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Friday 29th May

Fri 29 May 2020

Dear Parents and Carers,

Thank you very much to those of you who have called in today to ask questions about the wider opening of school following Prime Minister Johnson's announcement last night.

Monday 8th June is the very earliest that our school might be able to open more widely. Please see Tuesday's letters for more detail.

I am optimistic that we can start to introduce new groups of children during June in addition to our childcare offer that has been running for the past nine weeks.

If and when we are able to open for Nursery, Reception, Year One and Year Six as the Government has suggested, it is highly unlikely to be all year groups at once; it will not be possible to provide enough adults for all of the small groups described in Mr. McCarthy's letter until shielding is lifted for our many colleagues in isolation. I will be contacting the parents of Nursery, Reception, Year One and Year Six directly next week to discuss the possible return to school.

I am so grateful for your continued messages of support during this time and am excited by the prospect of opening the school more widely in the coming weeks.

Sincerely,

Thomas McMorrin

Headteacher

Wider opening of schools

Tue 26 May 2020

Dear Parents and Carers,

Please read Trust CEO Tim McCarthy’s latest letter about the wider opening of Aurora Academies.

You will see in Mr. McCarthy’s letter that June 8th is the very earliest that City Academy Whitehawk might be able to open to a larger number of children. We are all keen to open to more children as soon as it is safe to do so and I have sent my Risk Assessment for wider opening to Aurora for their approval.

I look forward to contacting you following the Government briefing on Thursday 28th.

In addition to our twice-weekly homework upload, our teachers have been teaching live online every morning over the past two weeks. They have done a great job and I'm grateful to them for their hard work - congratulations and thank you to the children and parents who have taken part. This starts again on Monday 1st June. I urge you to accept this offer of teaching for when your children are at home. Please contact homelearning@caw.brighton-hove.sch.uk if you want to sign up for this and I will ensure that we get back to you during this half term week so that you are ready to start next Monday.

Yours sincerely,

Thomas McMorrin

Headteacher

Half Term Update

Fri 22 May 2020

Please see your child's year group page for some ideas of Half Term activities. The twice weekly website updates will resume from Monday 1st June and we look forward to seeing your child on the Electa Live Lessons then. Please see the CAW Live Lesson page for the Electa timetable beginning on Monday 1st June.

Friday 15th May

Fri 15 May 2020

Dear All,

Please read the letter from Tim McCarthy, Aurora Academies Trust CEO (see Letters page).

In this letter, Mr. McCarthy explains the Trust, and our school's, response to the Government's recent announcement about the reopening of schools.

I have said many times that I cannot wait to open the gates to children so that we can get back to normal but please rest assured that we will only do so once we have ensured that it is as safe as possible to do so.

Thank you to everyone who has accessed our online teaching this week, it has gone amazingly well. Congratulations to the children taking part. Please contact the school office or email us at homelearning@caw.brighton-hove.sch.uk. if you have not yet taken us up on this offer and would like to.

I will let you know of our plans as the situation develops.

Sincerely,

Thomas McMorrin

Headteacher

New email address

Thu 14 May 2020

Home Learning Email Address

Dear Parents and Carers of Year 1 to Year 6,

We have all been so impressed with the home learning going on Purple Mash and through the Electa Live lessons. Well done to all children and families who have taken part!

We now have a new email address for you to send any home learning you would like to share with your child’s class teacher. The address is

homelearning@caw.brighton-hove.sch.uk

This account will be checked 3 times a week and teachers will respond to these on Mondays and Thursdays.

Remember you can still email your class mates and teachers directly on Purple Mash. If you’re not sure how to do this look at the guide on the Home Learning tab of the school website. If you’ve forgotten your log in details, call the office. Reception children can continue to share their learning with their teachers through Tapestry.

We can’t wait to see what you’ve been up to!

Miss Scozzafava

Online Learning Timetable - Monday 11th May 2020

Mon 11 May 2020

Dear parents/carers,

Thanks so much to all the families that joined our drop in, after a minor setback we were off and rolling! It was a great success and it was so lovely to “see” how excited everyone was!

Our weekly online offer will provide a variety of classes each day across each year group. When you login please ensure you are accessing the correct year group. There is a chance that there may be some changes but for the most up to date time tables and schedules please access our virtual classroom from our website.

What a typical week will look like:
	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
9.30 – 10.15	Early Years	Health and PE OR Word Aware EY and KS1	Early Years	Health and PE KS2	Early Years
10.15 – 11.00	Y1&2 Maths	British Values or Geography KS2	Y1&2 Maths	Rights Respecting Schools EY and KS1 or Geography KS2	Y1&2 Maths
11.00 – 11.45	Y3 & 4 Maths	British Values or Geography EY and KS1	Y3 & 4 Maths	Rights Respecting Schools KS2 or Geography EY and KS1	Y3 & 4 Maths
11.45 – 12.30	Y5& 6 Maths	Environmental Studies or Word Aware KS2	Y5& 6 Maths	EY KS1 Environmental Studies or KS2 Word aware	Y5& 6 Maths

EY – Reception KS1 – Years 1, 2 KS2 – Years 3, 4, 5, 6

If you have not received your login credentials please get in touch with the school, so we can get them to you. If you have more than one child you will have one login for all siblings. We are proud to announce that we are officially launching on Wednesday May 13^th!

See you on Wednesday!

Live Learning Update (Wednesday 6th May)

Wed 06 May 2020

Important Information re: Live Learning

If you opted in to live learning please click here to find out about our live learning drop in session tomorrow!

Tuesday 5th May: CAW Online Learning!

Tue 05 May 2020

Please read the following update to sign up for online learning at CAW!

Dear Parents/Carers,

We have been so impressed with the excitement surrounding all the home learning being accomplished! We have loved hearing and seeing about what you have been learning and we are really proud to be supporting you in this. As we continue to be at home for the foreseeable future, we wanted to add to our offer of home learning.

With that being said, we are thrilled to announce that we will be offering online lessons for students in the coming weeks.

Across our Academy Trust, schools have been using an online platform called E-lecta Live (https://www.e-lecta.com/). E-lecta offers many fantastic features that will enable CAW to offer a range of learning opportunities from across the national curriculum, it will also add routine and structure to your child’s day.

E-lecta will allow teachers to interact with children and offer opportunities to learn about:

British Values	Rights Respecting Schools	History
Sport Science	Geography	Reading

This is a really exciting opportunity and in order for this to get started we need to have your permission to use your email address (in order to send classroom links).

If you would like to opt in for our live online learning, please can you respond YES to this email, if you consent to us sharing your email address with E-lecta Live to set up an account as well as the names of children you are providing consent for.

Please can you let us know as soon as possible.

Many thanks,

Mr McAdam

CEO Update Tuesday 5th May

Tue 05 May 2020

Dear All,

I hope this finds you well. It was great to see so many of you collecting Activity Packs on Friday. Thank you to those of you who have expressed interest in our online teaching - we're excited to get going and look forward to updating you on this in due course.

Please read our letter from Aurora Academy Trust CEO, Tim McCarthy.

Please keep in touch; I look forward to receiving more pictures of families enjoying their Activity Packs.

Sincerely,

Thomas McMorrin

Headteacher