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Grab bags - Free school meals Monday 30th March
Today you will be able to collect two bags per child, one for today and one for tomorrow). This is to avoid parents make unnecessary journeys. Please ensure you collect based on surname and the allocated time given. Please ensure that we remember the importance of social distancing. Please enter the school site via the nursery entrance only.
We are not allowing any parents/ pupils to enter the building. Please remember that
Surname A-F 12.00-12.20
Surname G-L 12.20-12.40
Surname M-R 12.40-1.00
Surname S-Z 1.00-1.20
Thank you!
Free School Meals
The Council is moving towards an e-voucher system, but Monday’s Free Schools Meals will be provided in the form of grab bags and these will be available again directly from school. Collection times will be sent out when the lunches arrive at school
Childcare:
Whilst the Hub provision is up and running at Bryn Hafod Primary School from tomorrow,
https://www.oakfieldprimary.com/news/detail/important-update-childcare-from-monday-30th-march-/
there will still be a very small number of staff at Oakfield who will be responding to emails and phone calls. This will be a reduced service running from 9am to 12pm (midday) to ensure that you can stay in touch with staff:
Phone: 02920 799396
Childcare from Monday 30th March 2020
From next week, the Council will move to operating a sustainable childcare provision in a small number of centralised locations across the city, in order to reduce the number of schools opening to provide childcare for key workers. These locations will provide childcare for pupils from designated local ‘feeder’ schools. The feeder school for pupils in Oakfield Primary School is:
Bryn Hafod Primary School,
Blagdon Close,
Llanrumney,
Cardiff,
CF3 4HF
Please note that keyworkers that are critical to the COVID-19 response are advised that childcare provision should only be used if there is no safe, alternative form of childcare available.
Any new requests for childcare provision, where parents and carers in keyworker categories have no other safe alternative, must apply using the online form by accessing the following link
www.cardiff.gov.uk/keyworkerchildcare
Support for Pre-school children can be made using the Council’s Family Gateway. Once registered, parents will be contacted by the provisions team to arrange admission, at the earliest possible opportunity, from Tuesday 31st March 2020.
Unfortunately, we cannot guarantee a place.
Tuesday 24th March
Today you will be able to collect two bags per child, one for today and one for tomorrow). This is to avoid parents make unnecessary journeys.
Please ensure you collect based on surname and the allocated time given. Please ensure that we remember the importance of social distancing. Please note that we are not allowing any parents/ pupils to enter the building.
Please remember that
Surname A-F 12.00-12.20
Surname G-L 12.20-12.40
Surname M-R 12.40-1.00
Surname S-Z 1.00-1.20
Thank you!
Tuesday 24th March
Today you will be able to collect two bags per child, one for today and one for tomorrow). This is to avoid parents make unnecessary journeys.
Please ensure you collect based on surname and the allocated time given. Please ensure that we remember the importance of social distancing. Please note that we are not allowing any parents/ pupils to enter the building.
Please remember that
Surname A-F 12.00-12.20
Surname G-L 12.20-12.40
Surname M-R 12.40-1.00
Surname S-Z 1.00-1.20
Thank you!
Key Worker Information Update
Key worker parents can only request school based child care when it is not possible to care for the children at home. This is the guidance from the government.
This means that if it is at all possible for children to be at home, then they should be.
“Many parents working in these critical sectors may be able to ensure their child is kept at home. Every child who can be safely cared for at home should be.”
Please can you also help our community further by ensuring our children are not mixing socially in a way which can continue to spread the virus. We are also asking everyone to observe the same social distancing principles as adults.
If we are able to deliver the urgent childcare requested by critical key workers the following categories will be used:
Families where both parents are front line NHS key workers i.e. doctors and nurses
Where a sole parent is a frontline NHS worker i.e. doctors and nurses
Please help us in making our community as safe as it can possibly be!
Free School Meals Grab bags are now on site.
Please ensure you collect based on surname and the allocated time given.
Please ensure that we remember the importance of social distancing and enter the school site via the nursery entrance only.
We are not allowing any parents/ pupils to enter the building.
Please remember that
Surname A-F 12.00-12.20
Surname G-L 12.20-12.40
Surname M-R 12.40-1.00
Surname S-Z 1.00-1.20
Thank you!
Dear Parents/Carers,
Free School Meal Provision from Monday 23rd March 2020
If you child is currently eligible for a free school meal they will be able to collect a packed lunch grab bag from their school on Monday.
Pupils will not be allowed to consume the lunch on site and when collecting from the school please be aware of the current guidance for social distancing. To help with this, we will advise you on an appropriate collection time linked to when the food actually arrives at school.
Many thanks for your full support in this matter,
Please take care,
Mr. D Harris
HEADTEACHER
20.03.20
Dear Parents/Carers,
Health & Safety Update – Week Beginning Monday 23.3.20 – Please Read Carefully
Emergency Child Care Support
Following advice received today from the Local Authority & Welsh Government, commencing Monday 23rd March, we will be offering child care support for families of key workers. These are the people directly involved with the immediate response to the Coronavirus outbreak, so this support is initially for children of ‘blue light’ services, health care, social care and education workers.
This support will be available from 8.30am – 3.30pm daily and this provision is strictly for the children where at least one parent is a key worker and therefore no other adult is available to look after the children. If you are a key worker, but your partner is not, we request you organise other childcare arrangements as the school will not be in a position to accept large numbers of pupils.
It is extremely important to note that if it is at all possible for children to be at home, then they should be.
Please also note that if you require the child care facility:
We are fully aware of the need to ensure that everyone helps in slowing down the spread of the Coronavirus and families are now being instructed to stay at home to reduce social contact. The staff of Oakfield want to assist other key workers (blue light services) to do their jobs at this difficult time. The more children we have in school, the more risk this places on them, their families and indeed the staff who also have families at home.
Let's work together to keep everyone in our school & community safe!
Important
From Monday 23.3.20, if you require the child care support facility, you will need to register your child by signing them in, inform us of your occupation and employer, your child’s name, their year group and the days you would be requiring this service. Please enter the school using the main doors of the KS2 hall where staff will be present to greet you and sign your child in to the child care provision.
Please note that this service can only be accessed on the days when you are working in front line services and remember that this child care service is only used only by parents who provide an essential service.
Stay in Touch
These arrangements will be monitored and adapted as circumstances develop, which, as you will appreciate, is occurring at pace. The guidance issued in this letter is based on the most recent advice from UK Government and from discussions across the Council. Please make sure that you use our Twitter feed, read our Push Notifications (text system) and check the school website for all updates.
I would again like to express my heartfelt thanks to everyone for your support and understanding at this extremely difficult and challenging time.
Yours sincerely,
Mr. D Harris
HEADTEACHER
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