Return to school Monday 8th March 2021

Please see below a document regarding our school reopening next Monday.

March 8th – information for parents/carers

World Book Day – 4th March 2021 

World Book Day is a celebration to promote the enjoyment of books and reading. This year, the day will be a bit different as most children are staying at home, but there are still plenty of ways to get involved in the fun!

You might want to get dressed up as your favourite character and sent a picture to your teacher on Class Dojo (our Key Worker children can come into school on the day dressed up).  Or, you could get creative and make your favourite character – why not transform a potato or wooden spoon into your favourite book character?

This year to celebrate books and stories we know and love, the staff at Easington C of E Primary School will become The Masked Readers – each member of staff will be disguising themselves by wearing a virtual mask and reading an extract from ‘The Gruffalo’ by Julia Donaldson. Your challenge is to correctly identify who each reader is. Videos will be posted on Class Dojo for you and your children to watch. You might want to leave your guesses as comments on Class Story! 

We hope you will join in with us celebrating World Book Day and we look forward to your guesses!

Kind regards,

Miss Defty

Good morning everyone,

As always I hope this update finds you all safe and well.

Further to the Prime Ministers announcement last night, I am delighted to confirm that our school will be open to all of our wonderful children from Monday 8th March.

As a staff, we simply cannot wait to welcome everyone back into the routine of school life. We have missed our children and families so much and we are all genuinely excited to get back to some kind of normality.

I will be providing a further update next week confirming final details regarding our full school opening.

Until then stay safe, stay positive and we’ll see you all soon! ❤️❤️

God bless

Mr Appleby

Good afternoon everyone

In what has been an extremely challenging 6 weeks, I could not be any prouder of our school community. Each and every one of you have simply been amazing.

The support, care, patience, co-operation and teamwork we have all shown to provide our children with the best education possible, has been nothing short of OUTSTANDING.

The children, as always, have been our shining light in the moments of darkness and have shown true resilience and amazing character. We are so proud of you all.

Rest assured, as soon as I am informed of any updates in the coming weeks, you will be the first to know.

As a school, we hugely value your opinion and are always reflecting upon our practice to make our school the best it can be for our children. It would be greatly appreciated if parents could complete the questionnaire provided below (follow the link) and email it to easingtonce@durhamlearning.net by Friday 19th February or as soon as possible.

I sincerely wish everyone a happy, restful and enjoyable half term – you really do deserve it.

Stay safe, God Bless and thank you all for being part of our wonderful Easington family.

Kind Regards

Mr Appleby

Parent questionnaire FEBRUARY 2021 – REMOTE LEARNING PROVISION

Please see below some information and links which Durham County Council have asked schools to share with parents/carers.

Self isolating Family Friendly A4

https://www.durham.gov.uk/article/24952/How-to-prevent-the-spread-of-Covid-19-if-your-child-is-at-school

https://www.durham.gov.uk/article/24953/Self-isolating-for-schools

Good afternoon everyone

As always I hope this message finds you all safe and well.

To our parents, grandparents and staff – you have all been amazing. Another extremely hard week of trying to juggle so many things has come to an end and you should be truly proud of yourselves for the amazing effort you are all putting in. Our children never cease to amaze me – they really are an example to us all.

I hope you have found the introduction of the daily Zoom meetings beneficial, once again I have had very positive feedback from teachers regarding this.

I know the announcement this week about schools not starting back after the half term was disappointing, but again I think we all understand the reasons behind this decision. As a school, we will continue to do all that we can to support our families and children in the coming weeks. Please do not hesitate to get in touch with your child’s class teacher via dojo, or with the school directly if there is anything at all we can help you with.

Once again try to stay strong, keep positive and remember what an amazing job you are all doing!

Have a lovely weekend

God Bless

Mr Appleby

Dear parents,

RE: COVID-19 asymptomatic testing for staff in primary schools and nurseries

Dear Key Worker parents,

As you are aware we normally have a Breakfast Club running in school, however under the current circumstances it has been challenging to provide this.

Over the past week I have had a couple of parents asking if it would be possible to drop their children off at an earlier time.  As a school, we want to do all that we can to support our Key Worker parents during this incredibly difficult time.

Therefore, from Monday 25th January we will be reinstating our Breakfast Club provision which will run from 8am to 8.45am Monday to Friday. 

The cost of the provision will be £1 per session.  Please email easingtonce@durhamlearning.net Friday weekly to inform us of the Breakfast Club provision you need for the following week.

We know that the majority of our children will continue to arrive at 8.45am, however we hope this new provision will be a welcome addition for those parents who need to use it as a necessity.

Kind regards

Mr Appleby