It felt a little bit empty in our crew today but that hasn’t stopped us from working hard and having fun!

We began to think about Easter today! We are all very excited for the Easter bunny to visit and have started some beautiful Easter crafts! We have also been thinking about the change in the weather that we see at Easter time and how there are lots of new little animals appearing too!

Stay tuned the rest of the week to see what Easter learning happens in Crew!

Today’s HOWL hero is Franklyn. He was a little shy this morning coming into school but with some determination he was soon happily working hard with his crew.

We have had a fantastic but very quiet day in school today, it’s been very strange being the only Crew in Year One, but we have definitely worked hard enough for both classes today!

Highlight of the day:

Our expedition lesson this afternoon was brilliant, everyone collaborated so well in their small groups to start to plan and build their part of our final product, I cannot wait to see how it turns out!

Howl Heroes:

Work Hard: This goes to Tommy T today for following the instructions in writing and finishing the task before the end of the lesson, well done Tommy!

Get Smart: This goes to Aleks for his fantastic answers in maths, Aleks is definitely a mathematician in the making and smashed his Diagnostic 5 because he listened carefully in the lesson, great work!

Be Kind: This goes to Perrie for always going out of her way to make sure her Crew are happy, both in the classroom and on the playground, well done Perrie!

Howl Average:

3.2 – a few absences have brought our score down but we are seeing a lot more 3’s and 4’s coming out in our scores as we are listening and paying attention much better, let’s keep it up all the way to the end of the week!

Star moment

Star moment today was seeing the children in PE, they did amazing! They listened and followed every instruction! They practiced their skills and then applied them in a game. It was excellent to see!😁

Average is: 3.5!

Our Weekly HoWL target is: 3.0

How can we develop this tomorrow?

Crew Marsh’s target for tomorrow is to make sure that they are putting their hands up if they need something, we are starting to get out of our seats again far too much.

Howl Hero:

Our Get Smart Hero today is Mia!

Mia has blown my socks off today! She has worked incredibly hard in all of her tests and in our PE lesson, she applied herself massively and was amazing when playing net ball. Well done Mia, you have made me feel so proud today! 💕

This is your daily email to keep you updated on the government’s response to coronavirus (COVID-19). If you have colleagues who would like to receive this email directly, please ask them to use this subscription form. Changes to the Test and Trace support payment for parents. Parents and carers of children who have been advised to self-isolate by their education setting or by NHS Test and Trace are now able to apply for a Test and Trace Support Payment or discretionary payment of £500, if they meet the eligibility criteria. The extension of the Test and Trace Support Payment scheme, which is administered by district and unitary local authorities in England, ensures that parents receive the financial support they need if they are unable to attend work due to childcare responsibilities. Parents and carers should apply to their local authority to receive a payment. Applications for the Test and Trace Support Payment scheme are made via the local authority in which the parent or carer resides, not the local authority where the setting is situated, if these are different.

To be eligible applicants must meet all of the criteria that:they are the parent or guardian of a child or young person in the same household and need to take time off work to care for them while they self-isolate. This is limited to one parent or guardian per household for the child or young person’s self-isolation period,

– they are employed or self-employed.

– they cannot work from home while undertaking caring responsibilities and will lose income as a result

– they meet all the other means-tested eligibility criteria for a Test and Trace Support Payment or locally determined criteria for a discretionary payment

That their child or young person:

– is aged 15 or under (or 25 or under with an Education, Health and Care Plan (EHC)) and normally attends an education or childcare setting

– has been told to self-isolate by NHS Test and Trace or by their education or childcare setting because they have been identified as a close contact of someone who has tested positive for coronavirus (COVID-19)

Nurseries, schools, colleges and further education providers are required to provide a letter to all parents or carers of the children advised to self-isolate, to support their application to the Test and Trace Support Payment scheme. A template letter is available for early years and primary schools on the primary schools document sharing platform titled with the code RP81. A template letter is available for secondary schools and further education providers on the secondary schools and colleges document sharing platform titled with the code RP83. The letter must detail the child’s name and date of self-isolation. Parents or carers will then be able to provide this letter to their local authority as evidence that their child is required to self-isolate. Once an application for a payment has been received, the local authority will be in touch with your setting to verify the details of the child provided on the application. This will include a check of the child’s name, age, address and days of self-isolation. This check is to minimise the event of fraudulent claims. It may be conducted before or after a payment is made, depending on the arrangements the individual local authority has chosen to put in place. The letter you give to parents and carers should explain to them that their local authority will conduct a check with their child’s setting if they apply for a payment.

If your child(ren) are self isolating this week due to bubble closures in school, class teachers and support staff will be calling each day to check in with the children. This maybe on an anonymous number therefore can I ask that you answer as it maybe someone from school.

These checks are to have a general chat with the children and to see if school can assist whilst they are isolating.

Once again thank you for your continued support, take care and stay safe.

Dear Parents/Carers,

I wanted to write a post today to provide an update on staff LFD testing and class bubble closures for Tuesday as there have been some changes since Friday evening when we sent our initial correspondence out.

As you are aware, we ask school staff to undertake an LFD test twice per week. Unfortunately, as a result of this weeks tests, we have had some positive results despite staff not showing symptoms or the typical symptoms of C-19. I am going to outline them below along with the classes who will be effected as a result of the positive tests:

The following bubbles will definitely be closed from Tuesday-Friday this week as we believe that there is a chance that your child may have had close contact (within 2m) with a positive case:

Y1- Crew Welburn will be closed due to a positive PCR result (Staff); isolate until and including Monday 29th March.

Y2- Crew Ferguson and Flaherty will be closed due to a positive PCR result (2 Staff) in each class; isolate until and including Monday 29th March.

Y3- Crew Shields will be closed due to a positive PCR result (Pupil)/we are awaiting a PCR Following a positive LFD on Friday for a member of staff; isolate until and including Monday 29th March.

Y4- Crew Boswell will be closed due to a positive PCR result (Staff); isolate until and including Monday 29th March.

The following class bubble might be closed due to a positive LFD result (staff) and pupils should isolate as a precaution until the PCR result is confirmed:

Y4- Crew Elmer- the member of staff is awaiting PCR results and if this is negative, pupils can return to school if positive, we will confirm isolation information.

The following classes CAN return to school on Tuesday as normal, as we have not had any positive results from the staff LFDs this weekend:

F1- Crew Nicholson & F2- Crew Godley

Y1- Crew Wilson

Y3- Crew Longley

Y4- Crew Marsh

Y5- Crew Gerrard & Y5/6- Crew McLoughlin

Y6- Crew Fox

Additional INSET Emergency Childcare…

If your child is now required to isolate, this starts from today, therefore, they are unable to come into school tomorrow.

If your child is not isolating, your emergency childcare place is still available and they will be greeted outside the school reception at 8.30 tomorrow morning and will finish at 2.45pm.

Firstly, I would like to apologise to any parents whom this may inconvenience in terms of work. Unfortunately, it was anticipated that schools might see an increase in the number of positive cases once schools returned on 8th March. Thankfully, the staff who have tested positive, either have mild symptoms or no symptoms at this time and I would like to wish them a safe and speedy recovery and would like to also thank them for their continued hard work and dedication to the pupils of CPS despite difficult circumstances.

In addition, I have been informed that the pupil in Y3 with a positive result is also okay too, but again, I would like to send the pupil our best wishes and hope that their symptoms remain this way and look forward to them returning after the Easter break.

In addition, I thought that it was important at this stage to share some data with parents in order to help to reassure parents that primary aged pupils are still not being hugely effected by the virus. Since last March, at CPS, we have luckily only had 5 pupils test positive for C-19 out of 310 pupils, this means that only 1.6% of our pupil population has tested positive in 12 months. In addition, until now, the symptoms in pupils tend to be very mild, much like a cold and we hope that this continues into the next term.

However, Mr Rupert Suckling from Public Health England has shared on the council website on Friday that Doncaster is seeing a rise in cases across the borough, in particular for the 14-19 age group. We are also aware that many primary aged pupils are in fact asymptomatic so it’s important that wherever possible, we are reducing close contact between them.

With this in mind, we have to try and play our part in reducing close contact. As I shared on a post yesterday, we are seeing a large number of pupils playing out on an evening, including playing with pupils from other classes, but also with pupils from other schools. We need to ensure that we continue to be really vigilant and if children are going to play out, that we possibly encourage them to play in a front garden with a friend from their own class. However, it is important that any pupil isolating until Monday 29th March does not play out just in case.

In addition, following a couple of parents sharing their concerns about pupils working in another classroom environment for the reading lesson, I spoke to Public Health and the Local Authority about our practise yesterday and shared what we were doing in order to ensure that we were still working within the guidance provided to schools, around 2m distancing and staff only having close contact with pupils/staff from their bubble. They both agreed that this was within the guidance and understood the rationale behind us doing this for Reading.

However, as a precaution, those classes in school this week, will have their reading lesson in their own bubble and we will revaluate our plans for reading for after the Easter break and will also seek parent voice around our plans for the teaching of Reading, in light of a couple of comments from parents on Friday. As always, we want to work with parents to ensure that as much as possible, we have the vast majority of parents onboard. I will be in touch about reading groupings later in the week.

Finally, other than reading groupings, our children do not mix with other class bubbles during the school day, as shared before, we ensure that pupils have their lunch in their bubble and only play with peers from their own bubble at breaktime and lunchtime.

We will continue with our staggered entry/exit to and from school, as this is supporting us to ensure that we have a reduced number of parents on site at any one time.

As a school, we continue to work extremely hard to ensure that we are adhering to social distancing guidance whilst providing an education and a safe place for the pupils of Carcroft.

We will be in touch regarding our educational offer for bubbles who are closed this week at some point tomorrow.

If you do have any queries, please do not hesitate to email me on:

[email protected]

In the meantime, have a lovely Sunday evening.

Miss Laing

Headteacher

We have had so much fun this week during our learning! Check out everything we have done in our This Week in the Phase.

Check out all of our exciting learning in Key Stage One from the week👇🏻

Another great week in UKS2! 🤩