Dear Parents and Carers,

 

As the Prime Minister has said schools are returning to normal for the new term, I am happy to say we will very cautiously reinstate normal school times from September.

 

Please see the times for return for normal drop off and pick up below:

 

Reception: 
Drop off  - 8.55am - children should line up with their class when the bell is rung.
Pick up - 3.15pm - teachers will dismiss children to their parents (note the staggered entry dates).

 

Years 1 and 2:
Drop off - 8 .55am - children should line up with their class when the bell is rung.
Pick up - 3.20pm - teachers will dismiss the children to the parents

 

Years 3, 4, 5, 6:

Drop off - 8.45am - no bell will be rung.  Children can enter their classrooms when the Learning Support Practitioner indicates at 8.45am. Early morning work will be provided until registration at 8.55am.

Pick up 3.25pm - Staff will bring the children to the playground and dismiss from there.

Should there be any new announcements/ change over the summer holidays the new Head Teacher Mr Bracken will be in touch.

 

Please note on Tuesday 20th July there is an early finish for all:

 

1.30pm  -  Year 6 pick-up from KS2 playground
2.00pm  - Reception Y1, Y2, Y3, Y4, Y5 pickup from their playgrounds.

 

On the last day play times will be staggered but organised so year groups can be re-introduced to the facilities of the whole playgrounds.

 

Please, please keep wearing masks and continue to social distance on school premises until the end of term.

 

Best wishes.

 

E T Jackson

 

Ms Jackson
Head Teacher

Dear Parents and Carers,

 

As you know “Freedom Day” 21 June 2021 has now been delayed to the 19 July 2021.  As a result, we have, unfortunately, had to change arrangements for some of the end of term planned activities. These events were originally planned to be live.  We are, of course, trying to keep as many of these as possible but now delivered according to Government Covid safe requirements.  Please see below for all arrangements.

 

Sports Experience Day             Reception & KS1 24 June 2021                    KS2 25 June 2021

No adults can attend but we will ensure all the children will have a wonderful day to remember experiencing different sports which they may not have come across before. All children can come in their PE uniform for their Sports Experience Day.

 

Year 6 School Journey - 28 June – 2 July 2021

This is permitted to go ahead with all children and adults maintaining the socially distanced bubble (the same as at school) throughout the trip.

 

Early Years Information Evening for the new Reception Parents and Carers 2021 – 30 June 2021

This will now be a virtual event.  Ms Wrigley (Early Years’ Leader) will send out all the details.

 

New 2021 Reception Pupil and Parent classroom visits – 6 July 2021

This will be a virtual visit (video to meet your class teacher and see the classroom). Ms Wrigley (Early Years’ Leader) will send out all the details.

 

Open Evening for all year groups – 8 July 2021

You will have already received your child’s very full report before this event.  As is usual, there are no individual appointments for this evening. This event will be arranged for fifteen parents from each class to visit their child’s classroom during an hour slot, see their books, and have a quick chat with their teacher (who will be in the playground).  Only one parent from each family may attend and no children are permitted. Details and the available hour for you will be sent out nearer the time.

 

Year 6 Production – 13 July 2021 and 14 July 2021

Two performances will take place over two days.  Only thirty socially distanced adults (one adult from a family) will be permitted to attend each performance.  The performance will also be filmed to share with other family members.  A booking survey will be sent out nearer the time.

 

Year 6 Leavers’ Assembly – 16 July 2021

This will be an outdoor event. One adult from each family may attend and adults must stay in groups of thirty socially distanced. There will be an allocated place for each class’s adults in the playground. Should it rain you will need to bring an umbrella as we cannot move the event to inside.

 

Pupil move up afternoon - 16 July 2021

This will be a virtual event.

 

Party Day – 19 July 2021

If permitted by the 19 July, this will go ahead as planned.  Please note children will need to bring in their own individual party food that day (no restrictions, but please note no nuts and or food containing nuts).  School meals and packed lunches will not be provided by Harrisons on Party Day.  Children can wear their own clothes on this day.

 

Year 6 Disco – 19 July 2021

If permitted by the 19 July, this will go ahead as planned. If not a Year 6 evening outdoor event will be organised (not a disco) but Year 6 will be able to have an evening event in their bubble.

 

Year 6 last day – 20 July 2021

Year 6 finish time on the last day will be 1.30pm.  Adults may collect from the large KS2 playground. This will enable the Year 6’s and adults to have some time and space to say goodbye to each other.

All other year groups will finish at 2.00pm on the last day and can be collected from the usual bubble points.

 

Best wishes.

E T Jackson

Ms E Jackson

Head Teacher

Dear Parents and Carers,

 

We are all really looking forward to seeing the children on Monday.  Just a few notes, reminders about the return to school.

 

Returning from abroad

If your family is returning from abroad, you all need to follow the national guide lines ten days isolation rule:

 

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/how-to-quarantine-when-you-arrive-in-england

 

Please do let the office know so that the teachers can provide online learning support.  Please use the absence@marshgate.richmond.sch.uk email address for any absence related messages putting your child’s full name and class in the message.

 

Shielding

If your child needs to shield, please let the office know so that the teachers can provide online learning support.

In both the above cases online learning will be via Google classroom (Years 2 to 6) and Seesaw (Reception and Year 1).  However, this work will not replicate that which took place during full lockdown (live lessons etc.) as the teachers will be in class full time teaching face to face. It will be work provided for you to do with your child.

 

Covid Positive reporting

As before Christmas, if your child is in any way sick, they should be kept at home. Should they show any signs of Covid you must inform the school immediately and get them a test.  Should any child develop symptoms in school they will be brought to the isolation room and you will be asked to collect them immediately.

If any child or staff member develops Covid, the year group bubble will return to home learning. We can all help avoid this by strictly adhering to the national social distancing rules outside school, at home, as well as in school.

 

Masks

All staff will wear masks outside the classroom bubble.  All parents and carers should wear masks when dropping off and picking up the children.  Please maintain social distancing from staff and each other at all times.

 

Staff testing

All staff are undertaking twice weekly Lateral Flow Covid Tests.

Asymptomatic testing information for parents and adults in households with children at school or college

Undertaking regular, rapid coronavirus (COVID-19) testing helps reduce transmission of the virus. Parents and other adults in households with children at school or college, who do not have symptoms, can now access regular, rapid coronavirus (COVID-19) testing.  This includes childcare and support bubbles.

Tests are fast, easy and completely free. There are different ways for a household, childcare or support bubble to collect their test to take at home, twice-weekly:

If you have any queries about the tests, and you live in England, please call 119 (free from mobiles and landlines). Lines are open every day from 7am to 11pm.

Children of primary school age (and below) without symptoms are not being asked to take a test.

Testing is voluntary, but strongly recommended to all who are eligible.  Alongside the vaccine, washing hands, wearing face coverings, and maintaining social distancing, rapid testing plays a vital role in reducing transmission rates. Getting into the habit of regular testing as part of our everyday lives will help us all to play our part and do what we can to protect each other.

 

The school is not a provider for tests kits for parent/carers.

 

Travelling to school safely

Further information can be found in our guidance on transport to school and other places of education. The Department for Transport has also created resources that can be downloaded and used by education settings to promote safe travel to school.

 

Let’s all make the return to school a successful one. Please reassure your child all the staff are very excited to see them back and it will be so much fun for them to be back in.

 

See you soon!

Best wishes.

 

E T Jackson

Ms Jackson

Head Teacher

 

 

 

 

Dear Parents and Carers,

 

We will be delighted to welcome back all children and families on Monday, 8^th March.  I expect the children will be very excited to get back as, I’m sure, will the parents!

 

Just a few reminders for a safe return.  We will be returning with all Covid safe measures in place, just as we had before Christmas. These will include:

• Staggered entry and exits - as these worked so well before Christmas, the times have been changed slightly to allow for quicker entry and exits and more class learning time. Please see grid attached. The faster entry / exit times will make it easier to drop off/pick up one child and then go around the school, via the gates and pavements (not interior playgrounds/ paths) for the other children. Should any siblings have the same times, the staff will keep the children at the drop off point until you arrive. If any gap of thirty minutes + happens between siblings, please as before, contact your class teacher to make arrangements for holding these children. 
• Do make sure you continue to maintain social distances, wear masks, enter and exit quickly. For these systems to work, it is essential that all drop offs / pick -ups are on time.  Please do not wait, chat outside the school gates or surrounding pavements.
• Year Group Bubbles - all children will be in year group Covid Safe bubbles, as before, with their own staff and playground space.
• Classrooms will be set up with desks facing front and children spaced as much as possible. Classrooms will be well ventilated, windows open etc.
• Children will continue to need their own pencil case, hand gel, small pack of tissues, and hygiene wipes and of course their own filled water bottle. Some of these items will already be in school from before Christmas but do check after the first day if they need replenished.
• Afterschool care with Mrs Brooks will start for Year 2 to – Year 6 on Monday, 8^th March. Please contact her on helentbrooks@hotmail.com to book.
• Bright Horizons Pre and After Care, please contact them on 0208 332 2085.
• Pre and after school extra curriculum clubs if possible will restart after Easter, information to follow.
• Lessons - all lessons will be taught including PE.  Teachers will be in touch with days. We will continue with permitting all children to come into school in PE Kit on PE days. Please see PE uniform requirements on the website.
• School Uniform - full school uniform should be worn at all times.  Please see website for school uniform policy.
• School dinners and packed lunches - KS2 will eat their packed lunches provided from home or by Harrisons in their own classroom bubble.  Reception and KS1 can have a school dinner or home provided packed lunch in the school hall.  A sign up survey for Reception and KS1 hot school dinners and KS2 Harrisons packed lunches will be sent out shortly. 
• Attendance - Attendance is compulsory.
• Covid infections - should a Covid case be notified in any bubble, staff or children, the whole year group bubble will have to return to remote learning and isolate for ten days.  Let’s hope this doesn’t happen.
• Covid Testing - all staff will self-administer Lateral Flow Covid tests twice a week. Primary school children are not required to do this.

 

Please can parents return all borrowed computers on the first day back, 8^th March? These can be left at the school office. We will need these for teaching.

 

To note, on Friday, 5^th March, teachers will deliver the morning live introductory lesson and set independent work for the rest of the day.  They will then be in school preparing for the full return of the children on Monday, 8^th March.

 

I would ask all families to continue to observe the national social distancing rules outside of school, at home.  In this way and with all of the above measures it would be wonderful to avoid any Year Group Bubble having to return to isolation and home learning.

 

As ever, I am optimistic that the summer term will be a return to a more normal situation. All of the staff are so looking forward to seeing the children in school.

 

Best wishes.

 

E T Jackson

 

Ms Jackson

Head Teacher

Please see the link below to the Home Learning Policy which is held with the school policies on this website:

 

https://www.marshgate.richmond.sch.uk/policies/

 

Please see the information about Remote Home Learning on our Curriculum pages.  Please follow the link here https://www.marshgate.richmond.sch.uk/home-learning/