Ensuring every member of the school community can...

‘Be The Best You Can Be’ 'And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward

love and good deeds,' Hebrews 10:24

Welcome from Mrs Lavis And so we find ourselves in a new era, although remembering to stay hopeful as

this is temporary and will pass …

If you are unwell – we wish you a speedy recovery. If you would like yourself or a

loved one to be included in prayer then please let us know and we will pass it on.

If you are doing your bit for the fight against Covid-19 by staying at home with

your children – thank you. You are all heroes and although you might not know it,

you are saving lives. We are here to help you stay connected and to support you

as much as we can. If you are going to work in one of the jobs critical to the

response for coronavirus – thank you for your service.

Home learning – one of the biggest messages to give you, if you are participating

in home learning, is to pace yourselves. There’s no rush to complete everything

online in the first week, there is certainly no pressure to do so. Keep your

expectations realistic – be flexible – be kind to yourselves and each other - this is a

huge change to family life. We are aware that some parents want more and

some parents want less and catering for all is an impossible job. Please only do

what fits in with your life and your child/ren. If you find useful resources, or have

some top tips we would love to read about them via LEO.Amin@stcmat.org We

might not be able to share them all but we will do our best. As with anything

shared, this will be offered in the spirit of support rather than demand,

understanding that everyone's home is set up differently.

We are also learning at this time, this is a new world for educational professionals

too. We are working hard to balance physical child care with a skeleton staff and

the hygiene requirements to try and keep all as healthy as possible, alongside

virtual engagement and connection with the safety challenges this presents. We

are really happy to receive feedback but it’s always easier to read if it is in

keeping with our school values. Thank you.

Any issues please let us know and we’ll try our best to sort something for you.

Connection – “We’re in this together”:

Daily – We would like to send a thought or a reflection for the day. We are happy

to start this but feel it would be even better if we can draw on you, the school

community. So, if you have been inspired by a quote, a prayer, a picture, an act

etc let us know and we will share.

Weekly - We would like to send out a weekly newsletter during this extraordinary

time but we are going to need your help. We would really love this to cover as

much of our our scattered school population as possible, so please send in

pictures of work or fun at home that you are happy for us to share across

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the community.

There are many wonderful initiatives starting up particularly on YouTube - including

our very own Mr Doku. Whilst YouTube can be a fantastic way to stay fit, informed,

entertained and connected please ensure that parental restrictions are set and that

you are supervising your children when/if they are accessing YouTube. If you need

help with this please let us know.

Friday 27th March should have been the last day of the Spring term and ordinarily

we would be looking forward to a well earned Easter break of 2 weeks. With this in

mind, and as previously mentioned, no new learning activities will be uploaded to

the website over what would have been the Easter holidays. Many teachers have

volunteered to work, in order to keep the provision open in the school building for

our key worker families, however when not doing that they will be having some well

earned time off and will not be responding to emails or posts from online

learning. Having said that, we appreciate that you will still be at home with your

children so if you want to and only if you want to, we will pop on the website and via

Teams, some 'fun' Easter activities so that if you are at a loss, there are some ideas

for you. Teachers working from home are currently planning these and material for

after Easter, so keep checking out the website.

For those of you who have spoken to school staff about needing a place for your

child/ren over the Easter break, more information on times of opening/closing and

where to register in the mornings is coming very soon. Thanks for your patience while

we set this up.

We will also endeavour to keep you updated and share any official advice and

guidance we get that is relevant to you and the care of your children.

Until then - stay positive, stay hopeful, stay in touch.

Help if you need it… These are strange and unusual times.

If you find yourself in a position of struggle—be in financially;

managing expectations and/or workloads; coping with

uncertainty—there is a lot support out there and in our local

community.

If you need help with signposting to support agencies, please let

us know.

‘All in this together’

Feel like you are in school when you can’t be…

Mr Doku is now doing exercises for all the

family at 2pm every school day.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/

UCVEGb4bj6FV1B0ZmeOPeHIw?view_as=subscriber

WORLD BOOK DAY

Year 5 have had a very busy and exciting couple of

weeks, including visits from the Fire Service and an author

for World Book Day. Last week, we went to Dawlish

Warren and studied the beach management. The

highlight of the trip was seeing the Geotube but it did

make us reflect on the impact the recent storms have

had on future of the sand spit. We spent lots of time

reflecting on our topic question ‘Should we let nature

take its course?’.

Whilst exploring the pond in

school, Year 4 children found a

family of tadpoles! Don’t worry

though, they were safely

returned to their habitat.

School Learners

Home Learners

Sophia

Caterpillars

Getting creative...

Charlotte

Darcey

Area of a triangle

Alex

Squirrels

Alex enjoying Mr Doku’s

daily ‘Wake Up Shake Up’

Home Learners

A few examples of children engaging in learning away from

school. Some examples are those set by our teachers but

many are ideas and activities that were of interest. Learning is

everywhere!

Scarlett

Butterflies

Teddy

Butterflies

Noah

Poetry writing Grace

Practising letters

Sam

Baking banana

bread—Yum!

Lucy

Science—tadpole

study

The Love Heart and the Shamrock are being displayed in windows

to visually unite our isolated communities.

The sending of Love and Hope is already uniting neighbourhoods and creating

opportunities for families to join together and send their good thoughts. Maybe

send one to your local residential home to let them know you are thinking of them

and care very much about them.

St Leonard’s CofE Primary School

St Leonards Road

Exeter

EX2 4NQ

01392 666570

Leo.Admin@stcmat.org

www.stleonards.devon.sch.uk

IMPORTANT NOTICE

Following Government guidelines, the admin staff

are now working remotely.

Messages left on the answer phone will be

listened to daily, however, we would recommend

that all parents contact school via

Leo.Admin@stcmat.org. This email account is

being monitoring remotely and actioned by the

admin team and leaders in school.

Thank you for your continued understanding.

St Leonard’s Church have gone virtual! Daily content is uploaded onto their YouTube channel

(search ‘St Leonard’s Church Exeter’), as well as their

Sunday service being available at 10.30am on Sunday

Morning. A link to their service can be found at

www.stleonards.church.