Weekly News – 11.02.2021

End of term arrangements for reporting positive Coronavirus test results

Please ensure you have read the letter sent out earlier today regarding reporting positive Coronavirus cases to the school during half term.

Learning & Discovery Festival

The Learning and Discovery Festival is a fantastic activity resource which can be used at home by the children over half term. It is part of the Inclusion 2020 project set up by the Youth Sport Trust (YST), which focuses on inspiring pupils to play and enjoy unified sport together, and challenge attitude and perceptions of disabilities.

There are 4 different activities outlined in the resource cards attached to engage with, each have a video and instructions. There is also an opening and closing ceremony video for your festival and it is all hosted by a Paralympian!!

Athletics – Obstacle Relay https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tzd_A3nMX3I&feature=youtu.be

Badminton – Target Grid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dimlLTZkPxw&feature=youtu.be

New Age Kurling – Slide To Score https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wrm5mMiRu9Y&feature=youtu.be

Sitting Volleyball – Keepy Uppy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjeXjKk7OQA&feature=youtu.be

Who can take part? – The festival is open to all primary school-aged children.

Once children have had a go at the activities there is a short survey to complete (within the resource attached) so data can be passed onto The Department for Education, this can be completed by parents/carers.

This is not a competition, so scores do not have to be submitted.

Premier Active

Premier Active are trying to gage requirements for children/parents. Please complete the short survey below:

https://www.premieractive.co.uk/parents-questionnaire/ thank you.

If you would like to be involved in a fun little challenge that parents and children can all take part in, https://www.homecourt.ai/ is the interactive basketball app that takes your skills to the next level. It’s the personal skills trainer that’s always with you, capturing your performance, and providing you with guided feedback. Each of our coaches will be taking part in the reaction activity and it will be across all of our social media accounts. It’s a great way to keep active!

GOV.UK – Mental health resources for children, parents, carers and school staff

It is always important to talk about mental health and to ensure that resources are available to help people who are struggling. Schools, charities, and mental health organisations have come together to mark Children’s Mental Health Week. There are 53 website links including: downloadable guide from the Children’s Commissioner about coronavirus which includes proactive advice to support mental wellbeing.

Mental health resources for children, parents, carers and school staff.

Celebration of children’s learning

Please follow the link to see pictures of your children’s learning this week:

Message from Mrs Dean

As the half term holiday approaches, I would just like to say thank you and well done to everyone within our school community. The staff have worked very hard over the last 6 weeks to get our remote learning offer up and running so that we can provide a broad curriculum to all our children. The feedback I have had from many parents has been positive and the teachers very much appreciate this. As parents many of you have juggled work commitments and home schooling, and although it has undoubtedly been difficult, we can see the level of your commitment from the work the children are completing and sending to their teachers. Finally, to all our pupils, who have had to deal with so much in terms of changes to their routine, getting used to working in a completely different way and missing the chance to be with their friends. They have been amazing, and it has been great to see so many children take the opportunity to keep connected to the school through the daily catch-up meetings.

I hope you all have a lovely half term break and we look forward to seeing you either in person or remotely after half term.

Kind regards

Wolverton School