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• Snow and Sunshine!

  Tue 31 Mar 2020

  Hi Everyone,

   

  Well this weather is as weird as this experience. A welcome sunshiny Tuesday- let us see how much we can achieve today. Thank you for all the brilliant Home Learning we have received and your messages of support.

  If you are struggling to get your essential shopping for any reason and have tried all neighbours and friends, there are many local support groups aiding families with this. If you are stuck, contact us and we can see if we can signpost you in the right direction.

  Take care.

   

• The Brilliance is shining.....

  Wed 25 Mar 2020

  Hi Everyone,

  Well, we are all starting to settle into this new way of life and the shops seem to be calmer with more available on the shelves. We are certainly working on one day at a time.

  We have been inundated with fantastic examples of the things you are doing at home. Keep them coming!

  Please do email if we can help with anything- admin for general support and the home learning email for anything else.

  We will be making contact by telephone with certain families each week to touch base- this could show as a withheld number. Those who are entitled to FSM will receive their vouchers shortly, as they have been posted; they will be sent fortnightly.

  How are you finding the Joe Wicks? Let us know if you find any resources not already shown on our list for families to access online.

  Best wishes

  Kath Sansom

  Executive Headteacher

• Where are we now...

  Tue 24 Mar 2020

  Dear All,

  Your children have already started sharing their brilliance and it is filtering onto the website. I hope you find the suggested timetable on there useful; teachers will be adding to the selection of home learning activities regularly.

  I will post any relevant Government information I receive to keep you informed. We are running a skeleton crew, as directed, but hope to maintain the support you need. We have set up systems for our vulnerable families and please do email the Home Learning address if you need advice or information regarding working at home. Staff are manning this daily.

  We are running a pupil blog on the Home Learning Tab, led by our Head Pupils, so if your children send their quotes/ blogs of the day there they may see themselves in print.

  For urgent support please email admin@wyburns.org.

  Best wishes

  Kath Sansom

  Executive Headteacher

   

• Free School Meals Scam

  Sat 21 Mar 2020
  We have been made aware that some parents have received random texts from unknown sources asking people to send their bank details for Free School Meals.  Any information about Free School Meals will be sent to you directly from the school.  Please ignore other sources/requests.  Please do not give out your bank details.  Stay safe everyone.

• School Hubs

  Fri 20 Mar 2020

  Dear Parents/Carers

  We shared the list of key workers in detail on our website this morning. It is stressed that:

  • Parents to keep their children at home, wherever possible, and asked schools to remain open only for those children who absolutely need to attend.  
  • Schools are, therefore, being asked to continue to provide care for a limited number of children - children who are vulnerable and children whose parents are critical to the Covid-19 response and cannot be safely cared for at home. 

  If it is at all possible for children to be at home, then they should be.

   

  The list of key workers are:  

  Health & Social Care, Education and Childcare, Key Public services, Local and National Government, Public Safety and National Security, Transport, Utilities, Communication and financial services.

  I must stress that schools are being asked to stay open for those children who absolutely need to attend because they cannot be safely cared for at home; at a time when schools are being closed as a measure to reduce social contact and prevent the spread of this disease. As you know this the Government has shut all schools after today. It is expected that all children should remain at home.

  Our School are discovering how many families fall into the vulnerable groups and emergency worker categories. It is highly likely that all schools will not remain open and key schools will be designated to provide care for children from these groups.

  In each case the school will risk assess whether it can manage those children identified as attending. Some children identified as belonging to a vulnerable group will be judged as safer at home and therefore will not be able to attend school.

  As with all things we fully expect to get further updates as time progresses. We ask for your understanding in this difficult time. I am mindful that the staff at this present time, and in the future, will be risking their own health to maintain basic provision for specific children.

  I thank you for your support.

   

  Mrs K. Sansom

  Executive Headteacher

• Key Workers

  Fri 20 Mar 2020

  If your work is critical to the COVID-19 response, or you work in one of the critical sectors listed below, and you cannot keep your child safe at home then your children will be prioritised for education provision:

  Health and social care

  This includes but is not limited to doctors, nurses, midwives, paramedics, social workers, care workers, and other frontline health and social care staff including volunteers; the support and specialist staff required to maintain the UK’s health and social care sector; those working as part of the health and social care supply chain, including producers and distributers of medicines and medical and personal protective equipment.

  Education and childcare

  This includes nursery and teaching staff, social workers and those specialist education professionals who must remain active during the COVID-19 response to deliver this approach.

  Key public services

  This includes those essential to the running of the justice system, religious staff, charities and workers delivering key frontline services, those responsible for the management of the deceased, and journalists and broadcasters who are providing public service broadcasting.

  Local and national government

  This only includes those administrative occupations essential to the effective delivery of the COVID-19 response or delivering essential public services such as the payment of benefits, including in government agencies and arms length bodies.

  Food and other necessary goods

  This includes those involved in food production, processing, distribution, sale and delivery as well as those essential to the provision of other key goods (for example hygienic and veterinary medicines).

  Public safety and national security

  This includes police and support staff, Ministry of Defence civilians, contractor and armed forces personnel (those critical to the delivery of key defence and national security outputs and essential to the response to the COVID-19 pandemic), fire and rescue service employees (including support staff), National Crime Agency staff, those maintaining border security, prison and probation staff and other national security roles, including those overseas.

  Transport

  This includes those who will keep the air, water, road and rail passenger and freight transport modes operating during the COVID-19 response, including those working on transport systems through which supply chains pass.

  Utilities, communication and financial services

  This includes staff needed for essential financial services provision (including but not limited to workers in banks, building societies and financial market infrastructure), the oil, gas, electricity and water sectors (including sewerage), information technology and data infrastructure sector and primary industry supplies to continue during the COVID-19 response, as well as key staff working in the civil nuclear, chemicals, telecommunications (including but not limited to network operations, field engineering, call centre staff, IT and data infrastructure, 999 and 111 critical services), postal services and delivery, payments providers and waste disposal sectors.

   

   

• Government Update- The reasons to stay at home.

  Fri 20 Mar 2020

  As a country, we all need to do what we can to reduce the spread of the COVID-19 virus.

  That is why the government has given clear guidance on self-isolation, household isolation and social distancing.

  And the most recent scientific advice on how to further limit the spread of COVID-19 is clear. If children can stay safely at home, they should, to limit the chance of the virus spreading.

  That is why the government has asked parents to keep their children at home, wherever possible, and asked schools to remain open only for those children who absolutely need to attend.

  The fewer children making the journey to school, and the fewer children in educational settings, the lower the risk that the virus can spread and infect vulnerable individuals in wider society.

  Schools are, therefore, being asked to continue to provide care for a limited number of children - children who are vulnerable and children whose parents are critical to the Covid-19 response and cannot be safely cared for at home.

  Please, therefore, follow these key principles:

  1. If it is at all possible for children to be at home, then they should be.
  2. If a child needs specialist support, is vulnerable or has a parent who is a critical worker, then educational provision will be available for them.
  3. Parents should not rely for childcare upon those who are advised to be in the stringent social distancing category such as grandparents, friends, or family members with underlying conditions.
  4. Parents should also do everything they can to ensure children are not mixing socially in a way which can continue to spread the virus. They should observe the same social distancing principles as adults.

• Thursday Update

  Thu 19 Mar 2020

  Dear Parents/ Carers,

  Thank you for your patience and words of support. We are aiming to put as much information and home learning suggestions on the website as we can; the site are upgrading their server capacity to cope with the huge surge of hits. We look forward to the array of brilliance your children will share to the bespoke email account shared in a letter today.

  I have yet no further guidance regarding key worker status- other than the initial announcement of emergency services, NHS and delivery drivers. We have contacted all those families with other specified status and have clarity already on the number of likely attendees. Once the Government announce a full Key worker list and relative criteria you will receive a notification to complete a google form. Please only respond if you fit the Key Worker list.

  Boris is suggesting a twelve week battle, if we all adhere to the rules.

  I believe we can.

  Best wishes

  Kath Sansom

  Headteacher

• School Closure

  Wed 18 Mar 2020

  Dear Parents/ Carers,

  In these worrying times, we now have the Government announcement that schools will close on Friday 20th  March indefinitely; with some vulnerable groups to be supported. We are currently working on what that will look like and will update you as soon as decisions have been made. We may be gathering information from you in order to do this.

  We will be asking the children to take home their belongings over the next couple of days. Our website will soon be updated with home learning and suggested learning websites to support their time at home.

  This is the time for all our brilliance to shine.

  Kath Sansom

  Headteacher

• Coronavirus Update

  Tue 17 Mar 2020

  Dear Parents/ Carers,

   

  As a school, we have cancelled all non-essential visits and visitors and increased the cleaning schedule of all surfaces. We are insisting on regular hand washing and use of sanitiser. We are splitting break times and lunchtimes to reduce the number of pupils together at one time; and increasing the number of outside breaks. 

   

  Advice as of 9:02am 17/03/2020

  The advice around self-isolation has changed, for clarity, the new advice around self-isolation is as follows: 

  • If any member of a family show symptoms the advice is that the whole household should self-isolate for 14 days. This is to help to protect others in the community.
  • Women who are pregnant have been advised to avoid social contact where possible – you will need to speak to your members of staff who are pregnant about working from home (https://schoolsweek.co.uk/dfe-decision-to-allow-pregnant-teachers-to-work-from-home-up-to-heads/)
  • An announcement about self-isolation for particular groups of people is expected later this week; these groups include:
    • Those who are pregnant
    • Have serious underlying health conditions
    • Are aged over 70.
  • Schools are to stay open