Remote Learning Guidance

 

Welcome to Remote Learning...

 

Please follow this step by step guide for your child to access resources and regular updates. 

 

Step 1: Go Pupils tab along the top of the Home page

Step 2: Click on Class pages

Step 3: Click on your child's class page

Step 4: Scroll down to the Remote Learning Star and click

Step 5: Each icon leads you another page 

Step 6: Read through Parental Guidance - this includes information on Google classroom and Wonde

Step 7: Access resources in Maths, English and Topic

Step 8: Use the website links for additional resources and games

Step 9: Apply for a teachers post when we are back!!! 

Step 10: Stay Safe!  

 

School Closure Update

20.3.2020

 

Please read carefully the updated information below. School will only remain open to children who absolutely need it - if children can please keep them at home. 

 

We will be working with a very reduced staff - which may change daily. Please keep monitoring all forms of communication from school throughout this time.

 

The government has asked parents to keep their children at home, wherever possible, and asked schools to remain open only for those children who absolutely need to attend.

 

It is important to underline that schools, colleges and other educational establishments remain safe places for children. But the fewer children making the journey to school, and the fewer children in educational settings, the lower the risk that the virus can spread and infect vulnerable individuals in wider society.

 

Schools are, therefore, being asked to continue to provide care for a limited number of children - children who are vulnerable and children whose parents are critical to the Covid-19 response and cannot be safely cared for at home.

 

Vulnerable children include children who are supported by social care, those with safeguarding and welfare needs, including child in need plans, on child protection plans, ‘looked after’ children, young carers, disabled children and those with education, health and care (EHC) plans.

 

Parents whose work is critical to the COVID-19 response include those who work in health and social care and in other key sectors outlined below. Many parents working in these sectors may be able to ensure their child is kept at home. And every child who can be safely cared for at home should be.

 

Please, therefore, follow these key principles:

1. If it is at all possible for children to be at home, then they should be.
2. If a child needs specialist support, is vulnerable or has a parent who is a critical worker, then educational provision will be available for them.
3. Parents should not rely for childcare upon those who are advised to be in the stringent social distancing category such as grandparents, friends, or family members with underlying conditions.
4. Parents should also do everything they can to ensure children are not mixing socially in a way which can continue to spread the virus. They should observe the same social distancing principles as adults.

 

If your work is critical to the COVID-19 response, or you work in one of the critical sectors listed below, and you cannot keep your child safe at home then your children will be prioritised for education provision:

 

Health and social care

This includes but is not limited to doctors, nurses, midwives, paramedics, social workers, care workers, and other frontline health and social care staff including volunteers; the support and specialist staff required to maintain the UK’s health and social care sector; those working as part of the health and social care supply chain, including producers and distributers of medicines and medical and personal protective equipment.

 

Education and childcare

This includes nursery and teaching staff, social workers and those specialist education professionals who must remain active during the COVID-19 response to deliver this approach.

 

Key public services

This includes those essential to the running of the justice system, religious staff, charities and workers delivering key frontline services, those responsible for the management of the deceased, and journalists and broadcasters who are providing public service broadcasting.

 

Local and national government

This only includes those administrative occupations essential to the effective delivery of the COVID-19 response or delivering essential public services such as the payment of benefits, including in government agencies and arms length bodies.

 

Food and other necessary goods

This includes those involved in food production, processing, distribution, sale and delivery as well as those essential to the provision of other key goods (for example hygienic and veterinary medicines).

 

Public safety and national security

This includes police and support staff, Ministry of Defence civilians, contractor and armed forces personnel (those critical to the delivery of key defence and national security outputs and essential to the response to the COVID-19 pandemic), fire and rescue service employees (including support staff), National Crime Agency staff, those maintaining border security, prison and probation staff and other national security roles, including those overseas.

 

Transport

This includes those who will keep the air, water, road and rail passenger and freight transport modes operating during the COVID-19 response, including those working on transport systems through which supply chains pass.

 

Utilities, communication and financial services

This includes staff needed for essential financial services provision (including but not limited to workers in banks, building societies and financial market infrastructure), the oil, gas, electricity and water sectors (including sewerage), information technology and data infrastructure sector and primary industry supplies to continue during the COVID-19 response, as well as key staff working in the civil nuclear, chemicals, telecommunications (including but not limited to network operations, field engineering, call centre staff, IT and data infrastructure, 999 and 111 critical services), postal services and delivery, payments providers and waste disposal sectors.

 

If workers think they fall within the critical categories above they should confirm with their employer that, based on their business continuity arrangements, their specific role is necessary for the continuation of this essential public service.

 

If your school is closed then please contact your local authority, who will seek to redirect you to a local school in your area that your child, or children, can attend.

 

We are grateful for the work of teachers and workers in educational settings for continuing to provide for the children of the other critical workers of our country. It is an essential part of our national effort to combat this disease.

 

 

Dear Parent/Carer,

 

Following on from yesterday’s Government announcement, Wolverley Sebright will close from 3.00pm this Friday 20^th March and will remain closed until further notice.

 

Gavin Williamson, Secretary of State for Education has confirmed that schools will remain open for the children of key workers, and those who are most vulnerable. He stated that, “The scientific advice shows that these settings are safe for this small number of children to continue attending.”

 

Since this announcement regarding provision for vulnerable students and those of key workers, I provided my email address for parents to contact me with their details in order to plan ahead. I will contact those parents and carers who this affects by Friday afternoon with an overview of how we can support from Monday.

 

I am mindful that our plans will need to reviewed over the coming weeks. There will be staff unable to be in school following the updated advice of at-risk groups however, we will monitor this daily and will maintain all forms of communication: email, text, website, Twitter and Instagram.

 

In line with the Government announcement, children who are in receipt of free school meals will be supported. Further information regarding this will be shared as soon as we are notified of how this will be provided. Any children attending school who are eligible for free school meals will continue to receive their meals as normal.

 

Please can you encourage your son/daughter to contact school staff if they have any concerns. Emails have been shared for your child’s class teacher so please feel free to email any queries you may have in regard to remote learning we have provided. Staff will continue to provide resources and work for all students to complete. Please encourage your son/daughter to complete these tasks.

 

Thank you to those of you who have followed the self-isolation guidance. This is helping to keep our community safe and well. The most up to date guidance regarding self-isolation can be found here. https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/self-isolation-advice/

 

Please do not hesitate to contact the school If you have any questions or concerns, via either Mrs Hackett on office@wolverleysebright.worcs.sch.uk or myself on head@wolverleysebright.worcs.sch.uk

 

We are incredibly grateful for the support that we have received from our school and local community during this unprecedented time. 

 

Please stay safe and well - I look forward to welcoming you all back soon! 

 

Yours faithfully

Shelley Reeves-Walters

Headteacher

Remote Learning

 

In light of School closures all staff have been and will continue to provide resources and links for all children to access. 

 

On your child's class page you will find a 'Remote Learning' section. Click on and navigate through this section of the website for parental updates, activities and website links. 

 

I will text parents the email addresses for your child's teaching staff who will be available to answer any questions you may have. 

 

Our remote learning online will also include video messages and easy to follow guidance for learning to take place at home. 

 

All children will be issued a pack of goodies that they can take home to use this Friday. 

 

In light of the news this evening we will provide a detailed overview before Friday of how we can and will support all families with remote learning as well as providing provision for our families who work for the NHS, police, delivery drivers and for pupils who are classed as 'vulnerable'.

 

In the meantime start to familiarise yourself with the class page (all items will be uploaded by Friday). 

 

Please stay safe, look after yourselves and please see any member of staff if you are unsure about anything. 

 

Mrs S Reeves-Walters

Useful link and support

 

Please do consider the potential impact of self-isolation on your children and you from a mental health perspective. There is excellent advice available from Mind www.mind.org.uk/information-support/coronavirus-and-your-wellbeing and also from the World Health Organisation (WHO). Continued communication with friends and family by video-link, phone or text, varying activities at home including reading and writing, quizzes, radio programmes, arts and craft, cards and board games and toys, are all beneficial. We advise restricting screen time for computer games/ TV to limited rather than long periods. Exercise for those who are well, remains important and permitted under government advice. 

 In order to reduce anxiety, advice is that children (and adults) should not constantly look at updates about the coronavirus situation on the news and social media and they should switch off electronic alerts. Watching the news once per day is suggested. 

Coronavirus Update

18.3.2020

 

With lots of questions and uncertainty I wanted to outline what we have been doing in school and our contingency plan in the event of any school closure in light of coronavirus (COVID-19) and the increase in the number of confirmed cases in the UK.

 

Our first priority is the health and wellbeing of our whole school community and I want you to know that we and our partners at the Severn Academies Educational Trust are taking  every precaution and following the advice from the Department for Education (DfE) and Public Health England (PHE).

 

· if you live alone and you have symptoms of coronavirus (COVID-19), however mild, stay at home for 7 days from when your symptoms started

 

· if you live with others and you or another member of the household have symptoms of coronavirus, then all household members must stay at home and not leave the house for 14 days. The 14-day period starts from the day when the first person in the house became ill. It is likely that people living within a household will infect each other or be infected already. Staying at home for 14 days will greatly reduce the overall amount of infection the household could pass on to others in the community

 

· for anyone in the household who starts displaying symptoms, they need to stay at home for 7 days from when the symptoms appeared, regardless of what day they are on in the original 14-day     isolation period.

 

The symptoms are:

A high temperature (37.8 degrees and above)

A new, continuous cough

 

I can confirm that currently we have 3 members of staff and 24 pupils self-isolating as a  precautionary measure. Some families are following the advice to self isolate due to family members falling into the high risk categories. We advise that each family assesses their own circumstances but we remain open for pupils that are not displaying any symptoms listed above.

 

However, if we are required to close our school, we will take the necessary steps to ensure you are informed of the closure and that the effect on pupils’ education is limited with the distribution of work packs and/or links to online materials that can be used. Texts messages with direction to our school website will be sent out before Friday.

 

In the event that we do close the school, you will be informed via text message and advised on how long we expect the closure to last. Please check that you have provided us with your most up-to-date contact details to ensure you receive all updates and any correspondence regarding a closure. If you need to provide us with new details, please contact the school office on 01562 850268. 

 

As a matter of course, we have been encouraging a higher level of handwashing and monitoring coughs and sneezes, ensuring all pupils follow the NHS catch it, bin it, kill it       advice.

 

On arrival all pupils wash their hands and use the hand sanitizers we have across the school.

 

In addition to this, our cleaning regimes have been upgraded accordingly.

 

We ask that parents limit the need to enter the school and only use the office area if needed. Communication to school can be made via email office@wolverleysebright.worcs.sch.uk  

 

Should you want to find out more information you can find links to all the latest advice and guidance on the Worcestershire County Council website at: 

http://www.worcestershire.gov.uk/coronavirus

 

In addition, the Department for Education have launched a helpline, to answer questions about the Coronavirus (COVID-19) related to education:

 

Staff, parents and young people can contact the helpline as follows: 

Phone: 0800 046 8687 

Email: DfE.coronavirushelpline@education.gov.uk  

Opening hours: 8am to 6pm (Monday to Friday)  

 

As an important part of our school community, I would ask that you repeat the ‘catch it, bin it, kill it’ message at home and encourage thorough handwashing to help discourage the spread of infection. Also to look out for each other and support our most vulnerable at this time.

 

If you think your child may have been exposed to or has coronavirus, please contact the school on 01562 850268 at the earliest opportunity.  

 

I reiterate, the latest position as being, there are no confirmed cases at Wolverley Sebright.  I will continue to keep you updated on the latest advice and, to let you know if there is any change in the current situation at school. 

 

Yours faithfully,

Shelley Reeves-Walters

Headteacher

 

 

 

 

 

All after school clubs from Wednesday 18th March have been cancelled until further notice. Many thanks 

Latest Information – Please Read

 

New advice issued last night https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-stay-at-home-guidance key points:

 

Guidance is intended for:

• People with symptoms that may be caused by coronavirus, and do not require hospital treatment, who must remain at home until they are well
• Those living in households with someone who shows symptoms that may be caused by coronavirus.

 

The main messages are:

• if you live alone and you have symptoms of coronavirus illness (COVID-19), however mild, stay at home for 7 days from when your symptoms started. (See ending isolation section for more information)

• if you live with others and you or one of them have symptoms of coronavirus, then all household members must stay at home and not leave the house for 14 days. The 14-day period starts from the day when the first person in the house became ill
• it is likely that people living within a household will infect each other or be infected already. Staying at home for 14 days will greatly reduce the overall amount of infection the household could pass on to others in the community
• for anyone in the household who starts displaying symptoms, they need to stay at home for 7 days from when the symptoms appeared, regardless of what day they are on in the original 14-day isolation period. (See ending isolation section for more information)
• if you can, move any vulnerable individuals (such as the elderly and those with underlying health conditions) out of your home, to stay with friends or family for the duration of the home isolation period
• if you cannot move vulnerable people out of your home, stay away from them as much as possible
• if you have coronavirus symptoms:

• do not go to a GP surgery, pharmacy or hospital
• you do not need to contact 111 to tell them you’re staying at home
• testing for coronavirus is not needed if you’re staying at home

• plan ahead and ask others for help to ensure that you can successfully stay at home and consider what can be done for vulnerable people in the household
• ask your employer, friends and family to help you to get the things you need to stay at home
• wash your hands regularly for 20 seconds, each time using soap and water, or use hand sanitiser
• if you feel you cannot cope with your symptoms at home, or your condition gets worse, or your symptoms do not get better after 7 days, then use the NHS 111 online coronavirus service. If you do not have internet access, call NHS 111. For a medical emergency dial 999

 

 

It is clear from messages coming out over the weekend that everyone needs to work together to get through this pandemic, we all have a duty to be responsible, to react to advice and direction given as well as to support each other.  

Congratulations to our Yr3/4 Quicksticks team who represented our school at the Wyre Forest Sainsburys School Games tournament on Friday. They played really well and won the small schools event. They now go forward to play the level 3 competition at the Winter Olympics event held in Bromsgrove at the end of March.

Woodpeckers enjoyed their final session of bell boating on Friday. We paddled further than we had before and even had a go at turning the boats around which was very successful. The session became a little competitive which was great, both crews working well as a team.

Well done Woodpeckers, more sessions next year!