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• Update for parents - 29.2.21

  Fri 29 Jan 2021

  Friday 29^th January 2021

  Dear parents and carers,

   

  This week, the Prime Minister has announced that it will not be possible to open schools fully again immediately after the February half-term and instead hopes it will be safe to commence the re-opening of schools from Monday 8 March. This is in response to the national public health data and pressure on NHS capacity. This is not a definite date yet, but schools as well as families will be given at least two weeks notice to prepare for a return.

  Schools will remain open to vulnerable children and the children of critical workers up until and after February half-term, as they are now. At the moment we currently have 25% of our pupils attending school and are full in terms of numbers that we can manage safely. The advice is that it is still safest to keep your child at home if you can.  All other pupils will continue to receive high quality remote education at home. This is in line with the wider national lockdown measures to help minimise the spread of the virus and respond quickly to the new variant.

   

  Remote and In School Learning.

  Thank you to all our children and families who are continuing to share work and photos of activities that are being completed at home via Seesaw or Tapestry. It s great to see and very encouraging to know that you are all still learning and keeping busy.

  It is a government requirement that we are providing remote education and and therefore we are chasing up participation and checking whether there are any issues regarding IT access or behaviour that we can support with to make things easier for parents.

   

  Live Lessons

  Daily live lessons for Years 2-6 are proving extremely popular and we are delighted that on average over 95% of each class are participating each day. This is incredible and is ensuring that you are not falling behind with your English curriculum. Well done children!

  All the staff wanted me to say thank you to the children for their attendance and hard work. We keep a daily register of attendance and I was really impressed to see the huge number of children who are attending each day.

  Reminders

  • If your child is in school part-time, we do expect them to attend the live lesson or complete remote learning activities on the days they are at home too please.
  • Please can children have their camera turned on so that we can check they are engaging and it is also good for us to be able to see every child in terms of safeguarding.
  • It would also be much better if each child’s own name was displayed on Zoom rather than a nickname so that we know exactly who we are admitting.
  • Please can we also ask parents to help their child log in on time and that there is no background noise so that everyone can listen and concentrate. Thank you so much J

   

  Snowy weather

  For those children who are currently attending school, please keep an eye on Twitter or the school website for any messages if we are unable to open due to adverse weather conditions. We always need to risk assess the safety of the site and surrounding roads to check they are safe for travel before making a decision.

   

   

  Please remember we are always available to support all our families, whether your children are currently attending school or not, with any issues that may arise. Please do keep in touch.

   

  With best wishes to you all. Take care and stay safe.

   

   

   

   

   

  Mrs N Rynott

  Head teacher.

• Live Lessons - Years 2-6

  Fri 29 Jan 2021

  Daily live lessons for Years 2-6 are proving extremely popular and we are delighted that on average over 95% of each class are participating each day. This is incredible and is ensuring that you are not falling behind with your English curriculum. Well done children!

  All the staff wanted me to say thank you to the children for their attendance and hard work. We keep a daily register of attendance and I was really impressed to see the huge number of children who are attending each day.

  Reminders

  • If your child is in school part-time, we do expect them to attend the live lesson or complete remote learning activities on the days they are at home too please.
  • Please can children have their camera turned on so that we can check they are engaging and it is also good for us to be able to see every child in terms of safeguarding.
  • It would also be much better if each child’s own name was displayed on Zoom rather than a nickname so that we know exactly who we are admitting.
  • Please can we also ask parents to help their child log in on time and that there is no background noise so that everyone can listen and concentrate. Thank you so much J

• Lockdown 3 Letter - 8.1.2021

  Fri 08 Jan 2021
   

  Friday 8^th January 2021

   

  Dear Parents and Carers

   

  I wanted to write to you all following the surprise announcement on Monday night that schools were to close again whilst the country continues to battle against the virus.

  Thank you for your understanding as we have been trying our best this week to accommodate the children of  critical workers, vulnerable children and organise remote learning for those at home.

   

  A few things to share at this point:

   

  Remote Learning

   

  • There will be learning activities, links and suggestions for every day on each child’s class page. You do not have to do everything, but we strongly recommend a focus at least on Reading, Writing and Maths activities. Phonics practice is also crucial for Reception, Year 1 and 2.

   

  • Years 2-6 will be having a ‘live’ English lesson on most days starting from next week. (Year 6 starting on Wednesday). The only time that we might not be able to do this is if staff members become poorly – fingers crossed that won’t happen! Times and invites will be shared with each class directly. Key worker children will access these lessons online in school.

   

  • There will be a ‘White Rose’ maths session uploaded for each day too (years 1-6). In addition all children in years R-6 took home workbooks for remote learning last term which will continue to be used when directed. Unfortunately we do not have spare copies of these as we were only able to purchase class sets of 30 for each year group.

   

  • Our main channel of two-way communication for all learning is via the Seesaw app (Years 1-6) and Tapestry for Early Years. Every parent shoud have been sent links and it is nice and easy to use.

   

  • Through Seesaw staff are able to provide feedback on work shared and communicate with their pupils, however I am directing staff to have a cut off point of 3pm. Anything shared after this time may not be commented on or marked until the next day.

   

  • The BBC are also starting 3 hours per day of educational TV programmes suitable for all the different key stages from next Monday which should be very good and useful.

   

  • If anyone requires paper or plain exercise books for the children to work in, please pop to school and we will sort these out for you.

   

  Use of Technology

   

  • All parents should have received an email about us applying for free increased data allowances for your mobile networks so that children can access everything needed online without worry of going over data limits or costing extra money. Please reply to that email by Monday 12pm  if you would like us to organise this for you.
  • You will have heard on the news that the government have been distributing electronic devices to schools. We have received a small number which we have to priortise to our most vulnerable pupils and then families with 3 or more siblings within our school first of all.

   

   

  Free School Meals

  • It was also announced yesterday that further funding would be coming for those entitled to Free School Meals. We will be looking at setting up another voucher system as soon as possible. Please bear with us. If you think that you might be entitled to Free School Meals but are not registered please contact Miss Carey, one of our Pastoral Managers who will look into this for you. Her email is:

  careyh@st-osburgs.coventry.sch.uk

   

  Reminder Universal Free School Meals that all children in Years Reception, One or Two are not the same as being entitled to Free School Meals due to financial or home circumstances.

   

   

  Support for Families

  We realise that this is a very difficult and challenging time for all our families and we are here to support you in any way we can. Please do keep in touch and let us know if you need support in any way, whether it is to do with learning or home life in general.

   

   

  With very best wishes. Take care everyone.

   

  Yours Sincerely

   

  Mrs N Rynott.

  Headteacher

• Return to School Letter - January 2021

  Mon 04 Jan 2021

  Monday 4^th January 2021

  Dear Parents and Carers,

   

  I hope that all our families have had an enjoyable Christmas break and I wish you all a Happy New Year.

  At the point of writing this letter (2pm on Monday afternoon) we are due to open as usual to all year groups from tomorrow morning – Tuesday 5^th January.

  I am aware that there is a Government announcement due this evening which may call for another National Lockdown. As yet we do not know whether that will mean schools remain open or closed.

  If we are closed please refer to your child’s class page on the website for guidance on Remote Learning. This is updated daily.

   

  If school remains open please may I give the following reminders and information:

   

  • Staggered start and finish times will continue as last term.
  • Children should only be collected by one family member of their own household or one other regular childcare support adult. (informed in advance to school)
  • Please do not send your child into school if they are poorly in any way or if anyone in their family is symptomatic or waiting for test results.
  • We need to keep classrooms well ventilated so there will be periods of time when windows need to be open. Children may wear their PE hoodie on top of uniform or an extra layer under shirts if they wish.
  • If your child is required to isolate, details of work will be provided for each day on the class page of the website (ongoing).
  • Please can we ask parents to continue wearing masks and to avoid congregating outside school.
  • Please can we also ask that unless they have siblings in lower year groups children in Years 5 and 6 are not arriving at school before 9am. We have many who are hanging around from 8.30am onwards unnecessarily, especially now it is colder weather too. If possible, please can children with younger siblings, who have travelled by car wait with parents in their cars.

   

   Thank you for your ongoing support.

   

   Yours Sincerely,

   

  Mrs N Rynott 

  Head teacher