Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.
During a 'normal' year our children would have the opportunity to have one of their PE sessions as a swimming session.
Our regular hirer, First Stroke Swimming pool is looking to support us in making improvements to our pool so it can continue for years to come. A new pool liner, fix the leaks, insulation, cladding is going to be fitted as stage one of the improvements, which our hirer will pay for, with a reduced rental fee from us, for the course of the next year. We cannot afford to do the pool ourselves, so we are delighted that our hirer has given this opportunity.
This is in itself is simply amazing, but there is something that we are on the look-out for, we need some stainless steel steps to get in and out of the pool. (two sets ideally, but one set would be perfect). Do you or know anyone, who could engineer/whittle/craft/make a set of steps? If you do, then please get in touch: christchurchinfants@sgmail.org.ukAs a school we have also applied for the Covid Winter Grant Scheme, the maximum we can apply for is £1000, if successful we will be contacting families to collect the vouchers, we may be issued with £50 shopping vouchers for Tesco.
Your child does not have to be eligible for Free school meals, you could be working and finding it really tough, please speak to us if you are finding it tricky and we can see what we can do to support you.
This week is national well-being week so we will be sharing activities and videos with you that the staff have put together to make you feel happy and to give you a 'lift'. With this newsletter we have also shared a well-being calendar so you can choose some activities to do if you feel the need to mix it up and do something positive.
I will also be planning some activities for the staff to do to reflect on how brilliant they are, how to stay positive and to show love and thanks to each other.
Some well-being ideas that I find work for my family:
This week as a school staff team, we started doing the Covid Lateral Flow Tests (LFD) at home, thanks to our NHS families and senior school parents who told us that they are not pleasant, we can now completely agree! The reason for school staff to be taking the tests is to try to successfully detect COVID-19 in asymptomatic individuals. Lateral flow tests are designed to detect the level of virus in individuals who do not experience and show any symptoms, but who could still be infectious and pass the virus to others. By taking a test, we are helping to stop the spread of the virus and protect others. From our first ‘run’ on Wednesday all of us were negative. May this continue!