Livingstone Primary & Nursery School WK22 JAN 2021

Friday 15^th January

Another school week is coming to an end today, which makes it two weeks under lockdown. I am happy to report that everyone has settled well and the technological problems with the VLE that we initially had have now been resolved.

We have had very positive feedback about the home learning programme, however we know that we still have some families finding it difficult at times to manage the balance of working from home as well as supporting their child/ren. Therefore, if you are experiencing difficulties please speak to the class teachers and they will try to help manage your circumstances.

Laptops are still available for siblings that are sharing, we are able to offer learning packs and materials and we still have school places for pupils of Key Workers.

Although we have implemented a structured timetable, we know that sometimes it is not always possible to maintain the strict timings especially if you are working with very young children, trying to manage more than one sibling and/or working from home so please speak to the class teacher and explain your circumstances. It is very important that work gets completed and posted online for teachers to evaluate, however if you need to adapt the schedule and your child/ren need to do the work at different times let their teachers know. They may not always be able to provide feedback on that work but they will be able to move on to the next lesson with confidence that the work has been done by everyone in the class.

Finally, I would like to say thank you again to our team of amazing staff who are working tirelessly to ensure everything possible is being done for your child/ren's education to continue in lockdown. Every member of staff - teachers, TAs, office staff, site manager, catering and cleaners are getting on with the work knowing how important it is to keep everything on track in school and for the pupils at home. Kingfisher staff are all working exceptionally hard getting the pupils back into routines and making sure that their learning is on track. Bringing all the pupils back, trying to maintain COVID safety standards has been a challenge but they have done an incredible job, so please join me in saying an extra big thank you to them as they deserve the change of title from key workers to 'star' workers'

Your regular class teachers will be busy preparing for the rest of the week which means pupils will have different teachers leading the zoom meetings. Kingfisher pupils that are not in school should join the meeting for their year groups. There is a morning zoom at your usual time explaining the day and an afternoon one to celebrate achievements, details of these are set out below. We look forward to hearing about the fun you have had completing the challenges.

Finally, remember on Thursday we will be back to the normal zoom meetings and learning timetables.

  Pupils should use their usual zoom links for the rest of the week.