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Broad Square Primary School Friday 16th April, 2021
Newsletter
Headteacher’s Message
Dear Parents and Carers,
I hope you are all really well and that you all had a lovely Easter break. The children have
returned with a spring in their step to beautiful weather and have been enjoying time outside
during their lessons wherever possible.
As the weather gets warmer, please remember that children should be provided with a water bottle
(named), and a hat. They should also have sun cream applied in the mornings too as appropriate.
Hopefully we will all soon be heading back to shops soon for school shoes if shoes have been
getting tight and I’d just like to remind you that girls should continue to wear their normal black
school shoes with their blue summer dresses. This is for safety reasons.
Hopefully you have all now managed to log on to the Parents’ Evening programme, ‘School
Cloud’. If you are having any problems, please let your child’s class teacher or the office know as
soon as possible.
I know a lot parents will be worried about how to help your child at home – there has been a lot of
talk about ‘catching up’ in the media. We will not be talking about catching up, but about building
on the knowledge your child has right now. This keeps the message to children really positive. If
you would like to support your child on a daily basis at home, the most powerful thing you can do
is to read to your child aloud. You could look at books, websites, Picture News newspapers that I
send home weekly, websites, poems, songs and comics – whatever stimulates your child’s
curiosity and enjoyment. If the books then spark a discussion between you or their siblings, that’s
brilliant! You can also put on the subtitles whilst they watch children’s programmes in addition, to
give them more access to the written word and a range of vocabulary.
Reading aloud to them helps them access different worlds in their imagination. It also helps them
develop a wider range of vocabulary, which they can begin to use in their speech and in their
writing. Just focus on what your child is interested in.
We would love you to look at the following link:
https://www.bt.com/tech-tips. Here you can see our
wonderful children taking on Robbie Savage on Times
Table Rockstars! This is a resource we use to help
children learn and internalise their times tables. Each
child in KS2 has a login that they can use at home.
Please ask your child’s class teacher if your child
cannot remember how to log on.
Thank you for your continued support,
Mrs. Corbett
Dates for your Diary – new dates highlighted in green
W/B 12th April Parents of children with a pupil profile will be asked to make an appointment with their
or 19th April child’s class teacher via the platform: School Cloud – this is a video conferencing tool.
(More information will be sent in due course.)
W/B 26th April Parents’ Evening week – parents will be invited to make an appointment via the School
Cloud platform for a video appointment. This is being put in place whilst face-to-face
appointments are still unlikely to be able to take place.
3rd May Bank Holiday
31st – 6th May Half Term Holiday
7th June Children return from the half term break
16th June Fundraising for school – Film evening for children in bubbles (After school until 5pm)
(More information will be sent in due course.)
21st-23rd June Y4 to CHET (Pending further guidance from the Government on residential trips)
W/B 21st June Sports Week led by our PE Coach – to include sports day activities (For pupils only
pending guidelines)
Friday 25th INSET Day – School closed to pupils
June
W/B 28th June New Reception Class intake transition days (More information will be sent in due
course.)
7th July Moving up day for pupils
New Nursery children transition day (More information will be sent in due course.)
8th July 4:15-5:45PM Y6 disco (More information will be sent in due course.)
8-14th July Y6 end of school year activities/visits (COVID guidelines permitting)
W/B 12th July Reports due out to parents
15th July Y6 Leavers’ Assembly (Pupils only pending guidelines)
Friday 16th End of term for pupils
July End of the day arrangements:
Nursery, Years 2, 4 and 5 FINISH: 1:20pm
Reception, Years 1, 3 and 6 FINISH 1:40pm
Positive Test Results
If your child receives a positive test result over the weekend or in the evening, it is important
that we know as we have to record all cases and ensure we follow all guidelines to the letter.
We have a specific email address to contact out of hours – this is
covidtestresults@broadsquare.liverpool.sch.uk
At home TestingYou can now order home testing kits directly from the Government’s website so
that those with school aged children can carry out testing twice a week, just like staff in school do.
Visit https://www.gov.uk/guidance/rapid-lateral-flow-testing-for-households-and-bubbles-of-
school-pupils-and-staff
This is NOT a test that you take if you have symptoms. Symptomatic people MUST take a
PCR test at a specialist site.
Stress Awareness Month
April is stress awareness month.
Please see the download from
National Online Safety, to help you
consider how to make sure your
online use is not adding to stress.
Visit www.stress.org.uk for more
information too.
Emotional Health and Wellbeing Support for Children and Adults
Kooth – Live-Chat counselling for children age 10+ -Free in Liverpool!
On Kooth, young people will have 24-hour access to self-help materials as well as
goal-setting and mood-tracking tools. The online service hosts moderated forums,
allowing for peer-to-peer support and interactive messaging with counsellors. Users
are also able to drop-in or book anonymous online counselling sessions with
qualified therapists who are available in the evenings and at weekends; sessions are available on
weekdays from 12pm and 10pm, and from 6pm to 10pm on weekends.
And now for adults in
Liverpool aged 26 or over
from the same company as
Kooth…
Qwell is a free, confidential
online counselling service
that you can access
anywhere.
Visit https://www.qwell.io/ and tell your
friends about it too.
You can also access lots of information
via the Qwell website as they have
magazine articles relating to lots of
different topics.
There is a journal facility to help anyone that wants to record their
thoughts and feelings. The page can also be easily hidden if needed too with a special button that
appears on each page.
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