Friday 29th January 2021
Children’s Mental
Health Week
Next week is Children’s Mental Health Week and each day one
of the remote learning lessons will be related to this. We are also hoping to get the
whole school together for a virtual assembly on the subject hosted by Blue Peter’s Lindsey Russell and CBBC
Presenter and Place2Be Champion Rhys Stephenson. More to follow…
Lateral Flow Testing
This week, staff at Duloe have started taking twice-weekly
Covid tests as part of the government initiative. These tests are designed to
identify anybody who is asymptomatic and therefore would need to self-isolate.
It has been very positive that we have all been negative so far!
Remote Learning
Thank you again for your continued engagement with home
learning. The participation of your children with the daily quiz, joining TEAMs,
emailing teachers and submitting work on Mathletics is fantastic.
St Keyne Parish
Council
We would like to say a huge thank you to St Keyne Parish
Council who have donated a considerable amount of money to the school to
support with remote learning. If any families are struggling with access to electronic
devices, please contact the school.
Best wishes,
Mr Hannah
Just a few more examples of some of the wonderful home learning that has been emailed into us today. All of us at school are so impressed by your learning and effort.
Our email inboxs have been full of your amazing learning already this week. Here are are just some examples (sorry we can't put them all up). Thank you all for doing the daily quiz on TEAMs and keep up the amazing effort everybody. We are so proud of you all!
Blue Peter is the longest running kids TV show in the world and they are uploading videos that are suitable for 5-11 year olds. They have world record breaking challenges, arts and crafts, environmental videos, cooking and baking how tos, inspirational films, gaming, celebrity appearances, dance routines and music performances. They also feature ways of getting a Blue Peter badge, behind the scenes footage and extra content about our incredible presenters Adam, Lindsey, Mwaksy, Richie and Henry the Blue Peter dog.
https://www.youtube.com/bluepeter
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What a talented bunch of children (and parents and carers) we have at Duloe. Thank you so much for the photos of your learning you have sent to your teachers. You have engaged with the learning that your teachers have set amazingly well. Here are just a few of the pictures that have been emailed in. Keep up the fantastic work everybody!
Friday 22nd January
As a third week of lockdown draws to an end, I wanted to say
a massive thank you to everyone for negotiating the last few weeks of remote
learning. Your feedback has been incredibly motivating for the staff while they
have been getting to grips with a very new way of working.
Below is a link to a parent survey for Bridge
Schools about the effectiveness of our remote learning provision. Your feedback
would be greatly appreciated, especially as this will be used when we are
inspected by Ofsted. The survey will be live until next Friday.
Bridge Schools - Parent Questionnaire
January 2021
Best wishes,
Duloe staff
This week’s Faith @ Home Collective Worship looks at the
topic of fear and how we can face our fears.
Collective
Worship for Primary Schools - Fear (S2E5) | The Church of England
For support for parents and carers relating to the wellbeing of their children during lock down, please see the link below to 'Five Ways to Support your Children's Mental Health' by Dr Hazell Harrison on the BBC Bitesize website:
Five ways to support children’s mental health - BBC Bitesize
Friday 15th January 2021
Dear parents and carers,
Home
Learning
Wow, as a
school community you have all been amazing this week! It has been wonderful
seeing the children via TEAMs, the work you have uploaded and sent to teachers
and speaking to you on the phone.
The feedback
we have received has been very positive about the way we are organising remote
learning, which is great, as we are very conscious about the potential strains parents
and carers are under.
The key
message as always, is please don’t let home learning become stressful for you
and your families. If you have any difficulties please contact your child’s
class teacher – we are here to help.
Department of Education Expectations
As you may have
seen in the media, there is a lot more pressure on schools during this lockdown
than the first from the Department of Education. The staff at Duloe, have
adapted very quickly to meet this criteria. One area that we need your support with
is the requirement that schools do a daily check to ensure children are
engaging with remote learning. I don’t think it is practical for parents and
carers to upload their children’s learning and email it to the teacher every day,
so we feel we have developed a system that is manageable for parents and
carers, staff and children.
From Monday next week,
when your child logs into Microsoft TEAMs, within the ‘posts’ section there
will be a daily quiz. It will only be a few questions and they will link to
that day’s home learning. By pressing the submit button we will have an
electronic record that you have engaged with the home learning. Also, we can
see each child’s answers, so we will be able to feedback if there are any
misunderstandings.
Your support with this
would be greatly appreciated!!!
Family Support
If anybody needs support in terms of digital devices to access
remote learning or food to support their families, please contact me directly head@duloeprimary.co.uk
Live Music Lessons
Starting
next week, each class will have a weekly live music lesson for 20 minutes with
Mrs Butlin and their class teacher on TEAMs. If possible, we would like all
children to attend these sessions.
Class 1 |
Monday 1.45pm to 2.05pm |
Class 2 |
Tuesday 1.45pm to 2.05pm - Please have a pencil
and paper with you |
Class 3 |
Wednesday 1.45pm to 2.05pm - Please have a pencil
and paper with you |
Best wishes,
Mr Hannah
This week's collective worship episode for primary schools asks, 'How can we have hope for tomorrow?' Please click on the link below for the video:
Collective Worship for Primary Schools - Hope (S2E6) | The Church of England
Creative
We are bold and innovative in our approach to find new solutions to the challenges we face.
Curious
We are inspired by the awe and wonder of the world.
Responsible
We take responsibility for our actions in an environment of mutual respect.
Enthusiastic
We are passionate about learning.
Excellent
We are the best we can be.
Determined
We overcome all barriers to reach our potential, developing a capacity to improve further.
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