Home testing for coronavirus (COVID-19) for parents carers and childcare and support bubbles

Dear Parents/Carers

 

Home testing for coronavirus (COVID-19) for parents, carers and childcare and support bubbles

 

Undertaking regular, rapid coronavirus (COVID-19) testing helps reduce transmission of the virus. Parents and other adults in households with children at school or college, who do not have symptoms, can now access regular, rapid coronavirus (COVID-19) testing. This includes childcare and support bubbles.

 

Tests are fast, easy and completely free. There are different ways for a household, childcare or support bubble to collect their test to take at home, twice weekly:

 

• an employer if they offer testing to employees.
• by ordering a home test kit online from the link to the gov.uk website provided below:

 

https://www.gov.uk/order-coronavirus-rapid-lateral-flow-tests

 

There will be additional options available in future and we will contact you again when these are available.

 

If you have any queries about the tests, please call 119 (free from mobiles and landlines). Lines are open every day from 7am to 11pm.

 

Children of primary school age (and below) without symptoms are not being asked to take a test.

 

Testing is voluntary, but strongly recommended to all who are eligible. Alongside the vaccine, washing hands, wearing face coverings, and maintaining social distancing, rapid testing plays a vital role in reducing transmission rates. Getting into the habit of regular testing as part of our everyday lives will help us all to play our part and do what we can to protect each other.

 

Together we can make a difference if we all play our part to keep each other safe.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yours sincerely

 

 

 

                                                           

 

Richard Crane                                                                     Amanda Healy                   

Head of Education and Skills                                         Director of Public Health

Children and Young People’s Services                       Adult and Health Services

Free holiday club at Nettlesworth Community Centre on 31^st March, 7^th April and 12^th April 8:30-5:30.  Here is the link to book Book Online | SYP (sacristonyouthproject.co.uk)  More information on our facebook page.

What a wonderful surprise waiting for the children as they left school on Monday – a super end to an even more super day of us all coming back together! 🙂

Durham Federation Flyer

Save over £20 a week on your shopping.

 

Send us a text to 07537416040 to get your first order free.

Hi, we are a charity called The Bread and Butter Thing (TBBT) and we are trying to help people and
families to get by. With support from the team at The Durham Federation, we are coming to your
area on Wednesday 10th March at 1pm.

We provide weekly groceries at a fraction of the high street prices through our membership scheme.
We will try and always give you some fruit and veg and something for your cupboards and fridge
and we are slowly building our supply.

We get supplies from the stuff that you hear about in the news going to waste, it comes from
supermarkets, factories and farms.

Like a veg box scheme, there’s very little choice in what you’ll get from
us but for different reasons. Our food is given to us because it’s not
quite right for the supermarkets. There’s lots of reasons for this,
sometimes there is just too much of something or things don’t go to plan,
like when it rains in the summer when we are all planning BBQs. The
supermarkets try and guess what customers want
(and they are generally really good at this) but
when their planning goes wrong, they have food
they cannot sell.

There are so many reasons why food doesn’t get to the supermarkets at
different times of the year. We take what is available and make up food bags
for our members. Like veg boxes, we will give you whatever is available at the time and that tends
to change daily. The food you get will change from week to week. Some weeks are fantastic and
some less so. However, you will always be saving money and getting new foods to try. Most
members tell us that they tend to collect food from TBBT and ‘top up’ from the supermarket once they
have seen what we provide.

Because we don’t let you choose what is in the parcel, we can afford to provide things really
cheaply, we believe cheaper than you will find anywhere else. AND, because it’s a bit of a new
thing, we let you sign up and try us out for free.
So, sign up for your first delivery free. Turn over this leaflet to find out how…
The Bread and Butter Thing is a charity registered in England and Wales, registered no. 1169383.
It’s really easy to sign up to TBBT…

Step 1 – Send us a text to 07537 416 040 along with your full
name, postcode, and the name of the hub you will be collecting from
(Durham Federation).
Step 2 – Select the size of order you want to receive.
A typical family order would be £7.50, an individual
would be £4. An extra-large family would be £15.
Step 3 – We’ll send you a text to see if you want an order. All you have to
do is reply “YES” to the text by10:00AM every Tuesday. We’ll deliver your
order to Durham Federation every Wednesday at 1pm.
Step 4 – Collect and pay for your goods from Durham Federation.

A typical order is three shopping bags, one of fridge goods, one of cupboard goods and one full of
fruit and veg, this costs £7.50. The goods will change depending on what is available on the day.
Remember that the bags vary from day to day so some weeks the savings will be greater than
others.

However, you will always be paying much less than in the shops. Very occasionally, if food donations
that day are low, we will not have enough for the 3 bags. In this case, we will lower the price. We
want you to feel we are making a difference to your weekly food bills.
Drop us a line and try it out. There is no commitment, if you want an order just reply to the weekly
text you receive on the day you get it.

TBBT will be delivering Wednesdays and pick-up time will be 1.00pm.
Your first order will be free of charge, so try us out at no cost to you

Diary Dates                          

 

 

Mon 8^th March- Children return to school

 

Wed 10^th March- Maths Day

 

Fri 12^th March- Science Day

 

W/B Mon 15^th March- Parents Telephone Meetings

 

 

Fri 19^th March- Reports to Parents given out

• Red Nose Day- £1 donation paid via parentpay

 

 

Fri 24^th March- Easter Egg Competition held in Class Bubbles

 

Thur 25^th March- Wear a Hat Day- Brain Tumour Awareness- £1 donation via parentpay

 

Fri 26^th March- Earth Hour 2-3pm- End of Term

 

Tue 13^th April- Children Return Back to School

 

 

Further letters/details will follow about each event

Well done to all you children for your efforts with your TT Rockstars over the last 7 days.

 

Well done for all your efforts on Lexia this week.

Here are the children who achieved their latest Lexia Certificate.

It’s a day to celebrate books, to inspire young people, and hopefully support the cause that is reading. Every day at Nettlesworth we encourage the children to delve into books and build up that love for reading…. but today we focus on it even more. This year’s theme is ‘Share a Story’ so here are your class teacher’s sharing their favourite stories:

Mrs Morton:

Mrs Plant:

 

Miss Milburn:

 

 

Mr Graham:

 

 

 

Competition entries were absolutely fabulous – I was overwhelmed by the time and effort put in to each and every entry, so On Monday you will all be receiving a prize for taking part! The winners will also receive their Easter Surprise on Monday too.

After narrowing the entries down to 3 per class, we thought we would let pupil voice shine through; linking to our UNCRC Article 12 – Every child has the right to an Opinion.

Class 1 judged Class 4, Class 2 judged Class 3, Class 3 judged Class 2 and Class 4 judged Class 1. Congratulations to you all! Please see the videos of the reasoning why the children chose the book covers they did below:

Class 1 Winner: Karen

 

Class 2 Winner: Erica

Class 3 Winner: Amelia

 

Class 4 Winner: Oscar

 

World Book Day Photos: