Stanmore Post - 3 July 2020 — Stanmore Primary Winchester

Dear Parents,

We are looking forward to welcoming children back in next week for their morning visits Children should arrive between 8:30am and 9:00am wearing school uniform and trainers. All parents and children should follow the one way system to be dropped off and collected at the middle door on the KS2 playground. They can bring a water bottle, a snack and sun cream but no other bags or belongings. Children should be collected at 12 noon. Mr Read and Mrs Jones will greet the children in Meerkats. Miss Evers and Mrs Jones will greet the children in Lemurs.

Year 2 'Meerkats' - Monday July 6th & Tuesday July 7th 2020
Year 3 'Lemurs' - Thursday July 9th & Friday July 10th 2020

Transition Back to School and Managing Worries

As we plan for children to return to school, we recognise that members of our school community returning after a long period of absence may be worried and have strong feelings and emotions about the transition. These worries are normal. Everyone has been affected by the pandemic in some way, and we recognise the importance of supporting all of our families back to school. As a school, we have summarised some information and helpful tips from the mental health and wellbeing team, which can be found on our school website here: https://www.stanmore.hants.sch.uk/news/2020/5/22/resources-to-help-your-child-in-their-return-to-school

Reports

Reports will be sent home over the next couple of weeks. They will be staggered to line up with the days that the year groups are returning to school for their morning visits. This helps us manage the distribution of the reports. Year 2 reports will be sent home on Tuesday and Year 3 on Friday. Other year groups will receive their reports next week.

Virtual Sports Day

This year's Sports Day is going to be a little bit different, due to the current situation we find ourselves in, so we are going to do a Virtual Sports Day.

Here you will find a booklet containing 5 different sporty activities

Bottle Flip
Run, Run, Run
Sock Dribble
Speed Bounce
Under and Over

You can choose which day of the week to do this on at home. We will make sure that the children in school are given the opportunity to participate too. Once you have completed the challenges and recorded your scores, please email your results and any photos to the usual year group emails by the end of the day on Friday 10th July.

Leavers' Service

This year the Year 6 Leavers' Service will also be a virtual experience. If your child is not at school and would like to take part, then please email a 5 second clip of them waving to their class and holding a 'Goodbye Stanmore' poster. Email to: year5and6@stanmoreprimary.com

There will be special activities for each year group to mark the end of term and more details of these will be shared by their class teacher.