Returning to school. A guide for children.

Getting ready to return to school

Welcome back We have missed you! We are really looking Some of you will There will be less forward to seeing you back have a new children in your at school. classroom and a new class. teacher. Some things are going to look and feel a bit different.

Your class will have a new name: Sirius or Canopus. These are named after the brightest stars in the sky. Nursery classes will be called Grasshoppers and Dragonflies

Getting ready for school Pack the things you need in your bag: • water bottle The night before school get your • healthy snack school uniform ready and pack • Y1 and 6, pencil case with pen, pencil, your bag. ruler, few colouring pencils You might want to watch the video • own packed lunch, if you are not having a your teacher has prepared for you. • Year group noticeboard school meal • you don’t need to bring your reading records or anything else.

Arriving at school Things might look a bit different. There will be signs on the floor and the walls to remind adults to keep their distance. Check you know: • entrance gate, • classroom, • name of your teacher.

Arriving at school Reception and Nursery Soft start is slightly longer, Nursery children can arrive at school between 8.00 and 8.30am. Reception between 8.30 and 9am. No facemasks. Remove and give to your parent to take home Say goodbye to mum and dad before you get to the classroom door Nursery children will go to the new Grasshopper and Butterflies classrooms where Mr McEvoy and Miss May will be ready to see you. Reception Sirius will be in the Reception classrooms Reception Canopus will be in the Year 2 classrooms Look out for your new class sign.

Arriving at school Year 1, 6 and if your parent is a key worker. Soft start is slightly longer, you can arrive at school between 8.30 and 9am. Avoid arriving late. If you arrive late, queue outside the main school entrance. Say goodbye to your adult. No facemasks. Remove and give to your parent to take home Year 1 - Say goodbye to mum and dad before you get to the classroom door Year 1 Sirius you will be in the Year 1 classrooms Year 1 Canopus you will be in the Year 3 classrooms Year 6 Sirius, use the Year 6 door, and go upstairs to your classroom Year 6 Canopus use the Year 5 door and stairs to you new classroom Mars, Jupiter, Venus, Mercury, use the Year 4 door and stairs, find your new classroom. Saturn children, you will be based in the music room Look out for your new class sign.

Times of the school day CLASS G AT E SOFT- COLLECTION TIME COLLECTION TIME LOCATION OF START TIME MON-THUR FRIDAY CLASSROOM 11.45am Year R Sirius Coombe Road 8.30-9.00am 3.15pm 11.45am Reception 8.30-9.00am 3.15pm 12.00pm Year 2 Year R Canopus Fielding Walk 8.30 -9.00am 3.30pm 12.00pm Year 1 8.30-9.00am 3.30pm 12.15pm Year 3 Year 1 Sirius Fielding Walk 8.30-9.00am 3.45pm Year 6 12.15pm Year 1 Canopus Wyndham Road, 8.30-9.00am 3.45pm Year 5 Year 6 Sirius Wyndham Road, vehicle entrance Year 6 Canopus Wyndham Road, vehicle entrance There is no school on a Friday afternoon.

Find your new classroom, Nursery, Reception and Year 1 (downstairs) Reception Sirius Grasshoppers and Butterflies Year 1 Reception Canopus Canopus

Find your new classroom, Year 6 and children of key workers (upstairs) Mercury, Venus, Mars & Jupiter Year 6 Sirius Year 6 Canopus Saturn (music room)

Keeping you safe Hand-washing • Your teacher will ask you to wash your hands a lot! • Watch this video about how to wash your hands

Keeping you safe ‘Catch it, bin it, kill it’ • when coughing, tissues should be thrown away and you should wash your hands; • don’t touch your mouth, nose and eyes with your hands; • tell an adult if you are feeling unwell.

Keeping you safe Stay with your class, • follow the rotas and rules for where you can and can’t play during break and lunchtimes • follow the rules for using toilets, only use the ones assigned to your class group, no more than 3 children at a time!

Nursery & Reception learning You will have your own Outside your adults will tell you space on the carpet. where you can play. You will have to stay in your There will be less things for own classroom. you to play with. Only play with the things set out on tables.

Years 1 & 6 learning You will have your own desk, spaced apart from other children. Use your own things, not shared with others. At the end of a lesson leave your book open for your teacher to give you feedback. Do not move around the classroom.

Learning Year 1, 6 and children of key workers • Oak Academy for English and maths • Phonics and guided reading • Physical activity outside • Fielding Learning Challenge • Looking after ourselves

Breaktimes Check the rota with your adult Playground zones • Use the toilet before or after break • Stay in your class group with your adult • Each day you will be able to play in a different zone with the children from your class

Lunchtime Reception, Year 1 and Year 6 You will eat lunch with your class Packed lunch • You will have 40 minutes for • Lunch will be served in lunch. disposable containers so that it can be thrown away • A playworker will stay with you while you are eating and • Click here for the menu playing. • You will sit at the same table each day. • You will use one door to go in and one door to go out

Lunchtime Key worker groups & Nursery You will eat lunch in your Packed lunch classroom • Lunch will be served in • You will have 40 minutes for disposable containers so that lunch. it can be thrown away • A playworker will stay with • Click here for the menu you while you are eating and playing.

Lunchtime Dining room – Sirius classes Reception, Year 1 & Year 6 Main hall – Canopus classes

Home time Year 6 and key worker children. Parents will collect you from the Reception and Year 1 children. playground Parents will collect you from your classroom • Your class teacher will let you know when it is time to go • Reception and Year 1 home. Year 5 & 6 children, if children, wait in your you are walking home on your classroom for your class own ask your parent to email teacher to let you know your your teacher. parent has arrived and is ready to collect you. When you are with your parent, go straight home. Stay safe. Don’t stop to chat to your friends.

Home time Y2, 3, 4 & 5 children of key • if you are staying after school, workers: you will stay in your classroom. An adult will let you know when • If you are not staying after your parent has arrived and you school, parents will collect you will be collected from the main from the middle playground, hall. • if you have a brother or sister in Nursery key worker children: school, your parents will collect them first, please wait at one of • Nursery key worker children the tables. should be collected from the Nursery at 3pm, unless they are • Year 5 children, if you are booked into afterschool care, walking home on your own ask this finishes at 6pm. your parent to email your teacher, When you are with your parent, go straight home. Stay safe. Don’t stop to chat to your friends.