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Good morning Clockhouse
Apologies in advance for the long message!
I hope you are all well, have enjoyed the half term break and that you are all eager and ready to get going again next week! Thank you for being so respectful on Class Dojo and allowing the staff a little bit of a break. As we move through this crisis, things are again set to change quite significantly for the school this week and for some on you who are going to be sending your children back to school to spend some time with us. Due to this, I have broken this message into parts –
I hope this helps to make it easier for you.
What you all need you know:
What you need to know if you are at home (this includes days when those returning are not at school):
What you need to know if you are coming into school:
This is a steep learning curve for us as well as you and things may need to change as we move forward. We will get there together and will do all we can to support you whether this be in school or virtually. Thank you so much for your on-going understanding. Once our final preparations have been made tomorrow we will be launching our own virtual tour so that as far as possible you can see what the workings of the school will look like. Please look out for this.
Please keep sharing your pictures with us, we love seeing them and it really does brighten up our day. By sharing with us via class dojo or our other platforms, we will take this as your consent for wider sharing. If you do not want photos shared please do not send them.
We continue to really miss you all and truly cannot wait see some of you this week, whilst we also fully respect your decision should your child not be retuning. Whatever next week looks like for you we really are so proud of each and every one of you. This time has made us realise even more how wonderful you are, how important you all are to us all but ultimately what a privilege we have working with such a wonderful and supportive community – thank you Clockhouse.
I am sure you will want to join with me in thanking those in our community who are front line and key workers and also our great staff team. Again we are so lucky to have such an amazing community who has pulled together during this difficult time.
Please look after yourselves and each other!
We are still one community and are here for you all.
Our school – a family and a home for everyone!
Keep smiling and stay safe
Mrs Savidge
Good morning Clockhouse
A huge WELL DONE to you all for completing the first half of the summer term and I hope that the beginning of the half term holiday has started well for you all. I hope you and your families are keeping well. What a hard and strange time it is! Thank you to all those in Nursery, Reception, Year 1 and Year 6 who completed the questionnaire regarding whether your child will be returning in June or not. This is really helping us with our planning and more will be said about this below.
As with the Easter holiday, although very different from the normal half term we usually have, everyone does deserve a bit of a rest so that our batteries can be recharged and we are ready to go again next week when many of you we will return to the home schooling regime and we hope some will join us back in school! Our advice over the holiday period is to rest and have some fun, spend time as a family and just do the best you can. We would encourage you to keep some routine so that when we return after the holidays you and the children can get back into the full swing of things with relative ease.
This week there will no home learning set on Google Classroom each day. This will return on Monday 1st June. There will however be a few things to look out for to keep you going, should you wish to take part:
Other things to be aware of:
We continue to plan for some children to return to school at the beginning of June and await the governments announcement on Thursday to confirm this. Myself and many of the staff will be working hard throughout the half term so that we are in a good position to open as soon as we can following conformation from the government. The whole of the Senior Leadership Team will be in school on Wednesday and I am hopeful that we will be in a position to communicate more information with you following this about the arrangements for the reopening of the school to those who wish to access this provision. Please keep an eye out for this. Please be assured that we are doing everything we can to not delay reopening but I cannot guarantee that this will be 1st June. Your child’s, the staffs and your safety is of paramount importance so we need to ensure that we are in the strongest possible position to ensure this.
Please keep sharing your pictures with us, we love seeing them and it really does brighten up our day. By sharing with us via class dojo or our other platforms, we will take this as your consent for wider sharing. If you do not want photos shared please do not send them.
We continue to really miss you all and truly cannot wait see you again but we really are so proud of each and every one of you. This time has made us realise even more how wonderful you are, how important you all are to us all but ultimately what a privilege we have working with such a wonderful and supportive community – thank you Clockhouse.
I am sure you will want to join with me in thanking those in our community who are front line and key workers and also our great staff team. Again we are so lucky to have such an amazing community who has pulled together during this difficult time.
Please look after yourselves and each other, and make the most of this time as a family! Enjoy half term and I will be in touch.
We are still one community and are here for you all.
Our school – a family and a home for everyone!
Keep smiling and stay safe
Mrs Savidge
Good morning Clockhouse
I hope you are all well and keeping safe and the same is true for your wider families. It is so hard to believe that we are entering Week 9, I am sure for many of you this seems far longer. I suppose we can take some comfort from the Government’ announcement last week that there is some sign of things moving forward in the coming weeks and the chance that we might see some of you again sooner rather than later, but this is by no means certain.
As I said in my communication on Friday, there really is so much to think about when planning to re-open the school but that is for us to do. For you, weighing up your decision for those of you who have children in Nursery, Reception, Year 1 and Year 6 is probably one of the hardest decisions you have had to make for your children and we as a school will very much be taking the line of we respect your decision whatever it is. We will, as always do all that we can to make the school as safe as possible but will also do all we can to continue to support those of you who choose to stay at home. What we are not going to do is make you promises that we cannot keep, that would just be foolish and we respect you too much for that. I know my letter, which was sent out on Friday, may have come across as negative, but I have been honest and open with you from the outset and this is not going to change now. As I said all of the Senior Leadership Team will be in school together (for the first time in 8 weeks) during the early part of the week and will be spending time making in-depth plans which will be shared with you in due course. We also have a team of staff ready to come in and make the school as safe as possible, including the rearrangement of classes and the removal of some furniture and equipment. As I said on Friday please be aware that schooling will look nothing like what it did before lockdown. Our utmost concern remains our children, you and the staff. Your children’s learning is of vital importance but also so is their well-being and this is a further consideration for us all.
Anyway back to this week, were things remain as what can only be described as the ‘current normal’!
We hope you enjoyed the different things that came your way during last week. A big well done to all our Rock Stars out there and obviously Rock Star Ronnie for taking part in the times table battle! Well done to the individual winners and the overall winners – the boys who did pip the girls to the post! We hope you enjoyed the workout with Mrs Everingham, we also hope you enjoyed the special video that was sent home, wasn’t it lovely! Thank you again to all those who contributed. You teachers out there are clearly doing a great job with home schooling and I have to say the children’s work that is being shared with us is impressing the teachers and myself – well done all! Keep going!
This week, the following is still the case:
There will be a small number of staff in school every day on a rota basis.
The best way to contact teachers / school staff is messaging via Class Dojo, they will be online throughout the day this week and will get back to you as soon as they can. You can also communicate with them via Google Classroom.
The school phones will only be manned between 8.00am and 3.30pm. Please do not hesitant to call, even if it is only for a chat. If we cannot talk at that moment, someone will get back to you as soon as they can. Please only use option 3 and 5, as other lines will not be manned due to the reduced work force each day.
Should your child be eligible for Free School Meals and moving forward you decide that you need support, please alert us in good time.
If you or your child does want to talk to their teacher, please do just request a call via Dojo and they will be only too happy to oblige.
We are very much looking forward to seeing all those princess and knights for the Year 2 dress up day on Monday, remember to send us pictures and have a great day. As always there will be lots more coming your way next week including another staff video at some point towards the end of the week.
Please do keep an eye on communication especially for those who have children in Nursery, Reception, Year 1 and Year 6, I would not want you to miss anything important and the crucial time.
Please keep sharing your pictures with us, we love seeing them and it really does brighten up our day. By sharing with us via class dojo or our other platforms, we will take this as your consent for wider sharing. If you do not want photos shared please do not send them.
We really do miss you all and truly cannot wait see you again but we really are so proud of each and every one of you. This time has made us realise even more how wonderful you are, how important you all are to us all but ultimately what a privilege we have working with such a wonderful and supportive community – thank you Clockhouse.
I am sure you will want to join with me in thanking those in our community who are front line and key workers and also our great staff team. Again we are so lucky to have such an amazing community who has pulled together during this difficult time.
Please look after yourselves and each other, and make the most of this time as a family!
We are still one community and are here for you all.
Our school – a family and a home for everyone!
Keep smiling and stay safe
Mrs Savidge
Good morning Clockhouse
I hope you are all well and keeping safe and the same is true for your wider families. I hope you have all enjoyed the longer weekend and enjoyed celebrating VE Day. From what we could see you certainly made the most of it. It is so easy for the momentum to stop when doing the same thing day in and day out, but keep going team Clockhouse – you are doing a great job!
Well like me, I am sure you all eagerly await what Boris Johnson and the Government will say this evening. Again, I reiterate, I know no more than you and will sit watching the briefing this evening just like, I am sure, many of you will. What I can tell you is that should there be any announcement that affects school, the Senior Leadership Team have a meeting scheduled for 9.30 on Monday morning to discuss and plan. Please bear with us and we will communicate with you as soon as we can after this.
We hope you enjoyed the different things that came your way during last week. The videos we received from Wales and India were truly touching and reminded us even more, how much we miss you all – thank you. Well done to all those who sent their video messages, this will be coming out to you in the near future. I have to say your learning last week during our History Week surpassed our expectations, I really do admire you all (parents and children alike). I know the teaching staff had a tough job picking last week’s Home Learning Heroes but well done to those who received this award. We will be busy looking for the next ones from Monday morning.
This week, the following is still the case:
Please can we ask that is you do have any feedback for us that you feel would improve what we are doing, do let us know. A message on Dojo or an email to office@clockhouse.havering.sch.uk would be helpful. Equally if you would like me to give a shout out to a member of staff during my weekly message on a Tuesday, these can also be emailed to the same email address. I know the staff listen out to see if they get a mention so please do send them to me!
We are very excited about the Times Table Rock Star challenge, look out for that starting tomorrow – who will be victorious boys or girls! We are also very excited to tell you that Mrs Everingham will again be doing a live workout on our school Facebook page this week. This will be at 10am on Wednesday (13th May). It would be lovely to see even more of you taking part than last time.
Please keep sharing your pictures with us, we love seeing them and it really does brighten up our day. By sharing with us via class dojo or our other platforms, we will take this as your consent for wider sharing. If you do not want photos shared please do not send them.
These are very strange for us all. We really do miss you all and truly cannot wait see you again – let us just hope that it is sooner rather than later!
I am sure you will want to join with me in thanking those in our community who are front line and key workers and also our great staff team. We are so lucky to have such an amazing community who has pulled together during this difficult time.
Please look after yourselves and each other, we miss you all dearly!
We are still one community and are here for you all.
Our school – a family and a home for everyone!
Keep smiling and stay safe
Mrs Savidge
Good morning Clockhouse
I hope you are all well and keeping safe and the same is true for your wider families. Our hearts go out to those within our community who are currently experiencing a difficult time, please, if we can help, you know where we are, but I know I speak on behalf of everyone when I say, we are thinking of you all. Please keep going everyone, I really do hope we are closer to the end than the beginning and we can only get there if we all do as we are told to do!
We hope you enjoyed the different things that came your way during last week. It was lovely to see many of you getting involved with the Toilet Roll Challenge (the video is coming your way soon) and also all of you who are taking part in the 1000 challenge to raise money and to everyone for their fabulous pictures for Queens Hospital – I know they will be grateful. We hope you enjoyed the art lesson with Mrs Reinecke, the staff telling stories as well as our first virtual Achievement Assembly – well done to last week’s Home Learning Heroes, I wonder who it will be next week! Well done also to Year 3 for embracing a slightly different Greek Day!
As many of you already know this week the country comes together to celebrate VE Day on Friday. As a school we have taken the opportunity to celebrate this as well as give the children a chance to reflect on the History they are making by living through this time. We have planned some lovely activities which we hope you will enjoy, so please look out for these and make sure that you share what you do with us! Friday (which is VE Day) is actually a Bank Holiday and we hope that as a family you can come together for a special lunch or afternoon tea to celebrate this together – remember to dress for the occasion! Please do send us your celebration photos showing our Clockhouse family coming together!
This week, the following is still the case:
Look out for another challenge where we are going to need your help – that is both the big people at home and the little people!
Please keep sharing your pictures with us, we love seeing them and it really does brighten up our day. By sharing with us via class dojo or our other platforms, we will take this as your consent for wider sharing. If you do not want photos shared please do not send them.
These are very strange and difficult times for us all. We really do miss you all and truly cannot wait see you again – let us just hope that it is sooner rather than later!
I am sure you will want to join with me in thanking those in our community who are front line and key workers and also our great staff team. We are so lucky to have such an amazing community who has pulled together during this difficult time.
Please look after yourselves and each other, we miss you all dearly!
We are still one community and are here for you all.
Our school – a family and a home for everyone!
Keep smiling and stay safe
Mrs Savidge