Newsletters

Dear parents and carers,

This week has seen the first of our whole class ‘bubble’ closures and we now have all of 1/2HP self-isolating for 14 days. In line with our remote learning plan (shared with you yesterday) we will be trialling using Microsoft Teams for 1/2HP. next week. As you will appreciate, we are all learning new ways of working at the moment and I am sure there will be some blips to iron out on the way. Thank you for your patience!

We will be contacting all parents next week with information about downloading and using Teams and what to do if you do not have access to a device at home. Please be assured that I do not have any information about imminent or extended school closure. We are putting plans in place so that if your child needs to self -isolate, or if another bubble is closed, we can quickly switch to remote learning.

Pick up

A number of parents have contacted me to express their concern about parents congregating at pick up. Please, please help us maintain social distance by leaving the playground as soon as possible after drop off and pick up. If you are waiting for siblings (due to the staggered finish times) please stand away from other parents who are waiting to collect their own children. If you are unable to maintain a 2m distance from other parents, please consider wearing a face mask. Please also note that if your child is self-isolating, they should not be coming onto the school site to pick up or drop off siblings.

Communication

At this time of year, we usually hold a parents evening to which all parents are invited. This year, it is not possible for parents to come into school. Instead, we are going to offer telephone appointments for all parents after half term. The focus of the telephone appointments will be discussing how well your child has settled back into school as well as their learning behaviours in the classroom. There should also be time to answer any questions you may have. I will be sending a separate letter regarding parents evening appointments next week.

In addition, we will also be offering an end of term report. The end of term report will be much shorter than our usual end of year format and will focus purely on your child’s progress and attainment in reading, writing and maths. We will include standardised scores from your child’s most recent assessments (which will take place in November) and share your child’s current targets in each of these areas.

We hope that this communication enables you to feel fully involved in your child’s education at Bramhope. There are many challenges in feeling connected at present and if you have a particular concern, please do email your child’s class teacher using the address on our school website.

School photos

A reminder that all children except those in 1/2HP will be having their school photograph taken on the last day of this half term, Friday 23 October. This will be for individuals and siblings and the photographs will be available to buy online afterwards. Please make sure that children are dressed in full, correct uniform on the day and that long hair is tied back and off the face. If your child usually comes in their PE kit on that day, we ask that they wear uniform instead. For children in 1/2HP, we have contacted the school photographer and asked whether she could come to school another day to take the children’s photographs. As soon as we have an alternative date we will inform you.

Harvest collection

Thank you for your quick response to sending tinned food into school! The theme for this week’s assembly was giving and for those who can, we would be very grateful if you could donate tinned food for St George’s Crypt as we have done in previous years. In order to support the needs of St George’s we are asking children to send donations as follows:

BURTON – TINNED FRUIT

BRONTE – TINNED TUNA

HEPWORTH – TINNED MEATS

WILBERFORCE – TINNED TOMATOES

Thank you for your generous donations.

House T shirts

We will be holding various house events through the year and if your child needs a new T shirt, they are available from the school office priced at £2.50.

Please contact the office if you like to order a new t shirt, advising size and colour. The size ranges are; age 3-4, 5-6, 7-8, 9-11 and 12-13.

Flu vaccination

A reminder that the flu vaccination is on Tuesday 20th October.

School meals

After half term, we would like to start offering hot food at least three times a week. We have drafted our initial menus HERE and will publish these on our website next week.

Please inform our school office admin@bramhopeprimary school.co.uk if you would like your child to move onto school meals after half term.

Have a lovely weekend

Rachel Colbourn

PTA

Hello from the PTA! Yes, we still exist but due to obvious reasons and the quick changes from government we have not been able to run many of our wonderful events. However, we have been busily working behind the scenes to hopefully bring some socially distanced fun to raise much needed funds. 

We hear on the grapevine that there are a lot of parents with some amazing ideas and we really need you at this challenging time. We would therefore love to invite you all to our next meeting on Tuesday 10^th November 2020 at 8pm . At the meeting we will vote for a new chair and any other roles which need to be filled. We will also be discussing potential Covid-friendly fundraising activities. So, if you want to know what we are doing, want to get involved or just ‘have a peek’, please send Maike an email so we can invite you to the zoom meeting (maikemuldoon@hotmail.com).

More info to follow in the next newsletter.

Your PTA team

Clubs

Sports club options for next half term will be sent out next week, watch this space!