Today’s message features more information to prepare you for your child returning to school from Monday 08 March onwards. All this information is contained in the Parents’ Guide.
Things to bring to school
We’re continuing to limit the number of things that children bring in to school. Your child should bring only:
- a small school bag
- a filled water bottle, big enough to last the day
- jacket
- lunch box (if they’re not having a school dinner)
- fruit, as a mid-morning snack
- hand cream (optional, but this could be really useful)
- sun hat when appropriate
Reading books will be sent home. When they come back to school, we’ll place them in isolation for a fixed length of time.
Your child’s Homework book will be sent home at the start of the term and should stay at home for the first few weeks at least.
School uniform
As in the Autumn term, your child should wear their usual school uniform. Please make sure your child is wearing enough layers to stay warm indoors because windows and doors will be open more than they normally would.
Clean top layers can help stop the spread of the virus (an alternative is to rotate the top layers every three days).
On the days your child has PE, they should come to school in their PE kit. (Track-suit bottoms instead of shorts would be good on colder days.)
Lunch and refreshments
If your child has a school dinner, there’ll be two options. Both of these will be served as a takeaway-style meal. We’ll keep reviewing this: we’ll offer a regular menu as soon as we can. If your child has milk, this will still be provided.
Your child must bring water in their own water bottle, taken home each day. Your child might want to bring some fruit for a mid-morning snack.
Out of school club and other provision after school
The before and after school club will start on Monday 08 March. Before-school club starts at 7.30am and after-school club finishes at the usual time of 6.00pm. If you’d like your child to attend, please inform the school office.
We’re hoping to get some outdoor after-school clubs up-and-running in the Summer Term.
If you use external providers for childcare, or your child attends clubs after school, government guidance is that it might help to stop the spread of the coronavirus if you limit these in a reasonable way:
‘parents and carers… should be limiting their use of multiple out-of-school settings, and should as far as possible only be sending their children to one out-of-school setting, in addition to school, in order to minimise mixing.’
Please do check the Parents’ Guide. As always, please let us know if you’ve any questions, comments or concerns.
We’re all really looking forward to seeing you and your child next week.