Please join me on Facebook Live tomorrow at 1.30pm for a Celebration Assembly.

If you would like to nominate your child for a mention, to celebrate something you are proud of, please email nicola.moody@taw.org.uk by 11am tomorrow.

Parents and Carers

I hope you are all doing okay with the challenges we currently face with ‘juggling’ work commitments and the care and learning of your children at home.

We are so grateful for the support you have given to us as a school and to the staff who I can honestly say are working incredibly hard to give your children a quality remote learning offer.

I am aware some families are using some additional materials like CGP, BBC etc. which is wonderful.  I know such resources are great for children and help enormously with learning.

However I need to ensure you are aware of the expectation on schools from the Department for Education that the curriculum continues to move forward.  Therefore content that we are delivering through live Teams lessons and our daily learning packs would not be planned to be repeated later in the year.

As always, if children have gaps or need further support we will of course respond to these as appropriate.  Please, where you can, access these materials in the first instance and if you are having difficulty with certain activities please do email the year groups for support.

We appreciate and fully support you in managing the challenges families currently face with the demands of working from home, caring for children and managing learning.  Please find ways to make this manageable for yourselves and to prioritise the wellbeing of you and your children.  Also, encourage your child to develop some independence with their learning so that you can have some time to achieve what you need to (just like we expect them to do in school):

*Show them how to access the daily home learning pack and to watch the videos that are built in so that they can do this themselves.

*Set them timed targets e.g. ‘I’d like you to do those ten Maths questions now and I will be back in twenty minutes to see how you have got on’.

*Establish a timetable for the day so your child knows when they need to work independently due to your commitments with work or a sibling and what they are expected to do at this time.

*Break up the day with some social time where perhaps you eat lunch together or go for a walk.

By doing your best you are doing great for your children.  Thank you for your support at this time.

Mrs M

During this period of remote learning we encourage children to seek feedback on their work from the teaching team.

You can photograph or scan the work completed by hand or email work completed electronically into the year group email addresses.

This email address is monitored between 9am and 4pm daily.

Did you know?  If you have an iphone or ipad the ‘Notes’ App offers a scan function and you can scan documents and then email as an attachment!

Please use this facility for your children to get feedback on their work or to ask for help if there are things they are struggling to understand.

Please can we ask for your understanding when on occasions technology fails!

Please be mindful that use of Microsoft Teams from your homes does rely on the internet and if your connection drops then the link is likely to fail.  We will try our best to help if we can but unfortunately, I am sure you understand, we are unlikely to be able to help in this scenario.

If you are struggling with the internet we do have Vodafone SIM cards pre loaded with data which we are more than happy for you to request if this may solve some of the internet challenges you face.

On Tuesday of this week there were complications our end hence our urgency to rectify this by rearranging meetings: if there is an issue our end our ICT team will notify us and we will of course let you know.

Thank you for your support.

Please can we ask for your support: if you have a query about home learning or access to home learning materials please can you email the year group team directly using these email addresses:

NJS.Year5@taw.org.uk

NJS.Year4@taw.org.uk

NJS.Year3@taw.org.uk

NJS.Year6@taw.org.uk

We apologise for inconvenience today due to updates with Microsoft Teams, thank you for your support and understanding.

Please remember:

*Children to enter on mute.

*Consider your child’s background.

*Please ensure the screen name is your child’s name.

Tomorrow’s sessions:

3B 10am Reading

3P 9am Reading

3W 11am Reading

4S 9.15am English

4J 10am English

4NJ 9.30am English

5M 11am Maths

5H 10am Maths

5L 9am Maths

6J 11am Reading

6S 9am Reading

6K 10am Reading

Links have been sent by ParentMail.  If you have not received this please email nicola.moody@taw.org.uk

Please remember if you are struggling with a device please email nicola.moody@taw.org.uk

We also have Vodafone SIM cards loaded with 30GB of data that will fit tablets, dongles and wi fi devices.  If you would like one of these please also email nicola.moody@taw.org.uk

For parents and carers of keyworker and vulnerable children attending school:

The school day starts at 8.45am; please ensure children are dropped off on time.  Teachers need to get the children in school and settled so that live lessons can commence of time.

The school day ends at 3.15pm.

Thank you for your support.

This will be a Celebration Assembly!  An opportunity to share and celebrate the achievements of your children so far this term!

Please send your nominations to me on nicola.moody@taw.org.uk by 11am on Thursday.  Please include details of your child’s achievements and photographs if you are happy for them to be shared on Facebook (I will assume consent if you email them to me).

Thank you all, I look forward to seeing you all then!

Mrs M x