School Closure Home Learning
Monday 20th April 2020
Welcome to Term 5- Here is a little hello from all the staff at St Mary's - Click here!
We all hope that you are keeping well and hope that you have all had a happy and healthy Easter. As you will be aware, things are changing on a daily basis with respect to the COVID-19 crisis. How schools operate is no exception.
As many parents work demands and requirements may have evolved over the last two weeks, if your work is critical to the “COVID-19 response” and you cannot keep your child safely at home, please contact the school by phone or e-mail as soon as possible. If you are unable to talk to anyone in the school office and need an urgent place, please call this number 07955 550152.
Please see further details on who Critical Workers are on our (News Page)
School and Class Worship
School worship is uploaded as either MP4, PowerPoint Shows or PDFs and can be accessed from the School Worship Tab. Class Worship will be on teachers class pages. In all cases, worship is best viewed together as each story has questions for reflection.
Class Learning Activities
With the start of the new term, your child's class teacher will be updating the children's learning activities. As outlined at the end of the last term, we are changing these slightly to include:
- Three separate English and Maths learning activities. These will include additional ongoing daily phonic, spelling, reading and number activities)
- More open ended Pick n' Mix activities.
We will also be focusing on revision type activities that the children should already be familiar with and will hopefully be able to do with less adult home support.
These changes are based on the feedback you have given us and the feedback I have had from teachers. We hope that reducing down the learning load will enable a more manageable daily routine.
As with last term, you will also be signposted to a number of online resources to supplement the things your children might be getting from the school.
All learning activities should be available as a PDF from the class page of the website or can be collected from the school office should this be something that you prefer.
Stay at home. Protect the NHS. Save Lives.
Show your support for the NHS (and all keyworkers) by displaying a rainbow in your window. You can share your rainbows here by emailing a photograph to your class teacher.
Updated policies
COVID 19 Safeguarding statement (March 2020)
SEND Support:
Mrs Warburton has put together some helpful advice for the parents of children who find some aspects of learning hard. Please click on these "Top Tips", and see if they help with home learning.
And finally......
The learning we have posted on our Website has been put there if you need it. This is a strange situation nationally and although we want the children to continue learning, the most important thing, in these first few weeks, is to ensure your child feels and is kept safe and is not worried by the things around them. If things are hard in your home and these learning activities are causing too much stress don't worry about them. Do what you are able to do.
