WEEKLY NEWSLETTER

6th May 2020 Head Teacher: Mrs Sharon Hillyard

Tel: 02476 316 034

Trenance Rd, Exhall,

Coventry, CV7 9FJ

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Teacher Calls

All Teachers will be phoning the parents of their

class children regularly.

This is a great opportunity to keep in touch and ask any

questions that you may have.

The teachers would love to speak to the children too!

It is a Government Directive that we contact you, so please make every effort to answer the phone

when we call! Thanks.

Free School Meals

Please find attached a Free School Meals letter from Mrs Hillyard.

Schudio is the best way to keep in touch with the latest updates. Download it from the Apple Store or Google Play and select

Exhall Cedars as your school. Instructions are attached at the back of the newsletter.

Make sure you check our news section regularly as notifications aren’t sent for new postings here.

Nursery & Pre-School Funding —

action required!

All parents of children in our Pre-School or Nursery who receive funding towards their child’s sessions will have received an

e-mail last week.

We need you to confirm your child’s attendance for the Summer Term if, and when we reopen. This is to ensure that

Warwickshire County Council pay for your child's place.

Please reply to the e-mail that we have sent with your name, your child’s name and confirm the hours that they attend.

Please e-mail exhallpreschool@welearn365.com if you have any questions or did not receive the e-mail.

Firstly, a big thank you to everyone for your support with all the home learning you have being doing, super effort, well done! As this situation looks to be continuing from Monday 11th May we are going to start using two

online systems Google Classroom (https://classroom.google.com) and the Welearn365 Platform (http://www.welearn365.com). These resources are designed to provide support with remote learning

allowing children to complete work at home.

So for all those children currently in Nursery, Reception, Years 1 & 2, we shall be calling you over the next few days to confirm your child’s school email address and their password to enable your child’s access. Please answer this call as without it you will be unable to access YOUR CHILD’S HOME LEARNING. Guides on how to then access

Google Classroom and Welearn365 will be made available on the school website, www.exhallcedars.org

Please be vigilant about your child’s online safety whilst accessing the internet. You may find it useful to refer to our e-safety information https://www.exhallcedars.org/ourpolicies/

Please note: Children that access Pre School and those currently in Nursery that are due to start Re-ception in September 2021 will continue to access Home Learning via the website. This is because our younger age

groups do not have welearn email addresses.

Thank you.

Home Learning - Google Classrooms

This is a really difficult time for us all but especially for those of you who are at home all day with your children! We don’t want anyone, either parents or children, to be worried about the home learning.

The activities planned, are so that your children can continue to practice their learning at home, to be more

prepared for when we return to school. We don’t expect you to be ‘homeschooling’ all day every day!

Use these activities to dip in and out of a few times a day, alongside playing in the garden and going for a daily exercise walk as a family. Take care of yourselves and each other! Stay home stay safe!

Don’t Worry!

All offers for Warwickshire Schools have now been made. You should have

received an e-mail in the on-line portal confirming your child’s place for September.

www.warwickshire.gov.uk/admissions

If you have not had anything, then you

urgently need to contact the Admissions Team by e-mail only.

admissions@warwickshire.gov.uk We are unable to help in School, as we do not

have access to their systems.

Free On-Line Courses

The programme consists of 4 online guides that

have been developed by NHS experts and par-

ents using an evidence-based approach to in-crease the confidence of parents-to-be, mums,

dads, parents-to-be, grandparents and carers.

This programme consists of four online guides that have been developed by NHS experts and parents using an evidence-based approach to increase the

confidence of parents-to-be, mums, dads, parents-to-be, grandparents and carers.

The four online guides are FREE for Warwickshire residents using the access code BEAR.

All of the guides can be completed flexibly, at your own pace. Each of the guides’ modules takes around

15-20 minutes to complete. Each guide contains several modules.

There is a built-in voiceover feature available if you prefer to listen and your device supports audio.

These guides are designed to help build a strong relationship between you and your baby, infant or

child.

Using the access code BEAR on

registration will provide access to all four guides for a lifetime and it will never expire.

If your child is living away from the address that school currently has for them, you MUST let us

know as soon as possible. They may be living with relatives or staying with a

different parent - even if only for part of the week or a temporary move.

Please provide the details to admin2635@welearn365.com

Thanks

The Warwickshire local welfare scheme helps our most vulnerable residents at times of unavoidable crisis when

they have no other means of help. The scheme provides basic and essential help for food

and energy. You can apply to the scheme by calling

0800 4081448 or 01926 359182 or emailing warwickshirelocalwelfarescheme@warwickshire.gov.uk

with your name and number.

Warwickshire Welfare Scheme

Purple Mash

Temporary Changes of Address

At the moment parents can only get a limited access to the free resources on Purple Mash website. We are

currently working on how children can a ccess the full suite using a welearn365 email account.

Thank you for your patience, you’ll receive an email when we have this, so please ensure we have an up to date

email address for you!

Family Information Service

The Warwickshire Family Information Service (FIS) is a great source of information and

is brilliant for pointing you in the right direction if you need help.

https://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/fis

They have a Facebook page too:

https://www.facebook.com/WarwickshireFIS

You can sign up for their newsletter here:

https://mailchi.mp/warwickshire/familyinfoservice

School remains closed until further notice, apart from a limited number of childcare places for our Key Worker parents. There is no-one available in the School office so please do not telephone. All contact should be made via our e-mail address:

admin2635@welearn365.com

September 2020,

Reception & Yr3 places

Contacting School

Speech & Language

Worried about your child’s speech and language development during lockdown?

Why not speak to your health visitor by phone, or use the CHAT Health texting service 07520 615293 anytime (responses Monday to Friday

9am to 5pm)?

Warwickshire’s Speech & Language Therapy

service is also still open for business in an

adapted form:

https://www.swft.nhs.uk/application/files/151

5/8703/9775/NHS_-_SLT_Update_Subtitles_-

_Export.mp4

This is a short video giving details of the services

available.

For Parents , SpecIal Needs & Mainstream Schools, Educators & Carers throughout the World FREE Video Yoga Lessons for Children With (and Without) Autism

Three Animated Video Yoga Lessons to engage your children at home during the COVID -19 Lockdown

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Mrs Lee, who works in our reception classes, is a lady of many talents!

She has crocheted our very own Cedars’ Bear and rainbow.

Thank you, they are fabulous!

Thank you, Mrs Lee!

Testing for COVID-19

Free Yoga Lessons—for children with & without autism

Testing for COVID-19 The Government have announced the further expansion of access to Coronavirus testing to

help protect the most vulnerable.

Anyone in England with Coronavirus symptoms, who either has to leave home to go to work or is aged 65 and over, will

now also be able to get tested.

Tests are available across the country. They can be booked immediately.

People can register at the testing portal using this link (https://bit.ly/BookTesting). Full guid-

ance on testing can be viewed here (https://bit.ly/TestingGuidance).

Please share this information widely to reach

as many eligible people as possible.

Message from Mrs Kapadia

Hi Everyone, Just wanted to say a huge thank you to

everyone has donated to my Marie Curie Daffodil Appeal.

The fundraiser has now closed. I have managed to raise a

staggering £1050.00, so once again, “Thank You” so much for your kind words and

support, Marie Curie will value these vital funds at this critical time.

URGENT!!! FUNDING FOR SCHOOL MEALS It has been brought to my attention that 'Free School Meals' funding is causing some confusion. UNIVERSAL SCHOOL MEALS All children in Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 are provided with a daily school lunch under the 'Universal Meals' funding. Government definition - Universal infant free school meals (UIFSM) provides funding for all government funded schools to provide a daily school meal to pupils in Reception, Year1 & Year2. FREE SCHOOL MEALS (FSM) Some parents might also qualify for Free School Meals funding depending upon household income and/or benefits. This is additional funding that school receives to ensure the children have access to wider range of resources. Families who receive at least one of the following are eligible for free school meals:

income support

income-based Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA)

income-related employment and support allowance (ESA)

guarantee element of state pension credit

Universal Credit (with an annual income of less than £7,400)

Both income-based and contribution-based JSA/ESA if you receive the same amount for both. You should also qualify if you receive both but the income-based amount is greater, but not if the contribution-based amount is greater.

Families who are awarded Child Tax Credit and have an annual income, as assessed by HMRC, not in excess of £16,190 are also eligible to claim free school meals providing there is no entitlement to Working Tax Credit (unless in respect of a 4-week ‘run-on’)

If you have applied before and have not been eligible, please re-apply again if your circumstances have changed. You can re-apply each time your circumstances change. All that is needed is your National Insurance Number, the system does an automatic check and you will receive an instant answer. Once you are eligible, this will remain in place until 2022, to protect families during the Universal Credit transition. Once your child is in Year 3 or above a school lunch costs, at current rate, £2.25 per day. However, should your child be eligible for FSM, this will be transferred to the Junior School and your child will receive free school lunches. Therefore, we are asking all parents/carers of children in Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 to apply for this funding. During the current school closures, each eligible child can access a £15 voucher per week which can be spent in the majority of the supermarkets. When we return to school, as a thank you, each new child will receive £15 uniform voucher for the Toye, Kenning and Spencer shop and will be eligible for free school milk. If your child is eligible, the school will receive an automatic notification. We will then be in touch regarding the voucher set up.