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Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.
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Reception new starters:
Mon 01 Aug 2022Please remember the start date for children will be the Monday the 5th of September at 9:00.
Children will be in school all day so please ensure they have a water bottle and lunch if they are packed lunch, as well as anything else they need for the day - i.e. inhalers.
Hot dinners and snack are provided by school. Please make sure you have contacted school with any allergies your child has before they start with us.
School will be open on the 1st and 2nd for phone calls if you need to get in touch before this time, or you can message on here and staff will get back to you as soon as they are available.
Thank you, the EYFS team.
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Annual Flu Vaccination information
Fri 10 Sep 2021Your child’s annual flu vaccination will be offered in school on Wednesday 22nd September.
This vaccination is recommended to help protect your child against flu. Flu can be an unpleasant illness and sometimes causes serious complications. Vaccinating your child will also help protect more vulnerable family and friends by preventing the spread of flu.
The vaccination is free and is a quick and simple spray up the nose. Even if your child had the vaccine last year, it is recommended that they have the flu vaccine again this year.
While COVID-19 is in circulation, the Healthcare team and school will follow guidelines to ensure children are safe when being offered the vaccine.
For further information about the vaccination programme please click on this link www.nhs.uk/child-flu as it provides details about the small number of children for whom the nasal vaccine is not appropriate.
Please complete your child’s consent form online by clicking on the following link (even if you do not want your child to receive their flu vaccination):
https://forms.merseycare.nhs.uk/flu-vaccination
If you prefer to complete a paper consent form, please call in at the school office for a copy.
For any queries about the immunisation programme, please contact the Immunisation Team:0151 295 3833.
Yours faithfully
Immunisation Team
If your child becomes wheezy or has their asthma medication increased after you return this form, or attends the GP for their flu vaccination please contact the Immunisation Team: 0151 295 3833.
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Letter to parents from Liverpool City Council
Fri 16 Jul 2021Dear Parents and Carers,
We want to thank you for all your support over the last year in helping in the fight against COVID-19. We are hugely proud of all of you for working with us through what has been a challenging time for everyone. We know it has been a particularly difficult time for those that have experienced personal losses.
The Government have recently outlined their plan for the roadmap out of lockdown, with many control measures no longer being a legal requirement from 19 July. Locally, due to rapidly rising cases and hospital admissions from COVID-19 we are making strong recommendations to support national requirements. By working together we can keep everyone safe by reducing the virus spread.
Everyone, of any age, who tests positive for COVID using a PCR test is still legally required to isolate for 10 days, along with their household contacts. Over the summer, NHS Track and Trace may identify others that need to isolate. To reduce your risk of becoming infected or needing to isolate because you’re identified as a close or direct contact we urge caution and strongly recommending the following:
Face coverings and social distancing
We strongly recommend that people continue to socially distance. Nationally, it is also expected that people continue wearing face coverings in crowded indoor areas where social distancing cannot be followed, such as supermarkets and on public transport, in health and social care settings, such as hospitals, care homes and GP surgeries, and where it would make others feel more comfortable.
Testing
Keep getting tested – We strongly recommend everyone should undertake twice weekly rapid symptom free testing using Lateral Flow Tests (LFT). If people experience general symptoms such as a headache, a stuffed or runny nose, tiredness or weakness, aches and pains, sore throat or diarrhoea, they should take an LFT and follow up with a PCR test if the LFT test is positive.
If people have any of the main symptoms of COVID-19 such as a high temperature, a new continuous cough or loss or change to their sense of smell or taste they must stay at home and book a PCR test. Around 1 in 3 people with COVID-19 don’t have symptoms but can still infect others - so getting tested regularly will help slow the spread.
People with symptoms can get a test here or call 119:
People without symptoms can access our community testing sites here: https://liverpool.gov.uk/communities-and-safety/emergency-planning/coronavirus/how-to-gettested/symptom-free-testing/
or order test kits:
https://www.gov.uk/order-coronavirus-rapid-lateral-flow-tests
Handwashing and hygiene
It is essential that you maintain handwashing and hygiene to reduce your risk of becoming infected with COVID-19 and other illnesses.
We strongly recommend you:
• wash your hands with soap and water often – do this for at least 20 seconds
• use hand sanitiser gel if soap and water are not available
• wash your hands as soon as you get home
• cover your mouth & nose with a tissue or your sleeve (not your hands) when you cough or sneeze, and then,
• put used tissues in the bin immediately and wash your hands afterwards
Vaccinations
Look after each other by making sure you and your loved ones have their COVID jabs! We strongly urging everybody eligible for the vaccine in Liverpool who has not had their vaccine yet to book ASAP at https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/coronavirusvaccination/book-coronavirus-vaccination/ or phone 119 free of charge.
The evidence shows that being doubled jabbed will reduce the risk of becoming severely ill or dying from COVID but you can still become ill with the virus. Even if you are fully vaccinated you should still adhere to national and local guidance and recommendations.
Now more than ever it is important we all look after our mental health. We have also included some links on the following page about parenting and wellbeing which you may find useful. Support is out there – please get help if you or someone you know needs support.
Please stay safe and once again thank you for your continued support and enjoy your summer!
Yours faithfully
Steve Reddy Matt Ashton
Director of Children’s Services Director of Public Health, Liverpool
General Covid-19 advice
This guidance is available in a range of alternate languages: shorturl.at/zHJK6
If you have any of the main symptoms of coronavirus (COVID-19), get a PCR test as soon as possible. Stay at home until you get the result. The main symptoms of coronavirus are:
• a high temperature – this means you feel hot to touch on your chest or back (you do not need to measure your temperature)
• a new, continuous cough – this means coughing a lot for more than an hour, or 3 or more coughing episodes in 24 hours (if you usually have a cough, it may be worse than usual)
• a loss or change to your sense of smell or taste – this means you've noticed you cannot smell or taste anything, or things smell or taste different to normal
People who are sick with coronavirus may have other flu like symptoms such as:
body aches; persistent headaches; sore throat; tiredness; shortness of breath; nausea or diarrhoea
If you don’t have any of the main symptoms of coronavirus, you don’t need to isolate until you get your result, however you do need to continue to take the usual measures to protect yourself and others from illness.
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Positive Covid Case - Mulberry Class
Mon 12 Jul 2021Unfortunately a member of Mulberry Class has tested positive for Covid 19 therefore this bubble is now closed until September. Miss Varney will make contact with her class with information about how to access online learning. Thank you.
Please see information below
Date: 12/07/2021
FOR PARENTS / CARERS OF CLOSE CONTACTS OF COVID-19 at Dovecot Primary School – Mulberry Class
Advice for Child to Self-Isolate for 10 Days
Dear parent or carer,
We have been made aware that we have a confirmed positive case of coronavirus (COVID-19) at Dovecot Primary School.
We have followed the national guidance and, following a risk assessment with Public Health England (PHE) advisers, have identified that your child has been in close contact with the individual who has had a positive test result for coronavirus (COVID-19). In line with the national guidance, your child must stay at home and self- isolate until Saturday 17th July 2021 23.59pm.
If your child is well at the end of the 10 day period of self-isolation then they can return to their usual activities and attend the setting as normal. If you child tests positive for coronavirus (COVID-19) at any point, please inform your setting.
Currently, the most common strain of virus in the UK is called the Delta variant and we have seen a steep rise in COVID-19 cases recently. Evidence suggests the Delta variant spreads more easily than previous strains.
Please see the next page for how to help stop COVID-19 spreading.
Other members of your household can continue normal activities, provided your child does not develop symptoms within the 10 day self-isolation period.
For more information, please see the guidance for contacts of people with confirmed coronavirus (COVID-19) infection who do not live with the person:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/guidance-for-contacts-of-people-with- possible-or-confirmed-coronavirus-covid-19-infection-who-do-not-live-with-the- person
Yours sincerely
Mrs K. Honey
Headteacher
What to do if your child develops symptoms of coronavirus (COVID 19)
Having been identified as a close contact, if your child then develops symptoms of coronavirus (COVID-19), they should remain at home for at least 10 days from the date when their symptoms appeared. Symptoms of coronavirus (COVID-19) are a new, continuous cough, or a high temperature, or a loss of, or change in, their normal sense of taste or smell (anosmia). Anyone with symptoms will be eligible for a PCR test - this is the type of test that is normally available and can be arranged via https://www.nhs.uk/ask-for-a-coronavirus-test or by calling 119.
What to do if your child then tests positive for coronavirus (COVID-19)
If your child tests positive for COVID-19 then you and your household should isolate for 10 days.
For most people, coronavirus (COVID-19) will be a mild illness.
If your child does develop symptoms, you can seek advice from the nhs.uk website at https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/check-if-you-have-coronavirus- symptoms/. If you are concerned about your child’s symptoms, or they are worsening you can seek advice from NHS 111 at https://111.nhs.uk or by phoning 111.
How to stop coronavirus (COVID-19) spreading
We need to be very careful and vigilant as Liverpool reopens. Currently, the most common strain of virus in the UK is called the Delta variant and we have seen a steep rise in COVID-19 cases recently. Evidence suggests the Delta variant spreads more easily than previous strains. There are things you can do to help reduce the risk of you and anyone you live with getting ill with coronavirus (COVID-19):
- Hands: wash your hands with soap and water often – do this for at least 20 seconds
- use hand sanitiser gel if soap and water are not available
- wash your hands as soon as you get home
- Face: wear a mask in public places and on public transport; ensure it fits comfortably and covers both your mouth and nose.
- cover your mouth and nose with a tissue or your sleeve (not your hands) when you cough or sneeze
- put used tissues in the bin immediately and wash your hands afterwards
- Space: Where possible keep 2 metres / 6 feet apart from others outside of your family / bubble.
- Ventilate: Where reasonably practicable, doors and windows should remain open to allow fresh air to pass though and reduce the density of COVID-19 particles indoors.
- Vaccination protects against the Delta variant, and both doses are needed for maximum coverage. Public Health are advising that it is therefore important that you get your COVID-19 vaccine as soon as you are offered. This will ensure that further spread is limited quickly and effectively.
- Continue to do asymptomatic lateral flow device testing at home, twice per week (secondary age pupils, and household members of any child in a school bubble). https://www.gov.uk/guidance/coronavirus-covid-19-getting-tested
Financial support if you have to take time off work to care for your child while they are self-isolating
If you are on a low income and you need to take time off work to care for your child while they are self-isolating, you may be eligible for financial support from your local authority through the Test and Trace Support Payment scheme.
The Test and Trace Support Payment scheme is open to people who live in England and who meet the following criteria:
- They are the parent or guardian of a child or young person in the same household and need to take time off work to care for them while they self-isolate; this is limited to one parent or guardian per household for the child or young person’s self-isolation period Are employed or self-employed
- Are unable to work from home while undertaking caring responsibilities and will lose income as a result
- They are currently receiving or are the partner of someone in the same household who is receiving at least one of the following benefits:
- Universal Credit
- Working Tax Credit
- income-based Employment and Support Allowance
- income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance
- Income Support
- Housing Benefit
- Pension Credit
- Their child or young person:
- is aged 15 or under (or 25 or under with an Education, Health and Care Plan (EHC) and normally attends an education or childcare setting
- has been told to self-isolate by NHS Test and Trace or by their education or childcare setting because they have been identified as a close contact of someone who has tested positive for COVID-19
Discretionary payments are also available for people on low incomes who are not on means-tested benefits but who may still face hardship as a result of the requirement to self-isolate. Your local authority may have additional eligibility criteria in place for discretionary payments.
If you are eligible, you will receive a £500 payment from your local authority in addition to any benefits and Statutory Sick Pay you receive currently. If you are unsure which local authority you should claim from, you can check on Find your Local Council on GOV.UK: https://www.gov.uk/find-local-council
Your local authority will contact your child’s school to verify the information you provide about your child as part of the process of confirming whether you are eligible for a payment.
You can see the full eligibility criteria for the Test and Trace Support Payment scheme and find out how to apply at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/test-and-trace-support-payment- scheme-claiming-financial-support/claiming-financial-support-under-the-test-and- trace-support-payment-scheme.
If you think you meet the eligibility criteria listed above and would like to apply to your local authority for a payment from the Test and Trace Support Payment scheme, you should provide this letter to your local authority to support your application. You will not be able to make an application for a payment from the Test and Trace Support Payment scheme without this letter.
Please note you have 42 days from the date on this letter to apply for the test and trace support payment.
Further information is available at https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid- 19/
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Applying for Free School Meals
Mon 13 Jul 2020If your circumstances change and you think your child is eligible for free school meals after the schools close for the summer break you need to apply for Free School Meals using the link below:
If you are eligible, you will receive a notification confirming this. During school’s summer holiday period, you will be sent vouchers by Liverpool City Council on a fortnightly basis.
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Medical Diets Provision
Mon 29 Jun 2020The safety of your children is our number one priority. We understand the importance of ensuring that pupils with medical diets can continue to enjoy a safe, balanced meal alongside their peers in school. Chartwells, our school meals provider, has published information about catering for pupils who require a medical diet. For more information please visit our School meals page which can be found in our 'Parents' section.
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School Meals Newsletter
Fri 18 Oct 2019Chartwells, our school meals provider, have published their latest newsletter which includes details of the new menu which will be launched in the second week back after half term (11th November). Please go the the School Meals page which can be found in the Parents section of our website.
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We are now on Instagram!
Sat 28 Sep 2019We now have an Instagram account. Please search for dovecotprimary and follow us!
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Safe Parking Notice to parents and carers
Tue 27 Aug 2019It is the start of a new academic year and for some pupils a new beginning at the school. The school environment is a safe secure place for your children to attend but we as parents and guardians also have a responsibility to try and improve the accessibility of pupils arriving to school. Inconsiderate and dangerous parking is one of the biggest safety concerns from parents outside Primary Schools. Parked cars can hide children from passing drivers and stop children from being able to see approaching traffic. Almost half of the young children injured as pedestrians have had their view of the road blocked by a parked car.
How would you feel if your parking contributed towards a child being injured?
If you use a vehicle to drop off and pick up your child from school please consider parking further away from the entrance & exits in a safe legal place and walk the remainder of the journey.
Remember pupils need to see and be seen when crossing the roads so think seriously about the location of the school and neighbourhood and consider ways you can help as a parent/guardian to improve their road safety. You are the one who will be with them at the roadside every day. When you are out with your child you will have good opportunities to reinforce the road safety messages. Please think about telling your child about the importance of finding safer places to cross, stopping behind the kerb, looking, listening and thinking, holding their hands even if using a lollipop person or pedestrian facility. Making sure they have good visibility, taking their hoods down and no distractions with phones and iPods or friends when near roads. This will help your child to develop good road safety habits at an early age and also reinforcing your own safety awareness.
Over the school year schools will be involved with Road Safety Education including
- Road Safety Week
- Walk to School Week
- Clean Air Day
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Massage in Schools Programme
Mon 20 May 2019Parents of children in Reception to Year 3 will be receiving a letter about our new Massage in Schools Programme. There will be a meeting this Wednesday (22nd May) at 3.30pm in the hall so we can provide further details and answer any questions you may have. We have created a new page on our website entitled 'Massage in Schools Programme' which can be found in the 'Parents' section.
