Stay Home – Stay Safe

We hope that this week’s update finds you well and that you all keeping yourselves safe at home during this exceptionally difficult period.Lydgate Infant School, as you know, has been closed and has been offering care for the children of critical workers, following a similar sort of curriculum to that distributed as part of the school’s home learning suggestions (see below).In this context, please note that the Department for Education has this week sent out an update for parents and carers upon the national school closure situation, which can be accessed through the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/closure-of-educational-settings-information-for-parents-and-carers

Home learning

We hope that you have found the home learning both useful and enjoyable so far. As we now move into the start of what would have been the Summer Term following this coming Easter weekend, please find alongside this week’s update suggested home learning activities for your child to undertake next week. As mentioned previously, similarly suggested activities will be communicated for all children each Friday for the week following.Additionally, please note that from Monday 20 April, the BBC will be producing daily 20 minute learning programmes for all pupil age groups within its online platform ‘Iplayer’, with links to further activities and resources for every child every day on BBC bitesize online.

Please also note that the Department for Education has published a resource bank of recommended educational platforms and activities for all children, which can be accessed through the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-online-education-resources 

Additionally, Sheffield City Council have distributed the following link containing useful activity ideas for this Easter weekend: Top ten things to do at home this Easter

Twitter

Lydgate InfanInfant School have launched a Twitter page.Please search “lydgate infant school” to follow us.During this period of partial closures we thought it would be a lovely way to keep in touch with families in a more informal way.We will be posting things that the attending children are getting up to in school, interesting links, events and much more.

Also, we wondered if you might like to get involved…If you and your families have done something exciting, unusual, interesting, strange or funny we thought it might be nice for you to share it with the whole Lydgate Infant School community.Please email your picture (make sure you have permission from anyone who is in the photo) and blurb to enquiries@lydgate-inf.sheffield.sch.uk if you would like us to post on your behalf.