Please click below to access our September opening risk assessment and letter to parents:
Chawson 1st School Full School Reopening Risk Assessment Version 1
Letter to parents September 2020
Worcestershire Children First are creating a summer holiday plan to promote access to food, activities and support for families. Hungry Families Baked Bean Project is part of this plan!
The project has provided an ingredients list, which can provide five main meals during the week for a family of four. The ingredients on that list can be purchased (online and offline) for under £40 from supermarkets like ALDI, Tesco, Asda, Sainsburys etc.
Alongside the ingredients list, the Adult Learning Team will be providing online cooking classes for parents (which they can do with their children) to talk and guide them through how to prepare the meals for their families. The videos from these classes will also be available on YouTube for parents to access at their leisure. For parents who successfully complete the classes, there is scope to progress into further family cooking classes, including learning how to cook their favourite take-aways. This is in addition to broader learning opportunities available via and provided by the Adult Learning Team.
BESTIE is an interactive app developed by Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust and designed by local young people, CAMHS clinicians and IT experts – has recently been launched by Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust CAMHS.
BESTIE is freely available and can be found by searching for ‘Worcestershire BESTIE’ on Apple and Android phones or tablets. A web-based version is available at http://www.camhsbestie.co.uk
On joining BESTIE, young people, parents and professionals are able to easily access information about local mental health services (including virtual reality tours of Worcestershire CAMHS bases), signposting to local and national services and charities, as well as useful self-help information.
This information is age-rated (so that young people only see information which is appropriate for their age) and favourite self-help information can be saved in a ‘personal space’ on the app, so that it is immediately to hand.
For young people who are seen in CAMHS, additional features will soon be unlocked, including the ability to track their goals, mood and emotion. BESTIE was awarded ‘MidTech Best NHS developed innovation’ at the Meridian Celebration of Innovation Awards.
For more information about BESTIE, please see http://www.camhsbestie.co.uk
In response to the most up-to-date advice the cleaning of touch points around toilets will be increased, please click below to read an updated risk assessment and supporting documents:
(Additional embedded documents can be found further down this page)
South Worcestershire Parenting and Community Development has now become part of the Starting Well Partnership Worcestershire.
Their website is www.startingwellworcs.nhs.uk where you can request support during the covid19 outbreak and also use the same form to request to join a parenting group.
While their face to face groups are postponed, they are running some of our groups over Microsoft Teams, so this may be an option that some parents would like.
Please click below for their leaflet:
Parenting Lockdown Schools Flyer
Please click the link below to read an update risk assessment due to the introduction of Holding boxes. Additional information is also below with further details:
- Transition back to school for limited year groups June 15 06 2020 items embedded
- Holding box system 15 06 2020 Risk assessment
Please click the link below for our latest parent information letter, 12th June 2020-
Wider Reopening Parent Letter 12 06 20
Pupil premium information:
- School information-Pupil premium information
- Worcester information- http://www.worcestershire.gov.uk/info/20062/schools/684/applying_for_free_school_meals
- Application form- https://capublic.worcestershire.gov.uk/WCCPublicForms/FormFreeSchoolMeals.aspx?_ga=2.119367945.1660925895.1591602402-2004915512.1545237516
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-online-education-resources
The DfE have brought together a list of online educational resources to support children’s education at home while they may not be attending their normal education setting.
The lists include subject-specific resources for:
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English
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maths
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science
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PE
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wellbeing
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special educational needs and disability (SEND)
These resources are currently being offered for free.
Individual resources cannot replace a school’s properly planned curriculum, and the resources in this list are not intended to do so. The DfE have assessed these resources with the support of subject experts to make sure they are:
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high quality
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appropriate for the students they are aimed at
The resources were also assessed to ensure they meet a number of technical requirements.
The resources may be useful for parents in considering how they could support their children’s education, but they should not be used in place of existing resources which schools may be using as part of their continued provision for pupils’ education at this time.
The DfE have highlighted those materials which are most appropriate for parental use.
This list of resources is not exhaustive and there are many other resources available to schools. This list has been updated since it was originally published to include additional resources suppliers have submitted to us. We will update this list in the future to reflect additional applications from suppliers.
Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust have produced a leaflet with information to help direct families, children and young people to services available to support them during this time. Alongside all the services provided by the Trust the leaflet provides a helpful update on some changes that have happened to services recently.
If your child was in school today (2/6/21) you will not be receiving any more Edenred vouchers from this week as we will be providing sandwiches in school.
From Monday 8th May we will not be using Edenred Vouchers at all. If you would like to collect a sandwich from school for your child/ren please phone or email school office@chawson.worcs.sch.uk by 12pm Friday 5th May with the heading FSM to make an order for each day. Sandwiches will be available for collection from the school foyer from 11:30am if you have made an order.
You will be aware that schools are unable to open their doors to more children until they have created a risk assessment. Please see below for our current risk assessment and documentation.
This is very much a working document which we will continue to modify as we move towards opening, under Government advice, and after opening. You will see that it includes all of the advice supplied by the Government.
We want you to know that a risk assessment will be in place and that we are confident that all of the work that has been done by so many of the Chawson Team is of a very high standard and will be minimising the risk of the virus for both our children and staff.
Please see below for the supporting documents:
- Cleaners Advice and Responsibilities
- COSHH form for Hand Sanitizer c369
- COSHH form for spray cleaner in classrooms etc
- Health and Safety Advice and Actions May 2020
- Implementing social distancing in education and childcare settings Summary
- Managing a case of COVID in school and use of PPE May 2020
- Pandemic Flu and virus Policy February 2020
- Parent letter Reopening 15 may 2020
- Re-opening arrangements 22 05 20
- Risk Assessment for Essentials Pine Disinfectant May 2020
- Risk Assessment for Hand Sanitizer Coronavirus 2020
- School Closure Risk assessment process
- Staff FAQ 21 05 20
- Summaries of the three main documents regarding transition back into school May 2020
- Teachers Complete Health and Safety Advice and Actions May 2020
- Transition back to school curriculum guidance
The Government have recently updated their guidance to help parents to continue educating their children at home- https://www.gov.uk/guidance/help-primary-school-children-continue-their-education-during-coronavirus-covid-19
Worcestershire Children First have shared information regarding testing for children, please click below for more details: Testing for children info May 21st 2020
Worcestershire NHS trust have produced a letter to share information of services that can help parents of SEN children during this tricky time: Support for parents of SEN children May 2020
Worcestershire County Council have shared an update regarding their approach following the government announcement about the wider re-opening of schools. Please click below for information:
Worcestershire County Council letter to Parents re Planning for Return to School
As you will be aware, the Government has asked schools to begin planning for opening for Reception, Year 1 and Year 6 children, possibly as soon as 1st June, please click the letter below for more information:
Speech Language Therapy in Worcestershire
Worcestershire Health & Care NHS Trust are building a collection of accessible information resources to help children and young people with additional needs or communication difficulties cope with all the uncertainties and disruption during this pandemic.
New resources related to Covid-19 are being added on a weekly basis to their website which you can access at: http://www.hacw.nhs.uk/sltcovid19.
For further support , please contact the Worcestershire Speech and Language Therapy on email at: WHCNHS.sltcovid19@nhs.net
Britannica School have released a number of free resources, click the links below to investigate:
https://britannica.co.uk/resources/
https://i.emlfiles4.com/cmpdoc/2/2/6/0/0/1/files/662930_britannica-home-learning-ebook.pdf
https://school.eb.co.uk/levels/foundation/collection/view/483915
The Government have recently shared information regarding a new online learning platform to boost workplace skills. This may be useful for parents or older siblings looking for ‘free, high-quality digital and numeracy courses’ that can help people build up their skills, progress in work and boost their job prospects and confidence whilst at home.’ (This is not a resources for children at Chawson)
https://theskillstoolkit.campaign.gov.uk/
Please click below to acces the SEND Information, Advice and Support Service for Herefordshire and Worcestershire. They have a dedicated team of advisors offering legally-based and easily accessible information and advice about special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). We support parents, carers, children and young people with SEND and our service is impartial and confidential.
http://www.hwsendiass.co.uk/
Please click below for an updated version of the FAQs regarding the DfE Free school meals:
DfE_FreeSchoolMeals_ParentCarerFAQs 23.4.2020
Letter to Yr2 parents regarding Yr3 classes for September 2020– word document
Letter for Yr2 parents regarding Yr3 classes for September 2020
Worcester speech and language details- Getting Through Covid 19 Speech and language advice
Worcestershire Here2Help
Chawson 1st School Annex 1 Covid 19 Policy April 2020
Easter Holiday Letter
Please click the links below for information about Free school meals:
Free School Meals information April 2020
‘Edenred Free School Meals Vouchers.’ Information- DfE_FreeSchoolMeals_ParentCarerFAQs
Keeping children safe online during the current pandemic situation is very important, below are some useful links to help parents and carers:
- Thinkyouknow (advice from the National Crime Agency to stay safe online)
- Internet matters (support for parents and carers to keep their children safe online)
- Parent info (support for parents and carers to keep their children safe online)
- LGfL (support for parents and carers to keep their children safe online)
- Net-aware (support for parents and careers from the NSPCC)
We have recently received this information from a member of Hereford & Worcester Fire and Rescue Service regarding key fire safety messages during the current pandemic situation, please click for more information:
A great resource created by Worcestershire County Council for those needing or volunteering help in their local community. There’s also lots of ideas and links for keeping children entertained!
http://www.worcestershire.gov.uk/here2help
Please click the link below for information from Babcock Prime Educational psychology group:
Easter Holiday Provision Information for Key Workers- pdf
Easter Holiday Provision Information for Key Workers- word
Information for Keyworkers and parents of vulnerable children- PDF
Information for Keyworkers and parents of vulnerable children- word document
Chawson information for Keyworkers- Word
Chawson information for Keyworkers- PDF
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