Keeping you up to date with all that is happening in school.
24th March 2020
Good Morning Parents/Carers,
Hopefully this message finds you all safe and well at home.
With regard to work set by teachers; week 1 and 2 of school closure- teachers will set ‘project’ themed learning tasks and will direct you to lots of useful sites.
Week 3 onwards- each class page will be updated with more specific learning and an outline of how you may wish to conduct your home-schooling day in line with normal class practice to keep routine. There will be online tutorials for aspects of maths bearing in mind that the Inspire maths scheme works differently to methods we, as parents, may not be familiar with.
There will still be directions to useful online learning if needed.
How we will go about marking/feeding back on your child’s work is yet to be confirmed but I strongly urge you to bear with us as we find our feet.
I appreciate that this is such a stressful time for everyone. This pandemic affects all of us in some way shape or form and whilst we may not have the home-school learning system perfected as quickly as we’d all like, our staff are continuing to put our children first, primarily to enable keyworkers and frontline NHS staff to go out into the unknown and fight this global battle.
If you have any queries with regard to home-school learning in the run up to week 3, please email me rather than individual staff as they are working tirelessly to keep school open alongside Mrs Rogerson.
Many thanks in anticipation of your continued understanding and support.
Miss Hollings
Dear Parents and Carers,
Unless a member of staff from our schools contacted you by telephone on Friday 20th March, school is closed until further notice. Please be aware that the safest place for us all is at home.
If your circumstances change and your child becomes eligible to be cared for by school you must contact school to organise the attendance in advance. Please do not simply turn up at school as your child will not be able to attend. We hope our whole school community remains safe through this difficult time. Please take extra care of yourselves and your family members.
Leyland Methodist Schools
Dear Parents and Guardians,
I am writing to you in respect of the on-going coronavirus situation. Speculation is rife in the media about will/won’t happen; what should/shouldn’t happen and when it will/won’t happen. We are facing uncertain times and it is difficult to know what it is ahead. There is no doubt that we are in unchartered waters.
DFE Advice to Schools
We have been told that we all need to play our part and that includes our role as your child’s school. As a school, we receive a daily update from the Department for Education. This comes straight to my email and gives the latest advice for that day. The advice is often the same - keep doing what you have been doing. The current advice, as I write, is to:
Keep the school open
Encourage good hygiene especially hand-washing
Advise parents to keep their child at home if they have
- a temperature of 37.8 or higher
- a new persistent cough.
We appreciate your co-operation in this matter.
Parents’ Evening
Each day, as a school we need to assess risk and make decisions. In light of the on-going situation and the fact that things may change in the very near future, I have decided to cancel Parents’ Evening as a precautionary measure. We all have families and loved ones to protect and many of the staff have close family members, who are potentially very vulnerable to the possible impact of contraction of COVID-19.
In the absence of a Parents’ Evening, we ask that any parent with a pressing concern to contact his/her child’s class teacher via the usual route. Conversely, if a teacher has a matter he/she wishes to discuss with a parent, then the parent will be contacted. As it is unknown how long this situation is likely to progress for, no alternative arrangements for Parents’ Evening will be made at this point in time. We will continue to review the situation.
St George’s Day Celebration for Grandparents – 23rd April
We always receive such lovely feedback from our more senior members of the community at this event. However, in light of the likelihood that people over 70 may be asked to self-isolate in the near future, it is with regret but would seem prudent that our St George’s Day celebrations are cancelled.
Potential School Closures
As per DfE advice, the school remains open. We have been given no indication that this is likely to change soon. However, as a point of reference, in any event that school was closed (for any reason) the scrolling banner on the top of our main web page, would indicate our status as closed. We would also inform you through our usual channels as well.
Let’s hope and pray that this coronavirus passes quickly and our school community does not feel its impact so that we can get our lives back to business as usual.
Thank you for your understanding.
Stay safe and well.
Kind Regards,
Mrs K A Melling
Executive Headteacher
Stay at home for 7 days if you have either:
a high temperature
a new continuous cough
This will help to protect others in your community while you are infectious.
Do not go to a GP surgery, pharmacy or hospital.
You do not need to contact NHS 111 to tell them you’re staying at home.
We will not be testing people who are self-isolating with mild symptoms.
Further advice can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/coronavirus-covid-19-information-for-the-public
Just to confirm that until the Department for Education (DFE) contacts the school, Leyland Methodist Schools will remain open as normal. The DFE are contacting the school each day with updates so as soon as we hear any information with regards to closures we will contact you immediately.
Regards
Leyland Methodist Schools
Within God’s love for everyone, Our school family is committed to serve by:
- celebrating everyone’s unique God-given talents;
- giving the best of ourselves for all the world;
- doing all the good we can together.