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• Fete postpone/cancel

  Mon 30 Mar 2020
  Dear All,
  
  After discussion with Mrs Macey it has regretfully been decided to postpone/cancel the fete this year.
  
  This has not been an easy decision.  The fete is the biggest fundraiser for the school and a much loved event for the children especially. However looking at the wider situation we feel this is the best and safest decision for now. The fete has generated large numbers of people over the last few years and is very successful, not only
  In terms of fundraising but as a community event in the village bringing together children, grandparents, aunts, uncles and beyond. Protecting those most vulnerable in our society has to be the priority and this has been at the forefront of our decision.
  
  Broughton is incredible at supporting the school, village and wider community and we feel sure we can create another event hopefully in the not too distant future to involve us all and support the school moving forward.
  
  We will ensure the FOBS team gets their heads together over the coming weeks and months and plan in some alternative fundraisers and events to hold when hopefully the global situation settles.
  
  Many thanks for your understanding.
  
  Ally Brooking

• Monday message from Mrs. Macey

  Mon 30 Mar 2020 Clare Yates

  Dear Parents, 

   

  Happy Monday! This e-mail is a reminder that school is still open and we are here to help with any questions or issues that you may have which have arisen with your new and unexpected role of 'lead learner' !

  Firstly, a reassurance that the power point is a guide to help structure your child's day. It does not need to be completed in full each day and the timings don't need to be adhered to. If your child is playing brilliantly at break, enjoying the outside air- then please carry that on until it comes to a halt naturally. That is what we have been doing in school- likewise if an activity takes more/ less time than anticipated that works too. Genuinely praise the good efforts and try to ignore the less spectacular ones. Conserve your energy, this could last a little while.

  Please e-mail the teachers with any questions or concerns about the work. They will respond and can talk to your children about the work and expectations etc

  If your children are being difficult about working- then please do get in touch, either by phone or e-mail and we can discuss ideas. It wont matter academically if they don't work, but it may affect your sanity, so please do ask for ideas if you would like them.

  Lastly, its great that the children are working together and sharing ideas and long may that continue, please don't compare your child's work with others - they will all be different, as you know.

  There is no right or wrong way to do this home learning, from all I have seen sent in you are all doing well- much better than you probably think!

   

  Ring or e-mail

  Kind regards

   

  Lucy Macey

• Key Worker Children

  Fri 20 Mar 2020 Lucy Macey

  Dear Parents,

   

  You have confirmed that you are a key worker and will therefore need your child/ren to be in school for the foreseeable future.

   

  Please can you let us know which days you need for the week beginning Monday 23rd March until Friday 27th March.

   

  We are able to open the school from 7.50am until 3.30pm, Monday- Friday

  If you are currently self-isolating please continue to do so until you have completed the time specified by Public Health England.

  Your children will be taught in classes with their teachers and they will access the curriculum planned for all the class.

   

  We are mindful that they will be a small number and that we do not wish them to feel under close scrutiny by lots of staff. We will provide a range of activities and physical games as appropriate.

  There will be school meals available if you wish to take these up.

  If you have any questions, please e-mail the admin office,

   

  Kind regards

   

  Lucy Macey- Head teacher

• Home Studying - help and guidance

  Fri 20 Mar 2020 Mrs Lucy Macey

  Friday 20th March 2020

   

  Dear Parents,

   

  Timetable:

  From Monday your children will be continuing to access schooling from home. We want to provide a structured programme of support that the children can follow, in order to keep routines as normal as possible.

   

  The children will have a daily power-point that will be uploaded onto the class pages of the school website.

   

  Each day we would encourage all the children to access this and adhere to the timings that are suggested for each activity. As I have said in a previous e-mail, work should be completed in the book provided.

   

  Get them to follow the following ‘self-help’ steps:

  1. Read it again carefully

  2. Have a go, look at the answer, see if it seems ‘likely’ to be correct.

  3. Ask a brother/ sister/ parent at a good time

  4. Use a site that has been suggested by your teacher, as a place where you can access help.

  5. Use the e-mail a teacher facility that I will detail below

   

  Please can we ask parents to guide their children to make rational decisions about when and where help is needed, in order that we can manage enquiries here.

   

  The teachers will answer children’s e-mails regarding work at the following times each day: 

  Miss Morris: ( l.morris@broughton.hants.sch.uk) - 9-10 am 

  Miss Lee: (j.lee@broughton.hants.sch.uk) – 10-11am 

  Miss Ayers: ( m.ayers@broughton.hants.sch.uk) – 11am -12pm

   

  Mrs Macey – Through admin, for any parents/ carers who are experiencing difficulties with their children’s learning / attitude etc.

  Please monitor your children’s e-mails.

   

  There will be a list of useful websites posted on the class page for your children to access to help with problems. Some of these offer a wealth of ideas and activities too.

   

  I would advise building good study habits but taking it steady! Try not to start off with action packed and exciting non- stop activities which will be impossible to sustain. Drip them in to maintain interest.

  We will be organising a class newsletter that we will publish on the class web page on a weekly basis.

   

  Emotional Support: There will be members of staff on hand to talk to children through the school day. I need to firm up how this will work, it could be through a request system via admin for a teacher, Mrs Baker, LSA or me to phone and speak about anything that is causing concern. We really want the children to know that we are still here and that we are holding them in our hearts and minds.

   

  No doubt there’s more to follow, but for now… Take care of each other xxx

  Lucy and all of the school team

   

  Clare Yates

  Senior Admin Officer

  Broughton Primary School (850/2025)

  School Lane

  Broughton Stockbridge

  Hampshire SO20 8AN 

   

  Tel: 01794 301286

  www.broughton.hants.sch.uk 

• Additional update

  Fri 20 Mar 2020 Mrs Clare Yates

  Dear All,

   

  Currently Mrs. Macey is composing two letters detailing arrangements for next week. We will send this information out shortly.

  In the meantime please read the following information and carefully consider the highlighted information. (Please remember the more children in school the greater risk to those children and to the parents who are performing critical roles)

   

  Only one parent is required to be a key worker to be able to access childcare but as a country, we all need to do what we can to reduce the spread of the COVID-19 virus and many parents working in these sectors may be able to ensure their child is kept at home. And every child who can be safely cared for at home should be. 

  That is why the government has given clear guidance on self-isolation, household isolation and social distancing.

  And the most recent scientific advice on how to further limit the spread of COVID-19 is clear. If children can stay safely at home, they should, to limit the chance of the virus spreading.

  That is why the government has asked parents to keep their children at home, wherever possible, and asked schools to remain open only for those children who absolutely need to attend.

  It is important to underline that schools, colleges and other educational establishments remain safe places for children. But the fewer children making the journey to school, and the fewer children in educational settings, the lower the risk that the virus can spread and infect vulnerable individuals in wider society.

  Schools are, therefore, being asked to continue to provide care for a limited number of children - children who are vulnerable and children whose parents are critical to the Covid-19 response and cannot be safely cared for at home.

  Vulnerable children include children who are supported by social care, those with safeguarding and welfare needs, including child in need plans, on child protection plans, ‘looked after’ children, young carers, disabled children and those with education, health and care (EHC) plans.

  Parents whose work is critical to the COVID-19 response include those who work in health and social care and in other key sectors outlined below. Many parents working in these sectors may be able to ensure their child is kept at home. And every child who can be safely cared for at home should be.

  Please, therefore, follow these key principles:

  1. If it is at all possible for children to be at home, then they should be.
  2. If a child needs specialist support, is vulnerable or has a parent who is a critical worker, then educational provision will be available for them.
  3. Parents should not rely for childcare upon those who are advised to be in the stringent social distancing category such as grandparents, friends, or family members with underlying conditions.
  4. Parents should also do everything they can to ensure children are not mixing socially in a way which can continue to spread the virus. They should observe the same social distancing principles as adults.
  5. Residential special schools, boarding schools and special settings continue to care for children wherever possible.

  If your work is critical to the COVID-19 response, or you work in one of the critical sectors listed below, and you cannot keep your child safe at home then your children will be prioritised for education provision:

  Health and social care

  This includes but is not limited to doctors, nurses, midwives, paramedics, social workers, care workers, and other frontline health and social care staff including volunteers; the support and specialist staff required to maintain the UK’s health and social care sector; those working as part of the health and social care supply chain, including producers and distributers of medicines and medical and personal protective equipment.

  Education and childcare

  This includes nursery and teaching staff, social workers and those specialist education professionals who must remain active during the COVID-19 response to deliver this approach.

  Key public services

  This includes those essential to the running of the justice system, religious staff, charities and workers delivering key frontline services, those responsible for the management of the deceased, and journalists and broadcasters who are providing public service broadcasting.

  Local and national government

  This only includes those administrative occupations essential to the effective delivery of the COVID-19 response or delivering essential public services such as the payment of benefits, including in government agencies and arms length bodies.

  Food and other necessary goods

  This includes those involved in food production, processing, distribution, sale and delivery as well as those essential to the provision of other key goods (for example hygienic and veterinary medicines).

  Public safety and national security

  This includes police and support staff, Ministry of Defence civilians, contractor and armed forces personnel (those critical to the delivery of key defence and national security outputs and essential to the response to the COVID-19 pandemic), fire and rescue service employees (including support staff), National Crime Agency staff, those maintaining border security, prison and probation staff and other national security roles, including those overseas.

  Transport

  This includes those who will keep the air, water, road and rail passenger and freight transport modes operating during the COVID-19 response, including those working on transport systems through which supply chains pass.

  Utilities, communication and financial services

  This includes staff needed for essential financial services provision (including but not limited to workers in banks, building societies and financial market infrastructure), the oil, gas, electricity and water sectors (including sewerage), information technology and data infrastructure sector and primary industry supplies to continue during the COVID-19 response, as well as key staff working in the civil nuclear, chemicals, telecommunications (including but not limited to network operations, field engineering, call centre staff, IT and data infrastructure, 999 and 111 critical services), postal services and delivery, payments providers and waste disposal sectors.

  If workers think they fall within the critical categories above they should confirm with their employer that, based on their business continuity arrangements, their specific role is necessary for the continuation of this essential public service.

  If your school is closed then please contact your local authority, who will seek to redirect you to a local school in your area that your child, or children, can attend.

  We are grateful for the work of teachers and workers in educational settings for continuing to provide for the children of the other critical workers of our country. It is an essential part of our national effort to combat this disease.

  ................................................................................................................................................................................................

  Also, please follow the link below for guidance on the closure of educational settings: information for parents and carers

  Published 19 March 2020

  https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/closure-of-educational-settings-information-for-parents-and-carers/closure-of-educational-settings-information-for-parents-and-carers

   

   

  Clare Yates

  Senior Admin Officer

  Broughton Primary School (850/2025)

  School Lane

  Broughton Stockbridge

  Hampshire SO20 8AN 

   

  Tel: 01794 301286

  www.broughton.hants.sch.uk 

• Friday 20th March morning update

  Fri 20 Mar 2020 Lucy Macey

  Dear All,

   

  Good morning!

   

  If you would like childcare support from Monday and believe you are a key worker please email the school office as soon as possible: adminoffice@broughton.hants.sch.uk .

   

  There will be two main emails sent out today.  One will be how we arrange the day for the children of key workers who can in school and the other for those who's children will be working at home.  As I said yesterday we will be providing a full day of work for children at home and today I will be firming up details of how the children will be able to contact their teachers for both education and emotional support if needed.

   

  We will not be having a celebration assembly as such but please arrive 5 minutes early in the playground where we will sing you an early Easter song.  

   

  ** SPOILER ALERT** ... it' about a rabbit  who has lost his Easter eggs!! (along with a headteacher losing her marbles!!!)

   

  Please keep checking your emails and the latest news section on the website for these updates.

   

  Kind regards

   

  Lucy Macey

• Evening update 19/03/2020

  Thu 19 Mar 2020 Lucy Macey

  Dear All,

   

  Further to my email this morning, we are still awaiting the list of people who are classed as key workers and whose children are therefore eligible to be in school from Monday 23rd March.  However, I can assure parents should their children fall in this category the school will be open on Monday and we will be running as normally as possible.

   

  We will email again tomorrow once we have received communication from the Government.

   

  Kind regards

   

  Lucy Macey

• 19th March 2020 - update

  Thu 19 Mar 2020 Mrs Lucy Macey

  Thursday 19th March 2020

   

  Good Morning!

   

  Key Workers – We are awaiting a list of occupations that are included. At present, there is a meeting arranged at 12.30pm where all the cluster school head teachers are getting together to discuss ideas for ways forward. As soon as details are clear we will let everyone know.

   

  Work for children- From Monday there will be work available on our class pages for children for all classes. We are planning that it will take the form of a daily power point and will be structured as a school day would be. There will be daily Maths and English tasks as well as all other subjects. This will be regulated and monitored on a daily basis and we take the same approach with this work as we do to the work that happens in school on a daily basis, i.e. it will be planned and differentiated accordingly.

   

  We know that all families have access to a computer, for mathletics, and we are aware that multiple users for one device may need managing. We would request that parents organise the computer use with their children, since this is not something that we can do remotely.

  We will keep printing to an absolute minimum and we will give children a book to complete work in.

   

  We are aware that this process may need tweaking as we progress through the coming weeks. The way we work will be based on our knowledge of your children and the decisions that we feel will be best to provide the best and most worthwhile learning opportunities. Likewise other schools may do something different, for the same reasons. We would ask that we don’t hear about other settings offerings, we will keep our finger on the pulse and change accordingly as necessary

   

  Today the children in Badgers and Foxes class will be bringing back a selection of books from the library to read over the coming weeks. When Miss Morris is back tomorrow she will organise Otters and the same in Squirrels with Mrs Meron.

   

  If you feel that your children need stationary items to work at home, please e-mail the office and we will organise this.

   

  I hope this adds a little clarity. We will e-mail further at the end of the day

   

   

  Kind regards

   

  Lucy Macey- Headteacher

• 18th March 2020 - update

  Wed 18 Mar 2020 Mrs Lucy Macey

  Wednesday 18th March – Update

   

  The news today is that schools will close on Friday

  I really do not know more information than that at the time of writing. We will await further information from the Department of Education and clarify the situation tomorrow.

   

  In the meantime…..

   

  We’ve had another productive day at school, the sun’s been shining and the children smiling!

  My highlight was joining in a rousing rendition of ‘happy birthday’ twice with the Year 1 girls whilst washing hands and seeing Mrs Cantelo covered in sticky weed, like the monster from the black lagoon, chasing some Year 5’s around the playground! It just so happened that I was showing some prospective parents around at that point- who thought she was brilliant too!

   

  Thank you

  The cleanliness of the school is vital and all our team are working hard to protect the children. Our site manager, Ally Boulton is also interrupting her day to do a midday clean of facilities and an extra cleanse of all the commonly used fittings, such as door handles. I’d like to thank them all for their care and diligence.

   

  Clubs: Science and Strictly are running tomorrow (Thursday) and colouring on Friday.

   

  No Celebration Assembly on Friday

  For obvious reasons we won’t be inviting parents to assembly on Friday, but we will still get together as a school to share successes and find out the all-important merit totals!

• 17th March 2020 - update

  Tue 17 Mar 2020 Mrs Lucy Macey

  Dear Parents,

   

  News from today for tomorrow!

  Staffing-

  No Mrs Hudgell (14 days)

  No Miss Morris ( 48hrs) returning Friday

  No Mrs Yates ( 14 days)

  No Mechelle - Main cook ( 14 days)

   

  Classes for Wednesday (all being well)

  Squirrels: Mrs Martin and Mrs Parsons

  Otters: Mrs Bottle

  Foxes: Miss Lee

  Badgers: Miss Ayers

  Also working; Mrs Cantelo, Mrs Baker and Mrs Pearson

  Contact Numbers:

  Please ensure that the school has a contact number which we can reach you on. If you need to update current information, please e-mail the office.

  School Meals:

  We will still be able to offer hot school meals and todays lunches were good quality. But please be aware that the choices may be limited. It would be helpful if you can have this discussion with your children at home and if they are not happy with either choice, sandwiches might be a better option.

  IMPORTANT- Please read

  Below is the latest advice on Coronavirus from the NHS. We are asking that parents of school children with any new cough and/or high temperature (37.8c or above) follow this advice. We want to protect everyone as much as we possibly can and feel that there is no clear cut off point for deciding what is a 'continuous cough' so we are erring on the side of caution. There is a high risk of the virus being passed on in a school setting, even though we are being vigilant with hand washing etc.

   

  We understand that this can be very inconvenient for working parents but by doing this we hope to remain open for as long as possible, until of course the government says otherwise.

  Anyone who is already self isolating for 7 days now needs to extend that to 14 days and include the whole family. Thank you in advance for your understanding in this matter.

   

  NHS England Advice is:

  Stay at home if you have coronavirus symptoms Stay at home if you have either:

  · a high temperature – you feel hot to touch on your chest or back

  · a new, continuous cough – this means you've started coughing repeatedly

  · Do not go to a GP surgery, pharmacy or hospital.

  You do not need to contact 111 to tell them you're staying at home. Testing for coronavirus is not needed if you're staying at home. How long to stay at home:

  · if you have symptoms, stay at home for 7 days

  · if you live with other people, they should stay at home for 14 days from the day the first person got symptoms

  · If you live with someone who is 70 or over, has a long-term condition, is pregnant or has a weakened immune system, try to find somewhere else for them to stay for 14 days.

  If you have to stay at home together, try to keep away from each other as much as possible. Urgent advice: Use the NHS 111 online coronavirus service if: you feel you cannot cope with your symptoms at home your condition gets worse your symptoms do not get better after 7 days Use the 111 coronavirus service Only call 111 if you cannot get help online. How to avoid catching and spreading coronavirus (social distancing) Everyone should do what they can to stop coronavirus spreading. It is particularly important for people who: are 70 or over have a long-term condition are pregnant have a weakened immune system

  wash your hands with soap and water often – do this for at least 20 seconds always wash your hands when you get home or into work use hand sanitiser gel if soap and water are not available cover your mouth and nose with a tissue or your sleeve (not your hands) when you cough or sneeze put used tissues in the bin immediately and wash your hands afterwards avoid close contact with people who have symptoms of coronavirus only travel on public transport if you need to work from home, if you can avoid social activities, such as going to pubs, restaurants, theatres and cinemas avoid events with large groups of people use phone, online services, or apps to contact your GP surgery or other NHS services Don't do not touch your eyes, nose or mouth if your hands are not clean do not have visitors to your home, including friends and family The NHS will contact you from Monday 23 March 2020 if you are at particularly high risk of getting seriously ill with coronavirus. You'll be given specific advice about what to do.

  Do not contact your GP or healthcare team at this stage – wait to be contacted. Who is at risk? How coronavirus is spread Because it's a new illness, we do not know exactly how coronavirus spreads from person to person. Similar viruses are spread in cough droplets. It's very unlikely it can be spread through things like packages or food. Travel advice There are some countries and areas where there's a higher chance of coming into contact with someone with coronavirus. If you're planning to travel abroad and are concerned about coronavirus, see advice for travellers on GOV.UK. Treatment for coronavirus There is currently no specific treatment for coronavirus. Antibiotics do not help, as they do not work against viruses. Treatment aims to relieve the symptoms while your body fights the illness. You'll need to stay in isolation, away from other people, until you have recovered. More information

  www.nhs.uk/coronavirus

  GOV.UK: coronavirus action plan GOV.UK: information on coronavirus and the situation in the UK NHS England: coronavirus for health professionals Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG): coronavirus advice for pregnant women Page last reviewed: 16 March 2020