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• Reopening of Schools to R, Y1 and Y6- Letter from Nottingham City Council

  Fri 29 May 2020

   

  
  Nottingham City Council

  Loxley House

  Station Street

  Nottingham  NG2 3NG

   

  www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk

  29 May 2020

  Dear parent/carer

  Return of more children to schools, nurseries and early years settings

  We are writing to you regarding the phased reopening of schools to pupils from Reception, Year 1 and Year 6 in Nottingham schools from Monday 1 June.

  The City Council has been working with schools to understand how we might gradually increase the number of children while keeping them as safe as possible.

  We have previously said that there was no pressure from the council for head teachers to reopen until they felt they were ready to do. We also made it clear that we would not issue fines for parents who chose not to send their children back to school.

  Earlier this week, our council decided that we had growing concerns that the right conditions for a phased return might not be in place by 1 June.

  Today, we would like to make it clear, unequivocally, that we do NOT feel it is the right time to bring children back to schools and nurseries on Monday.

  We are advising schools run by the council through the Nottingham Schools Trust that they should not reopen to wider numbers at this time.

  This is not a reflection on our schools in Nottingham. They have done a tremendous job of working towards opening to more pupils while continuing to look after the children of critical workers and those pupils with additional needs and vulnerabilities. We would like to praise them for their efforts over the last 10 weeks of lockdown.

  This is as much about the right conditions being in place – for example the effective introduction of the ‘Test and Trace’ system that would give additional reassurance on how best to manage the spread of the virus.

  We know this is short notice, but we have been monitoring the situation and wanted to wait until we were certain that it was not too soon to bring more children back. We want our parents to be confident that all steps are being taken to minimise the risk to their children. We know that this is the number one priority for our parents, for our schools and nurseries, as well as for the City Council.

   

                                                             
  Councillor David Mellen                                                       Councillor Neghat Khan
  Leader of the Council                                                             Portfolio Holder for Early Years,
  Nottingham City Council                                                         Employment and Education

• FSM Vouchers

  Mon 11 May 2020 Mr Pegram

  FSM voucher update:

  We placed an order last week for this weeks FSM vouchers for families eligible for benefits related FSM support.

  As of 11am on Monday 11th May the order hasn't been completed by the company Edenred.

  As soon as the order is fulfilled then vouchers will either be emailed direct or delivered by Mrs Finnie.

   

  Kindest regards

  Mr Pegram and Mrs Thomas

   

• Thank-you children

  Mon 11 May 2020 Mr Pegram

  Thank-you children certificates:

  This has been an incredibly challenging period for everyone and we are all incredibly proud of how amazing the children of Southglade have been at rising to the challenge of a new way of learning.

  We sent out some certificates recently to reward the children and say thank-you.

  Here are some pictures of the children with their certificates.

  Please send in more pictures to:

  admin@southglade.nottingham.sch.uk

  kevin.pegram@southglade.nottingham.sch.uk

  or to your child's class teacher