Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.

• Advice from Oldham Council

  Thu 30 Apr 2020

  Ramadan At Home

   

  Ramadan 2020 will be a very different experience for Muslims all over the world during the lockdown. Due to social distancing, acts of worship outside of the home have been suspended to stop the spread of the virus.

   

  Public health matters blog

  • Stay at home for Ramadan - gov.uk website

   

  To help with #RamadanAtHome the Muslim Council of Britain has created guidance, available in multiple languages, on how to worship safely this year.

  • Ramadan at home guidance

  You can find more information on what Oldham Council is doing to work with local Mosque’s here. 

  Corona Virus Ramadan Information

   

  Health Advice for Parents

   

  Please find attached some advice that makes it clear to parents that if their child is unwell, the NHS is still providing the same safe care that they have always done.

   

  Thank you

  Matt Bulmer

  

• Oldham Emotional Mental Wellbeing Team - Week 2

  Tue 28 Apr 2020

  This week we will be focusing on ‘Understanding behaviour as a communication and the link to mental health.’ We hope that the information will help parents to understand why children and young people may be portraying certain behaviours and provide practical ways to support.

   

  Look on the Wellbeing page.

   

  https://www.baretreesprimary.com/wellbeing/

• Pyjamarama Day: Friday 1 May

  Mon 27 Apr 2020
  Pyjamarama Day: Friday 1 May
  
  To celebrate the bedtime story and reading together, this year's Pyjamarama will be a day when families across the country can join in a festival of story-filled fun at home.
  
  There'll be loads of activities and events for you to take part in – the only requirement is that they're done in pyjamas!
  
  To make things even more fun, they’ve got PJ Masks, Horrid Henry and Tracy Beaker on board. They’ll be helping out and providing extra ideas and activities for a brilliant day in pyjamas on Friday 1 May. 

  

• Ramadan Mubarak

  Fri 24 Apr 2020
  Ramadan Mubarak to all our families and staff. Stay safe and enjoy the month of Ramadan.

  

• Magic Breakfast during Covid-19

  Fri 24 Apr 2020

   Thank you Magic breakfast for supplying food during this time.  If you have received a text, please come and collect your food from the main office 

  

• Oldham Emotional Health and Mental Wellbeing Team- Healthly lifestyles

  Mon 20 Apr 2020

  This week we will be focusing on ‘Healthy Lifestyles’. We appreciate there is a wide range of resources available regarding this subject area so we thought we would focus on sharing our favourite resources linked to 4 key components of maintaining a healthy lifestyle; Sleep, Routines, Nutrition & Physical Exercise. The attached document ‘Healthy Lifestyles’ cover great resources relating to these subject areas for both adults and children.

   

  Look on the Wellbeing page to look through the slides around 'Healthy lifestyles'.

   

  https://www.baretreesprimary.com/wellbeing/

  

• Bounce Forward Raising Resilience- Free Parents Online Course

  Wed 15 Apr 2020

  Course Overview 

   

  Session 1: Optimism during uncertainty

  This session explores the link between what we think, how we feel, and how we behave. Flexible and realistic thinking lies at the heart of resilience: it enables us to do the ‘right’ thing at the right time, so we achieve the best possible outcome.

   

  Session 2: Developing the mental muscle

  Helping children gain more control over how they feel and behave. Reframing unhelpful choices, and developing empathy for self and others so they can navigate uncertainty and learn to fail well.

   

  Session 3: Compassionate communication

  Effective communication is essential as our children move into adolescence. We can find ourselves in cycles of nagging and bickering and focusing on the ‘big’ conversations, and with it, we become disconnected. Resilience and compassion are the keys to staying connected.

   

  Session 4: Mindsets and Energy

  Nurturing and developing a growth mindset in our children. Understanding the psychological link between energy, emotions and behaviour.

   

  Session 5: Parenting to strengths

  Identifying the unique strengths of children and ourselves – and how to use them to best effect.

   

  What Parents Say About This Course 

  “There’s a wealth of knowledge and I find it so valuable that you are offering this service at this difficult time. I am inspired by how passionate you are about your work.”

   

  “I absolutely loved this morning and have kept hearing ‘doing or being’ in my head all day! Signed up for the test already and can’t wait.”

   

  “So useful to have tangible, written down, step by step guidelines to follow!”

   

  “Thanks so much – I really enjoyed that session and have signed up for the rest. This is definitely a great positive to come out of a negative situation! Thanks for offering this first one for free and the rest at such a low cost. I’m sure you’ll be helping many parents.”

   

  100% of parents rate the usefulness of this course 10/10

  

• Covid 19 guide for parents

  Wed 15 Apr 2020
  

• Message to pupils

  Thu 09 Apr 2020

  Hi Everyone, 

   

  Here is a little message to our pupils :) 

  

• C19 Community Helpline

  Thu 09 Apr 2020

  C19 Community Helpline is still open to support residents on 0161 770 7007

   

  The Community Response was launched two weeks ago.

   

  The Helpline is there to support people of all ages who are isolated, do not have a social network and need:

  • Urgent access to food

  • Urgent access to prescription medication

  • Access to critical goods like sanitary products

   

  For people to receive this offer they need to call the Helpline on 0161 770 7007. This is open from 9am-5pm on weekdays and 11am to 2pm on weekends. This bank holiday we will be operating the 11am until 2pm service.

  The Helpline triage the calls into the right support. The Helpline has taken an average of 100 plus calls a day. The busiest day was last Friday where 167 calls were made to the helpline.

  Where people require emergency food and supplies they are referred into the Place Coordination Hubs. They work with the Food Distribution (Oldham Foodbank and Action Together) to issue a basic package of food items and other essential such as sanitary products and basic toiletries. The hubs have also been providing back up to the pharmacy model where they have had capacity issues in making deliveries. The hubs are also able to link people to mutual aid, co-ordinate emergency response volunteers and act as a source of local intelligence.