Wednesday’s Masked Reader! This person’s favourite holiday was to Mexico, their first job was an administrator and their favourite subject at school was PE. This person’s favourite book is “The Dinosaur that pooped Christmas” who is it?
This year’s World Book Day is on Thursday 4th March. It is of course is very different, like most other things this year, however this won’t stop us celebrating it and just enjoying what it’s all about – reading!
If you take a look on each year groups tabs in the’ Home Learning Portal’, you will find all sorts of resources and links to make World Book Day and the whole of this last week at home a great one.
There are suggestions with a timetable of things to do throughout the day, links to great websites and resources you can instantly download and don’t forget to join in with our ‘Masked Reader’ clues each day !
On World Book Day itself, Liverpool as a city are joining in with lots of others across the country to ‘Drop Everything and Read’ at 10 o’clock. So, whatever you are doing, it’ll be a great time to stop and just read, knowing you are doing so with those in school and all across the land.
Drop Everything and Read is a great way to create fun and excitement around reading for pleasure. It sends a message that reading for pleasure is important, and something everyone should make time for.
The World Book Day website : https://www.worldbookday.com/ has lots of ideas and are very mindful that most children will be at home this year, here are some of the features of the website:
World Book Day Master classes ,
Audio stories available right across school ,
Share a story live events 3rd – 5th March at 10.30 every day
Share a story Corner : For EYFS and KS1
Competitions for your own families can be found here
Recommended reading lists
Oak national Academy https://library.thenational.academy/ also have a ‘Virtual’ School Library with various authors reading their books and inspiring children to read.
These are just a few of the resources available- check out our your child’s Home Learning Portal tab and you will find lots more.
Above all just join in and enjoy what is a very unique celebration of books and reading around the world !
The following information has been sent to school for us to inform parents/carers:
The Rapid Response Testing vehicle will be visiting Everton Ward offering free Lateral Flow Tests to key workers/those unable to work from home at the location below on the following days and times:
The RRV will be on site at Lifestyles Everton Park, from Thursday 11th February – Saturday 13th February from 9.30am – 4pm.
Lifestyles Everton Park
Great Homer Street
Liverpool
L5 5PH
For those people leaving the house less regularly for things like essential shopping you can still attend the Rapid Response Testing vehicle but ask that you help us prioritise those that need to leave the house on a regular basis to work.
Anyone with symptoms should NOT attend the above sites and needs to book a test at one of our symptom testing sites via https://www.gov.uk/get-coronavirus-test
This is an online free training course for residents of Liverpool. It is open for mums, dads, grandparents, friends and relations.
Please see the website below for further information.
Liverpool-Additional Needs-Interactive
Follow the link for a message from Local Councillors to Parent’s and Carers.
City leaders thank parents and carers for work during lockdown
This week we have had an increased number of calls from families requesting places for key worker children. As always we are doing our best to support our families but we are running very close to full capacity whilst maintaining all health and safety Covid-19 guidelines. . It is important that we keep the numbers attending school as low as possible so that we can maintain the safety of the staff and children in school at the moment.
I have attached below a link to a letter to parents from the local authority and public health . In the letter Steve Reddy and Matt Ashton remind families that children and young people, should stay at home unless absolutely necessary. Children should only be sent into school if there is no way they can safely stay at home and learn remotely.
If there is an adult working at home or able to take leave from their non-critical job, they are asking parents to please think twice before sending your child to school.
This will allow those who really need to be in school to have access to a place. We don’t want to be in a position where we are unable to support safely the number of children wanting to
attend.
The safety of our school community is foremost in our minds and would ask that families consider all options for childcare before approaching school for places during lockdown.
The staff and I understand how hard it is for families working at home and we are doing all we can to offer support with home learning. We still have a number of IT devices available to support home learning and if you feel that this would support you and your child please contact school. We also have free WIFI Sim cards available if you need help with internet access.
I have just been informed that YPAS have a virtual Coffee morning tomorrow from 10.00am-11.30am, you may want to log in?
The theme is Home Schooling.
Please see the information below for details of how to join.
You will need to book by email:
Dear parents, thank you so much for all your hard work during this latest lockdown, we appreciate all the home learning you are doing with all your children at home.
As you are aware the expectations for home learning have changed so in light of this next week, the work set will look slightly different.
We are placing weekly plans onto our website with some supplementary sheets (like English or maths specific work) . These plans will have direct links to the website we want you to access which have some excellent teaching materials, some of which the children are used to as we use them in school.
This work is new learning so it is vital that the children are accessing this , most work is designed to be recorded into the children’s ‘Home Learning ‘book. (If you need a new book or pens, pencils etc please just let us know) and some is still through our old favourite, Purple Mash.
Please continue to also access books via Rising Stars and practice times tables on Times tables Rock Stars.
To help you in preparation for the week ahead, the weekly timetable will be available each Friday for the following week (There is no expectation for you to complete the work over the weekend)
We thank you once again in anticipation of all your hard work with your children and please don’t forget to photograph your child’s work and send it to us via the year group emails or return them to school .
We will be ringing around parents again next week so please don’t hesitate to let us know if there are any barriers you are facing or any great learning or ‘Eureka ‘ moments .
From all of the staff at OLI
Vulnerable children and young people include those who:
Parents whose work is critical to the coronavirus (COVID-19) and EU transition response include those who work in health and social care and in other key sectors outlined in the following sections.
This includes, but is not limited to, doctors, nurses, midwives, paramedics, social workers, care workers, and other frontline health and social care staff including volunteers; the support and specialist staff required to maintain the UK’s health and social care sector; those working as part of the health and social care supply chain, including producers and distributors of medicines and medical and personal protective equipment.
This includes:
This includes:
This only includes those administrative occupations essential to the effective delivery of:
This includes those involved in food:
This includes:
This includes those who will keep the air, water, road and rail passenger and freight transport modes operating during the coronavirus (COVID-19) response and EU transition, including those working on transport systems through which supply chains pass and those constructing or supporting the operation of critical transport and border infrastructure through which supply chains pass.
This includes:
School work has been set for all children to access remotely from tomorrow . This is available on our school website under the home learning portal tab. Staff will also be setting work on purple mash for their class. Don’t forget all children have their own learning passport with their personal log ins to all of the online learning platforms that are used in school.
Teachers will be in touch tomorrow to support you and your child .
If you have any issues regarding online learning or if your child requires a windows tablet to access online learning please contact school or email your class teacher on their year group email (see the home learning portal). Paper work packs are also available on request if your child prefers to learn this way.
Thankyou for your patience and understanding and we will continue to support all of our families so that the children’s learning can continue during these unprecedented times.
I have included the schools contingency plan below if you require more information on the schools plans for continued learning during full or partial lockdowns.
I am sorry to inform our families that due to staffing issues we are unable to open the school fully tomorrow.
School will only be open for key worker/vulnerable families this week.
The local authority are providing schools with clarification of the current definition of key worker and vulnerable categories and I will share this with parents as soon as I have it.
Until that time any child who attended the OLI hub is able to attend school this week.
If you have joined our school since September and you feel that you are a key worker/vulnerable family please contact school in the morning on 0151 260 8957 or email admin@oliprimaryschool.co.uk for clarification.
I apologise for the lateness of this message and appreciate it will inconvenience many of our families. I have written to you as soon as I have had a full picture but I am sure you can appreciate from the media that this has been a rapidly changing situation today.
School breakfast club will open as normal at 8am for key worker/vulnerable children.
If you require a place in Everton Kids Club please contact Laura on 07788262828.
If you are entitled to free school meals and require a school provided packed lunch please contact school before 10am. You will receive more information on how to collect this lunch from school.
Mrs Catherine Sergeant
Please find information below regarding Friday 18th December 2020
Click on the link for more information about the Christmas activities in school this year
Please click on the links below for more information about the year 6 swimming programme
School Swimming Programme Risk Assessment COVID 19 Updated 18th November 2020
Do you know that there is a translate option on our website?
This will allow you to translate all information, documents and letters home into your home language .
Why not try it out ?
We currently have two Parent Governor vacancies on our governing body . If you would like to nominate yourself for one of the positions please read the information below and then complete the nomination form. This should be returned to school by Friday 13th November 2020 at 12 noon.