Keep up to date with all the news happening in school at the moment.

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• 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.

• Audio books available to stream for free from Amazon

  Wed 25 Mar 2020

  Amazon today cancelled the subscription of books and audio stories for children and students of all ages as long as schools are closed, kids everywhere can instantly stream an incredible collection of stories, including titles across six different languages, that will help them continue dreaming, learning, and just being kids.
  
  All stories are free to stream on your desktop, laptop, phone or tablet using the following link

  https://stories.audible.com/start-listen.

• Home learning

  Tue 24 Mar 2020

  Good morning to our pupils and parents. To help us all stay in touch whilst schools are closed we thought it would be lovely if you could email in pictures of what the children are up to in their home learning. The email address is homelearning@cliftonville.kent.sch.uk

  
  We will also be putting on our facebook page and website a daily fun challenge for your children to do. Send us some pictures of their results! We will be featuring the photos on our facebook and website pages so if you do not want your child's face to appear but would like to get involved just take a picture of their activity.

• Free School Meals

  Mon 23 Mar 2020

  If you are entitled to Free School Meals please note that  the Government scheme will be rolled out imminently. We will provide further guidance and support at that point.

   

  Many thanks your patience.