End of term

Wednesday 10th December 2020

 

Dear parent / carer ,

I am sure that you have seen in the news the education minister stating that schools can finish a day early on December 17th to help with track and trace timescales. For clarity, the release states;

 

‘To ensure that staff get the time off they need and deserve, schools may wish to use an INSET day, making Friday 18 December a non-teaching day and using the day for staff training, which could be delivered online. Where term would normally finish in the week commencing 21 December, schools may wish to consider adjusting term dates to make Friday 18 December the last day of term (which could be an INSET day), and bringing forward the start of term in January by the same number of days.
In all circumstances, teaching time must be made up at another point in the academic year. You should not limit attendance at school before Friday 18 December. It remains vital for all children to be in school up to the last day of teaching.

 

As a school, we always plan our teacher training days well in advance and you will be aware that as we have had two at the start of this term and have one planned for January 4th, we do not have any other training days that can be rescheduled.

I also take into consideration that to only give parents just over a week’s notice to try and arrange childcare in the current climate would put great stress and anxiety onto our school community.

 

Therefore, we as a school will continue to open up to Friday 18th December as timetabled. 

 

I hope that you understand the decision and thank you for your continued support during these ever changing and difficult times.

 

Kind regards,

 

Mr T Jones

Headteacher