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  • Some more online resources that may help at home

    Thu 26 Mar 2020 Mrs Coulthard

    For those of you who like a bit of structure in your lives; here's what various celebrities are offering you and your kids for free daily to help with their education while schools are closed:

    9.00am - PE with Joe Wicks https://youtu.be/6v-a_dpwhro
    10.00am - Maths with Carol Vorderman www.themathsfactor.com
    11.00am - English with David Walliams https://www.worldofdavidwalliams.com/elevenses/
    12.00pm - Lunch (cooking with Jamie Oliver) https://www.jamieoliver.com/features/category/get-kids-cooking/
    1.00pm - Music with Myleene Klass https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQh2wgJ5tOrixYBn6jFXsXQ
    1.30pm - Dance class live https://twitter.com/diversedancemix/status/1241098264373592065
    2.00pm - Live Q&A with Steve Backshallhttps://twitter.com/SteveBackshall/status/1243107937163325440

    3.00pm - The Great Indoors -  https://www.scouts.org.uk/the-great-indoors/
    4.00pm - Home Economics with Theo Michaels (Mon/Wed/Fri) https://www.instagram.com/theocooks



    For your older kids, here are 50 free revision resources for 11+, GCSEs and A-Levels:
    http://www.eparenting.co.uk/education/50_free_revision_resources_for_gcse_a_level_11_plus_and_sats.php

  • CONTROL

    Wed 25 Mar 2020
    Things you can control

  • Financial support available

    Fri 20 Mar 2020

    The Chancellor has set out a package of temporary, timely and targeted measures to support public services, people and businesses through this period of disruption caused by COVID-19.

    This includes a package of measures to support businesses including:

    • a Statutory Sick Pay relief package for SMEs
    • a 12-month business rates holiday for all retail, hospitality and leisure businesses in England
    • small business grant funding of £10,000 for all business in receipt of small business rate relief or rural rate relief
    • grant funding of £25,000 for retail, hospitality and leisure businesses with property with a rateable value between £15,000 and £51,000
    • the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme offering loans of up to £5 million for SMEs through the British Business Bank
    • a new lending facility from the Bank of England to help support liquidity among larger firms, helping them bridge coronavirus disruption to their cash flows through loans
    • the HMRC Time To Pay Scheme

     

    https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/guidance-to-employers-and-businesses-about-covid-19/covid-19-support-for-businesses

     

  • Covid 19 plan

    Fri 20 Mar 2020

    As we continue to work to help the fight in the current pandemic further guidance has been released:

     

    Please, therefore, follow these key principles:

    1. If it is at all possible for children to be at home, then they should be.
    2. If a child needs specialist support, is vulnerable or has a parent who is a critical worker, then educational provision will be available for them.
    3. Parents should not rely for childcare upon those who are advised to be in the stringent social distancing category such as grandparents, friends, or family members with underlying conditions.
    4. Parents should also do everything they can to ensure children are not mixing socially in a way which can continue to spread the virus. They should observe the same social distancing principles as adults.
    5. Residential special schools, boarding schools and special settings continue to care for children wherever possible.

     

    The full list of key workers is listed on the link below but it is only if required, I understand it is a huge worry for people financially but we must work together to help prevent further spread of the virus, if you believe you and your partner are on this list and have no alternative childcare arrangements then please fill out a key worker form, we will also need confirmation of employment either from your employer or some kind identification from your place of work with confirmation of shift patterns if applicable.

     

    https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-maintaining-educational-provision/guidance-for-schools-colleges-and-local-authorities-on-maintaining-educational-provision

  • Football team fixture after school

    Tue 03 Mar 2020
    School football team match after school on Wednesday 4th March at Ribblesdale High School, spectators are welcome to attend.