Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.
Unfortunately, Firbobs will not be returning to our site in September to offer families before and after school child care.
Unfortunately, this will mean you may need to make alternative arrangements if you relied upon this service.
This year we will be emailing out school reports to parents on Monday, 6th July.
Therefore, could I ask parents to ensure we have at least one email address per household to receive these. For separated parents, please ensure we have both parents email addresses and kindly inform us if you are separated and require a second email sending.
Please inform us by emailing schooloffice@manor.wirral.sch.uk to ensure we have the correct addresses.
Normal Lunch Arrangements are Back
We are now back to normal lunch arrangements for Keyworker Club and classes who have returned, which are as follows:-
1. Packed lunch
2. Paid school dinners at £2.30 per meal (pay at the start of the week)
3. Free School Meals (FSM) - children whose parents are in receipt of certain benefits are eligible
4. Universal Infants Free School Meals (UIFSM) - this is for children in F2 to Y2 who are not eligible for FSM.
One weeks notice is required to move between packed lunches and school dinners, please inform the office.
Reminder to FSM, if your child is in school and you receive a voucher you will need to provide your child a packed lunch. If you prefer school to provide the dinner instead, no voucher will be issued til the end of term.
To check your eligibility for Free School Meals, apply at https://www.cloudforedu.org.uk/ofsm/sims-wirral, who will notify us either way.
Summer holiday meal vouchers will be ordered on the 10th July for those on our list at that point.
Any queries please contact the school office on 0151 677 3152 or schooloffice@manor.wirral.sch.uk
If your child is attending school and being provided a school lunch then you will no longer receive meal vouchers - this will be phased as children return to school.
Those that are eligible and receive meal vouchers, will have received this weeks (15.06.20) vouchers today. And should hopefully receive next weeks (22.06.20) tomorrow.
Remember if you have any issues to contact the school office via email and Miss Purkis (Business Manager) will endeavour to resolve this issues. Otherwise contact the voucher provider directly at freeschoolmealsparentscarers@edenred.com.
If you are in receipt of certain benefits you may be eligible for free school meals by applying here:- https://www.cloudforedu.org.uk/ofsm/sims-wirral/
Many thanks.
5th June 2020
Dear Parents & Carers,
Reopening School Paused
Firstly, many apologies for the late notice and the difficulties this will cause you but we will not be opening for children in Year 6 and F2 next week as planned.
Unfortunately, late today, we have been made aware that the most recent reproduction (R) median value for the North West is reported as being 1.01. The Secretary of State has previously made it clear as one of his 5 tests that the R value should be below 1 before it would be safe for schools to open for more children.
Wirral Local Authority have indicated to us that they are supportive of schools pausing their plans to bring in additional pupils at this point. Having consulted with our Governors, we feel that regrettably this is what we must do.
We will, as we always have, remain open for keyworkers and vulnerable children. We will however be unable to start increasing our numbers further to Y6 and F2 until we receive further advice or until the rate is once again below 1. We expect to get daily advice from public health and Wirral LA as next week progresses and will keep you fully informed about when we can re-start our plans.
I know how you have all prepared your children for returning to school and this may affect your ability to work. I know you will agree however, that we must be very careful in this difficult situation and ensure we are keeping the health and safety of all children and staff as our number one priority. We will continue to provide online learning on our school website.
Yours sincerely
Mrs N. Tonge
Acting Headteacher
Please visit our Newsletter page for more details within our Letter to Parents as well as our maps and timetables for the planned phased return over the coming weeks.
Dear Parents / Carers,
School Closure Expectations
Please find below details of home learning and procedure relating to school closure. If you believe that you are a key worker, please inform school by 1pm Friday 20th March if possible, so that we can organise childcare.
Children |
Staff |
Parents |
Complete learning packs |
All children to be given home learning pack including an exercise book and pencil |
Check emails, texts and school website daily |
Read for 10 minutes a day |
Ensure children all have appropriate books to take home to read |
Read with children daily |
Timestable Rockstars -8 games on garage -2 studio games |
Ensure daily sessions are set to allow accurate tracking Check all children are set to correct times tables Daily check if children are accessing TTRS and send reminders |
Support children in completing daily tasks |
Complete as many tasks from Manor@Home Passport |
Complete as many tasks from Manor@Home Passport |
If possible, tweet pictures including the hashtag #manorathome |
Ensure you can access Purple Mash From home as work will be set on this platform |
Ensure each child in class has their log in print out from Purple Mash |
Ensure your child can access Purple Mash From home as work will be set on this platform |
Complete daily tasks set by your teacher through email commencing 20.4.20 |
Email parents daily tasks for the children to complete commencing 20.4.20 |
Check email daily and inform children of their daily tasks Email class teacher with any questions regarding work commencing 20.4.20 |
Yours sincerely
Mrs N Tonge
Acting Headteacher
20th March 2020
Dear Parents/Carers,
Re: Coronavirus update – school closure to most pupils
Following on from my letter yesterday to inform you that we have been instructed to close the school to almost all children after this Friday until further notice.
We have been told to follow these key principles:
If your work is critical to the COVID-19 response, or you work in one of the critical sectors listed below, and you cannot keep your child safe at home then your children will be prioritised for education provision:
The key workers have been identified as:-
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.
If you have not already completed the form below, please do so and bring proof of employment with you on Monday. We had thought the guidance would say that both parents/carers will need to be key workers unless you are a single key worker parent. It did not say this but has made it clear that we should be trying to have as few children in school as possible as we are all safer if we minimise social contact. If one parent who is a key worker has a partner who is not working or can work at home, we would expect you to keep your children at home. Some parents whose children are in these categories may be able to make arrangements for their children not to be in school. This is to reduce the spread of the virus as much as possible by reducing the numbers of children and staff in schools to a minimum. No parents/carers are required to send their children to school at this time.
We are still waiting for further information on the free school meal voucher system but it is likely that we will be emailing or posting these. For children who are in school, meals will be as usual – free if entitled, paid or on packed lunch.
In addition, please bear in mind that this childcare provision for key workers will remain subject to the school having sufficient staff available to enable them to remain open. If staff numbers fall, we may have to prioritise who places can be offered too. Further support for provision may then be offered through the Local Authority.
Firbobs have also informed me that they plan to stay open to provide additional child care. Please contact Firbobs directly if you need their service.
Thank you again for your continued support
Mrs N Tonge
Acting Headteacher
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
REPLY SLIP
Name of pupil:________________________________________________Class:__________
|
I am not a key worker and my child will remain at home until school re-opens. Please tick
I am a key worker employed as __________________________________________________
Place of employment:__________________________________________________________
I do / do not require a childcare place (please delete as applicable)
SCHOOL OFFICE USE ONLY
Evidence of employment checked and photocopied __________________________________
Member of staff to sign
Following on from the success of our Halloween Craft event we are planning to run a Christmas one for parents to come along to and craft away with their children.
We would like a quick coffee morning and catch up to plan some ideas for the day on Friday, 6th December 2019 at 9.00am in the Children’s Centre. After this Mrs Sparks will
run through the CAHM’s Presentation for those parents who were unable to attend in November.
Parents are invited to come along with their craft supplies on Monday, 9th December 2019 between 9:15 am to 11:15 am. We will send more details out following the planning meeting. Come and make Christmas Crafts with your child
Unfortunately not the ones with chocolate chips.
Our cookies ensure you get the best experience on our website.
Please make your choice!
Some cookies are necessary in order to make this website function correctly. These are set by default and whilst you can block or delete them by changing your browser settings, some functionality such as being able to log in to the website will not work if you do this. The necessary cookies set on this website are as follows:
A 'sessionid' token is required for logging in to the website and a 'crfstoken' token is
used to prevent cross site request forgery.
An 'alertDismissed' token is used to prevent certain alerts from re-appearing if they have
been dismissed.
An 'awsUploads' object is used to facilitate file uploads.
We use Matomo cookies to improve the website performance by capturing information such as browser and device types. The data from this cookie is anonymised.
Cookies are used to help distinguish between humans and bots on contact forms on this website.
A cookie is used to store your cookie preferences for this website.
Cookies that are not necessary to make the website work, but which enable additional functionality, can also be set. By default these cookies are disabled, but you can choose to enable them below: