Friday 26 June 2020


We welcomed the Year 5 back this week and all those who attended appear to have had a good time – they all certainly appeared very happy when they were outside. Next week it is the turn of the Year 4 children and I hope they are looking forward to it because we are certainly looking forward to seeing them. All those that returned our Google forms have been given a place and will have received a notification about their child having a place. As I said in a previous letter, we cannot guarantee that they will have their class teacher but even the children who were not with their class teacher this week had a good time. May I ask that if parents change their minds about their child attending school that they inform the school as soon as possible so we can make sure that the children are as evenly distributed as possible between the two groups.
As we are having more children in school (which is great) we have noticed that there are more cars starting to pull up in front of the school. Whilst we are not full due to social distancing, parents are having to be more spread out whilst dropping off and picking up their children so can I please ask that parents who are using cars to transport their children to and from school do follow our usual rules for cars by not parking in front of the school. We can still use the church car park for parking at the beginning and the end of the school day.
I sent out the new teacher list yesterday. As I explained in the letter, we cannot have the usual class transition because of the current situation but we will try and ensure that all children have some preparation for September and do get to see their new teacher (even if it is by video link). We have been told that we will have full classes in September (thank goodness) but I do not want to say too much about what will happen until I see the official guidance. Hopefully though, we will be allowed to have parents back on site and if we can, we will hold our ‘Meet the Teacher‘ sessions then. If this is not possible we may try something ’interactive’.
I hope you all have a great weekend. After some of the glorious weather of this week we are expected to have some more thunderstorms over the weekend. However, the weather looks good for next week even if it’s not going to be as hot as it was this week.

No comments: