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Friday 15th Jan

Fri 15 Jan 2021 HB

Please use the main entrance when dropping children off this morning - the yard is closed as it is VERY ICY. Please take care.

School will be OPEN today for children of essential workers. We will have less staff than normal so, if possible please keep your children at home with you and use the remote learning facilities. If you have no other option, KS2 will start at 0845 and KS1 will start at 9am.
Breakfast Club will be available from 8am.
Please be very careful when entering the school premises.
If anything changes, we will let you know but we will endeavour to keep as many children of critical workers in school as we can. Keep safe.

HB

January Letter to Parents

Tue 12 Jan 2021 HB

Please see the latest letter to parents - under Whole school Letters and Newsletters.

Thank you

Mrs Bell

Arrangements from Tuesday 5th January 2020

Mon 04 Jan 2021 HB

Following the announcement by Mr Johnson tonight, school will be closed to children from tomorrow except for the children of Key Workers and Vulnerable children. If your child attended school during the last lockdown, they can attend as before. If you are unsure, please email Mrs Bell with evidence of Key worker status, we will let you know as soon as possible. If you are a key worker and your child is attending, please arrive at the normal time (start and finish times will remain the same for now) and go to your usual classroom. Staff will be there to meet you.

Teacher led remote learning will commence on Thursday 7th Jan. On Tuesday and Wednesday 5th/6th Jan learning will be available on google classroom in the same way that homework is. Please bear with us while we prepare for the lockdown. Other activities can be found on the class pages although please give staff time to upload these.

If you require breakfast club and are registered, it will be open from 8am.

We will try to keep you as informed as possible.

Mrs Bell

Notifications about Covid over the school holidays.

Thu 17 Dec 2020 HB

If your child develops symptoms of COVID 19 and tests positive after school closes on the 18th DEC, please email headteacher@nortonfree.sheffield.sch.uk so that we can inform others that they have been a contact.

We will send a text to let others know if there has been a positive case in our setting. Mrs Bell will be checking emails until 23/12/20 and we will send you a text if necessary. Thank you NFS

Virtual After School Club

Tue 17 Nov 2020 HB

The Youth Sport Trust are delivering a free virtual after school club as part of a national response to the second lockdown. The 30-minute club will take place at 5pm each weekday. The After School Sport Club will run for five weeks starting Monday 16^th November until December 18 and children and young people can take part live by visiting our YouTube channel - http://www.youtube.com/user/YouthSportTrust

PHE Guidance

Wed 30 Sep 2020 HB

Public Health England guidance states:

“If a child or staff member at a school tests positive, and they had attended the school in the 48 hours prior to developing symptoms, direct and close contacts will be identified and advised regarding self-isolation by a contact tracer.

"Other household members of the wider class or group do not need to self-isolate unless the child, young person or staff member they live with in that group subsequently develops symptoms. Siblings can still go to school unless the child in the bubble develops symptoms"

No competitive Sport until Jan 2021

Thu 17 Sep 2020 HB

In Sheffield, competitive school sport will not be taking place before January 2021. AfPE guidance currently states, it’s position at the current time, is that school fixtures should be avoided, as this will involve contact across schools, and increase the opportunities for virus transmission. AfPE go onto say that community activities are different because parents/carers choose to let their children take part. Trials for Sheffield representation will be taking place in a Covid safe environment but no fixtures are currently planned to go ahead.

The Sheffield School Games Organisers, School Sports Partnerships and the Sheffield Federation of School Sport will be aiming to restart competitive opportunities after Christmas.

Pupil of the Week

Fri 11 Sep 2020 HB

Assemblies will be postponed until further notice and held in classes. As children become more settled in school, we will conduct assemblies remotely. Pupil of the week will continue and be presented in classes. There will be no text issued about Pupil of the Week and you will receive notification and the certificate via email for you to print off at home.

Please ensure that we have your up to date email address. You will receive the certificate on the Thursday afternoon or Friday morning.

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