Please see below a letter outlining home testing for coronavirus (COVID-19) for parents, carers and childcare and support bubbles.

Home testing for coronavirus (COVID-19) for parents carers and childcare and support bubbles

School Meals from Week Commencing 8^th March 2021

We will continue to offer one hot main meal per day for the remainder of this term, due to the covid-19 risk assessment and the social distancing of the children in their class bubbles.  We will review after Easter in accordance with the Government Guidance on social distancing.

If your child opts out of the meal of the day, they should bring a packed lunch. Fresh fruit is provided daily to all children.  We are awaiting the Summer Term Menu from our catering provider, Taylor Shaw, which will come into effect after the Easter Break. Please find below the menu for the next three weeks.

Click the document link below to view the menu.

3 Week Menu from 8th March

Please read the following letter below from Richard Crane, Head of Education for DCC. The letter outlines the importance of social distancing at school drop off and pick up times.

DCC Parent letter March 2021

Please see the documents below with updates on current important issues from Durham Constabulary.

Kooth-Poster

Grooming Flyer

Dear Parents,

I am pleased to inform you we have bought into the YogaBugs Virtual Programme for our school and this includes access to YogaBugs videos and mindfulness techniques for you and your children.

Please see below instruction on how to access your YogaBugs Parent Portal.

We are working closely with YogaBugs in school to help all of our children, teachers and parents with their mental health and overall wellbeing.

On the YogaBugs Parent Portal you will have access to Yoga and Mindfulness videos, chair yoga for you to try, a video about the benefits of YogaBugs, along with helpful mindfulness activities and visualisations that you can download and use for you whole family.

The benefits of you using sessions are huge – Please see below:

·        The YogaBugs Virtual programme has been designed and created by mental health first aiders

·        Every session is age appropriate and challenging

·        The classes can be used on a laptop, phone, tablet or smart TV

·        You can pause the sessions at any time and come back to them

·        All classes end with Relaxation and Mindfulness

·        We incorporate curriculum-based themes and subjects in help with distance learning

·        All classes are physical and educational

·        The physical benefits are massive helping with core strength, balance, coordination flexibility and much more

·        All sessions are proven to help with concentration, behaviour, listening and stimulate imagination

 

To register and log into your portal please click on the link below and register your details:

https://www.thebugsgroup.com/member-registration/

** please note this link cannot be sent to anyone else, the school has signed a confidentiality agreement **

We recommend that you use 1 or 2 sessions per week along with revisiting sessions to help children learn certain Yoga poses and stimulate memory.

Once you have registered, you will create your own password which will then gain access to all of our sessions.

We hope you find these sessions beneficial. We welcome photos and any feedback to us and YogaBugs so we  can see how the students and you are getting on with the sessions.

If you require any assistance, please call the school office.

Learning resources such as paper, pencils, erasers and exercise books are available from the school.

Please email towlaw@durhamlearning.net if you need anything or contact the school office.

Please find below a list of catch up clinics for the flu immunisation for children who were absent during the immunisation session in schools. Parents who did not consent previously, can also attend these clinics with their children.

Confirmed Flu Catch Up Clinics

Please find below an updated information sheet with details relating to the end of this half term and our pupils moving to their new classes in November.

Moving forward November 2020 Parents/carers

After half term, we will moving to the 3-week school lunch menu below.

You can make a decision on a daily basis as to whether your child has a school lunch. If they are not having a school lunch that day, please send in a packed lunch from home.

Public Health England have produced a letter for parents which explains when a person requires a coronavirus test and what the symptoms of coronavirus are.

Public Health England letter to parents and guardians