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Grab Bags Tuesday 31st
Tue 31 Mar 2020 -
Key Worker Emergency Childcare
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Free School Meals
Fri 27 Mar 2020Morning, please call to school (KS2 entrance) between 12pm and 1pm to collect your packed lunch. Please call school 02920461894, if you need help. Thanks.
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Tuesday 24th FREE SCHOOL MEALS
Tue 24 Mar 2020We will be handing out packed lunches for children who have free school meals from the KS2 entrance again today. Stay safe, follow social distancing and please return straight home. To keep space in school, FP from 12pm and KS2 from 12.30pm. Thanks
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Free School Meals
Sun 22 Mar 2020From Monday 23rd March, Cardiff Council will be offering a ‘Grab Bag’ consisting of a cheese sandwich, crisps, water and fruit to all pupils eligable for FREE SCHOOL MEALS.
If you child is currently eligible for a free school meal you will be able to collect a packed lunch grab bag from school on Monday from 12:00 p.m.
If your child is currently provided with free home to school transport you are able to collect their packed lunch grab bag from your local Primary School.
Pupils will not be allowed to consume the lunch on site and when collecting from the school please be aware of the current guidance for social distancing.
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Emergency Child Care Facility
Sun 22 Mar 202022.3.20 Health & Safety Update – Week Beginning Monday 23.3.20 – Emergency Child Care Support
Dear Parent / Carer,
The purpose of closing schools is to restrict and minimise social contact and reduce the risk of being infected by the coronavirus. Therefore, if it is at all possible, please keep your children at home. However, when arranging childcare, please take into account government and public health advice regarding keeping at risk members of the public safe, including grandparents and any other relatives that are over 70 or have underlying medical conditions.
From Monday 23rd March, following advice from the Local Authority & Welsh Government, we will be offering child care support for families of key workers. These are the people directly involved with the immediate response to the Coronavirus outbreak, so this support is initially for children of ‘blue light’ services, health care, social care, and education to ensure that these vital workers are given every opportunity to be in work and to get on with their efforts to care for others, and protect our lives and wellbeing. This is being constantly monitored.
In the first instance, we need to identify children whose parents work in either the Health and Social Care sectors (including Homeless Hostels and Outreach), or the Emergency Services or Education.
Please can you email Emergencychildcare@badenpowell-cardiff.co.uk if you fall into any of these categories and provide:
- Your name, address, contact details
- The name(s) and age(s) of your children
- Details of any additional support needs that your children may have e.g. Medical, learning, behaviour
- Your employer and your job role
- The days and hours you would require childcare at school, including any ‘non-typical’ hours
i.e. weekends and/or hours outside 8.30am to 3.30pm
Provision at Baden Powell Primary School will be available on Monday morning 23rd March, BETWEEN 8.30am and 3.30pm (to be reviewed), if you are in one of the above categories and cannot access ANY OTHER childcare. We will confirm that you are allocated a place. Should you fall into one of the other Keyworker categories listed by the UK Government, please email Emergencychildcare@badenpowell-cardiff.co.uk and we will also collate your details and will provide further information on school access early next week. If you have pre-school children, please can you contact the Family Gateway for advice on 03000 133133.
Stay in Touch - We will review these arrangements very carefully with the Local Authority on a daily basis and will keep you up-to-date of any changes. We are confident that if this advice is followed, we will all make a significant contribution towards protecting our pupils and our staff. The guidance issued in this letter is based on the most recent advice from UK Government and from discussions across the Council. Please make sure that you use our Twitter feed, read Parent Pay messages and check the school website for all updates.
I would again like to express sincere thanks to everyone for your support and understanding at this extremely difficult and challenging time. Please stay positive, safe and indoors.
Mrs Ceri Gibbon
Acting Headteacher
If your work is critical to the COVID-19 response, or you work in one of the critical sectors listed below, and you cannot keep your child safe at home then your children will be prioritised for education provision: (health, social and emergency, and education will be 1st priority).
Health and social care This includes but is not limited to doctors, nurses, midwives, paramedics, social workers, care workers, and other frontline health and social care staff including volunteers; the support and specialist staff required to maintain the UK’s health and social care sector; those working as part of the health and social care supply chain, including producers and distributers of medicines and medical and personal protective equipment.
Education and childcare This includes nursery and teaching staff, social workers and those specialist education professionals who must remain active during the COVID-19 response to deliver this approach.
Key public services This includes those essential to the running of the justice system, religious staff, charities and workers delivering key frontline services, those responsible for the management of the deceased, and journalists and broadcasters who are providing public service broadcasting.
Local and national government This only includes those administrative occupations essential to the effective delivery of the COVID-19 response or delivering essential public services such as the payment of benefits, including in government agencies and arms length bodies.
Food and other necessary goods This includes those involved in food production, processing, distribution, sale and delivery as well as those essential to the provision of other key goods (for example hygienic and veterinary medicines).
Public safety and national security This includes police and support staff, Ministry of Defence civilians, contractor and armed forces personnel (those critical to the delivery of key defence and national security outputs and essential to the response to the COVID-19 pandemic), fire and rescue service employees (including support staff), National Crime Agency staff, those maintaining border security, prison and probation staff and other national security roles, including those overseas.
Transport This includes those who will keep the air, water, road and rail passenger and freight transport modes operating during the COVID-19 response, including those working on transport systems through which supply chains pass.
Utilities, communication and financial services This includes staff needed for essential financial services provision (including but not limited to workers in banks, building societies and financial market infrastructure), the oil, gas, electricity and water sectors (including sewerage), information technology and data infrastructure sector and primary industry supplies to continue during the COVID-19 response, as well as key staff working in the civil nuclear, chemicals, telecommunications (including but not limited to network operations, field engineering, call centre staff, IT and data infrastructure, 999 and 111 critical services), postal services and delivery, payments providers and waste disposal sectors.
If workers think they fall within the critical categories above they should confirm with their employer that, based on their business continuity arrangements, their specific role is necessary for the continuation of this essential public service.
If our school is forced to close, please contact Cardiff Council (029 20 872087), who will seek to redirect you to a local school in the area that your child, or children, can attend.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-maintaining-educational-provision/guidance-for-schools-colleges-and-local-authorities-on-maintaining-educational-provision
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Coronavirus Update
Fri 20 Mar 2020Do you work in Health or Social Care, and have no alternative means of childcare when schools close? Please call school to discuss. Thank you. -
Awaiting Further Guidance
Thu 19 Mar 2020We are due to close the school from Friday at 3pm, in line with Government advice.
We are awaiting further guidance from Cardiff Council and Welsh Government, and will keep all social media up to date. Thank you for your support at this difficult time.
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Statement from Minister for Education, Kirsty Williams, on school closures in Wales
Thu 19 Mar 2020Firstly, I would like to extend my gratitude to all those working in our education and childcare settings for the critical work you have been undertaking, under incredible pressure to support our children and young people. You have been at the front-line in supporting wider efforts to prepare for the challenges we are all now facing and I am incredibly grateful and proud.
Today, I can announce we are bringing forward the Easter break for schools in Wales. Schools across Wales will close for statutory provision of education at the latest on 20 March 2020.
I have been clear up to now that the continuity of education and the wellbeing of our learners has been at the heart of my decision making. This will always be the case.
From next week, schools will have a new purpose. They will help support those most in need, including people involved in the immediate response to the coronavirus outbreak. I am working with my colleagues in the Cabinet, with government officials and our partners in local government to develop and finalise these plans.
The key areas we are looking at are supporting and safeguarding the vulnerable and ensuring continuity of learning. We are looking in detail at how we can support and safeguard all those who benefit from free school meals and children with additional learning needs. I will make sure you are kept up-to-date.
While this will apply to schools, childcare settings are expected to remain open until we have definitive advice from the Chief Medical Officer and from Public Health Wales that any closures are required. Parents can, and should, speak with their usual childcare providers if they need care over the Easter holidays.
I have discussed my intentions with the Leader of the Welsh Local Government Association, Andrew Morgan, who reflects the views of local authorities. Some school staff will likely have an important role to play in this. We are working closely with our key stakeholders to look at what this will look like for both education and childcare settings, including Flying Start. This position will of course evolve over the coming days and will be reviewed on an ongoing basis.
One of the critical decisions that we will seek to clarify with urgency is that of the forthcoming examinations. I am also working with Qualifications Wales and the WJEC about this year’s exam series. In line with all education ministers across the UK, I will be making a further announcement shortly.
From the outset, the decisions being taken have been focused on public health advice, and it is right that these science-based recommendations are front and centre of the decisions being made.
The announcement I am making today will help ensure an orderly closure for schools so that they have the time to prepare. However, I am conscious that the SAGE Committee and COBR meet this afternoon, and I will of course be listening closely to see if advice changes and any further urgent decisions about school closures are needed.
Today’s decision will help ensure an orderly closure, so schools have time to prepare ahead of the early break.
My main message for everyone is to stay safe and stay well. We will work together and we will face this outbreak together.
I will of course continue to keep you updated.
Please follow the latest public health advice. The latest guidance is always available on our website at gov.wales/coronavirus
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Coronavirus - When to stay at home
Tue 17 Mar 2020NHS: Stay at home: guidance for people with confirmed or possible coronavirus (COVID-19) infection Updated 17 March
Symptoms
The most common symptoms of coronavirus (COVID-19) are recent onset of:
- new continuous cough and/or
- high temperature
For most people, coronavirus (COVID-19) will be a mild illness.
Main messages
- if you live alone and you have symptoms of coronavirus illness (COVID-19), however mild, stay at home for 7 days from when your symptoms started.
- if you live with others and you or one of them have symptoms of coronavirus, then all household members must stay at home and not leave the house for 14 days. The 14-day period starts from the day when the first person in the house became ill, it is likely that people living within a household will infect each other or be infected already. Staying at home for 14 days will greatly reduce the overall amount of infection the household could pass on to others in the community
- for anyone in the household who starts displaying symptoms, they need to stay at home for 7 days from when the symptoms appeared, regardless of what day they are on in the original 14 day isolation period.
- if you can, move any vulnerable individuals (such as the elderly and those with underlying health conditions) out of your home, to stay with friends or family for the duration of the home isolation period
- if you cannot move vulnerable people out of your home, stay away from them as much as possible
- if you have coronavirus symptoms:
- do not go to a GP surgery, pharmacy or hospital
- you do not need to contact 111 to tell them you’re staying at home
- testing for coronavirus is not needed if you’re staying at home
- plan ahead and ask others for help to ensure that you can successfully stay at home and consider what can be done for vulnerable people in the household
- ask your employer, friends and family to help you to get the things you need to stay at home
- wash your hands regularly for 20 seconds, each time using soap and water, or use hand sanitiser
- if you feel you cannot cope with your symptoms at home, or your condition gets worse, or your symptoms do not get better after 7 days, then use the NHS Direct 111 online coronavirus service. If you do not have internet access, call NHS Direct 111. For a medical emergency dial 999
