The Chronicle

Dear Parents

I hope that your family enjoyed the snowfall last weekend and at the start of the week.  As you will see in this week’s Chronicle, the children certainly had fun and there are some super photographs of sledging, snowmen and snow angels.

Despite the snow, school remained open throughout for critical worker provision.  We are currently seeing an increase in requests for Critical Worker care; this is quite understandable.  Whilst continuing to willingly offer this provision where needed, can I please ask that children only attend critical worker provision when absolutely necessary as we are in the midst of a national lockdown and people are required, where at all possible, to remain at home.  Teachers will continue to teach online and children will be supervised in school whilst they complete their online lessons.

Mr Cottrill, in consultation with the teaching staff, has again reviewed and revised year group timetables.  Everyone’s experience and requirements at home will differ, so please know that we do not want parents or children to feel pressured to complete every piece of work but to complete work to the best of their ability within a reasonable time frame.  If your child is struggling to complete all tasks, please let your class teacher know so that expectations can be adjusted.

We have now received our Lateral Flow Tests for staff which provides a peace of mind for those members of staff having to work regularly in school.   If your child attends critical worker care, please continue to monitor their temperature and signs of any symptoms in order to keep our staff and other children and their families as safe as possible.

I hope you were able to watch the assembly this morning.  I was delighted to be able to announce so many Bronze Awards and Da Vinci’s.  Hard work is certainly continuing during this lockdown and I am so proud of the children for their super effort and enthusiasm.

Our stars of the week were: Clement, Lewis, Felix, Joshua, Evie, Evie, William, Jia, Seb, Elsie, Alex, Thomas and Seb.  Well done to you all, there were some wonderful comments from teachers this week.

Bronze awards were presented to Mya, George, Marley, Hattie, Alfred, Teo, William, Alexander, Sara, Arthur, Sienna, Adreena, Ted, Molly, Beatrice and Elsie.  All the children have shown exceptional kindness and courtesy, including at online sessions; something we should all aspire to.  Well done boys and girls.

The coveted Da Vinci awards have been presented to Evie, Sara, Beatrice, Miley, Penny and Elena, who have been awarded their certificate for achieving all three merits in English.  In Mathematics, Arthur and Ted produced a number of excellent pieces of work so also received an award.  Arthur has achieved highly in a number of subjects and he received another Da Vinci for his History work.   Isla has also received a Da Vinci for her History work for her Greek Gods project.  Congratulations to you all, I know that Mrs Cowlishaw enjoys hearing about all your wonderful efforts and your certificates will be with you very soon.

I am aware that some parents have used the new booking system to have a brief online pastoral meeting with their child’s form teacher during the next two weeks.  I hope you find this time helpful.  We intend to use this system again for our parent consultation evenings in March.

Finally, well done to our Junior 6 children who completed the Princethorpe entrance examinations last weekend.  This weekend you will be able to relax and maybe even enjoy some more snow tomorrow.

I would like to wish you all a very happy and restful weekend.

God bless,

Mr Duigan