Yesterday, we sent two messages to you. The first set out a chronology of events of the week and presented to you some of the possibilities about how our schools might begin to re-open. To help us with this, we sent a second message, which contained a link to a short survey. Please complete this survey – we need your responses by 5pm on Sunday 17 May.
The survey asks three main questions:
Are you a key worker whose child will definitely be attending school after half term?
We don’t want to start making plans to re-open for particular year groups and then discover we have more children of key workers needing a place. This wouldn’t be safe.
We need to know this because we need to be able to prioritise the children of key workers.
If you think your child is vulnerable in any way, will you send your child to school after half-term if we can offer a place?
The government has a definition of what ‘vulnerable’ is. However, if you feel like you’ve a genuine concern about your own child, please tell us. We can’t guarantee we can support your child more, but we will try.
We need to know this because we will try in some way to meet the needs of children (in any year group) who might be particularly vulnerable, especially in the current situation.
Please note we can’t guarantee this and we may have to assess each individual circumstance and always with the goal of staying safe for everyone.
If we’re able to offer your child a place, will you send your child to school?
This question is open to everybody – not just key workers or parents of children who may be vulnerable, and not just parents of children in the years groups the government has set out as a priority.
We’re asking this so we can try to plan ahead.
We really do need as many people as possible to tell us this information – thanks for helping us to help our children and our staff to stay safe.