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Be a Spring Detective!

Sun 22 Mar 2020 Mrs Smith

This week our worship will focus on the signs of Spring which are appearing everywhere. We are asking the children to look out in their gardens or when they go out for a local walk to spot signs that Spring is coming by being a Spring Detective! Photograph your finds and email them to us so we can share them with the whole St Mark's community. Mrs Smith found lots of things on her walk in the local woods including a very big wiggly earth worm! Good luck Spring Detectives!

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School Closure - further information.

Fri 20 Mar 2020

St Mark's CE Primary School will be CLOSED until further notice as instructed by the government. Key worker families have been prioritised and those families will have received an offer/letter from the school.

Cancellation of 2019/20 national curriculum assessments

Thu 19 Mar 2020

Information: cancellation of 2019/20 national curriculum assessments

On 18th March 2020 The Secretary of State for Education announced that the 2019/20 national curriculum assessments will not take place due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

This means the following assessments planned between April and July 2020 are cancelled:

End of key stage 1 and key stage 2 assessments (including tests and teacher assessment)
Phonics screening check (Year 1)
Multiplication tables check (Year 4)
Science sampling tests (Year 6)
All statutory trialling

Schools do not need to complete any further activities to prepare for these assessments.

Primary school performance measures will not be published for the 2019/20 academic year.

COVID-19 Update 2

Mon 16 Mar 2020

Dear Parents and Carers,

You will have received from me today, a letter outlining how the school has prepared should we be directed to close by the government.

We know this is a challenging time for us all and in light of the Prime Minister’s instructions this evening and in our continuous strive to support the prevention of the spread of the virus, we have decided to introduce some additional measures to reduce non essential contact where possible.

With immediate effect there will be no staff members outside on the playground for ‘meet and greet’. Members of staff will be at the pupil entrance to greet the pupils on their way in. ALL messages, such as who is going home with who or urgent updates about your child, if they’ve had medicine etc. must be e-mailed to the school office or telephoned through on 01252 544155.

Children should be dropped off in the playground in the usual way. Please do not accompany your child to the pupil entrance for the safety of our pupils as it gets very busy. Staff will not take messages at the pupil entrance.

Please do not visit the school office unless it is for urgent enquires only. If it is urgent then we ask that you maintain a distance of 1.5m from the window. For all messages, please ring or e-mail these through - it will be given the same importance as if you were doing this in person. If you phone in and have to leave a message, we will get back to you.

Staff will continue to bring children out at home time. Any messages they need to pass on to you will be done by phone or e-mail during the day or straight after school. Please maintain a safe distance when picking up and consider your proximity to each other.

We will also be placing stricter rules on unnecessary contact in school, such as shaking hands and holding hands. You child will of course receive all the usual St Mark’s love and attention that they need.

We will also be imposing a 14 day isolation period in place if the 7day period in line with the Prime Minister’s instructions. This will apply to all siblings of this who present with symptoms and all children who’s parent/s present with symptoms. We are simply doing all we can to protect all the staff and children at this challenging time.

A reminder of the school e-mail for messages:

adminoffice@st-marks.hants.sch.uk

School Telephone number: 01252 544155

We thank you all for your continuous support and understanding at this time. Clearly this kind of contact does not come naturally to any of us, but we must do all we can to support and protect our school community and those who have vulnerable family members

Kind regards,

Mrs Stocchetti

Update on the Coronavirus

Fri 13 Mar 2020 Headteacher & Acting Chair of Governors

Dear parents and carers,

We closely monitor the current updates on the Coronavirus COVID-19. Following the Government’s COBRA meeting yesterday and information that has been issued to our school by Public Health England, we are taking the following precautions at St Mark’s Primary School with immediate effect.

Any child who has a temperature of 37.8 degrees or more and/or a cough will not be permitted to attend school for seven days. Any child who presents with either of these symptoms in school will be sent home to be isolated for seven days.

If you as a parent or carer are sent home from work or instructed by health officials to self-isolate due to symptoms or have been exposed to a possible case of Corona virus COVID-19 your child must also remain at home for at least seven days.

We will send updates on any further information as it comes in.

These are very difficult and challenging times for schools and we must do our upmost to protect our community and the welfare of our children and school staff.

We thank you for your understanding and support in this difficult period of time and appreciate your understanding of the priority and importance of safeguarding our whole community.

Mrs Stocchetti Mrs Abbs.

Headteacher Acting Chair of Governors

World Book Day 2020!

Fri 06 Mar 2020

This year all of the children are taking part in Share a Million Stories! We will be uploading how many stories we have shared to our World Book Day profile over the month of March. To celebrate its launch - and our love of reading - we dressed up as our favourite book characters and even learnt poems to share with each other. Year R performed their poems to the whole school and it was wonderful!