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Tuesday 31 March 2020
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Friday 20 March 2020
Update on Keyworker
COVID-19
Dear parents and carers,
The Department for Education has issued guidance today for schools and colleges on maintaining educational provision during the current COVID-19 pandemic.
Schools and educational settings have a key role to play, alongside other partners, in meeting our priority to preserve life, prevent spread of infection and keep critical services going. We are working together with key partners, including the Local Authority, to coordinate our response to the pandemic.
The guidance makes it clear that where children can safely stay at home they should, to limit the chance of the virus spreading.
We are being asked by Government to continue to provide care for a limited number of children including children who are vulnerable and children whose parents are critical to the COVID-19 response and cannot be safely cared for at home.
We are working with the local authority to identify all children defined as vulnerable.
The guidance published includes 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.
We will talk to these parents directly about how care will be provided.
Please note, as a school, we need to ensure we can prioritise those most in need so that our provision is sustainable and supports the Government’s number one key principle from their latest guidance that maintains social distancing:
If it is at all possible for children to be at home, then they should be.
Parents whose work is critical to the COVID-19 response may need support from schools and educational settings and we are working hard to provide that support wherever possible.
Many parents in this category will be able to keep their children at home and where children can be safely cared for at home they should be.
For those who cannot keep children safely at home and who work in one of the critical sectors listed below, your children will be priorities for education provision when you are at work.
However, it may not be possible to provide this in your child’s usual school, as inevitably school staff will also be impacted by the virus and our shared priority is to keep children safe and prevent the spread of the virus.
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
• Education and childcare
• Key public services
o 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
• Food and other necessary goods
• Public safety and national security
• Transport
• Utilities, communication and financial services
Provision is only available when you are required to work. It is not available at other times.
Where only one parent/carer is a ‘critical worker’ there is an expectation that the child stays at home with the other parent to ensure the principal and impact of social distancing is maximised.
Further guidance on key workers can be found in the following link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-maintaining-educational-provision/guidance-for-schools-colleges-and-local-authorities-on-maintaining-educational-provision
If you are a key worker and your child needs educational provision, please send us the following information to broadwaytowerview@gmail.com by Sunday 22nd March.
• Your name:
• Your most up to date contact details:
• Evidence of each parent’s / carer’s job role:
• Name of employer and contact details (for verification):
• Student’s name and year group:
More information on the closure of educational settings for parents and children can be found in the following link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/closure-of-educational-settings-information-for-parents-and-carers
Many thanks for your assistance through this challenging situation.
Dear parents and carers,
The Department for Education has issued guidance today for schools and colleges on maintaining educational provision during the current COVID-19 pandemic.
Schools and educational settings have a key role to play, alongside other partners, in meeting our priority to preserve life, prevent spread of infection and keep critical services going. We are working together with key partners, including the Local Authority, to coordinate our response to the pandemic.
The guidance makes it clear that where children can safely stay at home they should, to limit the chance of the virus spreading.
We are being asked by Government to continue to provide care for a limited number of children including children who are vulnerable and children whose parents are critical to the COVID-19 response and cannot be safely cared for at home.
We are working with the local authority to identify all children defined as vulnerable.
The guidance published includes 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.
We will talk to these parents directly about how care will be provided.
Please note, as a school, we need to ensure we can prioritise those most in need so that our provision is sustainable and supports the Government’s number one key principle from their latest guidance that maintains social distancing:
If it is at all possible for children to be at home, then they should be.
Parents whose work is critical to the COVID-19 response may need support from schools and educational settings and we are working hard to provide that support wherever possible.
Many parents in this category will be able to keep their children at home and where children can be safely cared for at home they should be.
For those who cannot keep children safely at home and who work in one of the critical sectors listed below, your children will be priorities for education provision when you are at work.
However, it may not be possible to provide this in your child’s usual school, as inevitably school staff will also be impacted by the virus and our shared priority is to keep children safe and prevent the spread of the virus.
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
• Education and childcare
• Key public services
o 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
• Food and other necessary goods
• Public safety and national security
• Transport
• Utilities, communication and financial services
Provision is only available when you are required to work. It is not available at other times.
Where only one parent/carer is a ‘critical worker’ there is an expectation that the child stays at home with the other parent to ensure the principal and impact of social distancing is maximised.
Further guidance on key workers can be found in the following link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-maintaining-educational-provision/guidance-for-schools-colleges-and-local-authorities-on-maintaining-educational-provision
If you are a key worker and your child needs educational provision, please send us the following information to broadwaytowerview@gmail.com by Sunday 22nd March.
• Your name:
• Your most up to date contact details:
• Evidence of each parent’s / carer’s job role:
• Name of employer and contact details (for verification):
• Student’s name and year group:
More information on the closure of educational settings for parents and children can be found in the following link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/closure-of-educational-settings-information-for-parents-and-carers
Many thanks for your assistance through this challenging situation.
Sunday 15 March 2020
Building fine and gross motor skills through imaginative play.
This week up at Broadway Playschool some of the younger children enjoyed
being outside in the sunshine and enjoyed doing some building & fixing in
the wendy house.
We encouraged them to really explore and access resources from the outside store which got them to engage in building, shape matching and chalking.
Towerview older children also enjoyed time outside in the sunshine and wind,
the children worked out throwing up a piece of paper and then watching it
floating in the wind!! It created a lot of laughter.
Great being ‘waited’ on by some of the children, coffee, tea, cakes and donuts in the home corner, nice chats and great little chefs!!!
Being led by the children’s interest, main interest this week has been dinosaurs, on Tuesday a dinosaur had been and laid eggs in the outside area ( musical instruments that looks like eggs). In forest school today (Friday) the children found frozen dinosaur eggs they could see the dinosaurs inside the eggs, some children managed to get the dinosaurs to hatch by putting the eggs in water.
With drier weather outside has been used more. The children are playing in larger groups where tag, hide and seek, running and ball play are involved. They negotiate the games between themselves and taking turns.
The children have enjoyed exploring media and materials in 2 and 3 dimensions. Collectively the children decided that the grandfather clock for their hickory dickory dock activity would be 'rainbow colours' and what a multi-coloured clock it is! It was lovely to observe the children working creatively together on their project with a purpose in mind and how thrilled they were at the end result. Working individually and on a small scale the children created their mice by looking at the example template then choosing the shapes and materials they wanted to use. The end result were a collection of very colourful characterful mice ready to run up and down the grandfather clock!
We printed an image of a Grandfather clock for the children to work from, many hadn’t seen one before, they did a brilliant job. Take a look in the home corner!
being outside in the sunshine and enjoyed doing some building & fixing in
the wendy house.
We encouraged them to really explore and access resources from the outside store which got them to engage in building, shape matching and chalking.
Towerview older children also enjoyed time outside in the sunshine and wind,
the children worked out throwing up a piece of paper and then watching it
floating in the wind!! It created a lot of laughter.
Great being ‘waited’ on by some of the children, coffee, tea, cakes and donuts in the home corner, nice chats and great little chefs!!!
Being led by the children’s interest, main interest this week has been dinosaurs, on Tuesday a dinosaur had been and laid eggs in the outside area ( musical instruments that looks like eggs). In forest school today (Friday) the children found frozen dinosaur eggs they could see the dinosaurs inside the eggs, some children managed to get the dinosaurs to hatch by putting the eggs in water.
With drier weather outside has been used more. The children are playing in larger groups where tag, hide and seek, running and ball play are involved. They negotiate the games between themselves and taking turns.
The children have enjoyed exploring media and materials in 2 and 3 dimensions. Collectively the children decided that the grandfather clock for their hickory dickory dock activity would be 'rainbow colours' and what a multi-coloured clock it is! It was lovely to observe the children working creatively together on their project with a purpose in mind and how thrilled they were at the end result. Working individually and on a small scale the children created their mice by looking at the example template then choosing the shapes and materials they wanted to use. The end result were a collection of very colourful characterful mice ready to run up and down the grandfather clock!
We printed an image of a Grandfather clock for the children to work from, many hadn’t seen one before, they did a brilliant job. Take a look in the home corner!
Friday 13 March 2020
Letter to parents
BROADWAY & TOWERVIEWPLAYSCHOOL
Within AppleVale Children’s Centre,
Broadway, Worcs, WR127BD
Jo Bason Leader. Becky Davis Manager
www.btvplayschool.co.uk
Towerview PS – Tel 07922025902
Email: broadwaytowerview@gmail.com
Children and those with family members living together who have a high temperature or continuous cough should not attend Playschooland self isolate for a minimum of seven days.
Washing hands frequently for at least 20 seconds.
At Playschool the children are washing hands before and after snack and lunch, and are singing the rhyme;
Wash your dirty hands,
Wash your dirty hands,
Rub and scrub and rub and scrub,
And wash your dirty hands
Repeat
Do not touch your face.
Playschool closures will be on the Playschool website ‘blog’
Thursday 12 March 2020
Sunday 1 March 2020
Coronavirus
Coronavirus
Latest information and advice can also be found at:
www.gov.uk/coronavirus
Advice for parents/guardians
You should not be unduly worried about the possibility of your children catching the Coronavirus.
There is no reason why your children should not continue to attend their early years, school or further education setting as normal.
If you have returned from these specific areas since February 19, you should call NHS111 and stay indoors and avoid contact with other people even if you do not have symptoms:
• Iran
• Specific lockdown areas in Northern Italy as designated by the Government of Italy
• Special care zones in South Korea as designated by the Government of the Republic of South Korea
• Hubei province (returned in the past 14 days)
If you have returned from these areas since February 19th and develop symptoms, however mild, you should stay indoors at home and avoid contact with other people immediately and call NHS111. You do not need to follow this advice if you have no symptoms.
• Northern Italy (defined by a line above, and not including, Pisa, Florence and Rimini),
• Vietnam
• Cambodia
• Laos
• Myanmar
Creative and Imaginative role play
Lovely to see the children excited about the snow on Thursday!
Lovely to see the children excited about the snow on Thursday!
They enjoyed making hand and foot prints and watched the snow melt.
We talked about where snow comes from and what animals live in snowy countries, we pretended to be penguins which was hilarious!!
Children at both settings enjoyed pancakes this week, they learnt that we need, eggs, flour and milk for the ingredients. They took turns to take part by scooping and counting spoonfuls of flour and using the whisk to mix the mixture and there was some good thinking about how we could make the mixture running by adding milk. Unfortunately Jo attempted to flip the very first pancake which fell to the floor!....the disappointment on their faces! Luckily we had made made plenty of mixture so after another go she managed to get it in the pan...yay!
Some were made for role play so the children were able to have a go too.
Lovely to see some new faces at the ‘Broadway’ setting. With a little support they settled well and followed the routine.
The children at Towerview setting noticed that the role play area had been rearranged and showed a renewed interest in the area. Children were observed sitting together on the sofa engaging in conversation with one another .Children played cooperatively as part of a group as well as playing independently engrossed in their own imaginative role play. Resources had been sorted and made easier for the children to access making play more creative through the props they chose to support their role play.
There was lots of creativity and focus with the play dough this week. Lots of gross and fine motor skills were in use, and the blob monsters were really good.
Unfortunately on Friday we all got ourselves ready but it was too windy to go into our Forest school site. So instead we enjoyed some physical activities on the school field, the children spent time rolling, walking and running through the long grass as we went on a ‘Bear hunt’.
Unfortunately on Friday we all got ourselves ready but it was too windy to go into our Forest school site. So instead we enjoyed some physical activities on the school field, the children spent time rolling, walking and running through the long grass as we went on a ‘Bear hunt’.
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