S Office

IMPORTANT

22nd January 2021S Office

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

Parents/Carers

It is expected by The Department of Education, South Tyneside Local Authority and school that all children access work through this mandatory school closure period. The Government have issued laptops to disadvantaged children in years 3 – 6 (KS2), and those laptops are to be used daily to complete work set by your child’s class teacher. It is the parents/carers responsibility to ensure their child is completing work on a daily basis. Please ensure this is done.

Your child’s class teacher will make weekly calls to parents/carers to speak to the children. This is to offer any support/help with the online work that has been set, and a general check to make sure the children are safe and well.

If parents/carers have any queries, they can contact their child’s class teacher directly. Teachers/office staff will reply to emails DURING work hours – 8.00am and 5.00pm. Please do not email staff outside of those hours.

Your support with these requests are greatly appreciated. We hope you are all keeping safe and well.

All the staff at Stanhope Primary School

Free School Meal Vouchers

13th January 2021S Office

FREE SCHOOL MEAL VOUCHERS

We have now received confirmation from our Local Authority that Free School Meal Vouchers will resume on Monday (18th January 2021).

Vouchers will be sent to the email address provided by yourselves in September. The vouchers will be ordered via Edenred – The company used in the first lockdown.

If you do not receive your vouchers on Monday, please keep checking your emails. I will be in the office on THURSDAY to take calls if you have still not received your vouchers by then. Please do not call the office until Thursday. There were a few teething problems with Edenred when I applied for vouchers in March 2020, therefore we ask for your patience.

Those who do not have an email address – your vouchers will be posted to you. The chosen store will be Aldi.

PLEASE NOTE – Those children who are currently in school FULL TIME will not receive vouchers.

There will be NO MORE collections of packed lunches due to the vouchers beginning again.

Thank you

Miss Capon

Free school meals vouchers updates

7th January 2021S Office

FREE SCHOOL MEAL VOUCHERS

We have received confirmation from the Local Authority that parents/carers will be issued free school meal vouchers.

We do NOT have a date as of yet, to when the vouchers will begin. We will update parents/carers as soon as we have any further information.

Thank you

Online Learning – Foundation of Light

6th January 2021S Office

We would like to help and support families through our online Family Learning programmes. We can offer curriculum activities such as English and Maths as well as our Ministry of Food cooking sessions.

We have set up a timetable of activities for families to access and I was hoping you would be able to promote these programmes on our behalf to your parents through your social media channels, newsletters, or online networks.

We hope that these programmes can provide families with some fun interactive challenges that support their schoolwork, as well as giving families the opportunity to do something different and fun during this lockdown.

All courses are delivered via Zoom and where required, resources will be dropped off or posted out to families.

Please click the links below:

English

Maths

Cooking

Home Learning

6th January 2021S Office

Please find useful weblinks below to support home learning.

Nursery to Year 6:

Google Classroom / emails http://www.stanhopeprimary.com/

Purple Mash https://www.purplemash.com/sch/stanhopeps

Year 1 to Year 6:

Times Tables Rockstars https://ttrockstars.com/

Reading Eggs https://readingeggs.co.uk/

Year 2 to Year 6:

Accelerated Reader https://ukhosted121.renlearn.co.uk/2246105

My On https://www.myon.co.uk/login/

Your child should have a copy of their logins for the above learning weblinks.

Free School Meals

6th January 2021S Office

FREE SCHOOL MEALS

If your child has received free schools meals since returning to school in September, they are eligible for a school packed lunch.

your child will receive:

A cheese OR ham sandwich, crisps and a jelly.

Parents/carers MUST notify school – 0191 4201710 / [email protected] by the end of today if you are able to come to school and collect their child’s lunch tomorrow.

Parents/carers must arrive at the Main Office between 11.15am and 12.45pm to collect a lunch for THURSDAY 7TH JANUARY AND FRIDAY 8TH JANUARY 2021.

We would like to remind parents, that they must keep a 2 meter distance from other parents.

We are yet to receive any information regarding free school meal vouchers. Please check our school website or Facebook page for updates. We will notify parents/carers as soon as we have any further information. Please do not contact the school office regarding vouchers.

Thank your once again for your patience and support.

Key Workers and Vulnerable Children

5th January 2021S Office

We have contacted all Key Worker and vulnerable children today. If you have not received a call but believe your child fits into one of these categories, please call the school office as soon as possible.

All children who will be returning tomorrow, must wear full uniform and there will be NO set PE days at present. You will be updated if this changes.

Thank you for your patience and support.

Important Information

5th January 2021S Office

Can parents make every effort, where possible, to come to school between 2pm and 3:15pm TODAY to collect work packs for children to begin to complete from tomorrow, before learning moves to online (Google Classroom).

Key Stage 1 and 2 parents please enter via the Gresford Street gate and follow the one way system.

EYFS parents – the Early Years gate (next to SureStart) will be open for you.

Work packs will be located on a table outside of the classroom your child/children attend. Collect this – their name will be on the front of the folder/s.

Many Thanks.

IMPORTANT COVID INFORMATION

4th January 2021S Office

Dear Parents and Carers.

The current situation regarding COVID 19 is very worrying for us all and I understand that you will all be feeling very anxious about sending your children to school.

If you make the decision that you would rather keep your children at home due to safety concerns, the school will not be pursuing fines for the foreseeable future. The school however will remain open unless we are directed by the Government or Local Authority to close.

As school is still open, teachers will be unable to complete any remote learning but we will try our best to sort some paper learning packs out for those children who are at home. Please be aware that unfortunately there will be no free school meals vouchers issued.

We will continue to send any information by our website or social media page, please be aware that some information we receive from the Government or Local Authority is late, however we will do our best to keep you up to date.

Our Facebook page will be monitored during the school times, between 8am and 5pm, where we will keep you up to date with the latest information as and when we are notified.

Thank you for your support and please stay safe.

Mrs Martin

Christmas 2020

18th December 2020S Office

Parents/Carers

This has been a difficult year for all, and we would like to once again thank parents/carers and the children for their patience and understanding during these times. We always enjoy inviting parents into school to take part in fayres, productions, assemblies, parents evenings and so on and have been left disappointed that we have been unable to do that this term. This year, we wanted to share Christmas with all of our families. The children and staff have worked hard to create Christmas videos in their bubbles. Please click the links below and enjoy. A very Merry Christmas to all of our children, parents, families and staff.