On Thursday 26th May, our Year 6 children were invited to Blundell’s for a day of fantastic biology and sports activities.

In the morning, the children spent time in the science labs and enjoyed exploring real life fossils, discovering parts of the human body and studying microorganisms using a microscope. They even had the chance to handle live stick insects, hissing cockroaches and African land snails!

In the afternoon, we explored the communal areas of the school, then the sixth formers of Blundell’s led some cricket and ball games on the field.

Our Year 6 children had a brilliant time and we look forward to making more links with Blundell’s in the future.

What a great time we had on our jubilee celebration day. Thank you to everyone for their support and participation.  The day was enjoyed by both pupils and staff and it was lovely to see so many happy, smiley faces enjoying the special occasion. Children enjoyed lots of Jubilee  related activities throughout the day including a whole school lunch on the field with music and dancing by both adults and children.

A big thank you to all those who entered the art competition we were overwhelmed with how many entries we received (nearly 140!). Miss Higginson and Mrs Crook had the very difficult job of being judges. It was so lovely to see such a variety of entries and how we have so many talented artists in our school. We hope you enjoyed producing your art work as much as we enjoyed seeing it!

If a child or young person has Covid-19 symptoms (see below) or a positive Covid-19 test result they should try to stay at home and avoid contact with other people for 3 days after the day they took the test or began to feel unwell, if they can. For example if the test was taken on Sunday, then assuming the child or young person feels well and does not have a high temperature, they can return to school on Thursday.

If after 3 days, they feel well and do not have a high temperature, the risk of passing the infection on to others is much lower. This is because children and young people tend to be infectious to other people for less time than adults.

Children and young people who usually go to school, college or childcare, and who live with someone who has a positive Covid-19 test result should continue to attend as normal.

Symptoms of Covid-19 can include:

• A high temperature or shivering (chills) – a high temperature means you feel hot to touch on your chest or back (you do not need to measure your temperature)
• A new, continuous cough – this means coughing a lot for more than an hour, or 3 or more coughing episodes in 24 hours
• A loss or change to your sense of smell or taste
• Shortness of breath
• Feeling tired or exhausted
• An aching body
• A headache
• A sore throat
• A blocked or runny nose
• Loss of appetite
• Diarrhoea
• Feeling sick or being sick

We thought we’d share this useful document which has tips, tricks and techniques for maintaining positive mental health during lockdown and beyond.

YD Expanded Wellbeing Toolkit