Hall Walk, Peterlee SR8 3BP
Our beautiful ‘Lockdown Learning Displays’ which show the amazing work our children produced during our enforced Remote Learning. Children were welcomed back to these displays on returning to school on Monday. We wanted to show how much we value all of their amazing hard work.
Well done children, you simply are the best! ❤️
Good morning everyone,
To welcome our fabulous children back to school on Monday 8th March, all classes will be having a Welcome Back Afternoon! Children will be able to catch up with friends (some of which they haven’t seen for seen for 11 weeks), have some nice treats and have a lovely, fun-filled afternoon with their class teacher. We feel this is the least the children deserve for all of the amazing effort and resilience they have shown over the past months. Children are to wear school uniform as normal.
As a thank you for all of your amazing, unwavering support during the current lockdown, as a gesture of goodwill, I will not be charging anything for our wrap around care provision during the first week back (WB 8th March). Any parents wanting their children to attend Breakfast Club or After School Club that week, can do so free of charge.
To book sessions please either email easingtonce@durhamlearning.net or simply text us by replying to one of our texts via Teachers2parents informing us which sessions you require. Please can we ask that sessions are booked by 12 noon on Friday 5th March.
Once we are all back in school on Monday 8th, Mrs Bowden-Stoker will send a letter home to parents to book childcare for weeks commencing 15th and 22nd March.
Any parents who completed and sent payment into school for Breakfast/After School Clubs for January, your payments will be returned to you via your child on Monday 8th.
Thank you
Mr Appleby
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
Dear Parents and Carers,
Please can in draw your attention to the guidance below which was sent out to parents at the beginning of lockdown.
Thank you for your co-operation and understanding with this very important matter.
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In line with our current Risk Assessment, I have to inform you that we are very close to the maximum number of children we can accept in school to keep in line with social distancing guidance, ensure the health and safety of all children and staff and also have enough staff to provide both remote learning to those children at home and provision for those children attending school. If we do get to capacity, we may need to introduce a system whereby individual circumstances will need to be outlined in writing in order for places to be prioritised.
Please can I appeal to all of you, that where possible, you do keep your child at home and only access the Key Worker provision in school when necessary.
If the above is not adhered to, it may be that we will be unable to accommodate all children who request a place, whilst also ensuring our risk assessment sufficiently mitigates risks for staff and children in school.
The Key Worker provision in school will continue to be assessed and monitored on a weekly basis.
Thank you for your support with this matter.
Kind regards,
Mr Appleby
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/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
