Keeping Parents/Carers Supported

Throughout this difficult time, The Tai Education Centre wishes to work very closely with parents, keeping them informed, supporting them with guidance and addressing many of their concerns.

The school will issue learners with logins for online learning platforms designed to keep students’ minds active and prepare them for going back to school. The school will also update its online e-learning platform ‘Google Classroom’ regularly so that students can access learning materials for themselves! You will see a guide for how to access google classroom attached to this letter.

We will keep you up to date with helpful advice, tips and strategies for staying healthy and happy during these unprecedented times via our text to parent’s service and via our school website. www.taicentre.co.uk. We also have a Tai Centre YouTube channelhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8sOQLD9d2RJ-HtmxaLCwzA/videos  which will contain helpful content. A link to this site will be sent to you and there will also be a link via google classroom and on the school website.

It is very important that the Tai centre has all of your most up to date contact information so please let us know if you think your details need updating.

We will be allocating all parents/carers with a time slot in which a Tai representative will call you to see how you are doing during this potentially tricky time. Of course you do not have to speak to the representative but they are there if you would like some support.

You can also contact M Chadney via the email address below,

Best wishes

M Chadney

Head of Tai Education Centre

01443 422666

[email protected]

Free School Meals Breakfast and Packed Lunch Request

Parents/carers of children who are entitled to free school meals will be able to collect a breakfast and packed lunch from their local primary school during the Coronavirus school closure period.

The food will be a cold provision which will be packaged for take away and can be collected between 11am and midday each day.  Each pack will contain a packed lunch for the collection day and breakfast for the following morning.

Please click on the attached link to an e-form https://forms.rctcbc.gov.uk/en/Web/coronavirusfreeschoolmeals/startnew

and complete the required details.

Coronavirus continues to spread in Wales. Public Health Wales yesterday announced that a further seven people have died in Wales over recent days as a result of the virus and the number of confirmed cases in Wales continues to grow by the day, with significant increases over the last two days in particular.

The social distancing advice is there for a reason – people are falling ill and people with under-lying health issues are dying as a result of continued transmission of the virus. Therefore, it is absolutely imperative that we all personally take the responsibility to minimise the contact we have with one another to slow the spread of the virus.

Play areas across the County have all now been closed and should not be attended. If your children are not in the Emergency childcare settings please keep them safe at home, this extends to the evenings too. You have to do this for the safety of your family, friends and neighbours, to limit and slow down the spread of the virus.

Before deciding whether or not to send your child to school please read the following advice from Welsh Government which begins:

‘In summary, from Monday March 23:

If it is at all possible for children to be at home, they should be.’
Read the rest of the advice at:

https://gov.wales/written-statement-eligibility-ongoing-provision-children-who-are-vulnerable-or-whose-parents-are

If your child receives free school meals, and you require a breakfast and a packed lunch during the Coronavirus school closure, please complete this form (click link below) so RCT can provide help and support where possible.

Please note that the food will be packaged for take away and can be collected between 11am and midday each day. Each pack will contain a packed lunch for the collection day and breakfast for the following morning).

https://forms.rctcbc.gov.uk/en/Web/coronavirusfreeschoolmeals/ContactDetails

Vulnerable Learners

If your child is deemed to meet vulnerable learner eligibility and you require emergency childcare please complete the attached link. https://forms.rctcbc.gov.uk/en/Web/coronaviruschildcare/startnew