Micheldever School News for March

As all of us have navigated our way through the latest national lockdown, the children at Micheldever Primary School have continued to excel and exceed all expectations. It has certainly been a challenge for children who are adapting once more to home learning, and for some children who continue to come to school, adapting to smaller class sizes and different routines. However, we have been impressed by all of the children’s abilities to continue and persevere in the trying circumstances.

A big thank you must go out to the dedicated and hard-working teachers, office staff, learning support assistants, cleaning staff, catering staff and everyone else at the school who are helping to provide a high quality provision to the children in school and at home. Their commitment to provide an excellent education for all the children in their class has been remarkable. They have adapted to many new technologies and systems to ensure that lessons they had planned to be delivered in the classroom could be adapted to remote learning, all whilst teaching the children at school as well. My gratitude to them is heartfelt.

What has been superb is to see the high quality of work that is being done at home by the children. Via our learning platform we have seen videos, photos, written work and pictures to show the range of work that children are completing at home. We know that parents (and childcare support bubbles) are working hard to ensure their learning needs are met, along with juggling work and normal life. Our thanks also goes out to the excellent work that you are doing at home as well to support the learning that we are giving the children.

As a school we have been looking for innovative and creative ways to ensure all our children continue to be excited by their learning. The term, a real highlight for us was class lockdown parties where both children at home and children in school came together via our learning platform to celebrate their learning and to be together. Our older children had upcycled some of their clothes to turn them into party wear and our younger children enjoyed making their learning about chocolate and toys come to life! We are, at the time of writing, planning how we will celebrate World Book Day together in a similar way.

Again, at the time of writing, we eagerly await any further update about what school may look like after that but want to reassure you that whatever the announcements we will endeavour to provide the very best that we can for the children at Micheldever School.

Mr T. Johnston, Acting Headteacher, Micheldever Primary School, 01962 774213