What a fantastic end to quite a unique year. We have really been able to celebrate the end of the Year 6 time at TMS with an amazing sleepover (or not so much sleep!), with rounders, fish and chips, and  numerous games of manhunt! Our end of year assembly was a rare time seeing all our community together, sitting outside in bubbles, and giving Mr Hick a quiz which resulted in him getting rather wet! We wish him every happiness and success in his new adventure at Chacewater – we have no doubt that we will see him again soon!

We also said a sad farewell and a massive thank you to Mrs Brown, who has really enjoyed her time with Carn Brea, Miss Hunt who has been loving life in Lizard Class and Miss Kendall who has been part of our Pebbles team this year. We are also really thankful to Mrs Bolt for supporting our EYFS team in the absence of Mrs Beckett. 

We wish you all a very happy and safe summer break and let’s all hope for more stability and consistency next year!

Ms Teagle

September 2021

If everything is on track, Threemilestone School will return on Wednesday 8th September 2021. School gates and classroom doors will open at 8.30, with learning starting at 8.45. In the afternoon, learning will finish at 3.00 and between 3.00 and 3.15, children will need to be collected. 

Clubs will be running across year groups and will end at 4.00. The clubs offered will be on the website and the Google Form will be emailed home on the first week back. 

Reminder of classes

Current Class	September 2021
	EYFS – Blisland (Mrs Brown)
	EYFS – Bedruthan (Mrs Beckett)
Blisland	Y1 – Godrevy (Miss Grubb)
Bedruthan	Y1 – Marazion (Mrs Murt)
Marazion	Y2 – Lizard (Mr Lara)
Lamorna	Y2 – Widemouth Bay (Miss Wallis)
Lizard	Y3 – Black Rock (Miss Body)
Widemouth	Y3 – Kynance Cove (Miss King)
Bissoe	Y4 – Rinsey Cove (Mr Rutterford)
Kynance	Y4 – Veryan (Mrs Vale)
Carn Brea	Y5 – Barcelona (Mr Bagley)
Black Rock	Y5 – St Ives (Mr Newsome)
Rinsey Cove   Watergate	Y6 – Botallack (Miss Bowen) Y6 – Budock (Miss Bryant) Y6 – Watergate Bay (Mr Wake)

 

Allergy Advice

We would like to remind parents that we have students across several year groups who are allergic to different foods or food groups. Reactions range from mild to life threatening. Included in one of those allergies is NUT and the school follows a nut free policy whenever possible. Parents who send a packed lunch from home for their child are free to pack the foods of their choice but it is our hope that families CHOOSE not to send foods containing nuts. 

 

Summer Holiday Free School Meal Vouchers

We are pleased that the government has provided a further round of support via the Covid Local Support Grant, which means that funding has now been made available to schools to issue vouchers over the summer holiday. Vouchers to the value of £90 per eligible pupil, were emailed out earlier this week. 

Swimming 2021-2022

We have been working with GLL (Truro Leisure Centre) to organise swimming sessions for the next academic year. They have completely changed their organisation of school swimming sessions and can only offer a block of 10 consecutive days, for 1 hour, with no more than 35 children in the pool. The learner pool is not in use.   

Because they have decided this, we can only offer swimming for years 4, 5 and 6. 

St.Ives class (Y5 – Mr Newsome) weeks beginning 27th Sept and 4th October – every day

Barcelona class (Y5 – Mr Bagley) weeks beginning 11th and 18th October – every day

Veryan class (Y4 – Mrs Vale) – weeks beginning 1st and 8th November – every day

Rinsey class (Y4 – MrRutterford) –  weeks beginning 15th & 22nd November – every day

Year 6 weeks beginning 13th and 20th June  – every day 

 

Year 6 Transition Support

Even though it is still July, it will soon be time for the Year 6 children to move on to Year 7. There is a really useful link below with tips and ideas to support your child through this exciting time. 

https://www.startnowcornwall.org.uk/transition-mission

 

PTFA@TMS

From September we would like at least one parent/carer to come to the meetings as a representative of each class. We know that there are many ‘groups’  for parents/carers to communicate and so we would hope via this vehicle, you are able to decide who would come to the meeting. If you are not part of any social media group, just give us a ring in the office, so that we can connect you so no-one is feeling excluded. Please don’t argue if there are more than one volunteer … we are more than happy to have more than one representative!!!

 

The first meeting will be at ‘The Victoria Inn’ on Thursday 23rd September. This will be a general getting to know each other and time for a chat.

The second meeting will also be ‘The Victoria Inn’ on Thursday 30th September. This will be the AGM so that we can officially put in place a chair, vice chair and secretary. We are then hoping that you can then bring ideas together so that we can start mapping out events over the year.  

 

We really hope that after the disjointed couple of years we have had, we can embrace the new challenge of a really strong PTFA to support the school and community when we return in September.

 

Vonnie Davies – Vice-Chair

 

BLACKBIRD PIE

For anyone who hasn’t received a copy or needs another one for friends and family, we have a digital version. 

There is SO much to do, indoors and out! From theatre to indoor play centres, gorgeous galleries & fascinating museums, outdoor fun and summer trails, free events & special offers.

All magazines are FREE to download.

If you haven’t already, please sign up and you will be emailed each issue and details of our competitions.

Here is the link: https://blackbirdreads.turtl.co/story/blackbirdpie-2021-summer/

 

COVID-19: Changes to contact tracing in education and childcare settings (19th July 2021)

As you know, the Prime Minister announced on 12 July that Step 4 of the roadmap would go ahead

on 19 July.

Contact Tracing Journey

Contact Tracing for Step 4 Onwards FAQ

One of the key changes that will take place from 19 July is that education and childcare settings will

no longer be asked to conduct routine contact tracing. As with positive cases in any other setting, NHS Test and Trace will work with either the positive case – or in the case of children – the parents, carers or guardian of the positive case to identify close contacts.

NHS Test and Trace already manages the contact tracing process for the rest of society – including children who have recorded a positive PCR test – and has expertise in supporting people to identify close contacts.

This sets out in more detail below how that process will work and what you need to do if your child tests positive for COVID-19.

 

Self-isolating and taking a test

1. If your child has symptoms, they and other members of the household should self-isolate – and you should inform their education or childcare setting. You should immediately order a PCR test for them. If the PCR result is negative, they and other members of their household can stop self-isolating (unless instructed to self-isolate for other reasons). If the PCR result is positive, they, other members of their household and any close contacts identified by NHS Track and Trace must self-isolate until 10 days after the onset of symptoms.
2. If your child has a positive result from a lateral flow device (LFD) test, they and other members of the household should self-isolate – and you should inform their education or childcare setting. You should immediately order a confirmatory PCR test. If the confirmatory test is taken within two days and the result is negative, they and other members of their household can stop self-isolating (unless instructed to self-isolate for other reasons). If the confirmatory PCR test is positive (or is taken more than two days after the LFD), other members of their household and any close contacts identified by NHS Track and Trace must self-isolate until 10 days after the LFD test.
3. PCR tests can be booked online through the NHS Test & Trace website or by calling 119.
4. PCR test results will be recorded with NHS Test and Trace automatically, but you should also communicate the result to the education or childcare setting during term time or summer provision.

Contact tracing

5. If your child gets a positive PCR test result, NHS Test and Trace will contact you, using the details you registered when ordering the PCR test. You and/or your child will be asked a series of specific questions designed to identify who your child has been in close contact with. Being in an education or childcare setting with someone who has tested positive for COVID-19 will not necessarily mean a person is identified as a close contact.
6. You will be asked to provide the contact details, if you know them, of any of the individuals – or their parents or guardians – who have been identified as close contacts. NHS Test and Trace will then get in touch with these close contacts and provide appropriate instructions or advice (see below).

Self-isolation and/or testing of close contacts

7. At present, anyone identified as a close contact is legally required to self-isolate and must not attend their education or childcare setting (the only exception is if they are participating in a daily contact testing trial). Anyone identified as a non-household close contact by NHS Track and Trace must self-isolate until 10 days after the date of their most recent contact with that person. If they live in the same household, they must self-isolate until 10 days after the date of that person developing symptoms (see point 1 above) or, if that person was asymptomatic, the date of their test (see point 2 above). NHS Test and Trace will notify you of the day on which the self-isolation period ends.
8. Close contacts are also advised to take a PCR test. If the test result is negative, they must still complete the full self-isolation period, as the test will not detect all positive cases. If the result is positive, they will need to self-isolate for a further 10 days – and NHS Test and Trace will contact them to identify any close contacts.

 

 

From 16th August

9. From 16 August, if the close contact is under 18, they will not have to self-isolate (in line with the policy for fully vaccinated adults) but will be asked to take an PCR test immediately, other than for very young children identified as non-household contacts, and they will not need to self- isolate while awaiting the results of the test. If the PCR test is positive, they will be required to self- isolate for 10 days from the date of the test. NHS Test and Trace will then get in touch to identify close contacts (see points 5 and 6 above). Further guidance on these changes to self-isolation will be provided shortly.

We recognise how difficult the past 18 months have been and the sacrifices that all families, education and childcare settings have had to make. This has been an enormously challenging time for everyone and we would like to take the opportunity to thank you for everything you have done.

 

DIARY DATES

 

6th September	INSET day (1)
7th September	INSET day (2)
8th September	First day back – Autumn Term
8th  September	EYFS Stay and Play morning 9.15-10.30
8th September	EYFS Induction meeting for parents in the hall  7pm
9th September	EYFS Stay and Play morning 9.15-11.30
10th September	EYFS ‘Drop ins’
13th September	Staggered start for EYFS children
15th September	NO PEBBLES AND BIBBLES – Annual safeguarding training (staff)
16th September	Y6 Sports afternoon
20th September	All EYFS children in full time – Welcome to our TMS team!
27th September –  8th October	Y5 St Ives Class – Swimming – Everyday
6th October	Tempest Individual photos
11th October	Nasal Flu Immunisations
11th October – 22nd October	Y5 Barcelona Class – Swimming – Everyday
25th-29th October	Half term
1st November – 12th November	Y4 Veryan Class – Swimming – Everyday
15th November – 26th November	Y4 Rinsey Cove Class – Swimming – Everyday
8th December	NO PEBBLES AND BIBBLES – Annual prevent training (staff)
17th December	Last day of term: 1.15pm finish **No After school provision**
4th January 2022	First day back – Spring Term
18th February	INSET DAY (3)
21st-25th February	Half term
8th April	Last day of term: 1.15pm finish **No after school Provision**
25th April	First day back – Summer Term
2nd May	Bank Holiday Monday
9th-13th May	KS2 SATS (all year 6 children to be in school)
24th – 26th May	Y6 London residential
30th May – 3rd June	Half term
6th June	No school – day in lieu of additional bank holiday
13th June – 24th June	Y6 – Swimming – Everyday
22nd July	Last day of term: 1.15pm finish **No after school Provision**
25th July	INSET DAY (4)
26th July	INSET DAY (5)