Headteachers Daily Update / Survey
Firstly, please can I apologise for what seems like a deluge of information and requests arriving at your inbox from the Academy. As I am sure you can appreciate, these are unique and challenging times and I do hope that too much information is preferable to not receiving enough.
We once again need your help - Olympus Trust are asking for all parents across the Trust to complete their survey within the next 24 hours. We understand you have already been asked to complete our own internal survey, and thank you to everyone who has done so, but Olympus are co-ordinating central Trust-wide arrangements for next week and it is therefore imperative that they have the most up-to-date information available directly.
Please click HERE for a daily update from Mr Baker, which also includes a link to the survey. For ease, a direct link to the survey is found here https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/RMLGSN5
Today's message is regarding the children of key workers and whether children should be sent to school. The government has updated the list of key-worker roles overnight.
Nationally, there may have been some challenges with respect to parents understanding over which children should be in school at the moment, so this is a good time to re-iterate the position.
It is vitally important that all parents understand the seriousness of the government's message.
The default setting should be that children stay at home unless there is an urgent and unavoidable need. Please see the items highlighted in the text below (from Gov-UK):
As a country, we all need to do what we can to reduce the spread of the COVID-19 virus and the most recent scientific advice on how to further limit the spread of COVID-19 is clear. If children can stay safely at home, they should, to limit the chance of the virus spreading.
That is why the government has asked parents to keep their children at home, wherever possible, and asked schools to remain open only for those children who absolutely need to attend. But the fewer children making the journey to school, and the fewer children in educational settings, the lower the risk that the virus can spread and infect vulnerable individuals in wider society.
Schools are, therefore, being asked to continue to provide care for a limited number of children - children who are vulnerable and children whose parents are critical to the Covid-19 response and cannot be safely cared for at home.
Many parents working in these sectors may be able to ensure their child is kept at home. And every child who can be safely cared for at home should be.
Once again, thank you for your ongoing support and understanding
Kind regards
Mr Jason Beardmore
Headteacher
