Our Blue tit eggs have hatched! We have 7 hungry chicks and mum has been busy feeding them.

 

You can watch the chicks grow by viewing the stream from the Birdbox camera by visiting www.downderryprimaryschool.com/the-birdbox-project/.

 

The “School Zone” page has some exciting bird related things to make and do!

EP Connect is an easy to access phone-line service for parents and carers to link with the Lewisham Educational Psychology Team. To discuss any concerns about education, learning at home, and emotional wellbeing, Call 07377 913538 or 07377 976518,

Monday 2:00pm – 5:00pm
Thursday 9:30am - 12:30pm

As it is half term next week, there will be no new timetables uploaded to the individual class pages.

 

Bug Club is available for you to continue your reading. Your teachers have made sure you have books allocated. If you have finished them all - well done! Maybe go back through some of your favourites and see how much your reading has improved!

 

Home-Learning timetables will continue from the 1st June. We would like to suggest some optional fun activities and resources for the children to explore over half term:

 

activelearnprimary.co.uk

stem.org.uk

oxfordowl.co.uk

bbc.co.uk/bitesize

Virtual tour with Google Street View, blog.britishmuseum.org

This week the Government has released details of plans for schools to get ready for a phased opening from the week commencingMonday, 1st June 2020.

 

The guidance recognises some important issues for primary schools and EY settings which will need to inform our planning. It remains important to reduce contact between people as much as possible. Some staff and children will need to continue to follow advice- that means they will need to remain at home.

 

There are still questions to be answered centrally, unreliable reporting in press and social media and much fear and anxiety about how we get there.

 

The guidance sets out an ambition for all primary children to have time in school before the summer if feasible. What it actually describes is a gradual, carefully planned, risk assessed increase in staff and pupil numbers, taking into account safety of adults and children at all times.

 

We will work together on this with the support of Public Health, Schools HR, Education Safeguarding, Health and Safety, wider Council colleagues and the Trade Unions, directly addressing the risks associated with COVID-19 in the context of our school, so that sensible measures can be put in place to control those risks for our children, staff and for you- our parents and carers, whose safety remains our priority.

 

For now our school remains closed until further notice, except for children of critical workers and vulnerable children, as part of the country’s ongoing response to coronavirus.

 

Take care of yourselves.

If you are able and would like to make a food donation to our weekly foodbank, a table has been set up in the entrance area to the school’s main office where any donations will be gratefully received. Eg. Pasta, rice, beans, tinned produce, tea, coffee. The Children’s Centre will be distributing these to our most vulnerable families within the local community every Friday.