St Margaret's CE Primary School

Changes & upcoming developments

27/05/20 - SUBSETS (groups) schedule published on website (purple box below)

By 2 June - Individual parents informed of their child's own SUBSET

01/06/20 & 02/06/20 - School Closed for Staff Training (Sustaining a COVID Secure School)

03/06/20 - 05/06/20 - School open for Key Worker children only

08/06/20 - Possible Partial Open for about one quarter of school

22/07/20 - School Last Day Possibe Partially Open

23/07/20 - School Closed for Summer Holidays

02/09/20 - School Partially or Fully Re-opens for Autumn Term (gov'm't advice informed)

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Published Schedule for Subsets

ALL CRITICAL WORKER CHILDREN ARE AUTOMATICALLY ALLOCATED A YEAR GROUP SUBSET. IF YOU HAVE AN ACCEPTED/APPROVED CRITICAL WORKER STATUS THEN IN ADDITION YOU HAVE A PROTECTED INVITE TO CONTINUE IN THIS SET. PLEASE CONFIRM WHETHER YOU WISH TO CONTINUE IN THE CRITICAL WORKER SET BY COMPLETEING THE GREEN 'SINGLE DECISION FORM BELOW'. PLEASE DO THIS BY 1 JUNE. THANK YOU

The school has published the schedule of which SUBSETS are invited to attend:

LINK TO 'SCHEDULE FOR SUBSETS RETURNING TO SCHOOL (01/06 to 29/06)'

Parents are expected to be informed by 2 June regarding their child's specific subset.

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Message for Parents who are Critical Workers or have Vulnerable Children (EHCP or Social Worker) (Updated 25/05/20)

Please read the letter here: PROVISION FOR KEY/CRITICAL WORKER CHILDREN AND CHILDREN WHO ARE VUNERABLE

We now need all parents who are critical workers and any parents who have children that are vulnerable (DfE definition - EHCP & open to social worker) to make a very clear single decision regarding how you would like your child to receive care/education.

The decision must be made from one of two options below:

Option X : CRITICAL WORKER SUB-SET - children will stay in key worker provision and will receive child care from teaching assistant/s. They will not necessarily be with other children or staff from their year group. They will receive the same educational content as pupils from their year, but not in a year group SUB-SET. They will not be offered any more education sessions than any other child in the year group.

Option Y : YEAR GROUP SUB-SET – children will attend on set days as scheduled by the school. These SUB-SETS (10 pupils from year group) are more likely to be taught by year group teachers and year group teaching assistants. Pupils will be offered initially to come in two consecutive days out of six.

To record your single decision please use the link below:

LINK TO 'SINGLE DECISION FORM FOR CRITICAL WORKERS AND VULNERABLE CHILDREN'

If you think you are critical workers but have yet to request registering this with us, please read all the information in the letter above and then start request using link below:

LINK TO 'CRITICAL WORKERS REQUEST FORM/SURVEY''

The school has produced a FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions document for parents to respond to common questions. Please refer to this before contacting the Live Chat.

LINK TO 'FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions)'

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Message from the School Leadership (Updated 22/05/20)

The government has asked schools to return pupils in a phased approach from 1st June. Warrington local authority is asking all schools and academies to return from 8th June. We have been undertaking significant preparations and planning towards a phased return for some pupils in our school.

The school leadership has provided two letters:

LETTER REGARDING PHASED RETURN (Published 21/05/2020)

LETTER REGARDING RETURN OF PUPILS. (Published (04/05/2020)

The letter above publishes our strategy approved by the Governing Body at its meeting on Thursday 20 June. This has taken into consideration the developing risk assessment (shortly to be published) as well as current position known at the time.

Regarding specific dates for specific children in specific groups, we will notify you of these as soon as possible, hopefully early next week.

As a general rule: starting week beginning 8 June, children will be returning for up to two consecutive days, in groups (SUB-SETS) of up to 10, starting with some phasing of Year 1, then Year 6, then Reception, with SUB-SETS scheduled in and out to ensure as many children whos e parents wish them to attend, can do so as safely as possible. Please read the letter publlished 21/05/2020 for details.

Please note that Endenred Vouchers for Free School Meals will not be issued for week beg. 25 May as the Government is not funding this 'holiday' week.

Many of you have completed the survey which has helped inform our stratgegy, however if you have not done this please complete it at your earliest opportunity.

We will publish the outcomes of this survey on the COVID Update page. Thank you.

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Key Office/Contact Information

ALL GENERAL ENQUIRIES PLEASE USE THE LIVE CHAT ON THIS WEBSITE. School admin agents are dealing with queries on this every week day. They will forward messages they cannot answer to our Virus Team, our Free School Meal Team and our Key Worker Validation Team. Revised School Office Hours 8.30am to 12 Noon. Please avoid using the telephone support (as we now have less capacity).

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