Please read the letter regarding Stanhope Barrington C of E Primary School’s plan to re-open:

22.05.20- Letter to Parents

Please see below a letter issued from Paul Rickeard (Chief Executive Officer of Durham Diocesan MAT). The letter outlines, in broad terms, the plan for the re-opening of ALL schools across the MAT.

Within this each school will be developing their own response to the current government guidelines.

The Senior Leadership Team have spent this week digesting the government guidelines, taking legal advice, taking Health and Safety advice, discussing proposed plans with our team and Academy Council and are currently writing detailed and complex risk assessments.

We will be issuing SCHOOL SPECIFIC plans later today. I appreciate that the CEO’s letter may raise questions for parents but please do not ring school with queries until the school specific information is released as this will hopefully give far more detail and specific information for you.

Thank you for your support and understanding.

Mr S Myers and Mrs D Cross

20.05.20 – Letter to parents from DDMAT

It’s National ‘Thank a Teacher Day’! We are therefore unashamedly fishing for feedback and comments from parents and children which we can then collate and send out to all of our staff team. They have been totally brilliant throughout the current Covid-19 Crisis and after half term we will be entering unfamiliar and strange territory. All of our staff are committed to support the children and our community during this period but we must also bear in mind that by doing so, they are putting themselves and their families at increased risk. Some of our team have vulnerable relatives and family members they are worried about but despite this they continue to put our children first.

We are honoured and proud to work with this dedicated team of people and think that by putting together some feedback from you all – this will give them a huge boost. Please email any comments to admin@stanhopebarrington.org.uk

Please note some of your comments may be used to on our school website.

Thank you

Mr Myers & Mrs Cross

Harehope Quarry and Durham County Council have organised a project for the half term holiday called ‘One A Day’.

Please see the flyer attached. We have arranged for our school to take part in this project in order to ensure that our families continue to receive support and packed lunches during the half term holidays when the school will be closed.

I would strongly encourage anyone and everyone to take up this offer. All you have to do is ring the number on the flyer below and register. You will then receive a packed lunch delivered to your door for each child in your household along with an activity for them to complete.

This is a fantastic project and well worth supporting!

Newsfeed – One A Day 2020

I am writing to give everyone an update on where we are with regard to the possible re-opening of the school. As you are aware we are already open for key worker children and therefore we would be looking at extending our provision to Reception, Year 1 and Year 6 children.

I would like to thank all parents who contacted the school as requested by last Friday in order to confirm whether they intended to send their child to school. This has been a huge help in our planning process.

The planning process is an absolute minefield of complex and logistical decisions but I wanted to share our timetable with you:

· Friday 15th Parents in Reception, Year 1 & Year 6 to confirm if sending their children to school

· Monday 18th Mr Myers and Mrs Cross to begin to plan based on numbers confirmed

· Tuesday 19th Proposed options/plan to be shared with staff and Health & Safety partners

· Wednesday 20th Health & Safety Risk Assessments to be completed

· Either Wednesday or Thursday (depending upon progress) we will put our proposals to the Academy Council to ratify.

· Thursday or Friday to share details of agree plan with staff and parents

· Half Term holiday – school closed to all to allow thorough clean and give team a break

· 1st June open as normal to key worker children only and use this week to put any additional arrangements in place.

Please note that we stand by our initial commitment to our children and staff – we will NOT extend provision if we do not feel it is safe to do so and the CEO of the Durham Diocesan MAT has agreed to support this decision.

Thank you for all of the positive and supportive messages we have received throughout this difficult time – it means a lot to me, Mrs Cross and our team.

Yours sincerely,

Mr S Myers

Head Teacher

Please visit our Classes page or Our Curriculum page to see the curriculum plans for the Summer 2020 Term. You might find it helpful to refer to this for home learning or to see what exciting things our teachers have planned for our pupils.

We have really been enjoying the wonderful entries for the weekly Head Teacher Challenge, thank you to everyone who has been taking part. The challenge for week nine (18.05.20 – 22.05.20) is now available in our Keeping Connected section under the Parents tab on the main navigational menu. Here you can also view previous challenges along with all of the fabulous entries. Thanks, again, for your participation. Have fun and be creative — we can’t wait to see what you come up with this week!

Remember to visit our Emotional Wellbeing section, too, to find helpful weekly activities that promote personal wellbeing!

Please read this important letter to parents from the DDMAT:

14.05.20 – Letter from DDMAT

Here is the link for guidance to parents and carers as mentioned in the letter.

Please read this letter from the Weardale Area Action Partnership:

14.05.20- It’s in the Bag Letter