Stanmore Post - 19 June 2020

19 Jun

Dear Parents

The children in school are becoming used to the way of working with the social distancing guidelines and we are proud of the way that they are adapting and settling back into their curriculum work. Behaviour continues to be excellent. You can find examples of our work including our Learning through Empathy Day and our wonderful Titanic Collages at:

https://www.stanmore.hants.sch.uk/news/2020/6/12/summer-term-2020-work-and-house-points

Where possible we have linked the home learning to work in the classrooms so the children can have a similar experience. I am well aware that for children learning at home there are increasing pressures on parents and so we have included links to more independent learning. For families without access to a computer, we are still able to provide the learning packs, to be collected from school.

There are some changes to staffing to make you aware of. Firstly, Miss Norris has been offered an exciting opportunity as Head of Infant School at the Riders Federation in Havant for the next academic year. Miss Norris is a well-liked and respected member of our school community and she will be missed at Stanmore, but I have no doubt that she will be able to use her experience here to successfully lead her new team at Riders Infants. There will be further opportunities for us to wish Miss Norris well before the end of the term. We are looking forward to welcoming Mrs Joyce who is joining us next week and will be leading one of our Key worker pods. In the new academic year Mrs Joyce will be teaching in the Year 3 / 4 team. Mrs Mitton has already joined us in Ready to Learn and we are delighted to have her as part of the Stanmore Team.

We have taken the decision to move our planned INSET day from Monday July 13th to Wednesday July 22nd. This is for two reasons. Firstly, to create less disruption for families, particularly those who have only recently started back at school and secondly to enable us to react to any announcements for September which may not come until later in the term. Please accept my apologies if this change does cause you any inconvenience. The last day of term will now be Tuesday 21st July.