_____________________________________________________________ Thursday 18th June 2020
Dear Parent I hope this letter finds you and your family safe and well. As you know, on the 1/6/2020, we reopened Willow Tree schools to our Y6 on a rota basis. We are looking at this now to be extended to full time for those children with confirmed places. We are also now inviting Y5 back to school commencing Monday 22nd or 29th June 2020, this will be in groups of 1:15 (as per government guidelines) and every day. We will continue to ensure that social distancing is maintained where ever possible. We will continue with our school organisation for drop offs and pickups, staggered breaks and lunch times and health and hygiene. We look forward to welcoming our Y5 who will be entering their important Y6 year from the 7th July as we start transition. We would also ask that returning Y5 children enter the Public Health England testing programme. Unfortunately, we don’t have the space to invite more children back at this time, even though we would like to. Home Learning Our Operational Closure Team has been hard at work auditing Home Learning and over the remaining weeks of term we will be refining our programme, reducing the amount but improving quality of learning outcomes returned through teacher feedback and calls. This will help to achieve a greater depth of learning over time. W e are also planning to keep the most important events in our diary; ● We are holding a virtual Willow Tree Film festival - watch this space! ● Our Reports to Parents will be sent out to you in a hard copy (this is a statutory document). ● We will hold virtual Parents’ Evenings / meetings by telephone in the day time (by prearrangement with you) ● We will continue to work through how we can prepare your child for transition to their new class ● Y6 end of year celebrations ● End of Year Awards ceremonies We are very proud of our team, so I hope you will agree that our staff have done the most fantastic job of supporting your child and family through this very difficult and unprecedented time. Their work has been outstanding, and they have been truly amazing in their determination to do their very best! Thank you for your support too over the last thirteen weeks. I know that this has been so hard for everyone but it is our intention to continue to serve our families and community in the best way we can. Please do