Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.
This year we will be holding Sports days during the week beginning 17th May.
Due to the current restrictions, all Sports days will be held in Year group bubbles. Unfortunately parents will be unable to attend. However, we will be creating Foundation Phase and KS2 iMovies, so that you won't be missing out!
Your child's Sports day may differ from their normal PE days. Please send them in dressed ready for sports day on the dates provided.
Nursery- Wednesday 19th
Reception- Thursday 20th May am
Year 1- Monday 17th May pm
Year 2- Thursday 18th May am
Year 3 - Thursday 20th May pm
Year 4- Tuesday 18th May om
Year 5 - Friday 21st May am
Year 6- Friday 21st May pm
All date are weather dependent.
You asked for the "Loo Roll Challenge but here is our 26 Ball Tap Challenge. We are thinking about you all and miss you dearly. Stay safe and Stay at home.
In the key information section of our school website, you will find a new page entitled COVID - 19. This will aim to keep you up to date with the latest advice and guidance; as well as information about our partial school closure.
Please ensure that you continue to check your emails regularly.
22nd March 2020
Dear Parents/Carers,
Update - Coronavirus, Covid 19
I’m sorry for the number of messages and I hope you all keeping safe and well. You can imagine we are being given a lot of information from the Local Authority in readiness for next week when the school becomes an ‘emergency child care provision’ for the use of Key Workers. We are tasked to reduce the transmission of this virus and your cooperation is imperative.
Mrs Claire Homard, the Chief Officer for Education has asked for this message to emailed out to you. I must stress the following is NOT compulsory for key workers.
Flintshire County Council statement to explain access to emergency childcare provision for key workers classified as ‘vital’ workers, provision of free school meals, and support for vulnerable learners.
To limit the spread of COVID-19 it is important that, as far as possible, social contact is minimised.
Parents need to keep their children at home wherever possible and schools/settings should be open only for those children who absolutely need to attend.
Only children whose parents are critical to the Covid-19 response should be offered places in schools/settings when there is no safe, alternative provision.
FOR THE WEEK COMMENCING 23rd MARCH Flintshire Headteachers have been advised to prioritise the allocation of places to children of parents who meet the following criteria:-
· Category 1 - a single parent with a role on the list defined as critical to the Covid-19 response from Welsh Government
· Category 2 - where both parents have roles on this list
· Category 3 - a parent from a family unit who does not qualify under categories 1 and 2 above, and has a role on this list, and where there is an explicable and genuine reason why they need to access provision.
Headteachers may use their discretion for this third category - provided that they have sufficient provision - as they know their families’ circumstances best.
Should there be insufficient provision due to the requirements of social distancing, Headteachers have been advised by the Council to refuse admittance to the children of the third category above and liaise with their neighbouring headteachers to offer a place close by where this is possible.
Alternative provision is in being made for children entitled to free school meals and will be introduced shortly. This group SHOULD NOT attend their local schools this week unless their parent(s) fall under the above categories 1-3. Further communication will follow.
Provision for children classed as vulnerable is also being planned. When this is ready to start further communications will be issued.
Claire Homard
Chief Officer, Education and Youth| Prif Swyddog, Addysg ac Ieuenctid
Flintshire County Council | Cyngor Sir y Fflint
In order for me to plan staffing for the coming days, I would like anyone who received an email on Friday or who has heard from me over the weekend to email me with which days and times you will need the emergency provision. This is important as I need to be also mindful of keeping my staff and their families safe and I do not wish to have too many staff on the school premises.
When you arrive at school for your first use we will require you to complete details of your job, work address and contact telephone numbers and again to confirm when you need to use the provision.
Please use somail@hwbcymru.net to advise me of your requirement.
As I have previously said, this is only for this week. Following this period the plan is to move the provision to Mountain Lane School which will be the Buckley Hub.
I appreciate there is a lot of information to assimilate at the moment, but we need to be mindful that our part of the Government plan is to keep socially distanced from others and keep our families safe. This will be difficult today, Mothers’ Day, but our greatest gift to our elderly mothers, and families, is to phone, Skype or Facetime rather that visiting.
Please keep well and safe.
Kind Regards,
Diane Chisholm
Welsh Government List
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.
Click on the link above for a handy document. It explains the new curriculum and the changes effecting your child's education. 🙌
We are embracing this in school and working towards implementing the changes in a gradual way. 👌