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Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.
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Class Dojo
Sun 05 Dec 2021Morning all,
As most of you know, school posts regular news updates on Class Dojo. We avoid routine double entry by posting there only for most news stories. If you have yet to sign up, please do so as soon as possible.
Mr Farrington
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IT IS TIME FOR YOUR CHILD'S ANNUAL FLU VACCINATION - THURSDAY 4 NOVEMBER 2021
Wed 06 Oct 2021Flu can be a very unpleasant illness in children causing fever, stuffy nose, dry cough, sore throat, aching muscles and joints, and extreme tiredness. This can last several days or more.
Having the flu vaccine will protect your child from what can be a very nasty illness in children, and will reduce the chance of others in your family getting flu from your child. This year, helping to protect your family against flu is particularly important as COVID-19 is still circulating.
SAIS (School Aged Immunisation Team) are visiting Burford Primary School on Thursday 4 November 2021. To ensure your child is included in the vaccination programme, you will have to complete a consent form for each child. Please copy the following link into your web browser to access this form:
www.nottinghamshireimmunisations.co.uk/Forms/Flu
Please complete your online form by Monday 11 October 2021, the unique code for Burford Primary School is NG143060. The option to consent or decline the vaccination is at the end of the questionnaire, so please complete the form even if you do not want your child to have the vaccination.
Please do not hesitate to contact the school office, tel: 0115 915 1560, if you would like further information or guidance.
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Staffing update
Wed 06 Oct 2021Afternoon all,
I hope you're having a lovely day and are enjoying the sunshine.
I am writing to update you on some staffing changes that will soon come into effect:
Year 1 - as many of you know, Mrs Fortescue will be leaving us at the end of this half term to go on maternity leave. I am sure you will all join me in wishing her all the very best for her new arrival. The timing Mrs Fortescue's departure was almost perfect as Miss Ashurst is returning from maternity leave at the end of December. Miss Ashurst will teach Year 1 from the end of December until the end of the academic year. I know the children in Year 1 will be sad to see Mrs Fortescue leave but I am sure Miss Ashurst's imminent return will soften that blow.
Mrs Humphreys will remain in Year 1 throughout this time and will teach alongside a new colleague until Miss Ashurst's return.
Mrs McDonnell is leaving us at the end of this half term, after 14 years at Burford. Miss White is covering for Mrs McDonnell at the moment and will continue in this role for the time being.
Miss Spencer will remain teaching in nursery for the whole of this academic year and Miss Kendrick will remain in F2 for the same period.
I hope I have set out what is soon to happen clearly but please feel free to ask me any questions, should that not be the case.
Best wishes,
Mr Farrington -
Inset - Friday 10th December 2021
Wed 08 Sep 2021Afternoon all,
We have planned an INSET day for Friday 10th December to plan for our Shakespeare week. I thought it worthwhile giving you as much notice as possible.
Mr Farrington -
Return to school in September
Fri 27 Aug 2021Afternoon everyone,
I hope you've all had a great summer and you and your children are looking forward to coming back to school. School will reopen to children on Thursday 2nd September.
As you know, Ms Chapleo prepared a video in July, which outlined how school will work from September onwards. If you would like to refresh your memory, the video can be found on our website.
Click 'Children' - 'Burford Videos'.
Or enter this link into a web browser:
https://burford-primary-and-nursery-school.primarysite.media/media/plans-for-september-2021I am looking forward to seeing you all on Thursday. If you have any last minute questions, all the staff will be in school from Tuesday 31st August. Please feel free to pop in and ask me or the office ladies and we will do our best to help.
Mr Farrington
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After School Club
Thu 22 Jul 2021Afternoon all,
We are experiencing significant staffing issues, as are all schools and businesses, because of the sheer number of people having to isolate. We are down to one person to run the After School Club tomorrow because her colleague is covering the office for us; both the office ladies are self isolating.
After School Club will remain open tomorrow and we will honour the bookings that have already been made. We will not be able to take any further bookings from this point onwards, though, I am afraid.
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My COVID update
Thu 22 Jul 2021Morning all,
I thought I would update you with my COVID news. My youngest daughter tested positive yesterday. She is slightly unwell but would, in normal circumstances, be well enough to be at school. According to the current guidelines, this has no impact on my return to school on Friday. However, I am concerned about the risk I pose to the children, staff and wider families. In light of this, I have decided that it is best that I work from home on Friday. This has been a difficult decision to make because I want to be in school, especially on the last day of term. However, my biggest concern is safety. I would hate to infect a child or staff member at any time but especially at the beginning of the summer holidays. As this is easily avoidable, I have decided that it is safer for everyone if I extend my isolation by one more day.
I intend to Zoom in for the Y6 Leavers Evening.
Best wishes,
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Update
Thu 22 Jul 2021Morning all,
Time seems to be flying away with itself at the moment. This time of year is always hectic but it seems far more so at the more with so many children, and staff, isolating. at the moment.
There a few things I want to announce/remind you of. As many of you know, we have a few colleagues leaving us at the end of this year. Mrs Knowles and Mrs Dickson are both moving on to new challenges at a different school. They will be greatly missed and I am grateful to both of them for their service to Burford. This is especially the case with Mrs Knowles who has been at Burford for an eye watering 28 years.
It is so sad but both Mrs Knowles and Mrs Dickson are currently self isolating and will not now return to Burford before the end of term.
Mrs Nauta Parsons has been a trainee teacher at Burford for the past year. She has successfully gained a teaching post at a local school. She is popping into Y2 to say a safe, and socially distanced, goodbye to Y2 tomorrow.
Ms Nelson is also leaving our dinner team to take up a different post at a local school.
I am sure you will join me in wishing all these colleagues the very best of luck in their new posts.
As you will have seen from the staff list I sent round recently, we have the following new starters in September:
Miss Spencer - F1 teacher
Mrs Moore - TA
Mr Stanley - Y5 teacher
I am sure you will warmly welcome them to 'Team Burford.'
We will release end of year video reports for all children tomorrow. They will replace written reports. I have watched a sample from each class and I am sure you, and your children, will love watching them together. We will gather your views on the new format in September. I hope you enjoy them as much as I did.
Best wishes,
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COVID update
Mon 19 Jul 2021Morning all,
I posted a short video message on Dojo earlier. It set out Burford's response to 'Freedom Day', as well as our plans for September. I hope you find time to log in and watch the video.
I have repeated the key themes in writing below:Morning all,
I realize a lot has been made in the press about today being ‘Freedom Day’ but ‘Freedom Day’ comes at a time when the COVID infection rate is increasing and many thousands of children, and staff, are isolating. Therefore, I thought it would be worth updating you all on what ‘Freedom Day’ means for us during our last full week in school and beyond.
As we only have one week left in school, and infection rates are increasing, our COVID safety routines will remain largely unchanged. Isolations caused by positive cases will necessarily continue. Mask wearing will continue. Social distancing in school between classes and year groups will continue. Staff testing will continue.
The term “bubble” will end. Instead “close contacts” will be required to isolate. Trust wide advice for all schools is that for the final week of the year, this means exactly the same thing (ie, “bubble” = “close contacts”). Based on recent outbreaks in 2 Trust schools, class transmission has been widespread, and far greater now than at any point in the pandemic. That means all “close contacts” of a positive case will have to isolate exactly as we did with bubbles. We have also been instructed to ensure all children currently isolating complete their 10 days isolation in full.
We will release a video message on Dojo on Wednesday 21st July, which will set out our provisional plans for September. As I am sure you can appreciate, these might be subject to last minute change in light of ever changing advice. I appreciate this is far from ideal but I hope you understand the difficult position we are all in at the moment.
Best wishes,
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My Covid news
Sun 18 Jul 2021Afternoon all,
I’m afraid my eldest daughter tested positive for Covid yesterday. She is mildly unwell but nothing more than cold like symptoms, thankfully. More positively, my wife and I, as well as our two other children, tested negative.
I have taken advice from the NHS, and trust, and will be able to return to school on Friday 23rd July, assuming none of us catch Covid from the oldest (I’ve got everything crossed on that front!).
I hope you enjoy the rest of the weekend and I look forward to seeing you all on Friday.
Mr Farrington