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Dear Parents,
An email has been sent out with an attached a letter that schools were asked by the Local Authority to share with parents, before the Welsh Government made a further announcement with regard to schools staying closed to pupils until at least the 18th of January.
Whilst the Welsh Government decision over rides the time line set out in the letter, the letter does help to explain the rationale behind the need for caution and the decision that schools should remain closed. The letter also contains essential information for those of you who are in receipt of Free School meals.
As you will probably be aware, the Welsh government has subsequently stated that schools will remain closed to pupils until at least the 18th of January.
The BBC report can be found here https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-55534599
and the Minister's statement can be found here https://lnks.gd/l/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJidWxsZXRpbl9saW5rX2lkIjoxMDEsInVyaSI6ImJwMjpjbGljayIsImJ1bGxldGluX2lkIjoiMjAyMTAxMDQuMzI3NzgxMTEiLCJ1cmwiOiJodHRwczovL3lvdXR1LmJlLzU4Vm90TXJrYzdZIn0.aWV9HKbrxKFrs4-3Hu4e1HJwals4Kttxd--ASUkJ-TU/s/650004067/br/92623227691-l
Further to this Boris Johnson has announced tonight that schools in England will close until February half term, we have to wait and see if this will further affect the decisions in Wales.
Please be aware that the information has been shared with schools a bit at a time and we are generally finding out shortly before you are. In effect we get little time to plan for what we will do to support you but please be assured we will do the best we can.
As things stand, staff have been asked to prepare online learning for pupils for this term’s topics and they are already working on this. In this first week, we are looking at engaging the children, supporting learning and getting the children to think about the new term topics, what they already know and what they would like to find out about. More information will be shared as the week goes on.
Teachers will also be on line using ‘Teams’ on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday this week. The children will receive invitations to join the meetings via their hwb accounts. Staff will be online as follows, Reception, Y1, Y3, Y5 and STF will be on line between 9:30 and 10:00. Nursery, Y2, Y4 and Y6 will be online between 10:00 and 10:30.
Teams can be joined via a computer or mobile device. In this first week we are looking to encourage the children to join in and take part in the online sessions with the staff. They will be an opportunity to talk about what they’ve been doing over Christmas, talk about what’s happening in the news, what we think is happening and any concerns the children might have and there will also be opportunity to talk about what the spring term topics are. From the sessions we held before Christmas we know these had a very positive affect for both the staff and the pupils and encourage you to join even if for only a couple of minutes. You don’t have to join everyday but you can if you wish.
We’ve run the meetings every day as we appreciate that you may have two or more children sharing computers or devices and so different children can access their teacher on different days.
We will do my best to keep you up to date with the latest in terms of school closures and what we are offering as support.
We realise there are some errors in the email sent out for which we apologise, the priority was to get the information out and in our haste we missed the mistakes.
Sincerely
Jonathan Atter