacher. out.

I have attached a copy of this letter for any parent/carers whose children may not be in school at the moment.

If you have any questions PLEASE do not hesitate to get in touch 01939 290834

Regards

Mrs Smith

COVID-19 M

Thank you so very much to everyone who volunteered their time today to tidy around the school grounds, it looks fantastic.

Special Thank you to Mr Savage for organising the troops.

You are all amazing and we appreciate your efforts so much.

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Please can we ask that NO pencil sharpeners are brought into school from home.

School will supply these for the pupils as and when they are required.

Class Teachers will be checking pupils pencil cases tomorrow (Thursday 12/03/2020 and any sharpeners found will be returned to parents by Mrs Smith at the end of the school day.

We appreciate your full support with this.

Please can we remind parents that if your child becomes unwell with sickness and/or diarrhoea, they should not return to school for 48 hours following their last episode of sickness and/or diarrhoea.

If you have any questions regarding this please do not hesitate to contact school on 01939 290834

We have had a busy week so far. The Children have taken part in Relay races, Basket Ball and Archery during their break and lunchtimes. We have also had children running their miles towards the Shropshire Half Marathon.

Just a reminder that on Friday 13th, your child is invited to dress in any sports gear for a contribution of £1 each. The Children’s Sports Council are running the Sports Relief competition “What’s behind the locker door”, which costs £2.00 a guess. If you would like your child to have a go please send them in with the correct money.

As part of the World Book Day experience and the sponsored read which has been very popular, Kath Saunders, Usborne Books will be coming into school on Thursday with a selection of books for different age ranges.

Each class will have the opportunity during the day on Thursday to view these fantastic books. If your child decides they are keen on a book, Kath will give them a post it note with the price of the book written on it and this will be brought home by your child.

If you would like your child to purchase this book please come into school at the end of the school day on Friday 13th March, with your child, see Kath and she will do the rest!. If you are unable to come into school please send your child with the correct money and we will assist them.

If you have any questions please do not hesitate to get in touch with school.

Mrs Smith
School Administrator

Unfortunately Mr Rickards is unwell and unable to do his lessons at Myddle today.

We have tentatively moved these lessons to Friday morning instead. Guitars are OK to be left in school until then if necessary.

I will update the website if Friday’s lessons have to be cancelled.

Many Thanks

Mrs Smith

As a country we remain in limbo at the moment, but we are taking some precautionary measures at school.

We would like to reassure you that we are receiving daily updates from the Department of Education and our own local authority and acting on these as instructed.

We don’t anticipate that the school will have to close but we would like to be prepared just in case we are required to set learning activities for the children to complete on line at home.

Please can we ask that ALL families take the time to visit the links below and check that they are able to access these sites this week. It will be much easier to sort out any issues when we are in school, rather than if we have been asked to close.

If we were asked to close, your teachers would put a link to daily maths and English activities on the class page of the school website.

All classes will be given a log in to ‘Class Dojo‘ so that you would be able to communicate with the teacher during usual school hours if you needed help with the task. Some classes are already up and running with this, and some will be given a letter this week with details.

The website ‘Twinkl‘ will provide free access to all of its resources to parents/carers in the event of a school closure. Your teachers may use this site as part of their on-line activities.

Every child has a log in to Times Table Rockstars which should also be used at home in the event of school closure.

Make sure you are subscribed to our school website and are able to get notifications for your child’s class.

Our cleaning team have had their own briefing from Shire Services about coronavirus procedures and we have asked them to target key areas of school such as handles, doors and tables.

In collective worship, we have spoken to children about handwashing and they have seen an easy to understand video clip, which you can watch here.

Thank you for your support with this. We would like to reassure you that there would be no consequences for children unable to complete any on-line work, as we appreciate that for some families this would be a very stressful and difficult time.