Dear Parents and Carers,
A very warm welcome to all of our new families that have joined us this term. The children have settled back to school wonderfully and it has been a really positive start to the new school year. It has been such a joy to do face to face assemblies with the children; the best part of my week!
This term we have welcomed Mrs Burton, Ms Conway, Mrs Silva Araujo and Miss Mistry to our support staff team. We are very pleased to have them as part of the Wooden Hill family. Some of you will already know Mrs Rutter, our Early Years Foundation Stage Leader and teacher in Reception. Mrs Rutter is our new SENDCo and introduces herself later in the newsletter. She is contactable as the SENDCo on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday and can be contacted via the school office.
We have had an alarming number of COVID cases in school over the last 10 days. At the moment, the majority of these are contained to just one year group. We swiftly brought in additional measures to curb the spread in that year group, but also in and to other year groups. Please bear with us and the additional measures in place, for the next week or so, while we try to stop the spread within the school. It is really important that any of the 3 COVID symptoms are not ignored or attributed to colds or other illnesses but a PCR test booked. Whilst it’s not an official symptom, we are noticing that headaches seem to be a common symptom of those who have tested positive in our school. Please be assured that we are doing everything that we can to stop the transmission in school and thank you for your understanding of our measures that we have put in place.
Best wishes,
Mrs Lagares