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Please click the link below to read our most recent letter:
Please click the link below to read our latest Important Update Information Letter (20.03.20):
https://www.manea.cambs.sch.uk/letters/
A copy of the letter has also been copied below:
20th March 2020
Dear Parent,
We have been notified that the guidance the Local Authority agreed yesterday with the Department for Education around support for parents from Monday onwards, has been superseded and this letter outlines the current position (March 20th am).
The most recent scientific advice on how to further limit the spread of COVID-19 remains clear. The government have requested these key principles are followed:
The Government has requested that all schools provide optional care for a limited number of specific groups of children. These are:
All other children will need to stay at home, so we ask that you do not send your child into school.
The government has also published an updated list of key workers which is attached to this letter. The guidance has also be revised to outline that this support is for children with at least one parent or carer who are identified as ‘critical workers’ by the government.
Please complete the attached proforma and return to the school office should you fall into the Key/Critical Worker category. No child care will be provided without completion of this form.
After you have informed the school, by phone or email before Monday 23rd March, of the days you will need child care then the form can be brought in on your child’s first day of childcare in the school. Please note the childcare hours will be from 8:40 am till 3:15 pm Monday to Friday and will include the Easter holidays if key workers are continuing to work during that time.
I want to reiterate the key message about the closure plans: Every child who can be safely cared for at home should be.
We absolutely understand that families are worried about being able to work but these are extraordinary times and we are all having to make some very difficult decisions and sacrifices. However, with the challenges we face with our own staff and the national social distancing policy, we wish to minimise any risks and the number of students attending should only be in circumstances where it is essential.
This remains an ever-changing situation and the position may well change again in the future. We will continue to update you as the need arises.
I wish to thank all our school staff, volunteers, and Governors who have helped to enable the school to offer this childcare service for those essential key workers to continue to work. I would also like to thank you for your continued support and understanding during this period.
Best wishes,
Nicky Froggatt
Headteacher
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Definition of Key Workers
Health and social care
This includes (but is not limited to); doctors, nurses, midwives, paramedics, social workers, care workers and other frontline health and social care staff including; volunteers, the support and specialist staff required to maintain the UK’s health and social care sector, those working as part of the health and social care supply chain, including producers and distributers of medicines and medical/personal protective equipment.
Education and childcare
This includes; nursery and teaching staff, teaching assistants, support staff, social workers and those specialist education professionals who must remain active during the COVID-19 response to deliver this approach.
Key public services
This includes; those essential to the running of the justice system, religious staff, charities and workers delivering key frontline services. Those responsible for the management of the deceased, and journalists and broadcasters who are providing public service broadcasting are to be included.
Local and national government
This only includes those administrative occupations essential to the effective delivery of the COVID-19 response or delivering essential public services such as the payment of benefits, including in government agencies and arm’s length bodies.
Food and other necessary goods
This includes those involved in food production, processing, distribution, sale and delivery, as well as those essential to the provision of other key goods (for example hygienic and veterinary medicines).
Public safety and national security
This includes police and support staff, Ministry of Defence civilians, contractor and armed forces personnel (those critical to the delivery of key defence and national security outputs and essential to the response to the COVID-19 pandemic), fire and rescue service employees (including support staff), National Crime Agency staff, those maintaining border security, prison and probation staff and other national security roles, including those overseas.
Transport
This includes those who will keep the air, water, road and rail passenger and freight transport modes operating during the COVID-19 response, including those working on transport systems through which supply chains pass.
Utilities, communication and financial services
This includes staff needed for essential financial services provision (including but not limited to workers in banks, building societies and financial market infrastructure), the oil, gas, electricity and water sectors (including sewerage), information technology and data infrastructure sector and primary industry supplies to continue during the COVID-19 response, as well as key staff working in the civil nuclear, chemicals, telecommunications (including but not limited to network operations, field engineering, call centre staff, IT and data infrastructure, 999 and 111 critical services), postal services and delivery, payments providers and waste disposal sectors.
I am a Key Worker in the following service (please tick as appropriate):
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Please use the link below to find the letter on our Parent Letters page:
https://www.manea.cambs.sch.uk/letters/
A copy of the letter is also pasted below:
19th March 2020
Dear Parents and Carers,
SCHOOL ANNOUNCEMENT
Please contact the school office between 8am – 10am on Friday 20th March if you intend to send your child to school due to the following guidance:
‘If both parents or people with parental responsibility work for the following key working roles:
This must be both parents or a sole parent with no one else with parental responsibility.
The school will be opened as childcare not education, for children that fall into this category from Monday 23rd March and further details will be informed to you when you call us.
Yours sincerely
N Froggatt
Head Teacher
Please use the link provided below to find the School Work Packs information letter:
Link to our Parents Letters page here:
https://www.manea.cambs.sch.uk/letters/
A copy of the letter is also shown below:
17th March 2020
Dear Parents and Carers,
We are sorry to inform you so late in the day but owing to the current government guidance which advises those who are at increased risk of severe illness from coronavirus (COVID-19) to be particularly stringent in following social distancing measures we no longer have sufficient staff to keep the school open.
Therefore we will be closing from midday tomorrow, Wednesday 18th March 2020 until further notice.
Staff will have home learning packs available when you collect the children tomorrow.
If you have any concerns or questions please speak to a member of the leadership team who will be on the playground in the morning.
Yours sincerely
Miss N Froggatt