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Return to School Arrangements (Sept 2021)

25th August 2021Miss K. Wilkinson

25.08.21

Dear Parents and Carers,

This year has been a challenging one for everyone but I would like to say a massive thank you for your ongoing support and understanding throughout. We are excited to welcome the children back in September and looking forward to the coming school year.

I thought it important to write to you all to outline some of the things we will be planning to do in September. We are hoping to return to a near normal school day with some tweaks to what is expected and what we do in school.

Start and finish times

Due to government advice and the potential reintroduction of bubbles and staggered start times we have decided to continue with staggered entrance times to help keep us all safe.

Year group	Entrance/Exit gate	Drop off time	Collection time
Reception	Main gate (car park entrance)	9.00am	3.15pm
Year 1	Top gate (road)	9.00am	3.15pm
Year 2	Burn gate (field)	9.00am	3.15pm
Year 3	Main gate (car park entrance)	8.45am	3.15pm
Year 4	Burn gate (field)	8.45am	3.15pm
Year 5	Burn gate (field)	8.30am	3.15pm
Year 6	Main gate (car park entrance)	8.30am	3.15pm

RECEPTION PARENTS – please stick to your staggered start times for the first week

Siblings can arrive at the earliest start time and go to their class through the main entrance.

All children finish at 3.15pm and should be collected from their classroom yard exits. All 3 gates will be opened from 3.10pm (please don’t arrive early to avoid congregation) on entering the school to collect your child use the same gate that you used for morning drop off. If you have more than one child to collect, please collect the youngest child first.

Uniform

We will be expecting full school uniform from September but we have changed our uniform policy to make it more accessible, more affordable and comfortable for the children (please see the school website for details).

Children have to be in school uniform every day and are no longer coming into school wearing PE kits. They should have a PE kit in school.

School shoes can remain as trainers but they need to be plain black with no fancy designs or logo’s (a Nike tick or similar is acceptable), this is easier for children at playtime and taking part in the daily mile.

Other Key Information

Breakfast club will start on Wednesday 8^th September at 8am. Breakfast club will now be in the hall so please make sure children come to the main entrance. Parent pay will need to be booked through the parent pay website.

After school clubs will be up and running in week 2 a list of clubs available will be sent out to you soon.

Hand hygiene

We will continue to ask children to wash hands regularly and will continue to provide hand sanitizer; the children and staff have got into good habits so we want this to continue through the winter months to reduce the risk of any viruses spreading.

Face coverings

Staff and adults, including family members are not required to wear a face mask on site.

I hope this clarifies the arrangements for September. If you have any questions, please get in touch

Enjoy the rest of the summer break and we will see you all very soon.

Thank you

Linsey Garr

Head teacher

RSE Parental Consultation (Sept 2021)

20th August 2021Miss K. Wilkinson

20.8.21

Dear Parent/Carer,

As of September 2021 we are using a new scheme to teach our foundation subjects – Dimensions: Learning Means the World. This means there will be a change in the teaching of our PSHE and RSE lessons.

Please take some time to read through important information regarding Relationship and Health Education for your child at West Boldon Primary. We have included further materials to support the ‘Parental Guidance’ released by the Government should you wish to read them.

There will be a short survey if you wish to comment or raise any questions with this material.

Thank you

Supporting documents to read:

Survey to complete:

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Summer Raffle Winners!

21st July 2021Miss K. Wilkinson

Mrs Sloanes recruited some helpers to draw our summer raffle today. Please see the bottom for the winning numbers, if you are lucky enough to have won please contact the office.

Year 4’s stop motion creations

20th July 2021Miss K. Wilkinson

Year 4 have spent the last week creating their own stop motion animations using the iPads in their computing lessons. Have a look at their wonderful creations!

Year 5 (Classes 10 and 11) Home Learning

19th July 2021Miss K. Wilkinson

Home learning tasks for this period have been assigned on your child’s Seesaw. Year 5 staff encourage all children to access Seesaw wherever possible to read the tasks as there are internet links and videos to support their home learning.

Seesaw is accessible on smart phones via the ‘Seesaw Class’ app or using an internet browser on laptops and computers at seesaw.me. All tasks can be completed on paper and do not need to be completed on Seesaw unless the children wish to do this. Teachers will also give feedback to tasks where possible through the Seesaw.

Please find below a list of resources and tasks for Year 5 for home learning during the period 19th July – 22nd July 2021.

Please note that this will be added to during the time your child’s year group is closed.

Don’t forget you can also use these apps below. Click on the icons to take you to the login pages. If you need a reminder of any login information please contact the school.

Year 6 Leavers Video from Rev. Paul

17th July 2021Miss K. Wilkinson

Thank you so much to Reverend Paul for taking the time out to visit our secret garden and say a special prayer for our Year 6s. What a wonderful community West Boldon is.

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Year 6 (Classes 12 and 13) Home Learning 2

15th July 2021Miss K. Wilkinson

Unfortunately we have another positive case of COVID in Year 6. This means the children must self-isolate, and won’t be able to return to school this academic year – an absolutely awful way for them to have to end their time at West Boldon. To say we are disappointed is an understatement.

Some home learning tasks for this period have been assigned on your child’s Seesaw. Year 6 staff encourage all children to access Seesaw wherever possible to read the tasks as there are internet links and videos to support their home learning.

Please find below a list of resources and tasks for Year 6 for home learning during the period 15th July – 23rd July 2021.

Please note that this will be added to during the time your child’s year group is closed.

Year 6 children can also join their teachers and classmates on Zoom calls – watch out for the links on Dojo!

Don’t forget you can also use these apps below. Click on the icons to take you to the login pages. If you need a reminder of any login information please contact the school.

Year 3 Rockpooling

15th July 2021Miss K. Wilkinson

Year 3 enjoyed a fabulous day at Sandhaven Beach today. They spent some time playing on the beach, they enjoyed an ice cream, then they had an exciting rock pooling session offered by South Shields Surf School. To finish off the day they made some fantastic sand sculptures of some of the creatures they saw on the rocks. The weather was absolutely beautiful too!

Year 2 Rockpooling

15th July 2021Miss K. Wilkinson

Year 2 had the most wonderful trip to the seaside yesterday. They had games on the beach, ice creams and then Rockpooling with Nick from South Shields Surf School. We even located a ship wreck!

The children were incredibly well behaved and are a credit to their families and they really represented our school beautifully. Well done!