Please see two letters sent to parents via email today with details of opening next week.

As we will be returning to school, many parents have lots of questions to ask about their child(ren)'s safety. This leaflet provides information and answers to some of the questions you may be wanting to ask.

For further information, please visit the NHS website and the GOV webpage.

Mark Logan MP visited school on Friday 10th July to see our learning during lockdown.  Please see his thank you letter on our Year 4 page.

Mark Logan Thank You Letter

Bolton News Article

Dear Parents/Carers,

As the school want to move forward with Microsoft Teams to enhance your child's learning experience, all the children have had individual accounts created.

The video interactions on Teams will be beginning 22nd June, so it is advised that you download Microsoft Teams and try logging in before then.

This can be done on any device and to do so, you can download it from: Microsoft Teams or you can use Google Play/App Store on your smart phones/devices.

Your child's login details is their PurpleMash login, however, their username will have '@harwood-meadows.bolton.sch.uk' at the end.

For example:

Username: 1522013ZX@harwood-meadows.bolton.sch.uk

Password: 2485

This 'How to join a meeting' guide shows you the step-by-step process to joining the class meeting.

As well as a text being sent out with the date and time of the meeting, we will also put it on your class page prior to the meetings.

Thank you for your continued support. It is extremely appreciated.

Dear Parents/Carers

As school continues to be closed during these unprecedented times, our teachers in Years 1-6 are excited to be hosting a ‘zoom’ session each morning this week and next, Monday to Thursday.

Each session will be for no longer than an hour and teachers will spend some time chatting with the class and sharing the days learning. Children in class will also be able to see each other and have a short ‘catch-up.’

On class pages, you will receive a meeting ID and the password will be sent via text; please use this to log on to your class meeting. Please ensure the school office have your up-to-date contact number for you to receive the text.

Work packs will be available to collect from outside of school from lunchtime each Thursday for those who have requested a paper copy.

Take care and keep safe,

Mrs K Tustin

SENDCo

The theme for this year’s Mental Health Awareness Week is kindness. It’s been chosen because of its ability to strengthen relationships, develop a sense of community and deepen solidarity. It seems an appropriate choice given the current times. That’s why this week, in support of Mental Health Awareness Week, we wanted to help promote the message of displaying kindness online and to remind people how often, something so small can have such a big influence.

Look on our Online Safety page to see the 14 Ways to Be Kind Online

We have some very exciting news. The author Luke Temple has made his fantastic book 'Felix Dashwood and the Mutating Mansion' free to download so we thought we would share it with you! 

Also, he has created an activity booklet . This contains lots of the tools he uses to help make his books really exciting, fun and scary to read. We hope you enjoy using the tools to have a go at your own writing and drawing. 

Inside this activity booklet is a competition to win a signed book and a visit to our school from Luke Temple! Plus everyone who enters will be sent a brand new Luke Temple short story. No one has read the story yet. If you enter the competition, you will be one of the first people to ever read it!

Good luck

The downloads are available from our Home Learning Page

With schools now closed, you may be worrying about how your child is going to keep up with their learning. We know that everyone’s situation is different and you’re already doing the most important job by supporting your children through what’s a really uncertain time for them, so don’t worry, no one expects you to be a teacher! Remember, they’re learning all the time from all the things you do together.

For now, if you can, keep checking the class pages and Purple Mash as the teachers continue to set new work activities and ideas for your children to do.

As you may probably know, the school have signed the children up for a website called Get Epic which is full of some incredible books of many different genres. The books can even be read to the children.

Unfortunately, this is only available during school hours.

However, since the schools have been closing, they are offering to let the children use the website out of school hours with a parent/guardian's email.

Therefore, if you send us your email address, your child's name and their year, we should be able to provide your child with more access.