Dear Parents and Carers,

I hope you are all keeping well and safe.  We have been making our plans, hopefully for being fully re-open for September 2020, welcoming all our children back to school.  We will keep you updated with progress towards this as we get more information from the Government and they say it is safe to do so. 

This year, because of the Covid-19 pandemic, we are having to do our transition a bit differently from a 'distance', as we have to continue to limit the numbers of children in school. 

Our staff are all very busy teaching different year groups to normal.  They are in small bubbles and need to stay within these bubbles.  This limits the number of people they are coming into contact with to keep everyone safe.

The children will stay with the same children in their class from Year 1 to Year 5. Please look on the sheet in the Letters section which teacher your children will be moving to;

1.  Look at the green column first (labelled previous class) – find your child’s class.
2. Follow this line to the purple column and this will tell you your child’s new teacher in September. 
3. The pink column gives you your child’s new class name.

For example:

Current 1 Beech, is moving into Year 2 Oak with Craig Goodall.

Current 3 Holly is moving into Year 4 Oak with Lucy Burnett.

Current 5 Oak is moving into Year 6 Holly with Amy Marsh.

Our current Reception children have been organised into new classes for Year 1 in September 2020.  You will shortly receive a text message which will inform you who your new class teacher is.

Our new Reception children in September 2020 have been organised into three classes with Helen Earl, Catriona Card and Alice Dowse.  Parents of new Reception children will receive a telephone call next week from your child’s new teacher, letting you know which class they are in and their transition arrangements. 

Our Nursery children in September 2020 will be with Charlotte Bennett (teacher), Vicky Waters (Early Years Practitioner) and Iwona Wardalinska (Teaching Assistant).  They will also be ringing parents next week about transition arrangements.

We have set up a ‘Transition for September 2020’ page within the ‘CHILDREN’ tab on the school website.  On this page each year group have done a ‘Meet your teacher’ page so the children can read a little about who their new teacher will be.  You can click on the link below:

https://www.berkeleyprimary.co.uk/transition-for-september-2020/

We look forward to seeing all of our children back at school.

Best wishes

Anna Cvijetic

Headteacher