From next week, staff in primary schools are being asked to use a covid-19 self-testing kit twice a week and report their results to the DfE and to school. The aim of testing is to break the chain of transmission of COVID-19. Testing will help identify and isolate more asymptomatic people who might otherwise spread the virus.  

If a member of staff tests positive, we will need to notify parents and close, or partially close, bubbles in school. The length of time a bubble is closed will depend the outcome of a second test the staff member will need to take.

Although this testing regime aims to make our school safer for staff and children, it seems likely that there will be some disruption as a result of any positive tests that may not ordinarily have been detected.

For parents accessing our critical worker provision in schools, it would seem sensible to ensure you are familiar with our home school offer using the SeeSaw app (or Tapestry for EYFS). This will enable your child to access education in the event of a bubble being closed.

Do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions.

Money and food running a bit low?

You can find us at the Village Hall car park, on the left side of the entrance.

We have lots of food to help support individuals and families.

Also snack packs for children, cleaning materials & toiletries for you to choose from.

Tuesday 19th January 2.30pm till 4pm

Everyone needs a helping hand sometimes...

Click the flyer below

 

DO YOU HAVE ANY OLD, UNWANTED LAPTOPS YOU COULD DONATE?

We can repurpose old laptops for free into usable devices to help our children!

Some of the children at our school would benefit from us having some old laptops we could give them for home learning during lockdown as they haven’t one at home. We are having to loan them school ones but we don’t have enough!

 We are working with the charity Retech (www.retech.me.uk) to repurpose old laptops into simple devices that will enable children to access Home Learning during lockdown. The charity will professionally wipe the laptop of all old files, software and operating systems so there are no data security worries. The laptop will then get new software installed on it and be given to a child who we know needs one for their home learning and future homework. The charity can re-purpose almost any laptop, don’t think yours will be too old!

Ideally we would like the laptop to come with a power lead, but without is ok. Even if you just have old power leads, please donate them, they may help us.

Please drop them off at our school if you can. Come to the office (in school hours) and someone will come and collect it from you. If you can’t get to school, but have one you want to donate, just email or call us. We will organise someone to collect it from you.

Please forward the poster below to friends and family!

Many thanks :-)

We wish to try to build a picture of the levels of internet access pupils have available to them and also the devices they are using and sharing when undertaking home learning. This will help inform our plans for home learning and how we source and deploy available resources. 

Please click this link and complete the survey - it may help KPNS obtain more devices, or get improved access to the Internet, for our children. This could really help many of our families at this time. 

All information that is gathered will only be used for the purposes identified above and will be destroyed once it has been used for this purpose. As with any information we gather it may be shared with the Department for Education but this will be as per their published privacy notices and data collection procedures and rules. 

Dear Parents, Many thanks for your support over the last 24 hours as we have responded to the latest Government announcement about the national lockdown- it has certainly been a busy day! Home learning The home learning provision we will be