It has been a busy week in school, as well as for those of you at home. All of the work that you continue to do to support your children at school is amazing. We will continue to help and support over the next few weeks, so please do get in contact if you need any help and support with anything, we will try our best to help. Next week is Mental Health Awareness week. We will be doing several events, so keep an eye on Parentmail and Facebook.

School life

What a fantastic week of learning from you all. I have had the privilege of seeing some more of you in your lessons this week, as well as seeing you during assemblies. It was also the first week for our Book Reviews. It has been wonderful to see the vast array of books that all the children are reading at home. Well done and keep up the reading and reviews, they will all be going on the school website.

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.

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.

Book Review winners

Thank you to everyone who entered a book review. We have drawn our winners for this week who can choose any book, up to the value of £10. We start again now, we will draw another 4 winners next week. Keep up the wonderful reading, it's a real pleasure to see the amazing things that you are reading at home and in school. Winners, check your Teams chat as I have messaged you.

EYFS Winner - Eliza (Reception)

KS1 Winner - Felicity (Y2)

LKS2 Winner - Dexter (Y4)

UKS2 Winner - Imogen (Y5)

Assembly

You can find this weeks assembly below

It is great to see so many people sharing the amazing things that you are doing at home and in school! See you on Monday for our next assembly.

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.

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

REDCAR AND CLEVELAND CORONAVIRUS INFORMATION

School has been made aware of a few cases of children being outside with several friends on local streets, and other areas. I've attached the latest Redcar and Cleveland Coronovirus information.

Coronavirus Advice​

National Lockdown: Stay at Home

You must stay at home. The single most important action we can all take is to stay at home to protect the NHS and save lives.

You should follow this guidance immediately. The law will be updated to reflect these new rules.

Leaving home

You must not leave, or be outside of your home except where necessary. You may leave the home to:

• shop for basic necessities, for you or a vulnerable person
• go to work, or provide voluntary or charitable services, if you cannot reasonably do so from home
• exercise with your household (or support bubble) or one other person, this should be limited to once per day, and you should not travel outside your local area.
• meet your support bubble or childcare bubble where necessary, but only if you are legally permitted to form one
• seek medical assistance or avoid injury, illness or risk of harm (including domestic abuse)
• attend education or childcare - for those eligible

Colleges, primary and secondary schools will remain open only for vulnerable children and the children of critical workers. All other children will learn remotely.

If you do leave home for a permitted reason, you should always stay local in the village, town, or part of the city where you live. You may leave your local area for a legally permitted reason, such as for work.

If you are clinically extremely vulnerable you should only go out for medical appointments, exercise or if it is essential. You should not attend work​

Finally

Have a fantastic weekend and a well earned rest. You are all doing amazing things at school and at home. It is looking very likely that we will be welcoming more children back into school in the first few weeks of March and we will continue to keep you up to date with any information that we may receive.

Look forward to seeing you all on Monday morning for assembly at 10am.

Take care, stay safe and have a wonderful weekend.

Mr McGeeney