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

• 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.

• Free School Meals

  Thu 26 Mar 2020

  From Monday packed lunches are not to be collected from school. You will be sent a voucher by text to choose a supermarket of your choice for your child's lunch. Please follow the instructions below. 

   

   

  

• ***Scam Alert ***

  Mon 23 Mar 2020

  Today we have been notified by the Department of Education that, nationally, fraudsters have been sending out scam e-mails and texts to parents pretending to be from the Department of Education.

   

  These e-mails state “As schools will be closing, if you’re entitled to free school meals, please send your bank details and we’ll make sure you’re supported”.

   

  The Department of Education have confirmed that this is a scam email and is not official. 

• ***Important -Government List of Key/Critical Workers***

  Fri 20 Mar 2020

  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:

   

  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 workers think they fall within the critical categories above they should confirm with their employer that, based on their business continuity arrangements, their specific role is necessary for the continuation of this essential public service.

• World Book Day - Thursday 5th March 2020

  Tue 25 Feb 2020 Miss Inman

  Bare Trees will be celebrating World Book Day on the 5th March 2020. All staff and pupils will be embracing a 'Love of Reading' and completing a range of reading themed activities throughout the day.

   

  We are not asking that pupils buy or dress up to celebrate this day. Pupils are to come to school in their school uniform.

   

  Vouchers for the World Book Day books will be handed out at the end of the day and these can be used in Tesco, Sainsbury's and Waterstones to purchase the specific books. 

  

• Water Bottles

  Thu 20 Jun 2019

  Water bottles (featuring our school logo) are now available to buy for £1.50 each from our school office.