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Dear Parents and Carers,

You will have seen some information released this week about Free School Meals (FSM) provision.

From Monday 20th April the Government will issue Free School Meals vouchers to parents and carers of pupils eligible for FSM. This new system will be to the value of £15 per week per child. As we have set up a voucher system this month it should come into your emails in a similar way.
If you have changed your email or not received it please contact info@tlacademy.org.uk
Please do not message on Facebook or Messenger as the admin team will not get this message!

This new system does not begin until after Easter, and the Government says schools should not support over Easter, however we will still be issuing our £8 vouchers each week until this happens.

Your child may be able to get free school meals if you get any of the following
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EASTER BREAK

From Friday 3rd April at 3.00pm school staff on Easter break. Your daily ‘Home Learning’ messages will stop and will begin again on Monday 20th April. In the meantime, more general activities broken into Key Stages are available on our website (https://www.templelearningacademy.org/covid-19-updates/home-learning/)

Have a lovely Easter. Look after each other.

The TLA Team

Need Help with your Energy Supplier?
What can it do? How to get help.

British Gas
Hasn’t yet committed to sending out top-up cards or keys loaded with credit.
If you’re in isolation and you think you’ll use up your balance and emergency credit, contact British Gas and it has said it’ll find a solution on a case-by-case basis. See its FAQs.
Call 0333 202 9802

EDF
EDF says it can post top-up cards or keys loaded with credit to your home.
EDF has advised people who self-isolate to ask friends and family to help you top up. Where this is not possible, it says it can deliver ‘preloaded’ cards and keys if you need to self-isolate – this balance will then be collected back at a “suitable rate” later.
Call 0333 200 5100

E.on
E.on says it can post top-up cards or keys loaded with credit to your home or send an engineer to top up your meter.
It says if your electricity meter falls below 50p of emergency credit,

We’ve come to the end of an unimaginable month.

Things we deal with now on a daily basis felt like something from science fiction movie only a few short weeks ago.

Regardless, TLA continues.

See attached our March newsletter with updates, good news and important messages.

Newsletter March 2020

Please only attend tomorrow if you have:
1. You have confirmed an invitation from Miss Smith earlier in the week
2. You have booked a key worker session through the booking system

If your child is due to attend school on Monday please read the following carefully.

The school day will be 9am – 3pm and pupils need to attend in full school uniform. Please only use the bottom car park and entrance to school and come as close to the above times as possible. You will clearly see markers on the floor should there be a que into school, please ensure you keep to these marks to ensure social distancing requirements. Do not bring bookbags, packed lunches etc as we have everything we need in school. Please only bring your child’s water bottle which is clearly named.
Please work with staff on Monday and follow their lead to ensure a smooth and quick transition into and out of school.

Dear Parent/Carer

We have just received further information from the government regarding the arrangements being put in place for ‘Critical Workers’ to be able to continue to send their child to school during the Corona outbreak. You can see the full guidance here Guidance We are working as quickly as possible with our staff and the support of the Trust to get provision in place but this will take a little time and we really need your help.

There are several key points to bear in mind:

• Every child who can be safely cared for at home should be.
• There is no requirement for parents and carers to send their children to school if they do not need or wish to do so.
• The provision is only for ‘Critical Workers’ and vulnerable children, the full list of critical workers and further information is available here. Critical Workers
• Children with at least one parent or carer who are identified as critical workers by the government can send their children to school if required.

Dear Parents and Carers,

Apologies first for sending out so much information at once but please do take the time to read it.

I would like to thank you for all of your support, understanding and patience over the past few weeks as we tried to respond to Government guidance re. the Coronavirus. You are all aware that yesterday we received notice to close schools from Friday this week and we are currently in the process of planning for this.

Whilst there are still many ‘unknowns’ we are able to plan for a few ‘knowns’ and I would like to share details with you. Throughout the school closure period I will keep you up to date with developments via emails and text messages.

Knowns

1. Schools have been asked to provide a childcare service for Key Workers who have no alternative childcare provision. Whilst we wait for greater clarity on this we have started to build a picture of how many children this may involve in order to plan for a service,

UNFORTUNATELY we have had to make the difficult decision to STOP ALL AFTER SCHOOL CLUBS from tomorrow, Wednesday 18th March until further notice.

We are sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.

Letter to parents from Trust 16 03 2020

COVID-19 UPDATE

Dear parents and carers,
We write to share the most recent guidance that we have received regarding Corona virus (COVID19) and outline our school’s response to this guidance. We have also attached a link to guidance taken from the GOV.UK website which explains how to keep yourselves safe at home should you develop symptoms, https://www.gov.uk/…/publica…/covid-19-stay-at-home-guidance

At the moment the Government and Public Health England state that they have moved from the containment part of their plan to the delay part; this is designed to slow down the spread of the virus using the following methods:
· Frequent handwashing.
· Staying at home for seven days if you have a new persistent cough and/or fever.

We continue to ensure that children and staff wash hands on arrival at school, after playtime, before lunch, after lunchtime and after afternoon play, children are also being asked to wash their hands if they sneeze, cough or blow their noses.