Thursday 31^st December, 2020

Partial School Closure

Dear Parents and Carers,

As I am sure you are aware, yesterday the government announced that primary schools on their Contingency Framework List would not be fully reopening in January, 2021.  Regrettably, Brent is named on this list and therefore SASF will not be reopening on Tuesday 5^th January, 2021 to the vast majority of our pupils.

That said, the school will be opened (9:00-3:30pm) for critical workers’ children, those deemed vulnerable and/or have an EHCP.  If you believe your child/ren fall into one of these categories, it is vitally important that you inform the school as soon as possible (via the attached forms document), so we can prepare staff numbers and the kitchen.

https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=8YEP-X1t10auMM11H_Z7Wkghx9FoTw1Ekk4_CuAbUWZURFA1MjJWMFlIQ1VFWE05NlEyOEdITlhQQS4u

As before, your child’s education will continue through our online learning platform Purple Mash and Microsoft 365. SASF staff will be working tirelessly to ensure there is as little disruption as possible to children’s learning journey, providing high quality work, feedback and weekly telephone contact. The government has stated that children are required to complete 3 hours learning every day and we will be sending out more information, later this week, about how you can support your child to complete this and the school’s expectations for remote learning.  In addition to this, we will also be providing information on our Free School Meal (FSM) vouchers scheme for those eligible (those on benefits-based FSM) and how we can support families that do not have the digital technology required to complete online learning.

As yet, we do not know how long the school will be partially closed for, although it will certainly be until at least the 18^th January. The government has stated it will review these closures on 13^th January and therefore we hope to have more information for you then.

SASF staff are all very disappointed not to be seeing the children at the start of term and have asked that I send out their New Year’s best wishes to you all and pray that you are all keeping safe and well.

Yours sincerely,

Mr. Sharpe

Headteacher