Keep up to date with all the latest news happening at Moston Fields!

• Home Learning arrangements at Moston Fields

  Fri 20 Mar 2020 S Murray

  We have sent home a leaflet showing the arrangements we have made to support our families with Home Learning. Please see the Newsletter section for a copy. 

  We will stay in touch on a weekly basis and wish all of our families the best at this difficult time. 

   

  Mrs Murray

• Latest News on School Closure

  Thu 19 Mar 2020 S Murray

  Dear Parents and Carers,

   

  It is with great sadness that I am passing on this news. From Friday 20th March, all Schools will be closed for the vast majority of children due to the Coronavirus. 

   

  The Government have announced that schools will be providing a scaled down service to support the most vulnerable families and for children of key workers. This will include any for NHS or frontline service staff  and for other service delivery workers. Until we have greater clarity on this we cannot confirm exactly who this will affect. 

   

  We will also be setting up home learning facilities and offering access to food or vouchers for any families who are in receipt of Free School Meals. 

   

  We are awaiting further guidance from the Government and our Local Authority and will be back in touch with you as soon as we know more. 

   

  We know this will be a difficult time for all families. Please know that school will help where we can. 

   

  There is a letter that will go out today to children who are in and will be sent home via the ARBOR app. This is also posted on the Newsletters tab on our website. 

   

  Kind regards, 

   

  Sarah Murray

• Signing up to Class Dojo!

  Wed 18 Mar 2020 S. Murray

  Access to Home Learning activities

   

  Any parents who have not already signed up to Class Dojo have been sent an email link to sign up.

   

  If you have received a link - please sign up today as Class Dojo is the main forum that we will be sharing any future Home Learning on and if you are not signed on, you will not get it. 

   

  If you have no way of printing out any home learning, get in touch and we will try our best to make packs available. 

   

  Thank you,

   

  Sarah Murray

• Making Home Learning available

  Wed 18 Mar 2020 S. Murray
  Dear Parents and Carers, 

   

  Access to Home Learning is now being set up. We will be offering two forms of home learning. 

   

  1) Home Learning for children or families who are currently self isolating whilst school is still open

  Each year group is completing a Basic Skills Home Learning pack that will be available through Class Dojo for printing out and working on at home. 

  If parents cannot access this on their home devices or do not have a printer we will have some packs printed out at school for pick up. Please ring into school to make arrangements. We may also post out if demand for this is not too big for us to manage. These packs will also be added to the Class Pages on the website. 

   

  2) Access to Home Learning for all children in the event of partial or full closure of school

  Each year group will create a menu of daily learning activities - that can be completed at home. This will also include access to Times Table Rockstars and other links for learning on sites. This may also include some power points or assessments/worksheets for children to complete. These activities will be available through Class Dojo with some access to printed copies, where needed (please contact school about this, if needed) We will also be recommending a daily read, some mindfulness activities and a reminder to get some exercise which, if cooped up, will be a vital part of the day! 

  Please note that this work will only be available if we close. 

   

  In order to access this learning - ALL PARENTS need to be signed up to Class Dojo. We have sent email requests to parents who had not yet signed up. Please accept this request so that your access can be set up. 

   

  Please work with us to ensure that this works as smoothly as possible so that we can keep in touch and continue to provide some access to learning where we can in these unusual times. 

   

  Wishing you all well,

   

   

  Sarah Murray

• Update on Coronavirus for Parents and Carers

  Tue 17 Mar 2020 S. Murray

  Dear all,

   

  As an attempt to keep as many parents informed as possible, I am re-sending the email that was sent last night (with a slight tweak of isolation period) and a few other updates at the bottom regarding getting ready for providing home learning.

   

  From now on all emails will be sent as a direct email and as an email through the ARBOR app - this is just to make sure that the information comes through in it's best form! Apologies if this means you get it twice!

   

  Dear Parents and Carers,

   

  Welcome to your First and Second update regarding School's response to the current Covid-19 situation

   

  We have decided to send regular updates regarding what we are doing as a school to respond to the current situation. This is to keep you informed and also to ensure that we are all working with the same information.

   

  We are receiving daily updates from the Department for Education and Health as well as from Manchester City Council. The updates we will send will include this information.

   

  Current advice on symptoms and what to do -

  The current advice is to stay at home for 14 days if you or your family experience the coronavirus symptoms. Stay at home if you have EITHER:

  - a high temperature - 38+ degrees and you feel hot to touch on your chest or back

  - a NEW, continuous cough - you are coughing repeatedly

  - do not go to the GP, check 111 online for advice

  - stay at home in self-isolation for 14 days - this should be all the family, not just the person experiencing symptoms.

   

  Where children live at home with vulnerable adults or have long term, chronic health conditions, current advice is to self-isolate.

   

  This is to try and delay the virus from spreading too fast.

   

  School Closures?

  At the moment, schools are not going to be closing. Schools will, however, have to respond to the number of staff absences. We will try and cover internally or with supply but if this gets unmanageable then we may have to have partial closure for some classes. We will try and avoid this at all costs and any decision to close any classes will be shared with the Local Authority. We will email you if there are any changes to what we can offer as a school.

   

  Current Picture

  We have had about 10% of children off school today but there are no confirmed cases (through testing) of coronavirus.

   

  What steps are we taking to make everyone as virus free as we can

  - installed additional hand sanitiser dispensers in school - please use as you enter and leave the building

  - added more hand sanitiser dispensers to KS2 classrooms

  - handwashing information to be shared at assembly and promoted by staff

  - School Nurse is going to provide hand washing sessions on this Friday for KS1 and EYFS

  - started logging information shared by the community so we can respond appropriately

  - added additional cleaning steps to our usual routines

  - holding only essential gatherings or meetings within school that include external visitors or parents

   

  The best thing we all can do is promote hand washing and hand sanitising, including after sneezing or coughing. Make sure children have tissues in their pockets too.

   

  Cancellation of some events

  With reluctance and due to the call for more social isolation, we are going to cancel some school events so that we are not bringing too many people together.

   

  The events that will be cancelled or postponed are:

  Spring into Easter event on 2nd April - Cancelled

  Coffee Morning for fundraising for Mr Shankland - Postponed until Summer term

  RESPECT workshop on Thursday 19th - Postponed - to be rearranged

  Moston's Got Talent - Postponed until the Summer term :-(

  Curriculum parent events for Year 2 and Year 5 in the last week of term - Cancelled

   

  Child of the Term assembly will still go ahead but it will be done in phases and just the parents of children of the term will be invited.

   

  PFA Film Night this week will still go ahead and we will still hold an Easter event in school for children - so that it is not all doom and gloom.

   

  Please support us by keeping in touch and by making sure that you sanitise your hands as you enter and leave the building.

   

  Finally, in the midst of this - let's try and make sure that we help anyone who is socially isolated and vulnerable, where we can.

   

  Wishing you all well

   

   

  Second Update 17th March

   

  We have had many requests for home learning packs. Just to let you know that we are going to start planning and preparing home learning at tonight's staff meeting.

   

  We are going to produce the following:

   

  A basic skills home learning pack for children who have self isolated this week (to be available for Friday) - this will be emailed home. If parents need a paper copy this can be either collected from school or in the event of no one being able to pick up, we may be able to post out. This will include Nursery. Nursery parents will then be emailed regular home learning packs following this.

   

  We are also preparing to use Class Dojo to set regular home learning tasks with an expectation/guideline to help parents of what will need completing each day. Access to this will begin if there is a full or partial school closure. We will also look at possible opportunities to change home readers too.

   

  So, to get ready - all parents in Reception, Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6 - need to ensure that they have logged on to Class Dojo as this is the way that home learning will be available. Any parents who have not logged on to Class Dojo will be sent a code home tomorrow for doing this. IT IS VITAL that you log on within 24 Hours or the code will not work.

   

  Further updates tomorrow.

   

  Kind regards

   

  Sarah Murray

   

   

   

   

   

  Sarah Murray

  Head Teacher

• Parents Evening reminder

  Wed 04 Mar 2020 S Murray

  It is our second Parents Evening event next week on Tuesday 10th March 3.30-5.00pm and Wednesday 11th March 4.00-6.00pm. 

  Make sure that you have booked an appointment so that you can catch up with your child's teacher. 

• Remember our FAB Five

  Wed 04 Mar 2020 S Murray

  We are still promoting our Fab 5. Children need help from their adults to remember the following:

  1. Full school uniform everyday
  2. PE Kit each week, ready for PE
  3. Regular Reading each week - at least 3x and make sure that the home reading log is signed 
  4. Home Learning Log - we provide the kit and children need to complete their home learning log homework and any spellings, times tables etc each week
  5. Learning Ready packs - we give these in school and children have to look after them and take care of the equipment 

• Updates for Parents on Covid-19 (Coronavirus)

  Wed 04 Mar 2020 S Murray

  We have updated the website with the latest updates and regular guidance that we are being provided with from Manchester City Council, the Department of Education and the Department of Health. There are important information posters that have been released and are situated on the website under the tab of PARENTS - USEFUL LINKS. 

  We are following advice and are certain that all will be fine for all of our community if we remind our children to wash their hands thoroughly and take note of ongoing advice. 

  We will put any additional advice onto the website as it is provided. 

• World Book Day tomorrow 5th March 2020

  Wed 04 Mar 2020 S Murray

  WORLD BOOK DAY tomorrow!

  We are spending the day reading and becoming authors ourselves with our Share a Story theme! The children have done some fabulous home learning already. On the day we will be writing and hearing stories, sharing our favourite books and taking part in lots of activities. 

  Please join us for a Booky Breakfast from 8.15am in the PE Hall where we will be sharing books, having phonics fun and having some breakfast too!

  If you come to Booky Breakfast - bring along your favourite book to share too :-)

• Parents In Action meeting with Manchester City Council Monday 9th March

  Wed 04 Mar 2020 S. Murray

  On Monday 9th March we are having our next Parents In Action (PIA) group meeting. Our PIA have raised serious concerns about the safety of parking outside of both entrances to school. This has been an area that has not improved, despite the work that we have done over the last few years. The PIA have come up with some key ideas and we have enlisted the help of Manchester City Council, Neighbourhood Team. They will be meeting with us on Monday so that we can share our ideas and so that they can tell us how they will help. 

  TOGETHER WE ARE GOING TO TRY AND MAKE OUR CHILDREN SAFE.

  This is an open meeting so if you would like to attend - please do.

  We meet for refreshments at 1.45 and begin our meeting at 2.00pm. 

  All welcome.