25Th September 2020
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Friday 25th September 2020 Message from the head: I hope you are all safe and well. It is with concern we all watch the daily news updates regarding the rising cases of Covid-19 across the country. Thankfully, cases in Camden still remain rare and well below both London and National averages. I hope you received the letter that was sent out yesterday via Parent Hub with an important update on steps we are taking, how you can help and what to do in case of illness in the household. If you are having any problems with Parent Hub please call Lisa in the office who will help you sort it—it is so important at this time that we are able to communicate quickly and clearly with you so Parent Hub is a vital app to have on your phone. It has been a great week in school. The classes have all finished their work on the ‘Here We Are’ back to school topic they did for the first couple of weeks—this picture is of a fantastic display celebrating their work. Everyone has been working hard and now that we’ve finished baseline assess- ments you will be receiving your phone calls from teachers next week to introduce them- selves—please see details below. There is a lot of information on pages 5 & 6 of this news- letter about active travel and next week being National Bike to School Week. Pages 3 & 4 has important info on Secondary Transfer for our Individual School Photos—1st October year 6 parents. The school photographer is coming in on Thursday next week, Octo- Have a great weekend and enjoy the rest of the newsletter. ber 1st to do individual photos. At this time there will be no group or class photos (these will hopefully be done later in the year). All Covid London Mini Marathon –secure precautions will be taken to ensure the photographer and Year 3 and Year 5 have entered into the year’s each individual child remain socially distanced while the photos are ‘London Mini Marathon’. They will be incorpo- taken. There will be no sibling photos at this time, just individual. rating it into their Daily Mile sessions. They are going to do it to raise money for playground equipment. We will be in touch about how to Fleet artists, we need your help! give donations to support their efforts in the coming weeks. Last call to enter the library genre label competition. We'd like our wonderful Parent Call-Meetings Next Week—Y1-6 Fleet artists to make us some signs for As mentioned in previous newsletters next week your child’s class the book shelves. You can see some teacher will be calling you. This is to substitute for a face-to-face from year 3 and 4 children in this pic- parents meeting. We have completed baseline assessments on all ture. the children and teachers have now met with senior leaders to dis- What you need to do: Make a sign with cuss targets and plan support for the term. We are making these the name of the genre (choose one— calls earlier in the year than a parents meeting would usually be so the genres are: adventure, mystery, that you can ‘meet’ your child’s class teacher, have a chat about short stories, fantasy, spooky, funny, where your child is at and think together how to support moving animals, historical, poetry). Your sign their learning and development forward after the disrupted educa- should be 5.5cm wide by roughly 35cm tion of last academic year. As the usual regular face to face contact long. It can be on plain white paper between teachers and parents is not possible at this time please do using pencils, felt tips, gel pens, paints all you can to take this phone call so that the teacher has a chance or pastels. If you need some paper from to introduce themselves to you and discuss your child (the number school, just ask! It would be great if may show up ‘No Caller ID’ - please take the call). Thanks. your writing could show something about that genre - so for example if Y1: 9.45am-11.45am Thursday 1st October you're doing a sign saying 'spooky' you might decorate it with some Y2: 1.30-3.30pm Friday 2nd October skeletons, cobwebs and ghosts, or if you're doing 'fantasy' it might Y3: 10am-12pm Tuesday 29th September have some dragons, witches or fairies on it. Make sure the name of the Y4: 1.30-3.30 Tuesday 29 September genre is large and clear for people to read! Hand in your entry to your Y5: 1.45-3.45pm Thursday 1st October class teacher and they will pass it on. We can't wait to see your fabu- Y6: 9.50-11.50am Friday 2nd October lous art work! All entries must be in by the end of next week. All classes: 4-6pm Wednesday 30th September Punctuality Award Bike to school week next week—28th Sep- This week, our Punctuality award goes to Year 2 and Year 5 with tember—2nd October 1 late! 36 lates for the whole school—we need to improve! Next week is ‘Bike to School Week’. It would be great to see lots of the children cycling and scooting. Take a picture of them coming in Attendance Award Our Attendance Award this on their bikes to celebrate and we will tweet it! The bike storage is week goes to Year 2 & 3—both with 100% - amazing! This beside the greenhouse at the infant playground. Lets encourage as year’s whole school target is 96% - we’re currently at much active travel as possible at Fleet! 95.99%. Thanks to you all for your efforts so far. Keep it up! Star of the Week Awards— this weeks winners... Well done to our ‘Stars of the Week’ for this week. We are very proud of their hard work and effort. Fleet Primary School, Fleet Road, London. NW3 2QT Tel: 0207 485 2028 Twitter: @FleetPrimary Web: www.fleet.camden.sch.uk What to do if my child or someone in my house is ill? We are entering into Autumn, and with the children coming back to school and into contact with the other children in their class they are more likely to pick up illnesses than over the summer break. In this time of Covid-19 it is important that everyone knows what to do should your child, or anyone in your house become ill. In the case of a cold, sniffle, sore tummy etc. or other symptom that is NOT one of the 3 symptoms associated with Covid-19 they would only need to stay off school for the period their illness means they are too unwell to be here. Any siblings, if not ill too, are able to come to school as normal. The indicator symptoms of Covid-19 are: a high temperature – this means you feel hot to touch on your chest or back. A temperature above 38C is normally considered to be high. a new, continuous cough – this means coughing a lot for more than an hour, or 3 or more coughing episodes in 24 hours (if you usually have a cough, it may be worse than usual) a loss or change to your sense of smell or taste – this means you've noticed you cannot smell or taste anything, or things smell or taste different to normal If your child, or any member of the family exhibits ANY of those 3 symptoms then you must go online and arrange a test for them. That child or person should self isolate for 10 days and their siblings and other members of the household for 14 days, until there is EITHER: A negative test result OR A doctor’s note explaining that the symptom is not COVID-19 (e.g. the cough is not a “new” cough – i.e. is typical of the child’s pre-existing health condition) If you have only been told by 111 that they do not need to get tested but the individual with symptoms still has one of the three COVID symp- toms, then the we will request a GP note to confirm this information before we will consider the child returning. This is in line with the advice we have received from the local authority. It is really important that anyone with symptoms is tested within 5 days. If the person is not tested within 5 days of symp- toms first exhibiting then the whole house- hold is required to self-isolate for 14 days. That is a lot of school for the children to miss and having a test can really minimise that. We know it is proving very difficult and frustrating at the moment to arrange tests but please keep trying if you are in the position that someone in the house has symptoms. In the majority of cases the test will be negative (very few children across the country are testing positive and unlike the flu, young children have been shown not to be spreaders). As soon as a negative test comes back children will be able to return rather than have to miss 2 weeks of school. If the test is positive you must let us know straight away so we can discuss with public health and determine if we need to isolate the class the child is in and move to online learning for 14 days. In the case of a positive test in your fami- lies all children in the family home— whether they have symptoms or not would stay off school.