School life

What another fantastic week with over 95% of the school accessing the remote learning. There have been some wonderful pieces of art, amazing cooking skills, beautifully crafted writing, determination in completing maths and wonderful conversations on Teams.

Here is just a snippet of what you have all been getting up to this week!

Lunch in school

To help with numbers and ordering of food, whilst we have reduced numbers in school. please can you complete the Parentmail form to help us with this. Thank you.

Coffee and chat

Thank you to everyone who turned up for the 'Coffee and chat' session this week. I am hoping to do this every couple of weeks. The idea is to take feedback from you, see what else we can do to help and support as well as give you a chance to talk amongst yourselves as well. Look out for the next one soon!

Resources

If you need anything like exercise books for children to record their work in, please let us know and we can arrange a time for you to come and collect some from the main office. Reading books will not be able to go home at this moment in time. We are looking at what we can offer.

Assembly

You can find this weeks assembly below

We have set up a new team on Teams with the whole school in. There will be an assembly on a Monday and Friday for you join in with. I look forward to seeing as many of you as possible on Monday morning at 10am.

School social media accounts

If you are working from home, you can share your amazing work with us on Teams or via Twitter @Galley_Hill

Free School Meals

If your child is in Reception to Year 6 - you may be entitled to free school meals.

Who's eligible?

Children may be able to receive free school meals if their parent/carer receives at least one of the following:

Universal Credit - (providing you have an annual net earned income of no more than £7,400 as assessed by earnings from up to three of your most recent assessment periods)

Income Support

Income Based Jobseekers Allowance

Income Related Employment and Support Allowance

The Guaranteed Element of Pension Credit

Support under part V1 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999

Child Tax Credit - provided you are not also entitled to Working Tax Credit and have an annual gross income as assessed by Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs of no more than £16,190

A 'Run-On' of Working Tax Credit - paid for 4 weeks after you stop qualifying for Working Tax Credit

If you think you would qualify, no matter which year group your child(ren) are in, please do let us know, or contact Redcar and Cleveland authority directly who administer all free school meal registrations on 01642 774774. As soon they complete the form with you over the phone, we will get an email.

Special Educational Needs catch up and chat

Next week, 20th January at 5pm, I will be hosting a Zoom call for anyone that would like to come along for support and further suggestions on how to support the learning at home. It will be a great opportunity to meet and chat with other parents, as well as sharing 'top tips'. I will send a Zoom link via Parentmail on Monday.

Devices

If you are in need of a device, please do let us know. We have a few still available in school to lend out. Also, I have secured some Vodaphone Sim Cards with 30GB of data on, so if anyone requires further data support, please do let us know. We are here to help support in any way we can.

Covid

If you are self isolating or have tested positive and are in school with Key Worker Provision please contact us via the e-mail address: covid@galleyhillprimary.co.uk

WELL BEING SUPPORT

Finally

It is wonderful to see how the whole Galley Hill community have pulled together, once again, over the past two weeks. It is a real privilege to see how parents, carers, children and staff have all rallied together to make the best of the current situation for the children in school and those at home.

I would also like to say a big Thank You to all the staff in school. The cleaners who make sure that we can continue to come into school, Mr. Unthank who ensures that the site is safe (especially over the past two days clearing snow and ice), all the Kitchen staff who have continued to adapt to the changes in school, the office staff who continue to keep up with last minute changes. The teaching assistants and teachers who continue to adapt to whatever is thrown their way. I would also like to thank all of you at home, for continuing to be amazing with everything you are doing at home, and working with us through every step of this journey.

Take care, stay safe and have a wonderful weekend.

Mr McGeeney