Hello everyone,
Well…we’ve made it to the end of term and I for one am ready for the Easter break! The past few weeks have brought many challenges but we have got through it together. The resilience and community spirit we have seen from children, staff and parents this term has been wonderful to see, and it’s what makes our school and nursery so special and, for me, such an honour to be part of.
Thursday’s dressing-up day was the perfect end to the term and we cannot thank you enough for the time, effort and imagination that went into the wooden spoons, short stories, extreme reading photos and costumes. I can honestly say, these were the hardest competition entries we have ever had to judge and there was a lot of deliberation! We will upload a photo gallery from today as soon as we get chance.
Ideas to keep children healthy and happy this Easter
Please see a link below to Telford and Wrekin Council’s website, with a vast range of ideas that you may find helpful over the Easter holidays.
Happy, healthy and active holidays
Thank you from FOBS
We would like to say a huge thank you for the amazing support and generous donations made to FOBS fundraising account over the past week. As of lunchtime on Thursday, an incredible £323 had been received in donations. Well done to all the children whose names were pulled out of the Easter basket and who won a prize. We still have some sweets to give out to Willow and Nursery children but we will keep them safe for you until we return to school!
Testing and contact tracing in schools over the Easter holidays
Following the success of the asymptomatic testing programme, it is vital to keep testing at home throughout the Easter holidays and into the summer term. Staff will:
- continue to test twice a week at home (all those who are able to)
- report positive, negative or void results using the report a COVID-19 rapid lateral flow test result portal
- test before returning to school for the summer term, to find and isolate any positive cases
|
Schools have been asked to continue with contact tracing over the Easter holidays.
For the purposes of contact tracing staff and parents need only inform Bicton School of a positive case if the symptoms develop within 2 days of being in school / nursery or if they have tested positive with a lateral flow device (LFD) test (and will subsequently need to book a confirmatory PCR test).
Please contact Mrs Johnson on 07922 081676.
School are asked to assist in identifying close contacts and advising self-isolation, as the individual may have been infectious whilst in school / nursery. If symptoms develop after 2 days, staff or parents do not need to inform us.
Where pupils or staff test positive for coronavirus (COVID-19) during the holidays using an LFD test (or from a PCR test) more than 2 days since being in school / nursery, you only need to inform us if the individual will still be self-isolating after the Easter holidays. Staff, pupils and parents should follow contact tracing instructions provided by NHS Test and Trace.
News from Oswestry Rugby Club
Easter Greetings from your local church
On behalf of everyone at Bicton and Leaton churches, we’d like to wish you a very Happy Easter! After such a difficult and challenging term, we hope that you have a really special break, with sunshine and the chance to see family and friends outside.
As always, it’s been a privilege and a delight to continue to worship with you – we long to be back in school, but are very grateful for YouTube in the meantime!
We have all-age Pyjama Church online worship available for both Good Friday and Easter Day. It’ll be released at 9.30am in both cases. To access it, go to:
And if you’re not watching live, you’ll find it by clicking the link ‘Go to our Facebook Videos Page’. Finally. thank you to all who contributed to our mothering Sunday Worship – everyone around Severn Loop really appreicated it, and we were very touched to receive the wonderful paintings you’d all made.
With love and prayers this Easter time.
Hannah x
And finally…
On behalf of all our staff, thank you for your support over the past term and we wish all our families a happy, healthy and safe Easter. I have reminded the children to do their best not to return to school on the 19th with any broken bones or injuries and I will be doing my best to follow my own advice – not like last year!
Love Mrs Johnson x
