All children to return to school on Monday 8th March

 

We truly appreciate all your support and understanding during another period of lockdown and home learning. We understand how difficult this has been for our families and are delighted to be able to welcome all the children back to school for a full-time timetable on Monday 8^th March.

 

We will be updating our risk assessment this week and will send this out to families next week. We are not expecting many changes to this document and the measures we had in place pre-Christmas.

 

Our current COVID19 risk assessment (January 2021) can be found here.

 

A reminder of school start and finish times

 

In order to ensure reduced ‘traffic’ on our school sites, we will maintain our gradual staggered start times and use multiple entrance and exit points. This will help adults and families social distance when dropping off and collecting their children.

 

The plan for this is below and is the same timings and drop off/ pick up points and entry/ exit points as before Christmas:

 

Infants

 

 

Juniors

 

 

As before, the gates will be open before these times and families are encouraged to use available space on our playgrounds and school site to maintain social distancing.

 

What about Breakfast Clubs, SuperPirates After School Club and other after school clubs?

 

The DfE have stated that:

‘Wraparound childcare will be open to parents who need to access it to work, attend education or seek medical care, and to vulnerable children’

 

Therefore, our Breakfast Clubs will restart from the 8^th March.

 

We encourage you to book Breakfast Club in the normal way using the School Gateway and if you need to just turn up on the morning this flexibility is available again as well.

 

SuperPirates After School Club will also restart on Monday 8^th March and this can be booked via the SuperPirates website here: https://www.superpirates.co.uk/stsaviours. Booking will go live from tomorrow (Thursday 25^th February).

 

Information on other after school clubs will be communicated as soon as possible.

 

Will attendance be mandatory?

 

The DfE have stated that school attendance will be mandatory for all pupils from the 8^th March.

Please contact the school if you have any concerns or worries about returning your child(ren) to school on 8^th March, so we can support you.

 

What next?

 

Over the coming days, we will review our school risk assessment and update families about any changes. Additional Government information has now been released that we will be considering as part of the risk assessment process. The Government have also released a blog with information for families – this can be found here

 

As always, thank you for your continued support.