Covid update
I am sure you are all aware how challenging our first half term of the year has been. We have recorded the highest number of daily infections in both children and members of staff since the pandemic began. We are now finally seeing a slow down in infection rates, the last two days have been the first since December where we have not recorded any new cases, that we are aware of. We have managed to keep our children safe and provided great teaching and learning despite all our trials. No class was sent home and our provision has remained continuous throughout. The Prime Minister has indicated this week a possible end to Covid precautions at the end of the month, we have not yet recieved any detail of what this entails. Despite this, I intend to keep our current risk assessment and safety measures in place until the end of term. I will conduct a review of our local status at the end of March and if infections here have fallen to an insignificant amount, I will consider relaxing our precautions at that point. Please note our current measures will remain in place at least until the end of March. The school’s top priority is to protect the children and our colleagues from harm, to keep everyone safe so we can enjoy high quality teaching and learning. You have the assurance that our measures are effective and can be relied on to give a degree of certainty in these uncertain times. I look forward to your support in the weeks ahead.
End of year assessment results
I recently recieved confirmation from the Government’s Standards and Testing Agency on the status of our end of year assessment results. They have confirmed that the usual round of SATs and other statutory assessments will indeed go ahead as planned. We are all working hard to offer the best learning experiences to the children as possible. The confirmation has come that this year’s results will be collected but will not be used for external accountability. League tables will not be created and the data will not be published. We will of course be able to access the data for our own analysis and share results with you by the end of the school year. The reason for the decision is the recognition that schools have suffered a heavy disruption though absences over the year and therefore it would be fair to assume this year’s results continue to be heavily affected by Covid and are not a true reflection of schools’ effectiveness. I welcome this decision, though will of course continue to support teachers to achieve the highest possible standards in their classes.
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