Roose Community Primary School North Row Barrow-in-Furness Cumbria LA13 0HF Telephone: 01229 838841 e-mail: admin@roose.cumbria.sch.uk website: www.rooseprimary.co.uk Headteacher: Mrs Wendy R Jacobs
Wednesday 11th July 2018 Late opening next term – Monday 10th September 2018 Dear Parents and Carers We had the pre-works meeting, about the summer refurbishments, in school yesterday. The work will begin on Monday 23rd July and will not be completed until Friday 31 st August. This is hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of work, being paid for by Cumbria County Council. The contents of the entire school must be packed away, to be stored off-site, by the end of term. During the school holiday, staff will not be able to get into school. This means that if we stick to the published term dates we would only have one working day to put the school back together. This is not feasible. Therefore, Cumbria County Council have said that school will remain closed to the children until Monday 10th September. All the staff will be in school for the week before working really hard, arranging the learning environments, unpacking and ensuring that all health and safety requirements are in place. I realise that this will have childcare implications for many parents and carers. We also realise that this is quite short notice, but as the meeting with all the contractors was only held yesterday, this is the soonest I could make you aware of this situation.
Yours sincerely
Wendy R Jacobs Headteacher