Dear Parents/Carers,

I hope you are all well and that families are staying safe.

This week we have had to adjust to a new way of working and learning together. This is new for us all and it may take some time to settle into new routines and ways of communication.

Some key things that we will continue to focus on next week:

• We hope that as many children as possible can share something with their teacher through a Blog comment or email every day - even if it's just to say ‘I’ve done my work!’. All of the blogs can be found on the school website. The class emails are:
• reception@ctk.education
• year.1@ctk.education
• year.2@ctk.education
• year.3@ctk.education
• year.4@ctk.education
• year.5@ctk.education
• year.6@ctk.education
• LH.1@ctk.education (for Learning Hub 1)
• LH.2@ctk.education (for Learning Hub 2)
• We hope to support you with any outstanding technical problems; please keep contacting us and we will do everything we can to solve any problems you may have

There have been daily updates of the class blogs and Facebook. Here are some highlights:

• Magnificent maths from Reception, particularly great Spidey skills!

• In Year 1 stunning story writing and phonics work.

• In Year 2, successful shopkeepers and chefs. We loved seeing the board games you invented!

• In Year 3 Delicious descriptive writing and incredible illustrations! 

• Caring creativity - being apart did not stop Year 4 celebrating Adi’s birthday!

• In Year 5 spectacular Spanish and marvellous ‘penguin’ maths. 

• In Year 6 Powerful poetry, celebrating the magic of their gardens.

So, lots to be very proud of in school this week!

As always, if you need advice or support in any way please contact us. Even if we are unable to solve problems we will do our best to give advice or signpost you to other agencies.

Please continue to take care and stay safe during this difficult period. We hope to see you soon.

Yours sincerely,


Matt Condon
Headteacher

Good morning everybody, We are looking forward to sharing, commenting and contributing today through our online systems - Tapestry for Reception, Blogs Yrs 1-3 and Google Classroom Year 4-6. Can we ask you all to contribute in some way on a regular basis, so we can check that all our families are OK? If we have no contact, we will have to give you a call to check-in. Please stay in contact and please follow the new lockdown rules to protect everybody in our community. Together we will all get through this. Stay safe Mr Condon

Dear Parents/Carers,

As you will all know, sadly the school closes today for the majority of pupils, until further notice.

However, we will still be keeping in contact with all of you over the coming weeks. Please keep in touch with us.

The main ways in which we can stay connected as a community are:

By telephone - the main school telephone line will be manned, should you need to contact the school during the closed period.

School email account christ.the.king.p@bristol-schools.uk will continue to be available and will be monitored on a daily basis.

Emails are in place for you all to be in contact with class teachers:

• reception.ctk@education
• year.1@ctk.education
• year.2@ctk.education
• year.3@ctk.education
• year.4@ctk.education
• year.5@ctk.education
• year.6@ctk.education
• LH.1@ctk.education (for Learning Hub 1)
• LH.2@ctk.education (for Learning Hub 2)

We have set up home learning for all classes. Links and information are all available under the ‘Home Learning’ tab on the website. If you need any password resets, or have any other problems please email us.

Home learning will be set daily. This work will be linked to tasks in your child’s pack. Your child does not have to complete the whole pack at once.  See class blogs and google classroom for more information. A letter was sent home with each class pack that explains expectations in more detail.

We will keep regular updates on Facebook sharing what the children are learning in each year group as well as sharing any news. I will also share all of our news in this weekly newsletter.

Above all, if you need advice or support in any way please contact us. Even if we are unable to solve problems we will do our best to give advice or signpost you to other agencies. 

Please continue to take care and stay safe during this difficult period. We hope to see you soon. 

Yours sincerely,

Matt Condon

Headteacher

Dear Parents and carers,                                                        

As you will know, as part of the government’s strategy to support frontline key workers, all schools will be endeavouring to organise provision for key frontline personnel.

Schools are to ensure there is provision in place for children who are vulnerable and whose parents are critical to the COVID - 19  response and cannot be safely cared for at home. 

The advice clearly states that every child who can be safely cared for at home should be.

We are all asked therefore, to follow these key principles:

• If it is at all possible for children to be at home, then they should be.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

The following roles have now been defined (please click this link for the full guidance) -

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-maintaining-educational-provision/guidance-for-schools-colleges-and-local-authorities-on-maintaining-educational-provision 

• Key public services (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 (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 (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 (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 (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.

The definition of ‘vulnerable’ has now been defined as children including 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 plans.

The new provision will need to be in place for Monday, so if you are in the Key Worker group or your child has an Educational Health Care PLan or who have a social worker:

Please contact the school immediately if you would like your child to attend.

So we can plan staffing, please also contact us if your child is eligible, but you will be caring for your child at home.

We do apologise to all other families, but for public health reasons we do have to apply the criteria precisely.

Thank you all for your support

Your sincerely,

Matt Condon

Headteacher

Dear Parents and carers,                                                        

As part of the government’s strategy to support front line key workers, all schools will be endeavouring to organise provision for key front line personnel.

Schools are to ensure there is provision in place for children of key workers and vulnerable children.  The government have yet to announce the list of key workers, however they have already suggested the following roles:

• NHS staff
• Police
• Supermarket delivery drivers 

We expect the actual list to be published today and will update this letter as soon as we can.

The definition of ‘vulnerable’ are those with an Educational Health Care Plan or who have a social worker.

The new provision will need to be in place for Monday, so if you are in the Key Worker group or your child has an Educational Health Care Plan or who have a social worker, please contact the school immediately so that we can plan adult supervision accordingly.

We do apologise to all other families, but for public health reasons we do have to apply the criteria precisely.

Your sincerely,


Matt Condon
Headteacher

Today we are sending home ‘Home Learning Packs’ for Years 1, 2, 3 , 4 and 6. Learning Packs will be sent home for tomorrow for Reception and Year 5. Learning Packs are available for collection, for those children who are not in school. If you are unable to collect a pack, please phone the office and we will deliver to you home.

As we will also be focusing on learning over the internet,  if your child does not have access to a tablet or computer at home, please contact the school office and we will loan a device.

In the event of a closure, the school will remain contactable to give support and advice.

WE WANT TO REMAIN CONNECTED TO OUR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES

Dear Parents and Carers,

This is an update of information we have recently received from Bristol City Council.

As you will be aware, yesterday’s update from Central Government focused on a number of key

messages in relation to self-isolation and social-distancing.

The DfE advice was also updated last night:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/guidance-to-educational-settings-about-covid-19

Schools and settings are to remain open for now

Here are updates regarding symptoms and advice for those with long term health conditions:

Developing symptoms

Staff, young people and children should stay at home if they are unwell with a new, continuous cough or a high temperature. They should, along with the rest of their family, self-isolate for 14 days (or 7 days if the member of staff lives alone).

Children, young people and adults (CYPA) with long-term health conditions

Those with long-term health conditions, such as diabetes, serious heart conditions, underlying neurological problems and kidney or liver disease, are at higher risk. These are the CYPA who are offered an annual flu vaccine injection. This does not include anyone that chooses to have the annual vaccine or the ones that are administered orally through the schools programme. CYPA who this applies to, are being advised to self-isolate for 16 weeks.

The list of at risk categories (for both children and adults is):

• chronic (long-term) respiratory disease, such as severe asthma, chronic obstructive
• pulmonary disease (COPD) or bronchitis
• chronic heart disease, such as heart failure a
• chronic kidney disease at stage three, four or five
• chronic liver disease
• cerebral palsy
• chronic neurological disease, such as Parkinson’s disease or motor neurone
• disease, or learning disability
• Diabetes
• splenic dysfunction or asplenia
• a weakened immune system due to disease (such as HIV/AIDS) or treatment (such as cancer treatment)
• morbidly obese (defined as BMI of 40 and above)

Families where a member has long term health conditions

A likely scenario will be that, where one member of the family is in the high risk category, the rest of the family will choose to self-isolate or increase social-distancing, to reduce the likelihood of bringing the virus into the house and putting them at greater risk.

I very much appreciate all of your support and understanding during this difficult time.

Please take care of yourselves.

Yours sincerely

Matt Condon

Headteacher