Information for Key Workers (Covid-19)

From 23rd March, schools were closed except to the children of Key Workers or Vulnerable Children. 

It is better that children are not in school. We are keen to keep the numbers as low as possible to lower the risk of infection and maintain our provision.
Please don’t consider this a place for children to socialise – it isn’t.
Remember the message –
Stay home, Stay safe.

What will this care look like?
We are offering a safe place for your child in the event that you have no safe alternative. If they can stay at home, they must stay at home. Home is the safest place for children to be. 

The provision we offer is vulnerable to closure should staff become unwell.

We will be maintaining distancing measures as much as we are able to. This means children will sit at separate tables and will be discouraged from touching one another, holding hands or sharing equipment (we are sensitive to family groups). We will continue to have stringent hand washing routines in place at key points during the day. Children will be asked to wash their hands upon arrival into school and at other key points throughout the day.

When you pick up and drop off you child, please observe sensible distancing from other parents and children.

What you need to do:

1. Send them in sensible, comfortable clothes with trainers and wellies, so we can get them outside as much as possible.
2. Make sure your child washes their hands before leaving home for school.
3. Wash your child’s clothes after a day in school and make sure they shower/bath when they get back from being in school. Children may carry the virus and display no symptoms. Your children are much more likely to pass this virus around because they are continuing to access the school site and mix with children. We have to do everything we can to avoid spreading the virus into our community.
4. Take them directly home from school and keep them there. They should not be playing out or visiting friends or family.
5. Ensure sure we have the most up-to-date contact details for you.
6. Understand that if your child displays any symptoms, they will be placed in an isolation room and you will be contacted immediately. They will be sent home and will not be able to access the provision for 14 days.
7. Understand that the school care is vulnerable to sudden closure. Of course, we will do everything we can to stay open but our staff have to follow the same guidelines that apply to everyone else.
8. Remember that our childcare is flexible. We would much rather you only used the provision when you absolutely have to. Feel free to drop them off late and collect them early to fit in with shift patterns. We want to reduce their exposure to one another as much as possible.
9. Only use school for care if there is genuinely no alternative. 

If you do require the provision, you must complete the Key Worker form and send it to head@claverley.shropshire.sch.uk.

Key workers

You must also complete the booking form by 11.00am on the Friday of the week prior to the childcare being required.

Form for week beginning Monday 30th March:

Booking form

Thank you for your help with this matter.