Parents – Trinity School

Are you taking on the Trinity PE Challenge?

How fast can you run 2k (safely, as your one exercise of the day)? Email a picture of your time to Mr Brown.

Also, the CrossFit weekly challenge: how many sets in 20 mins? Email Miss Walker.

Dear Parent/Carer

I wanted to let you now that from Monday 30^th March, Trinity School will be a hub for the children of Key Workers. What this means is that we will be collaborating with other schools (Caldew, William Howard, Morton and Newman) in providing childcare. This will be based at Trinity School and hours have been extended from 8:30am to 3:30pm. We will be looking to see if we can offer a breakfast club and earlier start time soon.

Please read the full letter below:

Childcare letter (pdf)

Dear Parent/Carer

I hope that you are all keeping well and staying safe through these strange times. School has been open this week, with a safe skeleton staff, looking after the children of Key Workers. Whilst it has been good to be open after the closure the week before, we are missing the daily interaction with students in person.

We hope that you have been receiving plenty of work to support students with their studies. I would like to say thank you to parents and carers for all that you have been doing to keep learning going during this time. We know that everyone is doing their best; please do not worry if everything is not complete. ….

Please read the full letter below for more information:

Letter to Parents (pdf)

Carlisle Eden Mind have produced a Newsletter for parents to offer support and guidance through this:

Carlisle Eden Mind Newsletter

Dear Parent/Carer

You may have seen the notification that ParentPay were to generate an automatic refund of all School Meal balances – this was to be done once they had received the funds from Schools/Catering Companies. However, they have now withdrawn this offer.

The school position is that all balances will remain on the student’s cards for them to use on their return to school.

Please read the full letter below which includes a link to the Refund Form:

Parentpay-School-Meals-Refunds-Form (pdf)

Refund Form direct link.

Scam around Free School Meals

Some Schools have already reported that parents and carers of children in receipt of free school meals are being targeted by fraudsters. Fraudsters are targeting families, emailing parents and carers with messages such as ‘ If your child is entitled to free school meals send your bank details to the school and they will help with funding while the school is closed’. The email contains links for the parents to follow if they want to receive the this funding – these links are fake. This is a scam

Childcare for Keyworkers – update

We have had technical difficulties with the survey for childcare. This is now working again and will stay open until 11:30pm today. If you have emailed school we will be able to access your replies but would be grateful, for ease of admin, if you could try to fill it in again now. Many thanks.

Guidance

COVID-19: free school meals guidance for schools

Published 19 March 2020

We know that schools and education settings are concerned about the impact of coronavirus (COVID-19) on pupils currently eligible for benefits-related free school meals.

Please visit the following website form further guidance:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-free-school-meals-guidance/covid-19-free-school-meals-guidance-for-schools

Berlin/Krakow Trip
Further to our letter to you on the 12 March with our intentions to cancel the trip I can confirm that we have now cancelled the trip. As the trip was cancelled by us we are
only due to get back 20% from the tour operator NST under their cancelation charges. However, we are in the process of claiming back the remainder of the money with the Department for Education Risk Protection Arrangement for academies.

Please read the letter below for more details:

Berlin/Krakow Letter -Refund (pdf)

Dear Parents/Carers

Although school is not physically open this week, work has been set by teachers for all students to do at home. We have sent a message to students today, to let them know that work should be completed at home between 8:30am and 3:05pm each day. We are also providing some tips to students about home working which should be available soon. Please let us know if you are unable to access work electronically. We can put together packs of work for students that do not have IT facilities if we are made aware. …

Pleaseread the full letter below:

Parental letter 16 March 2020 (pdf)

Support During the Closure

Please be aware that our pastoral and safeguarding teams are still available during the school closure. If there are any issues that you feel we should know about, or anything that you feel we can help with, please email or phone with your enquiry and we will endeavor to get back to you as soon as possible.