5/01/21
Dear Parents & Carers
School Closure Update
Following the government’s announcement tonight, as of 5th January 2021, Windy Nook Primary will be closed for all pupils except those who fall into the vulnerable children category and those children whose parents are critical to the Covid-19 response and cannot be safely cared for at home.
In order to reduce the spread of the virus, the government are suggesting that every child who can be safely cared for at home should be.
What this means for parents and pupils at Windy Nook Primary School
It is anticipated that the overwhelming majority of children will not attend school until further notice. Thank you to those parents who have already indicated that their child (ren) will need to attend school. If you are a parent whose work is mentioned on the critical worker list and are unable to keep your child at home, then please e-mail michellegerry@gatedu.org with your child’s name and your role as a Key Worker as soon as possible.
If your child is classed as vulnerable, the school will contact you tomorrow to find out if you will require a place in school.
Teaching staff will provide online learning for those children working at home and staff will support those children who are physically in school to access this on line learning. Please see the remote learning plan which is available on the Home Learning area of the school website for more information. If you have problems accessing on line learning please contact the school via windyrl@gatedu.org and a member of staff will contact you.
I will endeavour to keep you updated via the school website and text message service.
Many thanks for your continued support.
Lucie Forrest and the staff at Windy Nook Primary
List of Key Workers
Health and social care
This includes but is not limited to doctors, nurses, midwives, paramedics, social workers, care workers, and other frontline health and social care staff including volunteers; the support and specialist staff required to maintain the UK’s health and social care sector; those working as part of the health and social care supply chain, including producers and distributers of medicines and medical and personal protective equipment.
Education and childcare
This includes nursery and teaching staff, social workers and those specialist education professionals who must remain active during the COVID-19 response to deliver this approach.
Key public services
This includes those essential to the running of the justice system, religious staff, charities and workers delivering key frontline services, those responsible for the management of the deceased, and journalists and broadcasters who are providing public service broadcasting.
Local and national government
This only includes those administrative occupations essential to the effective delivery of the COVID-19 response or delivering essential public services such as the payment of benefits, including in government agencies and arms length bodies.
Food and other necessary goods
This includes those involved in food production, processing, distribution, sale and delivery as well as those essential to the provision of other key goods (for example hygienic and veterinary medicines).
Public safety and national security
This includes police and support staff, Ministry of Defence civilians, contractor and armed forces personnel (those critical to the delivery of key defence and national security outputs and essential to the response to the COVID-19 pandemic), fire and rescue service employees (including support staff), National Crime Agency staff, those maintaining border security, prison and probation staff and other national security roles, including those overseas.
Transport
This includes those who will keep the air, water, road and rail passenger and freight transport modes operating during the COVID-19 response, including those working on transport systems through which supply chains pass.
Utilities, communication and financial services
This includes staff needed for essential financial services provision (including but not limited to workers in banks, building societies and financial market infrastructure), the oil, gas, electricity and water sectors (including sewerage), information technology and data infrastructure sector and primary industry supplies to continue during the COVID-19 response, as well as key staff working in the civil nuclear, chemicals, telecommunications (including but not limited to network operations, field engineering, call centre staff, IT and data infrastructure, 999 and 111 critical services), postal services and delivery, payments providers and waste disposal sectors.
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