On our COVID page you can find links to suggested SEND resources, Oak Academy and BBC Bitesize if you wish to make use of any of these:

https://newportjuniorschool.org.uk/home/learning/covid19/

On our wellbeing page you can also find some useful resources:

https://newportjuniorschool.org.uk/home/key-info/wellbeing/

Dear Year 4 Parents and carers,

We are thinking of you and your Year 4 children at this time: it feels very strange this morning for us as we are sure it does for you. Please let them know we miss them and can’t wait to see them soon.

Please remember that your Year 4 child cannot leave the family home until Friday 20^th November.   Please reassure them that they are ‘heroes’ for doing this and for reducing transmission in our community.

Should your child develop symptoms then please book a test, isolate the household, let us know and notify us as soon as you receive the result.

Just some information about what you can expect from us over the coming days:

*Each evening ready for the next day you will receive an email, generated from the website, with home learning resources for the next day. This will generally be a reading activity, maths, writing and an other subject area.  If you do not receive the email please don’t worry, it can be found on the Year 4 page on our website.

We appreciate it is very ‘tricky’ getting children to work at home but we will be keeping the curriculum moving and the more the children can engage with this offer the better.

As always our priority as a school is keeping the children happy and we will also be sending resources to help with this. We suggest a daily timetable might help your child so they understand ‘work time’ and ‘leisure’ time within their routine.

*Each day you will also receive a ParentMail message ahead of the next day. This will contain an invitation to an online meeting on Microsoft Teams the next day with your child’s class.  The main focus of these sessions will be wellbeing and maintaining a sense of belonging with the class. Teachers may deliver some teaching points but they may also play games and lead other activities. The times will vary from day to day depending on who is leading the sessions but full details will be included in the ParentMail.

You will need the Microsoft Teams App on your device, this is free. When you receive the invite you will then simply need to click on the invite to access the meeting. (I appreciate we may have teething problems, please email me nicola.moody@taw.org.uk and I will do my very best to help if I can).

Please talk to your child about appropriate behaviours during these sessions: not shouting out, muting themselves unless speaking and considering an appropriate background.

*You are welcome to have email dialogue with your child’s class teacher. Class teachers will only respond between 9am and 4pm. You may wish to email in work for feedback or to ask questions both of which are fine. (If you/your child would like feedback on work it can be saved electronically and emailed in or take a photo and send this in).

Email addresses are:

Natalie.jukes@taw.org.uk

Eloise.jones@taw.org.uk

jeni.kuczynska@taw.org.uk

caroline.sisson@taw.org.uk

*If your child is in receipt of Free School Meals you will receive a supermarket gift card in the post to support you during this isolation period. If you have not received this by Thursday please email me to let me know. If you feel you require further support please do ask.

Please be mindful that school staff are also having to isolate and they need to look after their health and wellbeing like you and your children. They are working very hard behind the scenes to organise this provision and I hope you feel able to support them. If you do have queries please do politely contact us and we will do our best to help.

Thank you for your ongoing support.

Best wishes

Mrs Moody

Dear Year 4 Parents and Carers,

We absolutely understand, like ourselves, feelings of frustration around the message of the need to self isolate that we gave to you on Saturday.  It is difficult for families and of course the children.  However, it is essential that Year 4 children remain in the family home until Friday 20th November when they return to school: this means they cannot leave the home for any reason including for a walk, for shopping or to take a sibling to school.

It is important we all do the right thing to reduce transmission in our community and I appreciate your support with this.

We are thinking of you all.

Mrs M

Thank you all for your support yesterday when you received your phone calls; we really do appreciate it, it makes a difference to us.

Our very best wishes go to our staff member and to everyone in the bubble that they remain well.

All other household members can continue to attend for work/school/college etc. It is the Year 4 children who need to remain at home.  Hopefully everything was explained in the letter you received yesterday but if you have any queries please do not hesitate to contact me.

If you did NOT receive a ParentMail from me yesterday please can you make me aware by emailing nicola.moody@taw.org.uk with the email address you wish to use on ParentMail.

The team are issuing home learning this evening for tomorrow.

We will be in touch tomorrow with further information about our remote learning offer during this period.  We will be offering some sessions for your child on Microsoft Teams: you may want to download the free App ready!  If access to a laptop/ipad/device is going to be an issue for this period please can you drop me an email to let me know.

Thank you as always for your support, stay safe.

Dear 3W Parents and Carers

 You may be aware that Miss Watson has been absent from school this week due to a none COVID related illness.  I am writing to advise you that unfortunately Miss Watson will not return to school until the 2^nd December as she has been advised by the NHS to work from home as she falls in the extremely vulnerable category.

 Miss Watson is a very dedicated teacher and is upset not to be in school with her class for this period of time.  She will be working from home to support the team with their planning and will hold sessions with the class on Microsoft Teams which I know the children and her will look forward to.

 We recently appointed Miss Bold to the NJS team for the remainder of this academic year and she will teach 3W during Miss Watson’s absence.  She can be reached by email Laurie.bold1@taw.org.uk we would encourage you to copy Miss Watson chloe.watson@taw.org.uk into any emails too so that she is kept informed.

 The most important thing is that we keep members of our NJS family safe and follow the guidance given; we all send our best wishes to Miss Watson and can’t wait to have her back.

 Mrs Moody