Latest News
Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.
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Following yesterday’s announcement
Tue 12 May 2020Dear Parents / Carers,
You will have heard the recent government announcements on trying to get nursery, year R, year 1 and year 6 pupils back to school on June 1st, with everyone else joining a few weeks later for a month before the summer.
In the current circumstances this appears to be a very challenging and aspirational target.
Please be assured that over the next few days we will will doing our very best to make sense of the governments documentation and advice and we will start to do what we can to plan the safe reopening of our schools.
We will be asking for your views on returning your children to our care in due course and we would like to reassure you that our overriding priority as we plan the rest of this school year, will be the safety of your children and our staff.
We hope to have a comprehensive plan in place, should we return, very soon and will communicate this to you as soon as we can.
Best wishes,
Ms C. Brake
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Following the PMs announcement last night
Mon 11 May 2020Dear Parents,
As you will be aware, the Prime Minister made some announcements last night, including an aspiration that children in years R, 1 and 6 return to school from the 1st June.
Like you we have only just seen the announcement and at this stage we cannot answer all of your questions. We are still waiting to receive more information from government about what this means for our school.
We would like to remind you all that in the short term nothing has changed.
We will provide further information in the coming days and weeks once we are able to do so.
Kind regards,
B. Shillaber
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DfE guidance on school closures
Mon 04 May 2020Updated guidance for parents and carers on the closure of educational settings
The guidance for parents and carers on the closure of educational settings has been updated with additional information on the Friday 8 May Bank Holiday, a link to the updated admissions appeals guidance and updates to the support and educational resources available to parents to help them educate their children at home.
The guidance can be found here:
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Free magazines and comics
Thu 30 Apr 2020Plymouth Library Service has magazines and comics that you can download and read for free using an app on your device. You can find out more at this Webpage.
https://www.plymouth.gov.uk/libraries/freemagazinesandcomics
If you don't have a library card, you can sign up for one here:
https://library.plymouth.gov.uk/web/arena/self-registration
and they will e-mail you your card number.
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Healthy Start Scheme
Thu 30 Apr 2020The City Council have published this Webpage
https://www.plymouth.gov.uk/newsroom/pressreleases/makemosthealthystartscheme
It explains the new Healthy Start Scheme and will be of interest to many of you, especially if your child receives Free School Meals.
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Thank you
Sat 25 Apr 2020Thank you for posting your photos dressed up as your 'hero.' We exceeded our target, raising £110. -
*** CALLING ALL MOUNT STREET ‘STAY HOME, SAVE LIVES’ SUPERHEROES ***
Wed 22 Apr 2020🦸🏽♀️🦸🏼🦹🏻♀️🦹🏾♂️Parents, children ... we need your help.We’re asking you to dress up to show the world your superhero powers whilst raising money for the ‘Big Night In’.Send us photos of you being Superheroes on Thursday and (if you can) donate whatever you can spare on our Just Giving fundraising page.There will be a prize for one of you heroes out there!Please tag, share and tell all our Mount Street families and friends. Let’s stay connected even though we are apart.🌈❤️ Let’s make a difference.https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/leila-gocher -
Helping with your child's education at home.
Fri 17 Apr 2020The Government has given advice on how you can help with your child's learning while they are at home.
The guidance for parents and carers on the closure of educational settings has been updated with additional information on the resources and support available to help parents educate their children at home.
The guidance can be found here:
Cheryl Brake
Executive Headteacher
p. 01752 257698 m. -
e. cheryl.brake@learningat.uk w. www.learningat.uk
a. Prince Rock Primary School, Embankment Road, Plymouth, PL4 9JF
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An offer of support from Home Start
Wed 08 Apr 2020Our mission is to be there for parents when they need us most. We are aware that many parents are finding the current situation tough and, during this period, we would like to offer our non-judgemental, emotional support to as many people as we can.
We are therefore opening up our support to all parents with a child under 18.
Our volunteers will provide a listening ear, words of support and encouragement and signposting and support to access services digitally. Parents can choose text, phone or video chat.
We are taking referrals and self-referrals through our email - homestart.shpt@gmail.com
Best wishes
Susie Holdsworth
Administrator
Celebrating 20 years of family support
Home-Start South & West Devon
The Rees Centre, Mudge Way, Plympton, PL7 2PS
Tel: 01752 249740
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For those in receipt of benefits based free school meals
Tue 31 Mar 2020We are currently liaising with both our current catering company ‘CaterEd’ and the DFE re the details of the recently announced voucher scheme. Our current understanding of the new scheme is that it will be ‘term time only’ and will not be available until Tuesday 14th April. Once we have any more information on the scheme and how it might operate in our school(s), we will be back in touch, but in the meantime for the next 2 weeks our current ‘grab bag’ arrangements will continue.
Please note, this scheme is for those in receipt of benefits based free school meals and not for Early Years Foundation Stage or Key Stage 1 universal free school meals.