September 2020
School has now reopened to all year groups including new Reception children who will have all started school by Monday 14th September. Find below a link to our school risk assessment outlining measures we have put in place to minimise risks within school.
St Wilfrid’s COVID 19 Risk Assessment Sept 2020
Please continue to follow our staggered start and finish times to minimise the foot traffic on the schools site.
Please follow the local guidance on social distancing, take part in Test and Trace and report to school if anyone in the family shows symptoms of COVID 19.
Coronavirus Isolation Support
If your child is currently at home in isolation, please find below links to useful websites that your child can access to support their learning while away from school. These are all websites that our children are familiar with, and have accounts for. Teachers will have given usernames and passwords to your children for sites that require these, but if you can’t find them, please contact your child’s teacher via Dojo or call the school office.
BBC Bitesize
Starting Monday 20th April BBC Bitesize will be providing daily activities and prompts to help with home schooling. The lessons and videos will be online or on screen (on Iplayer and red button)
Information on the Bitesize resources
Classroom Secrets have put together resource packs to support the Bitesize videos you can access them on the link below
Oak National Academy
The DFE have supported Oak National Academy to put together daily lessons and activities for children from Reception onwards. Each day there is a video, some teaching and suggested activities. Your child’s teacher may signpost you to some of these lessons in the coming weeks. You will find daily lessons and videos for each year group.
Wellbeing
In these troubling times we need to look after ourselves and our loved ones. Below are some links to sites with help and advice for adults and children.
Anna Freud – Advice and support for Adults and Children
Active families Facebook Page – they are going to be posting ideas and tips for being active at home, cooking ideas and some video demos too!
http://www.facebook.com/DurhamActiveFamilies/
A guide from the Children’s Commissioner to help children understand and cope with the situation.
Guide for Children On Corona Virus
Link to our school wellbeing page
Link to Zumos, the interactive programme that helps children identify their emotions, giving them skills to deal with different emotions and build resilience.
ONLINE SAFETY
We are all spending more time online at the minute. Here’s a link to Think U Know an organisation who provide advice and support around Online Safety. They provide activities and information for pupils of all ages as well as parents.
Things To Do At Home For Kids and Adults
Have a look a these ideas for activities during Lockdown
100 things to do indoors 60 things for adults to do
Screen Free Activities
Ideas to do away from technology and screen time. 100 Screen free things to do
Websites the Children have logins for:
Topmarks Games online games for all ages
Emile Education (Rec to Y6 Games and Activities to cover the full curriculum)
Teach Your Monster to Read (Early Years/Key Stage 1 and some Key Stage 2 children)
Purple Mash – Computing and curriculum activities (all children from Nursery to Y6)
Maths Whizz (all children from Y1 – Y6)
Times Tables Rock Stars (all children from Y1 – Y6)
Activelearn Maths (all children from Rec to Y6) School code is wtsa
Websites with Free Parent Packs and Resources:
These websites are packed with educational resources that we often use as teachers in school. Many of them are offering free subscriptions or parent packs to support children who are learning at home.
Oxford Owls (all children – EXCELLENT free ebooks at all school levels)
Twinkl – Activities and resources for the full curriculum
Pobble 365 – A picture story starter and writing activities, updated each day
Classroom Secrets – Resources and activities for all areas of the curriculum
White Rose maths – Maths Activity Packs to match the curriculum
Hamilton Trust – Daily Maths and English lessons with a PowerPoint and activities
In addition to the above online activities, teachers will be able to send learning log activities home with your child, that will support the current learning in school.
This section of our website also provides parents and carers with useful information if you are considering our school or have a child who is a pupil at our school.
If you would like a paper copy (or any other format) of any of our documents on our website please speak to the school office, who will provide them to you free of charge. If you require further information about any of the items shown in this section, please contact the school and we will do our best to help.
