Good Afternoon I hope you are ok and doing some of your work too!!!

I have had some lovely photos this week. Do send me more (as long as your parents are ok for me to pop the pictures on the newsletter)to headteacher@thehillsacademy.co.uk

Obviously we still have no further news on when schools will reopen and what that is going to look like in the early stages. We have a contingency in place if the government asks us to open on a reduced offer with social distancing, but will await decisions on this.  We have a very small number of children in school, they are those children who have both parents as key workers out of the home or are in a single parent family where that parent is the key worker. There are also a small number of vulnerable pupils in school.  There is a rota of teachers, support staff, lunchtime supervisors etc and this is going well at the moment.

If you are a key worker and either you or any of your family have symptoms you can now register for a Covid-19 test at https://self-referral.test-for-coronavirus.service.gov.uk/

Good Morning – I hope you had a lovely week and are still being good for your grown ups!  I have heard from lots of you which is soooooooo lovely!

Believe it or not it is Friday. Most of my message today is for the children; I would normally do an assembly for them this morning and I thought I’d point you/them in the direction of something ‘assembly like’.

However we did want to let you know that Carol Vorderman has made her maths teaching site free for the time being – it’s definitely worth a look and suitable for 4 – 12 year olds.

http://www.themathsfactor.com/

I hope everyone is ok and keeping to the advice given. If you are struggling then please do ask for help. You can email me headteacher@thehillsacademy.co.uk

In our school we have a great library, which has recently opened the doors at lunchtime to the wonderful Ks2 pupils in school.  We have a new librarian who is there to help the children during this time.