Please make sure you arrive at school on time at 8:50.

• Schools wider reopening safety leaflet and supporting video for parents/carers

  Fri 05 Jun 2020

  Together with colleagues from Public Health England Oldham Council have produced the attached safety leaflet to share with parents/carers about how they can support schools work in opening to increasing numbers of children.

  Click the link below to watch the video:

  Schools wider reopening safety leaflet and supporting video for parents/carers

   

• Newsletter - May 19th 2020

  Tue 19 May 2020

  19th May 2020 

   

  Dear Parent/ Carer

   

  We all hope you are staying safe and well during this time and that your children are accessing the work set for them on the school website.  The staff have managed to contact almost all of you over the last few weeks and have loved speaking to both you and the children.  

   

  Following the government’s announcement related to schools beginning to reopen, if they think scientific evidence supports this from the 1^st  June for certain year groups a great deal of work has already begun.  This is including  risk assessing, the logistics, practicalities and safety for the return of children, the staff and your families.  Currently, we are not in a position to say when school will reopen for children other than those of the key workers or vulnerable who have already been accessing school.  We hope it will be soon but have to ensure all people’s safety before we can make that decision.

   

  School will close this Friday 22^nd May at 3:00 for the Spring Bank half term holiday as published. This means we are closed to all pupils until Monday 8^th June.  Staff will not be setting work during half term or making contact calls home. 

   

  On Monday 8^th June we will reopen just for the children of key workers or who are vulnerable.

  If you feel that you fulfil the government criteria for key worker or vulnerable, and would like your child to attend school, please contact the office.  

   

  May I take this opportunity to say thank you for all for your kind words and support during this difficult time, it is much appreciated by everyone. We wish all of you celebrating Eid over half term have a lovely time.

   

  Kind regards

   

   

  Mrs A Knowles

  Head teacher 

• Useful links to support parents

  Fri 17 Apr 2020

  We have been sent some useful links to various associations that may help you as parents whilst you are at home with your children. 

  Click the links below to access the resources: 

  National Autistic Society

  ADHD parenting tips

  Resources for adult and children's well being

  Sesame Street caring for each other

  Practical activities for children

• Bounce forward raising resilience

  Fri 17 Apr 2020

  Oldham Council have been continuing to work with schools and have recognised that resilience is a difficulty at the present time, particularly when families are all at home together.  They have been working with one of their partners, Bounce Forward, who have delivered the PENN Resilience training programme in Oldham, to see how we can best support parents and families to support children during this challenging time.  Attached is an exciting, free opportunity for Oldham parents 

   Bounce Forward Raising Resilience- Free Parents Online Course has now been set up for ALL PARENTS in Oldham. Bounce Forward Link

  There are three different courses with the firststarting on Monday 20th April. Parents will book on the course directly with Bounce Forward (please see leaflet attached).
  
  The aim of the course is to ease some of the strain caused by families staying home. The sessions will provide tools and resources for parents and children to build resilience and use the current situation as a learning opportunity that will help right now and into the future. The sessions will be useful for all parents who want to learn resilience skills. The downloadable worksheets are designed for children aged nine and above.

• Current School Provision

  Thu 02 Apr 2020

  School’s Current Provision

   

  We have been following the guidance from both the Local Authority and the Government and are providing the following provision:

  • School is open daily for children who the government identify as being either vulnerable of children of key workers.
  • The School day runs, as normal, from 8:50 until 3:00
  • At this point, lunches will be provided for the children attending school
  • Any child entitled to free school meals will receive a packed lunch available to picked up from the school gates between 11:30 and 12:00
  • The school office is manned daily for any questions or queries
  • There is a designated safeguarding lead person in school daily who is able to support with any queries related to safeguarding
  • Staff are making phone called regularly to maintain contact with the children and see if there is any support they need

   

  School Work for the children

  • The children received a pack of work including a comprehension book and maths book
  • Work is being set and monitored weekly by the class teachers
  • There are a number of online resources the children have access to that are being monitored by the staff: Purple Mash, TTRockstars, Lexia and Reading Plus

• Information from Oldham

  Wed 01 Apr 2020

  Community response support to help the most vulnerable

  I thought that you may be interested to know that Oldham Council, Oldham Foodbank and Action Together are working together to coordinate the delivery of emergency food and other essential personal and household basic items to people in need. If any questions or concerns come to you from vulnerable families in your school, you may find it useful to refer them to the information below

  This offer will be for people who are unable to leave the house and don’t have a trusted friend, neighbour or family member to help them. This could be someone of any age. 

  A new hotline has gone live on 0161 770 7007 for people to call for help. The hotline will be open from 9am-5pm on weekdays and 11am to 2pm on weekends.

  After calling the helpline it will aim to get back to people in 24 hours and a package will be coordinated in the following days.  The food will be a basic package of items and other essential such as sanitary products and basic toiletries.

  The offer is for people in the local community who are genuinely in need as they are self-isolating and don’t have any friends or neighbours who can support them or are unable to leave the house to shop for these items.

  We are asking people to use this resource responsibly so that it doesn’t become overwhelmed and so that it can give help to those who need it most. 

  Hubs are being opened across the borough where supplies will be co-ordinated. This will link into an emergency food offer which will be run by the Council, Oldham Foodbank and Action Together.  The hubs will also be able to link people to mutual aid, co-ordinate emergency response volunteers and act as a source of local intelligence.

  The hubs will be led by Oldham Council district teams in partnership with Action Together and will be supported by staff from other parts of the council, partners and the community and voluntary sector who have good knowledge of the local community.

   The hubs will build on the fantastic work already being done in the community to make sure those in need can access emergency supplies including the fantastic work of Oldham Foodbank and by Age UK Oldham’s Shopping Service.

• Parent information on TikToc

  Mon 20 Jan 2020

  Some parents have been asking for information on the social media app TikTok.

   

  I have found an informative and thorough link to a parent guide.

   

   

  Follow the link

   

  https://www.internetmatters.org/hub/esafety-news/tik-tok-app-safety-what-parents-need-to-know/

• Ofsted Report

  Tue 17 Dec 2019

  The Ofsted report is out and we are very proud it it.  Thank you for your support.

   

  Click here to read the report.

• Christmas Jumper Day!

  Wed 11 Dec 2019
  Today was Christmas Jumper Day and also Christmas Dinner Day! We all got to wear our Christmas jumpers and enjoyed a wonderful Christmas dinner!

  

• Remembrance Day

  Thu 17 Oct 2019
  Over the last week we have had a sculpture in school which our children have been adding poppies to.  The completed sculpture will be displayed in Oldham.