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Key Worker Booking Form – WC: 1 June 2020

1st June 2020 Booking Form

Dear parents and carers,

Our numbers for Key Worker Critical Care will be increasing from Tuesday 2nd June so it is essential that you book your children in by returning this form as soon as possible to:

A2134@telford.gov.uk

The cut off date is: Friday 29 May @ 10am.

All bookings need to be made the week before you require the care.

If we do not receive your form, we will not confirm your booking and a place will not be secured.

We are allowing a maximum of 15 children per classroom to ensure social distancing; this may mean that children from EY will be working alongside older year groups.

If you are a Key Worker, then our school policy is that you will be asked to provide evidence to show that you are classed as a key worker and require childcare so that we can support as many families as possible. Unfortunately, if we exceed our numbers, we will create a waiting list and you will be informed as to when we have spaces.

We can offer Key Worker Care from 8.30-3.00pm. We are able to offer places based on these hours, but we are unable to accommodate children who need part-time hours e.g. 10am-12pm. The school office will not be manned in the afternoon and there will be nobody available to answer the door before 3pm.

Looking forward to hearing from you,

Mrs Tomlinson

Emotional Support Ideas from Mrs Atkins

Emotional Support

As time passes it is important that we continue to support our children’s emotional wellbeing. So here are a few resources that will help your children to reflect on the current situation and their feelings.

The anxiety thermometer is a great resource for those children who are finding these times difficult and a good way to be able open up an honest and productive discussion.

The All About Me resource can be useful in helping children to think about the positives in their present situation and to reflect on the current times, but also to start thinking about what will happen when they are out of lockdown. Although as adults we can be overwhelmed by the statistics, the politics and social media it is important to encourage children to understand the positive steps we have made and that this present situation will come to an end.

If you are unable to print these documents it could be possible to replicate them by drawing out the thermometer and asking your child to recreate the all about me designs.

Keep safe

Mrs Atkins

Al about me

Anxiety-thermometer(1)

Phased return to school – behaviour expectations.

As we plan for a return to school for some pupils in June, we have added an appendix to our existing behaviour policy to include any changes to procedures as a result of new government guidelines relating to COVID-19. Please familiarise yourself and your children with the updates attached (a copy of our full behaviour policy can be found in the ‘Key Info’ section of our school website).

Behaviour Policy Appendix 3 May 2020

Spellings

A Parent’s Guide to Practising Spellings at Home

Why spelling practice matters…

In Key Stage 2, the focus is on developing accuracy as well as a range of strategies for spelling.

Although teachers will highlight spelling errors to children, it is important children recognise for themselves when they have made an error and know a range of strategies for correcting inaccuracies. By this stage, children will have a range of spelling strategies that they will have been taught to draw on. Children will use the strategy which best suits their learning style and works best for them.

Helping at Home

Parents can support children by practising any spelling patterns or spelling investigations which are sent home as part of home learning and also by helping children to read and spell the Y3/4 word lists (included in this document).

Children will practise these spellings throughout the week in spelling lessons and will be tested on a Friday using some of the words from each week or others with similar spelling patterns.

We will track your child’s progress in spelling through the statutory word lists and half-termly reviews.

Remember to make practising the words enjoyable and not a chore.

Click on the link below for your year group!

A parent guide and home spellings for Year 6