Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.
Included below are links to fantastic Home Schooling Resources. Please take time to sample them with your children. Parent login information is included-enjoy!
Reading
Children should continue to read a range of fiction and non fiction texts as much as possible. The links below will provide access to ebooks two reading schemes we use in school.
Collins Big Cat
Click https://collins.co.uk/pages/big-cat-ebooks
Go to Collins Connect, choose Teacher Portal and enter:
Username: parents@harpercollins.co.uk
Password: Parents20!
Choose ‘Resources’ beside the Reading Book to find supporting worksheets.
Oxford Owl
Click https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/user/sign_up.html and create an account to access the ebook library and activities.
Visit https://www.worldofdavidwalliams.com/ where children can listen to extracts of books written by David Walliams read by the author himself!
Collins have made a range of their games, activities and worksheets available at https://collins.co.uk/pages/support-learning-at-home which may be useful to support home learning in Literacy and Numeracy
Music Express can also be accessed for free and allows children to listen to and perform a range of songs.
Go to Collins Connect, choose Teacher Portal and enter:
Username: parents@harpercollins.co.uk
Password: Parents20!
GoNoodle
GoNoodle engages children with dance, games and mindfulness activities. It is perfect for short breaks between learning activities or for meditating!
A sample (below) of some of the fun ways in which home learning is being continued at home. Well done to parents for all of their creativity and perseverance and to the children for being so sensible and listening to adult instructions.
A new Home Learning Pack is now available on the Class Pages section of the Website. Keep up the great work and continue to send photos of home learning. We hope you and your family remain safe and healthy.
Dear Parent,
Due to Key Worker Parental requests- Sacred Heart PS is endeavouring to provide supervision to Key Worker children beginning Thursday & Friday 24th/25th April and subsequent weeks thereafter on a Wednesday to Friday basis. SHPS does not have a full staffing complement to provide supervision and therefore the proposed timetabling is what can be accommodated at this point in time and is hoped that will provide support and relief to our essential Key Worker Parents
in the weeks ahead.
Please see guideline below and thank you for your continued support.
Yours sincerely,
S Austin
School Guidelines for the Provision of Child Care
1. If your child has a temperature, he/ she must stay at home and not return to school for two weeks. We insist that you follow Public Health Advice.
2. If any family member or member of your household has the symptoms of the Coronavirus, your child must not attend school.
3. Each child should report to the Assembly Hall door upon arrival at school on Wednesday morning at 9.00am. Here, the children will have their hands sanitised before entering the school.
4. Children should be collected from the Assembly Hall door at 2.00pm.
5. Parents/ carers must not enter the building at any time.
6. Please respect social distancing for our staff and each other at all times.
7. Do not send written notes- communicate important information via phone or let leaders know verbally in the mornings.
8. The activities provided in school will be of a supervisory nature. Children may bring their Home Learning Packs and work through them.
9. School meals will not be provided. Children must bring their own snack/ lunch in a clearly labelled lunch box.
10. Any child needing help tying shoe laces should wear trainers with Velcro fasteners.
11. All children should wear a short sleeved t-shirt to facilitate regular hand washing.
12. If your child has long hair, please ensure it is tied back.
13. Nail polish is not permitted and fingernails should be kept short.
14. Jewellery of any description should not be worn.
15. On returning from school, please ensure your child showers and changes their clothing, washing whatever they have worn.
16. Please provide a change of clothing for younger children in case of a toileting accident.
Dear Parent,
I would like to express my sincere thanks for all your hard work in establishing a good routine for the children and for your encouragement in helping them to continue with their learning at home during these very difficult times. I fully recognise that every family has to do what works best for them and school staff are extremely appreciative of all your efforts and support.
I am also very grateful to all of the staff who have been working from home, preparing home study packs and continuing work on school improvement documentation. Our new Home Study Packs (which should last until end of May) are available for perusal and download on the Class Pages of the Website.
Special praise must go to our pupils. We are very proud of how they have been adapting and coping with this very difficult situation and all of their efforts to complete their work and tasks at home, including those online. Thank you to everyone who has shared photographs and messages- they are proudly displayed on our school facebook page and website. We have really enjoyed seeing not only how children have been progressing with their tasks but also the many new skills they have acquired.
During the Easter Break it is important that the children and you have some time out, albeit in different circumstances. Hopefully the sun will shine and enable you to enjoy time in the garden and some form of outdoor activity.
We will be in touch after the Easter Break to provide you with further updates. In the meantime, please enjoy the Easter Break as best you can, stay safe at home and keep well. You and your families continue to remain in our thoughts and prayers.
Yours sincerely,
S Austin
Principal
We are approaching a special time of year and it is such a pity that as teachers, we are missing the opportunity to tell our pupils the story of Holy Week. Many will already be familiar with the story but it is important to take our children through the events each year.
I have attached a document which contains well known images of the key events from that week. Use the images to tell your children each part of the story. They might like to draw their own images from the week. This is also a good opportunity for written work. From writing a simple sentence to a detailed recount, every child can have a go.
We will all miss attending our special ceremonies at this time but perhaps by focusing on the events of Holy Week with our children, it will go some way to bringing Easter home to us.
Unfortunately not the ones with chocolate chips.
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