Newsletter ~ January Week One
Dear Families,
Well, what a start to the new year we’ve had! Thank you so much for your support with the school being open and for the day when the school was closed. Thankfully the storm didn’t create another school closure day today.
Lockdown
In the next couple of weeks we will be practising our lockdown procedures. This procedure would be used if there was a threat to the safety of the children, staff and others in the school and it would be safer to stay in school rather than leave the school. Possible situations where we would use the lockdown procedure are:
-a possible dangerous person or animal on the school grounds
-an incident in the local community which could affect the school and everyone in it
-a terrorist incident
-extreme weather which could put lives at risk
-an alert from the UK emergency alerts system
If a lockdown occurs, the children and staff will remain in classrooms, lock the doors and sit under tables. Everyone remains quiet. The senior staff call the emergency services and follow their advice.
As parents, you will be alerted to the lockdown as soon as we can do this. Please do not come to the school or try to call the school as we will need the phone lines free. We will not let any child out of the school (and anyone into the school) if we’re in a lockdown until the emergency services have confirmed it is safe to do so.
We ask that parents do not share the event on social media as this may cause panic and spread false information.
When we practise lockdowns, the staff explain to the children what is happening and why. Everything is explained in an age appropriate way. The children already know that we want them to be safe and this will help. Each time we practise one of our emergency procedures, the staff always explain to the children why it is necessary.
Curriculum Directors
Over the next half term we have quite a few of the Trust Curriculum Directors coming into school to look at the work across the various subjects of the curriculum. They will be chatting to children about their learning, looking at books and speaking to the subject leaders in the school. We discuss what’s going well and how we can improve what we’re doing, which in turn supports the children’s knowledge and understanding.
So if your child tells you they’ve been chatting to people about their work, you’ll know why.
Thank you as ever for your continued support.
Have a lovely weekend.
Take care and stay safe.
Mrs Wilmer