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• Attendance News

  Fri 14 Feb 2025
  

• Parent Newsletter update 010420

  Wed 01 Apr 2020

  Wednesday 1st April, 2020

  Dear Parents and Carers, 

  I am writing once again at the end of term 4 after what has been the most challenging couple of weeks for us all. I am speaking to many of you and others in the local area who are all saying how proud I am of our school and our community. We all have a part to play to support each other and the NHS and other key workers who are in the frontline of the COVID-19 pandemic.

  I am immensely proud of everything that the Cliftonville community is achieving as part of national efforts to save lives. I am especially proud of our staff.  We are living through unprecedented and challenging times and it doesn’t matter who you are, we are all susceptible to being stressed and worried for each other’s health and that of our families. It is important perhaps to remember that Cliftonville staff are putting aside these feelings to support our community.

  As we have stated from the beginning the safest place for your child is at home and as we move from the Easter holidays into term 5, when we shall be returning to Cliftonville, I urge you again to remember that the provision at Cliftonville is only a LAST RESORT. If there is another family member at home, then the children should stay at home.

  As clearly stated by the Government “..Children with a parent or carer who is listed on the government’s critical worker list should be considered for a school place, so long as their job cannot be done from home…..Many parents working in these sectors will be able to ensure their child is kept at home. And every child who can be safely cared for at home should be, to limit the chance of the virus spreading..”

  Moving into term 5 we will be asking parents who sign up for provision to show some simple evidence that they are a critical worker, such as confirmation from their employer on what their job is and how it is critical to the COVID-19 response. The reason for this is two-fold. Firstly so we can ensure our provision and support for our key workers is not putting undue risk to our own staff and secondly to ensure that we only have on site those for whom it is the last resort for parents and therefore minimising the risk for our whole community by further reducing the number of social interactions.

  I believe we all recognise that this situation is not going to improve overnight and it is likely to take some time to get back to ‘normal’. Therefore, this is the long game and as such we all need to ensure that we look after and support each other for the future. 

  Finally, I want to thank all of you who are continuing to support your children at home, working through the daily timetable of activities as well as trying to do your own jobs. These are difficult times and our staff are in the same position as you- please take strength from that and know we are all in this together.

  Take care and keep safe,

   

  Claire Whichcord

  

• Easter booking now closed

  Wed 01 Apr 2020

  Please only contact the bookings number if you no longer need the provision over Easter so that we can reduce staffing and minimise risk.

  Thank you

• Keyworker update

  Tue 31 Mar 2020

  Term time

  Just a reminder that key workers/ critical workers  need to book by 5pm the previous day for provision for their child/ children.

  A text is sent out to all listed key workers as a reminder early afternoon with the schools attendance number:

  07540686882

  Please if you can keep your child home, please do so and please book as we finalise staffing at 5pm.

   

  Thank you in helping us keep us all safe

• Keyworker update

  Tue 31 Mar 2020

  We will continue to be open at Dane Court over the Easter holidays excluding Good Friday and Bank Holiday Monday. Bookings close at 5pm today for the Easter provision- please use the number below.

   

  For term time

  Just a reminder that key workers/ critical workers  need to book by 5pm the previous day for provision for their child/ children.

  A text is sent out to all listed key workers as a reminder early afternoon with the schools attendance number:

  07540686882

  Please if you can keep your child home, please do so and please book as we finalise staffing at 5pm.

   

  Thank you in helping us keep us all safe

• Keyworker update

  Tue 31 Mar 2020

  Just a reminder that key workers/ critical workers  need to book by 5pm the previous day for provision for their child/ children.

  A text is sent out to all listed key workers as a reminder early afternoon with the schools attendance number:

  07540686882

  Please if you can keep your child home, please do so and please book as we finalise staffing at 5pm.

   

  Thank you in helping us keep us all safe

• Letter to parents update

  Mon 30 Mar 2020

  Monday 30^th March

  Dear Parents and Carers,

  Firstly, I want to thank you for being supportive, sensible and heeding to the advice of keeping your children with you wherever possible; for keeping safe. I hope that you are all keeping well too. This last week has been a challenging one for everyone, but it makes it so much easier when we all work together and support each other.

  We understand completely that this disruption to yourselves and the children will be difficult and as a consequence we are trying to continually update our home learning section of the website to help and support you with your childrens learning. There are, of course, the daily challenges as well as more formal types of learning activities. There are some useful materials in the SEND section that may help many of the children as well as local organisational contacts that may be able to support our community. Please have a browse around regularly as this is being continually updated. If you wish to speak to our parents support advisors please email PSA@cliftonville.kent.sch.uk and they will get back to you.

  It has been absolutely wonderful to see what you all have been doing at home and this is an important way to keep our community together. Please do continue to send in your pictures to homelearning@cliftonville.kent.sch.uk, we love seeing them all and maybe every now and then staff will send some messages out too!

  Using the Government backed voucher scheme, all our Free School Meal children continue to access their entitlement. As with any new system rolled out in just a few days, there were a couple of glitches, however all of these have now been ironed out and the system is working well.

  The temporary move to Dane Court has gone well but we hope to be back to Cliftonville after Easter- more details of that to come. Thank you to Dane Court, the children have enjoyed being in a different space and the table tennis tables!

  It is vital that we continue to look after each other and do as much as we can to socially distance and minimise risk. I would like to thank, on behalf of everyone in our school community, all school staff for their adaptability, resilience and commitment. They are truly all amazing.

  Finally, I would like to thank parents once again for your kind thoughts and best wishes that have been sent in either by Facebook, by email or even face to face. They absolutely put a smile on everyones face!

  Take care and keep safe.

   

  Claire Whichcord

  

• Chester Zoo live virtual tours

  Fri 27 Mar 2020

  Zoos across the country and the world are streaming video and pictures of their residents which include tigers, giraffes, elephants and pandas - and your kids will be able to watch them live.

  Although lots of zoos already offered live-action cameras for people to watch, lots of others have joined in too, providing digital access to these fascinating creatures 

   

  You can enter the virtual gates on Facebook from 10am today (Friday, March 26) and for the first time ever, enjoy a whole day of animal antics live from your sofa.

   

  Google Chester Zoo Facebook.

• Daily provision for critical workers and the vulnerable is moving to Dane Court

  Wed 25 Mar 2020

  From tomorrow the provision that we are offering to critical workers and the vulnerable is moving to Dane Court. The schools of the Coastal Academies Trust will be pooling resources to support our communities jointly.

  Staff and SLT from Cliftonville Primary and Pre-School will continue to work with the children in an enclosed area of Dane Court.

  The times are to be 9 am to 3pm.

• Daily provision for critical workers and the vulnerable is moving to Dane Court

  Wed 25 Mar 2020

  From tomorrow the provision that we are offering to critical workers and the vulnerable is moving to Dane Court. The schools of the Coastal Academies Trust will be pooling resources to support our communities jointly.

  Staff and SLT from Cliftonville Primary and Pre-School will continue to work with the children in an enclosed area of Dane Court.

  The times are to be 9 am to 3pm.