Ribbleton Avenue Methodist Junior School

Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.

• Internet Access

  Mon 04 Jan 2021 Mrs Nickson

  If you are struggling with internet access due to limited data allowance School may be able request mobile data increases for children and young people who:

   

  🖤do not have fixed broadband at home

  🖤cannot afford additional data for their devices

  🖤are experiencing disruption to their face-to-face education

   

  Children with access to a mobile phone on one of the following networks might be able to benefit:

   

  🧡Three

  🧡Smarty

  🧡Virgin Mobile

  🧡EE

  🧡Tesco Mobile

  🧡Sky Mobile

   

  If you think this may help then please contact school and we will see if a request can be made.

   

  For each request, we need to know:

   

  💙the name of the account holder

  💙the number of the mobile device

  💙the mobile network of that device (for example Three)

   

  If increasing mobile data isn’t a suitable option for some children, school may be able to access 4G wireless routers so please do let us know as we may be able to access some further support to enable more children access to digital learning and online resources 💚🧡💛💙💜

• Seesaw and online learning

  Mon 04 Jan 2021 Mrs Tipton

  For children who have access to seesaw, teachers will set work online daily to the children's seesaw account by 9am. This can be completed at their own pace throughout the day. The work uploaded will include a range of Maths, English and topic work every day. Teachers will also send out invitations via seesaw to join video 'zoom' registrations to allow children to see and speak to their teachers and class members daily. Teachers will be available via seesaw between the hours of  8:30am-3.30pm if you need to contact them.

• Wider school closure from 4th January

  Sun 03 Jan 2021

  Dear Parents and Carers,

   

  Thank you for your patience and  continued support.  I am sure that this will not come as a suprise and as many of you will be aware, there has been increasing concerns regarding the safety and well being of pupils and staff in schools across the country from various professional bodies.

   

  It has been reported that the new variant of the Covid-19 virus is spreading much more rapidly and is causing significant problems across the country.  You may also be aware from the news that there are calls to keep schools closed for a period of two weeks so that the spread can be reduced.   

  The main teaching and school leader unions are giving advice to move to remote learning and I want to clarify for you the reasons why. 

  Whilst we know that children, thankfully, rarely become ill with the virus there is still a lot of uncertainty about the role they play in spreading the virus and the impact this has on the spread in the community.   Until there is further clarity around this, the main teaching unions have advised that schools remain shut.  Keeping everyone in our school family safe is our number one priority, this includes all of our pupils, their families and our staff team.

   

  Unfortunately, school is unable to open to the wider community from January 4th 2021 due to limited staffing.  As you can imagine, this has been an incredibly stressful time for our whole school community and the decision to limit face to face teaching has not been taken lightly; however, school will continue to provide:

  • Remote Learning via Seesaw
  • Learning packs for those with no internet access
  • Meal packs for families in receipt of Free School Meals (please order with school office)

   

  At present, we anticipate that school will be closed this week and we will continually review the situation and reopen our doors as soon as we feel it is safe to do so.

   

  As was the case in March, school will continue to operate Key Worker and Vulnerable children provision.  I have included a link to complete should you be a Key Worker and wish for your child to access this provision.

  https://forms.gle/yTVbEpcfp4rYYQpU6

  We will notify parents of Vulnerable children via text message.

   

  We will continue to provide Breakfast club for Key worker/Vulnerable children from 8am and if you are not accessing this provision the start and finish times will remain the same:

   

  Year 6

  8:50 am-2:50 pm

   

  Year 5

  9:00 am-3:00 pm

   

  Year 4

  9:10 am-3:10 pm

   

  Year 3

  9:20 am-3:20 pm

   

  Thank you for your ongoing support-we hope to see everyone safely reunited as soon as possible

   

• School Re-opening

  Sat 02 Jan 2021 Mrs Nickson

  To Our RAMJS family,

   

  May I start by wishing you all a very Happy New Year.  We are hopeful that 2021 will be a kinder year and the lessons learnt from 2020 will help us to be stronger as a school and as a community.

   

  I know many of you will be seeing information in the news regarding schools remaining closed.

  At present we are still expected to open on 4th January 2021 for all children, as instructed by the government, however should this change, we will make you aware as soon as possible. 

   

  As has been the case with much of the Covid 19 information, protocols and rules are constantly being changed and updated rapidly and these announcements are made public, via social media and news outlets, before schools have officially been informed and given the opportunity to share the news ourselves. We therefore ask for you to please be patient. Like you we want to welcome our children back safely, following advice from the official sources.

   

  Kindest Regards

  Mrs Nickson