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EU settlement scheme

EU Settlement Scheme Letter to Schools

Please click on the link above if you are a citizens of the EU, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Switzerland who wishes to continue living and working in the UK.

You will find information on how to apply to the EU Settlement Scheme (EUSS) for settled or pre-settled status. The deadline to do this is 30 June 2021.

Happy Easter

The staff and governors would like to wish all of our families a very happy Easter holiday.

We return to school on Monday 12th April and look forward to seeing all of the children in school .

All of the organisation that is in place in school to keep the children safe will continue after the holiday. The schools Covid 19 Risk Assessment is available for parents by clicking here 

Please click on this  link  to read a letter from The Local Authority and Public Health  

Information for parents – School reopening Monday 8th March 2021

We are really looking forward to seeing all the children back in school on Monday and we have worked hard to make sure that everything is in place to ensure the safe return of all of the children .

We have collected information below for parents regarding the new arrangements for the staggering of the start and end of the school day , PE times for this term and swimming information for year 6. 

Have a lovely weekend and see you all next week 

Mrs Sergeant

Reopening of School 08.03.2021

Ways to keep safe in school- Updated March 2021

PE information from 8.3.2021

Swimming Spring Term 2021

Today’s Masked Reader.

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?

 

World Book Day 2021

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 !

Rapid Response Vehicle Testing @Everton Park Lifestyles

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

Clarification from Public Health and LA regarding places in school 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.

29.01.2021 letter for parents SR and MA

Home learning update

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

City definition of critical workers and vulnerable children.

 The city definition of critical worker and vulnerable children will be in line with national guidance. I have included the link below and I have copied the relevant sections for parents in this message. For critical workers it is one parent who needs to be currently working in this role.
 
We are currently contacting families who are known to us to be part of the groups below. However ,if you feel that your circumstances have changed, you meet the criteria below and you would like your child to attend school please contact Mrs Brown or Mrs Finnigan as soon as possible  on 0151 260 8957 at school or email admin@oliprimaryschool.co.uk. 
 
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-maintaining-educational-provision/guidance-for-schools-colleges-and-local-authorities-on-maintaining-educational-provision
 
 

Vulnerable children and young people include those who:

  • are assessed as being in need under section 17 of the Children Act 1989, including children and young people who have a child in need plan, a child protection plan or who are a looked-after child
  • have an education, health and care (EHC) plan
  • have been identified as otherwise vulnerable by educational providers or local authorities (including children’s social care services), and who could therefore benefit from continued full-time attendance, this might include:
    • children and young people on the edge of receiving support from children’s social care services or in the process of being referred to children’s services
    • adopted children or children on a special guardianship order
    • those at risk of becoming NEET (‘not in employment, education or training’)
    • those living in temporary accommodation
    • those who are young carers
    • those who may have difficulty engaging with remote education at home (for example due to a lack of devices or quiet space to study)
    • care leavers
    • others at the provider and local authority’s discretion including pupils and students who need to attend to receive support or manage risks to their mental health

Critical workers

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.

Health and social care

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.

Education and childcare

This includes:

  • childcare
  • support and teaching staff
  • social workers
  • specialist education professionals who must remain active during the coronavirus (COVID-19) response to deliver this approach

Key public services

This includes:

  • those essential to the running of the justice system
  • religious staff
  • charities and workers delivering key frontline services
  • those responsible for the management of the deceased
  • journalists and broadcasters who are providing public service broadcasting

Local and national government

This only includes those administrative occupations essential to the effective delivery of:

  • the coronavirus (COVID-19) response, and the delivery of and response to EU transition
  • essential public services, such as the payment of benefits and the certification or checking of goods for import and export (including animal products, animals, plants and food), including in government agencies and arms length bodies

Food and other necessary goods

This includes those involved in food:

  • production
  • processing
  • distribution
  • sale and delivery
  • as well as those essential to the provision of other key goods (for example hygienic and veterinary medicines)

Public safety and national security

This includes:

  • police and support staff
  • Ministry of Defence civilians
  • contractor and armed forces personnel (those critical to the delivery of key defence and national security outputs and essential to the response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak and EU transition)
  • fire and rescue service employees (including support staff)
  • National Crime Agency staff
  • those maintaining border security, prison and probation staff and other national security roles, including those overseas

Transport and border

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.

Utilities, communication and financial services

This includes:

  • staff needed for essential financial services provision (including but not limited to workers in banks, building societies and financial market infrastructure)
  • the oil, gas, electricity and water sectors (including sewerage)
  • information technology and data infrastructure sector and primary industry supplies to continue during the coronavirus (COVID-19) response
  • key staff working in the civil nuclear, chemicals, telecommunications (including but not limited to network operations, field engineering, call centre staff, IT and data infrastructure, 999 and 111 critical services)
  • postal services and delivery
  • payments providers
  • waste disposal sectors

Online learning update January 2021

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. 

Contingency Plan 2020

School reopening update – 4th January 2021

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

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