What a wonderful morning we have had, celebrating the official opening of our Little Kenelm’s Pre- School. Thank you to all the staff & Governors for supporting us with this new adventure; it is through sheer hard work and a shared vision, that has enabled this to become a reality for us. James Morris MP spoke to all the staff, Governors & children about how wonderful our school is before he officially opened it by cutting the ribbon; he then joined all the Governors in the Pre- School, with the staff & children for a tea party. Fr Gerry asked for special blessings on all the children and the staff, now and in the future. .🤗💕😊 

Safeguarding Alert: 
We have received a message from Hagley High School stating that an inappropriate video has been posted on TikTok: We have no evidence that it has been seen by your child, but felt it was important to make you aware. Please ensure your children avoid this site and monitor their social media to ensure it is appropriate. 🙁 If you have any concerns regarding the content of this alert, please contact me immediately! Thank you from Mrs F 

Celebrating the birthday of our Blessed Saint, Mother Mary; on Tuesday 8th September, we will be celebrating Our Lady’s birthday in school. Little Kenelm’s will be honouring her with a tea party on Tuesday! 🤗🙏💕🌈

 

If you would like to donate flowers for the Prayer Tables, a shrub for the Mary Garden or flowers for the Mary Chapel, in honour of Mary, please send them into school on Tuesday morning! Thank you for your support! 💕💐💕

MORNING DROP OFF CHANGES

 

From Monday, to aid social distancing, ALL CLASSES can filter into school from 8:45 to 9:00.

 

Parents expected to use this window to ensure social distancing can be enforced.

 

Pre-school & afternoons pick up times will not change.

In a 'normal' year, parents have the opportunity to come in one night after school to meet their child’s teacher & support staff.  Unfortunately, due to Covid 19- this is unable to happen this year!
 

Under the Children section of the website there is a new 'Welcome to Class' section. Staff have created a wealth of information for you all about starting back in a new class and the expectations for it.  It is vitally important that you read the section for your child/ren so that you know important information for the start of the year.

 

Your child’s ‘Class Page!’ also has lots of information and this will be updated regularly throughout the year with news, photos and information so please keep looking at it! 

September 2020 return

 

We are really looking forward to welcoming the children back to school next week on Thursday 3rd September. We are fully committed to your children’s well-being and education and, although their return to school will be different to usual, your child will be supported on their individual learning journey.

 

It is vital that all children return to school next week and become familiar with new routines with their peers. Teachers will be working hard to ensure that learning gaps are identified quickly and that any learning that has been lost over the past few months is addressed quickly.

 

In order to keep our school community safe, the start and end time of the school day will need to be staggered in order to reduce the number of parents and children at the school gate at the same time. Please ensure that you are on time! 
 

Staggered starts & ends to the day! 
 

YR, Y1 & Y2; start time 8:45 and finish at 3:00pm

Important: New YR parents, please see Reception Class page on the school website for more detailed information regarding transition into YR (changes have been updated)

 

Y4 & Y3: start time 9am and finish at 3:15 Y6 & Y5: start time 9:15- Finish 3:30pm

 

If your child is in KS1 & you have a sibling in KS2, they will both/all, come to school at 8:45 and finish at 3pm.

 

Pupils must not bring anything into school except their book bag, reading book/research book/homework and water bottle (and lunch box if needed). Due to fire regulations, large rucksacks are not permitted.

 

The school has taken every measure possible to ensure that school is as safe as possible whilst still ensuring that all students can access their full curriculum entitlement. The government are clear that it is in the best interests for children to return to school and that it is safe for them to do so. The school has completed a full risk assessment to this end, and your child will be in a bubble of thirty with their class, suitably distanced within the classroom, with staggered breaks and lunch times.

 

All pupils need a water bottle. Bottles must be taken home every night and washed and then brought back each day. We will not have disposable cups available. 

 

COVID-19 symptoms

Anyone (staff/pupil) whose household member develops symptoms, should not attend school and should self-isolate for 14 days from the onset of symptoms and follow the following steps:

• Inform setting of the reason for absence i.e. household member is symptomatic
• Household member with symptoms to arrange to be tested
• If the household member’s test result is positive, 14 days isolation must be completed by all other household members
• If the outcome of the test results is negative, the self-isolation ends for the household members provided they have not developed symptoms during the isolation period
• If member of staff/pupil/ child who is self-isolating due to a positive household member develops symptoms during the isolation period, they should arrange to be tested and self-isolate for 10 days from the onset of symptoms

 

We look forward to seeing you all again soon! 
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I would like to take this opportunity to wish all our children who are starting High School next week; the very best of luck to you all. Use all your God given talents wisely; make yourself, your parents & us, proud! Sending virtual hugs 🤗 to you all, luv from Mrs F & Team OLSK.💕

 

 

I am aware that many have you have taken to social media to express your concerns about the possibility of the gates on the gulley being locked, due to antisocial behaviour & extreme vandalism to the Yemeni Centre. 
 

I want to assure you that I & the Governors have been involved with this issue for the last twelve months & have been in discussion with the local councillors, Dudley Council & the Yemini Centre, during my holidays to try and come to some sort of agreement about opening the gates for parents to access the route into school. 
 

Please don’t take to social media to vent your anger about what you think I am or am not doing about this; this is not the platform for such discussions; it is unprofessional & unwelcome. 
 

If I hear any more regarding the issue about the gates, I will inform you immediately. 
 

From Mrs Finnegan 

Sad news this week to hear that Vera Jarvis has died. Vera was a legend in "Brownie World" and led the pack at our OLSK primary school for many years. Lots of us will have very fond memories of a dedicated servant of "her girls" and the Guiding movement. 🙏😊🙏 RIP Vera! 💕

Olsk Parish: Please note that with effect from the first weekend in September (5th / 6th September) the Vigil Mass on Saturdays will be at 4.30 pm.🙏😊🙏 Please keep Father Bruce in your thoughts as he will be having treatment on Friday to ease the soreness in his throat.🙏💕🙏