I hope you all enjoyed the half-term break. I know there was not much to do but at least you all got a break from home-schooling. The great news for this week is that we are all coming back. We are all very excited here and will be really pleased to have all of the children in school. The teachers are especially glad because even though home schooling has been challenging for all families it has been a lot of work for the teachers and I know they are really pleased to be returning to face to face teaching.

The whole school is returning on Monday 8^th March but I do ask you all to remember that we are still in a national lockdown and many restrictions are still in place to ensure that we keep down the transmission of COVID19. I mention this because you need to remember that from that Monday you can still only meet one other person outside so I do ask that when you drop off and pick up your children you do not congregate together in groups for a chat. I know that this will be very tempting but we have enough problems with managing social distancing because we are at the end of a cul de sac. We cannot even operate a one-way system because of our location so please do not exacerbate the situation by gathering in groups. We do not want to be responsible for the R rate going up and schools having to be shut again.

You will all have received my letter explaining how things are going to operate when we return. We have lots of exciting things for the children to look forward to as we are holding a Science Week and we are holding our World Book Day on Thursday, March 11^th. This follows a request from a parent which we thought was a good idea so all the children can now come into school on that day wearing their costumes and all their friends can see them.

I hope you all have a good weekend. Enjoy your time as a family before the children return to school. You have all done an amazing job with the home schooling but from Monday 8^th March it is back over to us. I look forward to seeing many of you then.