Dear parents, carers and guardians,

Would you like to learn about ideas or activities to promote positive mental health and wellbeing for your child? Or, perhaps your child is worrying more than usual or feeling low and you would like some advice on steps you can take to support them?

If so, please click on the attached newsletter to find out more about the activities that we are running over lockdown, including bitesize virtual sessions, virtual coffee mornings and our parent support line.

We are Lewisham Mental Health Support Teams (MHST). We work in 19 schools across Lewisham, including your child’s school. We work in partnership with MHST schools to put in place a whole school approach to support all children and young people in the school community, including those who are currently coping with their emotional wellbeing and mental health. 

Dear Mums, Dads and Carers

This is not the letter I would have hoped to write at the beginning of a new year and I very much regret the upset that has been caused by the confusion surrounding the opening of primary schools in London. Nonetheless, happy New Year to all our children and their families and we wish you all a happy and healthy year to come. I would like to thank all our parents and carers for the support you have shown during this very challenging period and for your patience and good humour.

You will I hope have had a chance to collect your child’s iPad to support their remote learning. This comes with all the apps your child will need to access the remote learning (primarily Showbie) and this should remove any issues you may have had with logins.

If you have not had a chance to collect the iPad today, please contact the school office to arrange an appointment to do so.

We are aiming to follow the school day as closely as we can. We are expecting that all children will be logging in to Showbie for their lessons from 09.00am each day so that they are in a routine. There will be clear expectations for the day’s learning and your child is expected to be able to complete this the same day. Children in Y3-Y6 will be set work that they should be able to complete without adult support. If you have any comments or queries on the learning, please email your child’s teacher directly and they will be happy to help you.

We will have contacted all the children we believe are entitled to be in school either as their parents are key workers or they are vulnerable by the end of the day. Gates will open at 08.45 and will close at 09.05 as previously and children should use the following gates:

Y1 – Kender Street
Y2/3 – Briant Street
Y4/5 – Faulkner Street
Y6 – main entrance

Nursery and reception children will now both be based in our nursery and should use that entrance to drop and collect. Children should wear school uniform.

Lunch will be provided as usual and should be paid for via Arbor. Please consult the school website and Twitter for updates.

Best wishes

Keith Barr
Headteacher

Dear mums, dads and carers

I am writing to tell you what you need to do about reporting cases of COVID-19 and contact tracing over the February half term.

As you know schools have played an important role in contact tracing. We have been identifying anyone who has been in close contact at school with someone who has tested positive for COVID19, up to 2 days before that person had symptoms. Those contacts then need to self-isolate for 10 days because they are at risk of having caught COVID-19 and being contagious themselves.

Contact tracing will be slightly different during the February half term when schools are closed and there is less chance of being a contact of someone in school.

Please follow the guidance below if your child begins to show symptoms or tests positive for COVID-19 during the February half term.

If your child develops symptoms of COVID-19 within 48 hours of their last day in school	· Get a test for your child · Everyone in your household must isolate at home until the test result is back · If the test result is positive for COVID19, you must inform the school -we will identify any other people in the school community who are close contacts · If the test result is negative, you do not need to take any further action
If your child has no symptoms of COVID-19 but tests positive within 48 hours of being in school	· Let the school know straight away- we will identify any other people in the school community who are close contacts (It is important to follow the guidance around only getting a test if they are showing signs of COVID-19)
If your child develops symptoms of COVID-19 more than 48 hours after their last day in school - ie, after 20 December 20	· Get a test for your child · Everyone in your household must isolate at home until the test result is back · If the test result is positive for COVID-19, you must contact NHS Test and Trace and follow the advice given by them: www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/testing-and-tracing/ · You do not need to tell the school
The quickest way to get a test is to book a test at your local testing centre via https://www.gov.uk/get-coronavirus-test. Please do not use postal tests unless absolutely necessary as these take longer.

During the holidays, please contact the school by emailing me at keith.barr@kender.lewisham.sch.uk

You must provide the following:
• Child’s name
• Class/year group
• Date last in school
• Date symptoms started/ child began to feel unwell
• Date of test
• Date positive result received

If you are contacted by the school because your child is identified as a close contact of someone who has tested positive for COVID-19, they must self-isolate for 10 days.
We ask that you stick to all COVID-19 social distancing social mixing guidance until the end of term to reduce the risk of transmission of the virus and keep us all safe and well over the holiday period. It is also important to follow guidance over the holidays

 

A friendly website guide for parents starting from the home page.

The school website is regularly updated so parents can have important dates for their diaries. i.e. Inset day, term dates, parents evenings etc.

On the home page you will see the icons below if you click on an icon it will take you straight to the page you require. Can't find what you're looking for? Just click on the search icon, type a word which relates to what you would like to access and press enter; it will bring up anything relating to that word. 

We do hope this informations is useful not only for parents, but for prospective parents as well. 

Parent’s evenings will be held on Tuesday 24th and Thursday 26th November from 4pm. This will be a time for parents to discuss how their child have settled back into school and the next steps for their learning. As this will be a virtual a