Letters
Wednesday Word – 13th January
Good morning,
Please see the link for this week’s Wednesday Word below.
Blessings and best wishes,
The Wednesday Word Trust
Ten Ten Parent Newsletter – January 2021
Storytime is Back
Storytime is back!
Listening to stories is fun! What better way to begin your lunch hour than enjoying a good old story? Why not join Fadumo from EMTAS and Irene from the Library Service on Wednesday at 12 noon?
Fadumo and Irene will be sharing stories in both Somali and English!!! There may be some songs and rhymes too!
These sessions are suitable for children aged 4-7, so please share with families of your youngest children.
13 January 2021 at 12:00 noon
Register in advance for this meeting:
https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcrd-2pqTMuHNMA1-pcwkyzs-OBHsaN4pdq
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the session.
Reading for Pleasure Resources
The Liverpool Learning Partnership have put together a collection of links to reading for pleasure resources that can be used by the school and families at home. You can find the links here: http://www.padlet.com/jholder_llp/rfpathome.
If you signed up to the Liverpool Children’s Festival of Reading Online Events run by Liverpool Learning Partnership later this month, we are waiting on further information on how these will be made available to both children at school and at home.
Thank you.
Home Learning – 11th January
Good morning!
Here are your Home Learning Plans for the week commencing 11th January 2021:
Nursery > Click here
Reception > Click here
Year 1 > Click here
Year 2 > Click here
Year 3 > Click here
Year 4 > Click here
Year 5 > Click here
Year 6 > Click here
Leave us a message or picture on Class Dojo or Google Classroom of any work you complete as you go! We love seeing your progress.
Thank you.
Letter from Liverpool City Council
DATE: 10 January 2021
Dear Parents and Carers,
The lockdown announced by the Prime minister on the 4 January is not how we wanted to start the new year. Despite this, we hope that you and your family are keeping safe and well.
We are in the eye of the storm with this pandemic. We desperately need to drive infection rates down, and to give the time and space to our critical services to deliver the care they need for both Covid and non Covid related conditions, and to allow the rollout of the vaccine at as fast a pace as possible.
The single most important action we can all take is to stay at home to protect the NHS and save lives. Only leave the house when absolutely necessary. People need to stick to the rules, and ask themselves just because they can do something, that does not mean they should. Please: be part of the solution, not part of the problem.
In the spirit of this, we wish to remind you that your child should stay at home and access remote learning if it is appropriate to do so. This will lower the number of households mixing and reduce transmission of the virus.
There is an immediate challenge that the lockdown provides for our Early Years settings, schools and colleges to ensure that your children can access their learning. Many of our settings are currently experiencing challenges to facilitate the delivery of high-quality remote learning alongside safe on-site learning when the workforce is reduced through illness and self-isolating. This situation may require school leaders, as a last resort, to prioritise the return of children based on individual need, and on the safety of the school.
Vulnerable children and children of health workers will be allocated places before children of other critical workers, and the number of places available is for the head teacher of each school to determine based on a reviewed risk assessment, staffing available and the balance with the requirement to provide high quality remote education daily and welfare checks for those children not in school without overburdening staff. This will be reviewed throughout the lockdown period and may be increased/reduced depending on changes to the local situation, including staffing available, and on public health advice. Nursery classes in mainstream schools should be considered as part of the whole school and the same principles should apply regarding working out staffing to teach face to face and a risk assessment before offering places.
To reduce community transmission, we need to ensure that the number of children and young people accessing the offer of provision in a school or college is kept to the lowest number possible. Therefore, in line with updated government guidance issued on Friday, even if you are a critical worker, if your child(ren) can remain at home rather than attend school, on some or all days, then they should. Please only use the offer of provision when it is crucial for you to undertake your critical role.
Whether or not your child’s education setting is putting in place the rapid testing programme right away, it is very important that we reassure you that all settings will be continuing to regularly review and put in place all the protective measures recommended by Public Health England and the Department for Education to reduce the risk of transmission. These will include social distancing, hand washing, good ventilation, use of face coverings as appropriate, and ensuring people with symptoms do not attend. These remain the most effective ways to reduce the spread of the virus, even with rapid testing in place.
We ask that you continue to show the same patience and compassion to leaders and staff in our settings that you have demonstrated throughout this pandemic. We have learned from the first two waves that if we pull together as a city, with everybody playing their part, we can and will get through this.
Stay at home, protect the NHS and save lives.
Matt Ashton Steve Reddy
Director of Public Health Director of Children and Young People’s Services
Letter to Parents SRMA 10.1.21
Nursery Letter
Dear Parents/Carers,
After finally receiving the government guidance on school opening during the national lockdown it would appear that they consider it safe for all nursery age children to attend school. During the last lockdown there was differentiation between child care nurseries, essential for working parents and educational nurseries, as a choice for parents who wanted to start the early education journey as young as possible.
In light of the surprising announcement starting from Monday 11th January our nursery provision will be open for morning and afternoon sessions. I do urge you all to think carefully about taking up this offer, the national lockdown and closure of full school is to limit the number of social contacts in our communities. The more children that mix together the more risk this will pose to our staff and to your families. Though children can catch coronavirus, they appear to have mild symptoms or no symptoms, as cases in the community rise there is an increase in the number of children we see with coronavirus. However, we do know they do act as virus carriers and the risk to adults around them increases.
The rest of school is open to key workers essential to the coronavirus and EU transition response, and vulnerable children, all families have been asked to consider carefully whether the place in school is essential. As my duty as Head teacher is to the health and safety of the whole community, I ask that you consider this question yourselves prior to accessing our school nursery; does your child need to be in nursery?
The children who are not attending school are all completing the same work remotely as those in school, the educational offer is identical. Mrs Greer and her team have been using DOJO platform to keep in touch and offer lovely activities for families to do at home. We have loved seeing your photos and reading your comments. I hope and pray that this national lockdown and the rapid transition of the virus is stopped soon and we can all resume what we love doing best, teaching all our children as a full community.
Thanking you as always for your continued cooperation.
Mrs Walsh
Head teacher.
Reminder for Nursery Children who will be starting Reception this September
Reminder – Children due to start Reception in September.
https://liverpool.gov.uk/schools-and-learning/school-admissions/how-to-apply/
The applications process is now open to apply for your child’s Reception 2021 place online. You can apply for your child’s school place through the link above. You will also need to complete a faith form which I can give to you at the door when you drop off or collect your children and can be returned to nursery. The application page closes on FRIDAY 15TH JANUARY 2021.
You will also need to complete a supplementary faith form which is attached here.
This form will then need to be returned to the school office at the email address below.
office@st-oswalds.liverpool.sch.uk
Supplementary Faith Form Primary (1)
How to hand in work on Google Classroom
Please see attached