Dear Parents/Carers,
I am so sorry to be messaging you with further changes to the start of the school term. As most of you will know, the Welsh Assembly Government have made an announcement this evening saying that schools must now remain closed for most pupils until Monday 18th January at the earliest.
Staff have been in school today receiving training and preparing for two days of online learning. Tomorrow we will develop further online learning for pupils and work to develop further blended learning. You will receive work from your child’s class teacher by Thursday morning at the latest and they will provide you with regular work and ideas until at least Friday 15th January.
In the meantime, if you are a keyworker and need childcare, the school will provide this on from Thursday Thursday 7th – and Friday 15th January inclusive. The childcare will run between the hours of 8.15am (Breakfast Club) and 3.30pm and will include educational activities. You will qualify for this if one parent is a keyworker and you have no other childcare available. Examples of keyworkers are: NHS staff, emergency services, those employed as carers for vulnerable people, Track, Trace and Protect staff, education staff and food distribution. If you need to use this childcare please let your child’s teacher know via Class Dojo OR telephone the school office tomorrow (Tuesday 5th January) so we can organise staffing.
If you have any queries or issues, please contact the school office or your child’s teacher via class dojo. We will help in any way that we are able.
At the moment we expect school to open for face to face learning on Monday 18th January and I will keep you informed about this as soon as I receive further information.
With regards,
Helen Woodford