Following the EYFS reforms, we have been focusing upon updating our curriculum policy to ensure all our families are able to understand how we work in nursery and the high expectations we have for all our nursery children.

Please follow this link to find out more.

We are sending offer letters out this week for children eligible for places in our 2s and 3-4s from April 2021.

Please contact us via email rosemary.lane@durhamlearning.net or on 0191 527 1168 to place your child’s name on the waiting list.

Dear parents and carers,

A quick update around remote learning.

We have setup up a Rosemary Lane Nursery School Seesaw account. Every child in nursery will have a unique login to access their own profile with parents. Through the seesaw CLASS app you can view all the remote learning activities, which are being uploaded each school day. You will be able to send us back photographs, videos and comments in response to these activities. You can also share information about all the other lovely learning you will be doing at home with your child.

Every parent should have received information about how to access Seesaw. We need you to give your permission to add your child to Seesaw, before we can give you their login codes. PLEASE CHECK YOUR EMAIL ACCOUNT and send us a reply to grant your permission. We will then forward your code on to you.

Thank you to all the parents and children who have already joined us. We are really enjoying all your feedback on the activities you have completed at home. We hope you are enjoying Seesaw.

If you have not received an email or a letter from nursery about Seesaw, please contact us on 0191 527 1168.

We look forward to seeing you on Seesaw and sharing some great learning activities with you.

Kind regards,

Jill Jones

A new update letter has been added today (14th January 2021) for parents and carers.

 

 

Monday 4^th January 2020

Dear parents and carers,

Thank you for your patience following our decision to close the school today. I want to reassure you that we are taking a measured approach to our decision making.

There is much scientific evidence to show the current position we are in, within a Tier 4 area, is very serious. Worryingly, it appears that the new variant of the coronavirus is particularly more transmissible and there has been a rise in positive cases amongst children. This combined with the period of household mixing over the Christmas break has helped to inform our current decision.

My responsibility as Head Teacher is to provide a safe environment for the whole school community. Myself, the Governing Body and the whole school team have agonised over the best way forward for all our families.  Following a thorough evaluation of our risk assessment for opening, it is with great regret that the conclusion we have reached is that, at present, it is unsafe to open Rosemary Lane Nursery School to all children.

Under current circumstances, bringing all our children back together potentially poses a great risk to the whole school community.  Based upon all of this, we have decided to close the school to all except key worker and vulnerable children for a 2 week period. This closure will naturally be under constant review.

I appreciate that this news will be both disappointing and worrying for many of you and understand the difficult position that this will put many of you in. The nursery staff will continue to provide daily activities to all children via our school website and twitter account. We will send you a message regarding this on the OurSchoolsApp.

We will also be providing basic childcare for vulnerable children and for those of parents who are frontline key workers. If you feel that your child qualifies for this childcare, please complete the below questions and email your response back to us as soon as possible. Please note we may need to limit key worker places to families with 2 parents who are both key workers and single parent households first.

I can’t emphasise enough how difficult it is to make such decisions but trust you will understand as we find ourselves in such unprecedented times. Our greatest wish is to have all our children here in nursery safely, as soon as possible. In the meantime, please keep a close eye on the school website, twitter account and OurSchoolsApp for more information on home learning.

Kind regards

Jill Jones

 

VULNERABLE CHILDREN and KEY WORKER QUESTIONS

 

Childs Name: ______________________________

Colour Group: ______________________________

Parent/Carer contact telephone number: _______________________________________________

Parent/carer email address: _________________________________________________________

 

Thank you for taking the time to complete the below questions.

1. Is your child vulnerable with a social worker or do they have an EHCP or are in the process of applying for an EHCP?

 

 

2. Do you, as parent or carer of the above child, hold a key worker role?

 

 

3. Do both parents within the household have a key worker role?

 

 

4. Are you in a single parent household with a key worker role?

 

 

5. Please state key worker role/s below

 

 

6. Children who are eligible for childcare will be able to access sessions within their current 15 or 30 hour offer (8.45am to 2.45pm).

Do you require your full offer (i.e mornings or full days) or part of this offer?

Delete as appropriate

• I require my child’s normal morning only sessions every day
• I require my child’s normal full days, every day
• I require … ___________________________________________________________________

We will do our best to match what you require so please be specific.

 

We will require proof of your key worker role (such as a letter from your employer or a school identity badge) to be able to distribute childcare places available.

 

 

 

 

Please follow us on Twitter to have a look inside the nursery and see the children engaging in high quality learning within our magical nursery environment. We offer paid and funded sessions for 2s, 3s and 4s across the academic year.

Please contact us if you are interested in a nursery place for  your child. We offer 15 hour play and learn places and paid sessions for 2 year olds. We offer 15hour universal entitlement places for 3s and the extended 30hour places for 3s.

If your child is not yet of age to access this, you can place their name on the waiting list to be contacted in the future.

Message sent from Amanda Healy, Director of Public Health for County Durham and Richard Crane, Head of Education and Skills

Dear Parents,

Firstly can I thank everyone, children, parents and school staff alike for their efforts during this first term back to school. Although it’s been a challenge for many we have started to see a steady rhythm within schools living under covid measures. Thank you.

It is in this respect that I write to you today. With the high rates of COVID-19 in County Durham currently, I am asking parents to let the school know if their child tests positive for COVID-19 during the half term break. If your son or daughter receives a positive COVID-19 test after Friday 23^rd October 2020 please contact the school immediately via email to rosemary.lane@durhamlearning.net  and provide the following information:

Name of child

Colour group

Date of the COVID-19 test

Does the child have symptoms? Yes or No

What date did the symptoms start?

What date did the child last attend nursery?

It is very important that you provide this information so that the school can identify any close contacts that your son or daughter may have had in school during their infectious period. The school will then follow up close contacts and request that they isolate for 14 days to prevent further transmission of COVID-19. Please note that you should also report any close contacts that your child has had outside the school setting through NHS Test and Trace. If you are unable to speak to your school, please make sure you have provided information of all close contacts within the school to NHS Test and Trace.

In addition I know our children and young people will still want to see their friends during the holidays, but please can I remind all parents that children and young people must not meet up in groups larger than six people (of any age) and that young people should not be gathering indoors with friends. Please also remember where they do meet up in groups of six or less they should still observe social distancing and good hand hygiene. Helping our children and young people to understand the importance of this will help to keep us all safe and healthy.

Thank you again for your help in this matter and I wish you a safe and well half term break.

Your sincerely

Amanda Healy, Director of Public Health for County Durham

Richard Crane, Head of Education and Skills

 

Dear Parents/Carers,

Thank you for your continued support. I can confirm NO CHILD and NO MEMBER OF STAFF has tested positive for Coronavirus. We have had to take the decision to send the 3 and 4s home this morning as a precautionary measure to deep clean the 3-4s nursery area.

Your child’s health and well-being are our main priority.

Thank you for your understanding. We look forward to welcoming you back to school tomorrow.

 

Kind Regards

Jill Jones

Head Teacher

Rosemary Lane Nursery School