Dear parents/carers,
Unfortunately, due to the current climate, we have taken the decision to cancel year 1’s trip next week to the museum.
All monies paid will be refunded. Please call into the infant school office to receive your refund.
Thank you in advance for your understanding.
Miss D. Hay
Deputyhead
Dear parents and carers,
I am sure that you have all been following the government advice on how best to protect against coronavirus. Schools have daily briefings and the advice is still the same, we do not need to close.
Ensuring children and staff wash their hands throughout the day with soap and warm water is key to delaying the spread of the virus. We should all avoid touching our faces unless we have just washed our hands. Normal soap is absolutely fine.
The government has announced moving out of contain phase and into delay phase to try and contain the virus. They are asking anyone who shows certain symptoms to self-isolate for 7 days, regardless of whether they have travelled to affected areas. This means they want people to stay at home and avoid all but essential contact with others for 7 days from the point of displaying mild symptoms, to slow the spread of infection.
The symptoms are:
A high temperature (37.8 degrees and above)
A new, continuous cough
The government has provided additional guidance about when to self-isolate:
As an additional precaution, I have decided to postpone Parents/Carers afternoon next week. I appreciate that you may have made plans to be able to attend, but I am being cautious and trying to look out for the welfare of the whole community. There are children and adults who have underlying medical conditions who may be at increased risk with additional visitors to school.
To further reduce the available risks, large whole key stage gatherings, prayer assemblies will now be carried out in classes as will praise certificates. These social distancing measures, should help to reduce any potential risk.
I apologise for any inconvenience caused, once we have additional guidance and the risks are lowered I will rearrange Parents/Carers afternoon.
Yours sincerely,
Mrs M Walsh
Headteacher
Download: Parent Evening Update Letter [PDF]
[Letter from Steve Reddy, Director of Children and Young People’s Services]
Dear children, young people, parents/carers and families,
We appreciate the considerable anxiety faced by the whole community at this moment. My team is working closely with Head Teachers to ensure they are provided with up-to-date guidance and support.
It is important that we all follow the guidance set out by the Government and DfE which no doubt will change over the coming days and weeks.
I thought it would be helpful if I provided the following reassurances, based upon the current position as of 16th March 2020.
Guidance about staying at home is available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-stay-at-home-guidance
NHS guidance can be found here:
External Link: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/
Schools are spending time in lessons, as part of the curriculum, talking to children about coronavirus and supporting children who may be experiencing any anxiety.
We value the support of our schools, children, young people and families during these uncertain times. Liverpool has a strong tradition of pulling together, long may this continue.
Best wishes,
Steve Reddy
Director
Children and Young People’s Services
Schools and families can find further guidance here:
External Link: https://www.gov.uk/government/topical-events/coronavirus-covid-19-uk-government-response
External Link: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/guidance-to-educational-settings-about-covid-19
External Link: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/guidance-to-educational-settings-about-covid-19/covid-19-travel-guidance-for-the-education-sector
Download: COVID-19 Update Letter [PDF]
Dear Parents / Carers,
Re: Coronavirus
I have had several enquiries from concerned parents about the school’s response to the Coronavirus. From the information school has received, you should not be unduly worried about the possibility of your children catching the Coronavirus.
As Head Teacher I get a daily update from the government via the Department for Education. As part of this, we have been given resources to remind our children about general hygiene including hand washing and ‘Catch it, Bin it, Kill it’ strategies. We have talked to all our children about this and remind them about hygiene during the school day. We provide tissues in all classrooms and have plenty of soap and handwashing facilities.
As a school, we will continue to encourage our children to maintain their hygiene, as we have always done.
As Head Teacher I will continue to follow the comprehensive guidance from the Government and will keep you informed. The latest information and guidance for the public is available here and this is updated daily.
The current guidance is clear that schools are not to close unless Public Health England advises us to. Rest assured if there was Coronavirus in school the adults who work here would be asking the same questions about whether or not they should be in work. As a barometer, if the staff are still here then there is no risk to the children. There is no reason why your children should not continue to attend our school setting as normal. If this advice changes at any time I will let you know.
Yours sincerely,
Mrs M Walsh
Head Teacher
Download: Coronavirus Letter [PDF]
Dear Parents,
Today we have been talking to the children about Lent. In Nursery we are going to try and do lots of acts of kindness during the period of Lent and we wanted to share this with you so that you may be able to help us by doing some of these things at home and within the community.
Please do not feel obliged to do all of them and this is only a suggested list of things we could do. We are sure you will have many ideas of your own. We would love to see some photos or hear about some of the acts of kindness the children do during Lent, so please let us know by either sending a note in or dropping us an email or photo for us to share at carpet time. nursery@stoswaldsschool.com
We will post some of our acts of kindness at Nursery on our website and on our Twitter page for you to see at home.
Thank you for your continued support,
Mrs Greer and Mrs Parkinson
Download: Nursery Lent Letter [PDF]
Dear Parents and Carers,
Once again, I am asking that you have an awareness of your child’s social media. We are spending a significant amount of time in school dealing with incidents that have started on media platforms at home.
Our children have constant messages on how to keep themselves safe online, however the incidents we are seeing and hearing about are demonstrating that many of the children are too immature to know how to protect themselves and their reputations. The incidents range from inappropriate jokes, bad language, sexist or racist language to threats. These then come into school and have a negative effect on the education of the children.
Please make sure that your children do not have unsupervised access to social media, even if you know your child wouldn’t be involved and is not saying or doing anything themselves they are see and reading other children’s poor choices.
I hope that moving forward we can spend more time in school on positive things rather than the constant barrage of incidents started at home and then continued in school.
Yours sincerely,
Mrs M Walsh
Headteacher
Download: Social Media Letter [PDF]
Dear Parents,
CLASS 1AJ – ASSEMBLY – FRIDAY 20TH MARCH AT 2:40PM
Year 1 would like to invite the parents of Class 1AJ to their assembly in the hall on Friday 20th March at 2:40pm. Hall doors will be open at 2:30 pm and tea/coffee will be available before the start.
Please use front entrance gate opposite Tesco.
Thank you for your support.
Mrs A Jones
Download: Class 1AJ Assembly Letter [PDF]
Dear Parent/Carer,
On Monday 9th March 2020, there will be a SYNOD 2020 assembly in both infant and junior halls at 9:15am. The purpose of the assembly is to share the 4th theme, “Building Community and Nurturing Belonging” and to take your feedback regarding this in a discussion session afterwards.
If you would like to attend, please complete the reply slip attached below and return it to school by Friday 6th March at the latest.
Yours faithfully,
Mrs D Hay
Deputy Headteacher
Download: SYNOD Assembly Letter [PDF]
World Book Day – Thursday 5th March
On Thursday 5th March children will be having a World Book Day lunch (please see menu on the attachment below).
If your child is usually on packed lunch but you would like him/her to have a school dinner, please complete the form on the attachment below and return it before Monday 2nd March so that the Cook can order the required amount for that day.
If your child is already on school dinners, you do not have to fill in the attached form.
Yours sincerely,
Mrs M Walsh
Headteacher
Download: World Book Day Themed Lunch Letter [PDF]
Star of the Week
AMG – Scarlet
AMP – Tilly
RF – Roman
RJ – Robyn
RC – Tyler
1HH – Issy
1AJ – Lenny
1MD – Blake
2RD – Aaron
2LM – Chloe
2HI – Heidi
Good Behaviour
AMG – Lewis
AMP – Ellie
RF – Heidi
RJ – Daisy
RC – Logan
1HH – Oliver
1AJ – Mercy
1MD – Elle-Jae
2RD – Poppy
2LM – Keira
2HI – Dylan
Superstar Writer
RC –
RF –
RJ –
1HH – Summer
1AJ – Rocco
1MD – Eva
2RD – Nicole
2LM – Connor
2HI –
Bears
1MD – Bella
1HH – Percie
Nursery – Bertie
RF – Elsie