Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.

• We love school lunch – Thursday 1st October

  Wed 30 Sep 2020

  Census Day Lunch Thursday 1st October for census day we are having a special lunch. Children will be able to order either a school dinner from the menu below…

   

  Infant School Menu

  Fish and Chips

  Cheese and Tomato Puff

  Jacket Potato

  Flapjack

   

  Junior School Menu

  Fish and Chips

  Veggie Burrito

  Jacket Potato

  Flapjack

   

  Under the Government’s Universal Infant Free School Meal Initiative, the school is funded to provide these meals. Our funding is based on the number of children eating meals on certain days of the year. We need as many children in Reception, Y1 & Y2 as possible to order a school meal on that day rather than bring in a packed lunch from home.

  Any shortfall on our budget for providing free school meals has to be financed from the rest of the school’s budget for staffing and curriculum. This is a great chance to let your child try what is on the menu and if you are worried it might not suit their taste buds you can always order a meal anyway and send in a home packed lunch as a backup!

   

  Please note, Friday 2nd October will be:

   

  Infant School

  Cottage Pie

  Veggie curry with rice

  Jacket potato

  Jam Sponge

   

  Junior School

  Spaghetti Bolognaise

  Cheese & Onion French Bread Pizza

  Jacket Potato

  Carrot Cake

  
   

• Home Learning Plans – from 5th October 2020

  Wed 30 Sep 2020

  The link below will take you to our ‘Home Learning’ plans which we hope will be effective in supporting families during household isolation, or if our area is put into a local lockdown.

   

  Through the link below you will find the following documents:

  1. Our scenario plan – what children will be able to access when they are in self-isolation at different stages and local lockdown plans
  2. Our parent and pupil agreement for live lessons and Microsoft Teams. Please share these with your child and refer to this when/if your child accesses home learning.

   

  Click here to download the plans and information.

   

  Our first ‘Home Learning Menu’ (referred to in our scenario planning) will be uploaded to our ‘Home Learning’ website page on Monday 5^th October and every Monday for the foreseeable future. This page can be found here.

   

  Thanks to support from the St Saviour’s PTAs we are currently organising a ‘laptop library’ that can be used to support families with technology when isolating – more information will be shared with families about this soon.

   

  Thank you for completing the recent survey and for your continued support.

• ​​​​​​​Drop off and pick up

  Mon 28 Sep 2020

  It is wonderful to see our families back at school and the children in their classrooms. Thank you to all our families for adapting and supporting our new drop off and pick up arrangements.

   

  I had a meeting with our councillors last week, about the support they could offer with traffic and movement around the outside of school during our busiest times, and we are hoping to implement some small changes as well as support some longer-term developments. Part of this process is the implementation of a policy call ‘Liveable Neighbourhoods’ that is currently out for public consultation. Please visit this link to find out more and to contribute to the consultation.

   

  As we continue to review our arrangements, can we remind families of the following points from our planning and national COVID19 guidance:

   

  1. Please observe social distancing where possible! We understand that some entrances, and pavements are narrow and therefore families will need to take their time, give way to each other and be careful when walking through these areas.
  2. Use space! When on school site please use all the available space on the playground and in the car parks to ensure families can wait at least two metres apart. Please enter the school sites and move away from entrances into the available space rather than gathering near a school site entrance, classroom or school door.
  3. Face masks! With the increased national COVID19 transmission and the new national measures in place, we would like to encourage parents and adults who feel they can’t achieve social distancing around and on school site to wear a face mask.
  4. Driving! Please avoid driving children to school. If you have to drive, please park away from school and walk the final distance. Families ARE NOT permitted to use the school car parks to either park in or use as turning points.
  5. One adult! Where possible can parents and carers please pick up individually, rather than as a family this will help reduce the number of adults around the school grounds.  

   

  We will continue to keep all these arrangements under review and make appropriate changes as required.

   

  Thank you for your continued support and understanding.

• Residents’ views sought on liveable neighbourhoods

  Thu 24 Sep 2020

  Residents are being asked for their views on Bath & North East Somerset Council’s ambitious proposals for liveable neighbourhoods which will improve air quality and health, encourage more walking and cycling and reduce vehicles in residential areas.

   

  Liveable neighbourhoods are an important part of the council’s plan to tackle the climate and ecological emergency and to improve health and wellbeing across the area.

   

  It has developed three strategies which it now wants people’s view on. The three strategies would form the basis for liveable neighbourhoods. They are:

   

    *   Low traffic neighbourhood strategy

    *   Residents’ parking schemes strategy

    *   On-street electric vehicle charging strategy

   

  Residents are now being asked what they think about the plans in an on-line consultation that will run until Wednesday 14 October.

   

  Liveable neighbourhoods aim to reduce the dominance of vehicles in residential areas - particularly through-traffic - while maintaining vehicle access to homes and businesses and prioritising residential parking. This can be done through a range of measures including vehicle restrictions, traffic calming and one-way streets.

   

  Councillor Joanna Wright, joint Cabinet Member for Transport Services said: “We saw during lockdown what a difference less traffic made to our communities. We saw air quality improve, we saw more people walking and cycling, and we saw more people supporting local shops.

   

   “This proposal for liveable neighbourhoods supports our vision to create better conditions for walking and cycling so that people rely less on their cars, especially for short car journeys. This is particularly important if we’re to meet our climate emergency targets by 2030.

   

  “By re-considering how road space is used, improving access to public transport and enhancing community spaces, we can create lively residential areas that foster community pride and help local businesses to prosper.

   

  “We recognise that private cars are still necessary for some trips and some users. For this reason, alongside our liveable neighbourhoods strategy we’ve outlined plans for improving on-street electric vehicle charging that will encourage the uptake of electric vehicles where there is limited off-street parking, and where public charge points are required for residents wishing to swap to cleaner, ultra-low emission vehicles

   

  “These are transformational proposals that will be developed in collaboration with local communities, so it’s really important that residents and local businesses have their say on the approaches we’ve set out.”

   

  Liveable neighbourhoods usually group residential streets together across a 1km2 area around key amenities, such as schools, shops and surgeries, and bordered by a main road. To reduce through traffic and rat-running, a range of vehicle restrictions can be used. This ranges from modal filters such as bollards and attractive planters to one-way streets, traffic calming, speed restrictions and also residents parking schemes to reduce commuter parking.

   

  Residents will have already seen changes to some city and town centre roads. Access restrictions and barriers were installed to encourage social distancing to deal with the immediate impact of Covid-19.

   

  They were funded from the Government’s £250 million Emergency Active Travel Fund which was announced in May. Councils were then encouraged to bid for a second ‘tranche’ of government funding to promote more walking and cycling and ease pressure on public transport.

   

  In Bath & North East Somerset ten schemes have been identified for this potential funding. Given the timescales for preparing bids, they have not yet been subject to consultation and could be introduced as Experimental Traffic Regulation Orders.

   

  Councillor Dine Romero, council leader, said: “We need to be clear about the difference in our long-term policy for liveable neighbourhoods and the schemes proposed under the Emergency Active Travel Fund which is a direct response to Covid-19. Our liveable neighbourhood strategy is asking for people’s views on the principles and policy and is not about promoting individual schemes, these will come later once the strategy is in place.”

   

  There will be opportunities for communities to request individual liveable neighbourhoods once all three strategies are finalised and the project is launched.

   

  Residents can read a summary of the council’s plans for liveable neighbourhoods and take part in an online survey before Wednesday 14 October at https://beta.bathnes.gov.uk/liveable-neighbourhoods-consultation

   

  Those with no internet access can request paper copies of the summary and survey by calling council connect on 01225 39 40 41. Due to Covid-19 restrictions, there will be no public events in this instance.

• Nursery Breakfast Club and Nursery hot cooked lunches

  Wed 23 Sep 2020

  We are delighted to now offer Nursery Breakfast Club for our Nursery children.

   

  The club will run from 8am in the Infant School hall and members of our Nursery team will be with the children.

   

  You can book this on the school online system* for a cost of £4 per session.

   

   

   

  We are also now able to offer hot cooked lunches for Nursery children

   

  Yummy cooked lunches are now available for Nursery children and can be ordered on our online system*.

   

  Lunches are prepared fresh on site from the Infant School kitchen and delivered to the children.

   

  Hot lunch costs £2.50 and the menu can be found here.

  

• 'The Pantry' supporting families through the COVID19 crisis

  Wed 16 Sep 2020

  Our community spirit has been really strong through lock down, we have all supported and worked with local families and neighbours to help them through this tricky time. Claire Henwood (Our Chair of Governors) and a team, many from the St Saviour's family, are a prime example. They have worked day in and day out supporting vulnerable families with food parcels.

   

  They have now opened the pantry and are continuing to support families through the COVID19 crisis. If you would like to become a member or volunteer please email pantry@oasisbath.org

   

  More info was in the Bath Chroncile recently and can be found here: https://www.pressreader.com/uk/bath-chronicle/20200909/281646782548620

  

• FAQs regarding COVID19 and St Saviour’s Schools

  Mon 14 Sep 2020

  Thank you for your continued understanding as we have reopened our schools and implemented our risk assessment. Over the first week of opening, I have had a number of questions from parents regarding testing, possible COVID19 symptoms and Government advice. In this communication I will aim to address some of these frequently asked questions and hopefully help you feel more comfortable when bringing your children safely to school and feel confident, that as required, you are taking the right actions.  

   

  1. Absence 

   

  The Government expect schools to have reinstated their normal attendance monitoring and address poor attendance. In theory the St Saviour’s Schools are now doing this, we will be speaking to families regarding poor attendance and support families when they are struggling to attend school. However, we will not be penalising families for following COVID19 advice. For example, if you have to isolate as a family when you are waiting for a test result, we will code this appropriately in our registers and this will not be included in any attendance monitoring.  

  
  Please ensure when your child is not in school that you have phoned or emailed the office to let us know the reason for absence together with full details of the symptoms of any absence due to illness. 

   

  2. When should I keep my child(ren) at home?

   

  You should keep your children home if they are feeling ill and need to rest just as you would have done before COVID19.  

   

  However, if your child(ren) displays one of these symptoms (copied from the NHS website) you need to book and get a test for your child: 

   

  • A high temperature – this means you feel hot to touch on your chest or back (you do not need to measure your temperature)
  • A new, continuous cough – this means coughing a lot for more than an hour, or 3 or more coughing episodes in 24 hours (if you usually have a cough, it may be worse than usual)
  • A loss or change to your sense of smell or taste – this means you've noticed you cannot smell or taste anything, or things smell or taste different to normal

   

  You can book a test online: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/coronavirus-covid-19-getting-tested

   

  I have attached a helpful guide to this email that can also be downloaded from our website here.

   

  This guide can be used as a quick reference point for families when trying to understand the Government COVID19 advice. 

   

  The full Government advice can be found here:https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/symptoms/

   

  3. Will my children be set work if we are isolated at home?

   

  We are currently drawing up our plans for how we can support children if they are in isolation. We will also be planning for possible local lockdowns. We aim to create a clear, consistent approach to home learning when children are isolating, this will be published and shared with our families ASAP. 

   

  4. Are children and adults wearing face coverings?

   

  The Government’s advice on face masks in primary schools has not changed and they are not expecting staff or children to use them. However, we are allowing adult visitors to wear a mask if they wish to when visiting school or attending a meeting. We feel the measures in our risk assessment allow us to welcome visitors without making face coverings mandatory.
   

  Adults working with children in the classroom will not wear masks. 

   

  All adults are welcome to wear face masks when dropping off and collecting children. Can I ask that our whole community are understanding and respectful of people who are making this choice. 

   

  5. Social distancing is hard on the pavement around school. What can the school and families do?

   

  As you may have noticed we are keeping drop off and pick up under constant review. After observations and reflection, we are making changes to improve this part of the day and I thank families for their flexibility and understanding when we do this. 

   

  The pavements around school are very narrow and it can be hard to pass each other, especially when you are pushing a buggy. We encourage families to use areas of the school site that have been opened for families to wait for pick up rather than waiting on the pavements. These include, the Infant playground, Junior School bottom playground and the two car parks. When waiting in these areas please can we ask the children stay off play equipment. We also ask that where possible only one parent or carer collects or drops off at school.  

   

  Please take your time moving around the pavements and be understanding to families with buggies and individuals with disabilities. We have staggered start and pick up times to help with this. Please continue to drop off and pick up promptly.

  We understand that these times are a great opportunity to catch up with each other, but please can we ask you to move away from the school sites so that the pavements don’t get too crowded at these times.  

   

  If you have to drive to school, please park away from the school area and walk the last bit rather than pulling into staff car parks, parking near school, parking on zig zags or double yellows. The staff car parks are not for parent use and are being used as family waiting areas. It is illegal to park on zig zags or double yellows on the roads. We will not hesitate to report number plates to the authorities if motorists are breaking these rules. Our priority will always be the safety of our children and families. 

   

  I am currently exploring other safety measures that could possibly be implemented outside of the school grounds with the Local Authority and other appropriate organisations and will write to families if further changes are possible.  

   

  I would like to thank families for their considered and calm approach to drop off and pick up since the start of term.  

   

  The key points to remember are: 

   

  • Arrive and collect from our schools promptly  
  • One parent or carer to drop off and collect if possible  
  • Use on school site spaces, e.g. playgrounds, rather than waiting on the pavements  
  • Please keep young children off play equipment  
  • Walk to school or park away from school and walk the last part 

   

  It’s been great to welcome our children and families back to our schools and thank you for your continued support and understanding. 

  
   

  

• Welcome to the new St Saviour's Church Rector and his family

  Mon 07 Sep 2020

  We are pleased to welcome Rob and his family to the community. Rob will be moving to the Rectory at the end of September and will start work after his commissioning service on the 7th October.

   

  The church community would like to introduce Rob and his family:

   

  'Rob and Cam come from Torquay, where Rob served as a curate (Torquay is also the town Cam grew up in). They met in London while Rob was a journalist and Cam was working as a deputy head teacher of a primary school. Prior to this, Rob served in the US Navy as an aviator and then covered combat zones as a journalist. Rob trained for his Master of Divinity at Duke Divinity School in the US (where Rob grew up). He and his wife have four young children: Max (8), Ralph (7), Barney (3) and Vivi (1). They are both passionate about worship and witness in the power of the Holy Spirit and are hugely excited to see what things Jesus is already up to in Larkhall, Swainswick and Woolley. They love to take road trips, and have done a couple across the US, but are equally happy sitting on a wet beach in Cornwall. Both Rob and Cam like to run, and the children enjoy Lego, drumming, diggers and dolls! They feel that their shared ministry is to join in with the work of Jesus who is busy transforming lives, here and now.'