Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.

• Phase 1 has been a great success!

  Tue 09 Jun 2020

  Morning everyone,

   

  I hope I'm not tempting fate by saying this but the return of our year 6 pupils has gone/is going really well. Hurrah!

   

  If you are a parent of a Y6 child and originally said no to them returning, remember you can change your mind. If you want to do that, you must ring school by 11am this Wednesday if you want your child in school next week. The reason we have set this time limit is to give us time to plan staffing and room usage (it sounds simple but is anything but).

   

  If you said yes to your child coming back to school we will assume they will continue attending unless we hear otherwise.

   

  Take care,

   

  Mr Farrington

• Re-opening update

  Fri 05 Jun 2020 Mr Farrington

  Hi everyone,

   

  As promised, I will update you my current thinking around re-opening and for plans going forward as often as I can. I must warn you, though, that these thoughts and plans are provisional and can change depending on local and national issues.

   

  I intend to use next week to assess whether our procedures are robust enough to safely accommodate the extension of opening to our year 6 pupils. I will meet my senior leadership team on Thursday 11th June to reflect on what we have learnt and to discuss if we are in a position to open to other year groups. The year groups given priority by the government are F1, F2 and Year 1. We will reflect on whether we can open to some, all or none of these groups. Our rationale will be simple – is it safe? If the answer is yes, we will start planning. The first step in that process will be to update our risk assessment and then submit it to the trust executive. Our risk assessment will be scrutinised by the trustees who have the ultimate say on whether we can extend re-opening or not. When the trustees give us permission to extend re-opening, we will then start contacting parents, and staff, directly affected.

   

  As I am sure you can appreciate, this process will take some time meaning the earliest we will extend opening to some, or all, of F1, F2 and Y1 is w/c 22nd June.

   

  As a trust, we have made a collective decision to plan to welcome back our Y5 pupils w/c 6th July. That will mean our Y6 pupils will return to remote learning at home. We are keen to mark the Year 6’s time at Burford and have commissioned a film maker to produce a Y6 graduation film. Watch this space for more details.  

   

  Some of your minds may be drifting towards the summer holidays and wondering what is likely to be happening. As things stand, the school will be closed. 

   

  Have a lovely weekend,

   

  Mr Farrington

• Covid-19 symptoms

  Fri 05 Jun 2020

  Hi everyone,

   

  I found this lovely, simple poster, which we will be sharing with all children who come into school so that they're aware of which symptoms to look out for and can let their teacher know immediately if they feel poorly.

   

  NOT ALL SYMPTOMS ARE C19 SYMPTOMS! Your child may have hayfever or another type of head cold.

   

  If your child is displaying these symptoms, they MUST NOT attend school for 7 days and the family should self isolate for 14 unless they can access a test that subsequently proves to be negative.

   

  Please call 111 to discuss their symptoms with an NHS professional and 119 to order a test immediately.

   

  IT IS ALWAYS BETTER TO ERR ON THE SIDE OF CAUTION THAN TO EXPOSE OUR COMMUNITY TO AVOIDABLE RISK.

  

• Re-opening for Y6

  Wed 03 Jun 2020 Mr Farrington

  Hi everyone,

  I received confirmation from the trust executive board earlier today that we are now able to extend our offer and re-open, initially for our Year 6 pupils.  That will happen from Monday 8th June. 

   

  Mrs Flowers will be in contact with the 16 Year 6 parents who have confirmed they would like their child to return to school. Mrs Flowers will talk you through start/ and finish times, as well as other practical arrangements. 

   

  If you are a parent of a child in Year 6 who originally said no to returning to school then you can change your mind. However, you do need to contact the school office by Wednesday of each week to do that to allow us enough time to plan for the following week.  

   

  Mrs Flowers will also be in contact with the parents of those children currently attending school to confirm arrangements for next week. 

   

  Our plan is to establish how well re-opening for our Year 6 pupils goes and use this as a guide for planning to extend re-opening to F1, F2 and Year 1 pupils. I will be in contact with further details about this soon.

   

  Mr Farrington

• Covid 19 Home School Agreement

  Wed 03 Jun 2020

  Hello all,

   

  Please find our COVID-19 HOME/SCHOOL AGREEMENT in the Newsletter section of the website.

   

  We would like the parents of children attending Burford moving forward to agree to the guidelines set out in this document and would appreciate it if you could please respond to this email with the following text:

   

  I have read the 'COVID-19 HOME SCHOOL AGREEMENT' and hereby confirm my agreement. 

  FULL NAME 

   

  We would like to gather as many 'signatures' electronically to reduce the risk of infection please.

   

  Thank you,

  Mr Farrington