We appreciate that there has been much disruption to children's education over the past year and are therefore committed to ensuring that all children continue to receive a quality education should the need for remote learning arise.

Notification of Positive Covid 19 results before Christmas

Public Health England has agreed a six day window after the final day of teaching in which schools are asked to remain contactable so they can assist with contact tracing where necessary. This will allow enough time for positive Covid-19 cases to be confirmed by a test and for relevant contacts in the school to be traced.

Christmas is a great time to continue reading with your children. Perhaps Father Christmas will deliver them a new book to read. In this newsletter I have included ideas of what to read and fun activities for reading over the festive period.

The Christmas tree that was kindly donated by Santa Fir has now been received and over the weekend Santa's Elves have visited and transformed our foyer, outside the library, into an enchanting grotto for the children to enjoy.

Christmas tree winners! Thank you to so many parents and friends of the school for supporting Northmead in the great  Christmas tree give away for schools run by Santa Fir. We are collecting our Christmas tree soon and will be putting it up in the foyer end of the library where  everyone can enjoy it.

The November Reading Newsletter is here! It includes an exciting competition to receive a special 'It's A Kid's Life' Christmas card from Kerry Gibb this year!