Cayley Primary School

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Levels of infection are going down and the programmes for COVID-19 testing and vaccinations are in place; but COVID-19 continues to be a risk, we must continue to take great care to reduce the risk in our school community. We’ve conducted a detailed review of our risk assessment documentation and the arrangements in place to minimise the risk of transmission of COVID-19, for our return to school on Monday

As always, if you or your children are experiencing even mild symptoms of COVID-19, you must all follow guidance, and stay at home

• Let school know about your child’s absence by phone 0207 790 1490
• Let us know if anyone in your household tests positive for COVID-19, so that we can take essential next steps at school
• If your child is unwell in any other way, it is best they remain at home until feeling better
• We must make every effort to avoid contact and mixing between people from different households
  • E.g. in school, ‘bubbles’ of children and staff must not mix

• When coming to school to drop off or collect your children, you could be coming into contact with people from outside your household.
  So to help us to protect one another, please:
  • observe safe distancing when you come to school to drop off and to collect your children
  • stand back until the gates are fully opened and you are called forwards
  • wear a face covering when you come on to school premises
• Confirmation of drop-off arrangements:
  • Gates – Nursery and Reception – Green gate, main playground (in), Yellow gate, Aston Street (out)

               Year 1 and 2 – Red gate, Aston Street

               Year 3 and 4 – Blue gate, Aston Street

               Year 5 and 6 – Green gate, Repton Street

• parents and carers of children in Y1-Y6 should say goodbye at the gate and should not come onto site
• one parent/carer of FS children may bring their child/ren to the classroom
• oldest children should be dropped off first

• Update about home time arrangements:
  • Gates - Nursery and Reception – Yellow gate, Aston Street (in), Green gate to main playground out.

Years 1 to 6 to use the Red gate, Aston Street and Green gate, Repton Street to enter and exit. There will be in/out lanes demarcated by cones (and tape). Please keep to the left to reduce contact.

• One parent/carer only
• Youngest children should be collected first
• Collect children as quickly as possible once you arrive  
• Unfortunately staff will not be able to talk with you at home time, so please contact the office by phone or email if you have anything you wish to discuss
• Please avoid gathering to talk with other families on site

Adults in the households of primary school children will be able to participate in the new ‘rapid testing’ programme

• For information, please see https://www.gov.uk/guidance/rapid-lateral-flow-testing-for-households-and-bubbles-of-school-pupils-and-staff
  • Tests may be taken at local test sites with assistance from trained operators, or home test kits may be collected from local collection sites, e.g. Watney Market Idea Store.
    • For local test sites, see https://maps.test-and-trace.nhs.uk/
    • For home test kit collection sites, please see https://find-covid-19-rapid-test-sites.maps.test-and-trace.nhs.uk/
    • Home test kits may also be ordered online from the gov.uk website above, if required.

• Here is the link to the parents’ and carers’ website of information: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/what-parents-and-carers-need-to-know-about-early-years-providers-schools-and-colleges-during-the-coronavirus-covid-19-outbreak

Stay Safe

Lissa

Attendance

From 8 March, school attendance will be mandatory and our usual rules on attendance will apply.

As a reminder, your child should self-isolate and not come to school if they:

• Have coronavirus symptoms or have tested positive
• Live with someone who has symptoms or have tested positive
• Are a close contact of someone who has tested positive
• If your child is shielding, please contact the school

Our safety measures

Rest assured that we’re doing everything we can to make sure our pupils can return to school safely. We’ll be taking the following protective measures to keep everyone safe:

Our school Risk Assessment documentation which is on the ‘Returning to School’ page of the website has been updated based on current guidance.

We will continue with our ‘soft’ start where you drop off your children in years 1 – 6 at the school gate (nearest to their entrance), between 8.45 and 9.00 am. This is to ensure that we do not have families with children in more than one year group needing to wait for the later start time of another child causing congestion and crowding. One adult may take their EYFS children to the classroom.

Allocated entrances for year groups are to reduce the number of children using each entrance and we request that you drop off your children at the nearest gate where possible.

We are continuing to review collection of children at home time so that we reduce the number of adults coming in and out of the gates at the same time as well as the number of adults in the playground at the same time. We are aware that if times for collection are staggered that we may actually increase the number of adults on site at any one time while you are waiting for your other children.

A reminder that gathering at the school gate and otherwise coming onto the site without an appointment is not allowed.

Please limit the equipment children bring to school to essentials like lunch boxes, bags and books and avoid unnecessary sharing of items.

We’ll continue with the timetable changes we made in September, such as changes to playtimes and lunchtimes to reduce the number of children being in any area at the same time.  Phases are allocated separate staircases and staff organise timings to use these within their teams. We have stringent hygiene measures in place such as hand-washing and enhanced cleaning protocols.

Staff are also offered regular Covid-19 tests each week.

All adults are expected to wear a face covering where they cannot remain at more than a 2-meter distance and we are requesting that all adults visiting the premises wear a face covering whilst on site.

Information about uniform and school meals

Children are expected to wear regularly laundered uniform.

School lunches will be provided as usual and school meal vouchers will no longer be provided.

Contacting the school

The school office will be open but parents/careers will not be allowed to visit on site. If you would like to speak the school office, please call or email the school office.

If you would like to book an appointment to meet with your child’s class teacher, please email the school office with the following; Child’s name, class and reason for your meeting.

Telephone number: 0207 790 1490

Email address: office@cayley.towerhamlets.sch.uk

Please do make sure that you have a look at our school risk assessment (on the 'Returning to School' page) and that you are continuing to follow the school's requirements to do everything you can you protect yourselves and others.

It is still crucial that we continue to play our part in stopping the spread of Covid-19 and to remain cautious so that we do everything we can to prevent infection rates going back up.

Lockdown has been a challenging period for all of us, and we’d like to thank you for your continuing support during this difficult and uncertain time. We’d also like to thank you for all your support in helping your child learn from home. We’ll continue to keep in touch if we update our plans or if we need to make changes due to new government guidance.

Stay Safe

Lissa