Keep up-to-date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.

• Covid-19 Latest Government Information

  Tue 17 Mar 2020 D Presswood

  Department for Education

  This is your daily email to keep you updated on the government’s response to COVID-19 (coronavirus). New guidance for households with symptoms Yesterday, the Government introduced new guidance on whole household isolation in response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak: if you live alone and you have symptoms of coronavirus (COVID-19), however mild, stay at home for 7 days from when your symptoms started if you live with others and you or another member of the household have symptoms of coronavirus, then all household members must stay at home and not leave the house for 14 days. The 14-day period starts from the day when the first person in the house became ill. It is likely that people living within a household will infect each other or be infected already. Staying at home for 14 days will greatly reduce the overall amount of infection the household could pass on to others in the community for anyone in the household who starts displaying symptoms, they need to stay at home for 7 days from when the symptoms appeared, regardless of what day they are on in the original 14-day isolation period. The symptoms are: A high temperature (37.8 degrees and above) A new, continuous cough The full stay at home guidance for households with these symptoms can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-stay-at-home-guidance The Prime Minister’s statement from Monday 16 March can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/pm-statement-on-coronavirus-16-march-2020

• Covid-19 Latest Government information

  Sun 15 Mar 2020 D Presswood

  Government announces move from Contain to Delay phase

  Yesterday, the Government announced that we are moving from the Contain phase of the coronavirus action plan and into the Delay phase, in response to the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. 

  Full details of each stage in the government action plan can be found here: 

  https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-action-plan

  To support the delay of the spread of the virus, the Department for Health and Social Care has asked anyone who shows certain symptoms to stay at home for 7 days, regardless of whether they have travelled to affected areas. This means people should stay at home and avoid all but essential contact with others for 7 days from the point of displaying mild symptoms, to slow the spread of infection. 

  The symptoms are: 

  A high temperature (37.8 degrees and above) A new, continuous cough

  You do not need to call NHS 111 to stay at home. If your symptoms worsen during your stay at home period or are no better after 7 days contact NHS 111 online at 111.nhs.uk. If you have no internet access, you should call NHS 111. For a medical emergency dial 999.

• OFSTED Report - Modern Foreign Languages Inspection

  Fri 13 Mar 2020 D Presswood

  We have now received the letter from OFSTED which will be published on their website in a few days time.

   

  We are thrilled with the outcome which is testament to the hard work of staff in maintaining a broad, balanced and challenging curriculum over a long period of time. Julia Gadd is to be congratulated on her expert leadership in this subject and the clarity in communicating her understanding of our progress in embedding French as a language taught well in the school. We are very proud of the children who demonstrated real enthusiasm for their learning and spoke or sang(!) eloquently to the inspector in French.