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The Village Saints Partnership A member of the Diocese of Ely Multi Academy Trust

Loving All Our Neighbours All Saints

Wretton Road, Stoke Ferry, King’s Lynn, Norfolk, PE33 9QJ

Email: [email protected]

St Martin Respecting, Generous, Achieving Telephone: 01366 501050

Lynn Road, Shouldham, King’s Lynn, Norfolk, PE33 0BU @AllSaints_SF

Telephone: 01366 347260 Email: [email protected]

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Executive Head teacher: Katherine Howe

Executive Deputy Head teacher: Rachel Beasley

Newsletter 138, 20th June 2020

Dear Parents and Friends

Thank you for completing our questionnaires every week. So far we have been able

to offer spaces for all families that have requested them on the survey, however we

are now nearly at capacity. The government have said that schools must continue

to operate in bubbles of no more than 15 this term. There will be another

questionnaire next week; we have spaces in all classes at All Saints (although

nearly half the school is back), spaces for Key Workers at St Martin and spaces for

Y5 or Y6 children at St Martin in Mrs Coates’ bubble. It’s so lovely to be seeing

more of you. Those of you still at home it is wonderful to see lots of you in worship

on Friday, bringing even more of our community together. Thank you!

Our school risk assessments for opening during the pandemic are on our websites and are regularly

updated following approval from DEMAT.

Some people have asked me whether uniform will be mandatory in September. As you are aware; we do

not know what school will be like in the autumn. However, it is the governments hope that all children will

be back. If that is the case and we don’t have to wash our clothes every day then uniform will be worn

again. It really helps children’s learning behaviour and would be a great start to the new school year, even if

attendance isn’t mandatory. Sorry that I cannot be more definite at this stage. To help we will be willing to

have a two week grace period for anyone who wants to wait until September to buy new uniform. You can

order uniform online through the Gooddies store. A link to this is on our websites under the parents' tab.

I am sending a safeguarding flyer with this newsletter; please do have a read about the ways that we can

keep each other safe at this time (adults and children).

School Fundraising Normally at this time of year we are holding the summer fair and other

events, not only to have fun but also to help raise money to buy books

and resources to enhance topics and classrooms the following

academic year.

A little thing like a pandemic isn’t going to stop us fundraising so over

the next few weeks we will be running a few virtual fundraising events.

This week we have a raffle with a very fabulous prize. The lovely Peg

and Mallet Company – www.pegandmallet.com have very kindly donated one of their canvas tents for a

night. For £1.50 a ticket you can be in with a chance to win a brilliant backyard campout and have the tent

for a night of your choosing in July. Mr and Mrs Marshall will even come and put it up in your garden for

you! A perfect way to entertain the children when you can’t go anywhere.

Tickets can be bought through ParentMail. This will allocate you a number for each ticket you buy and we

will then use a number randomiser on Monday 29th June to choose the winner. The raffle is open to both

St. Martin and All Saints. You can buy as many tickets as you like as of course the more you buy the

greater the chance you have to win and the more you support the school.

Good luck and thank you in advance for supporting us.

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A Forest School Thank You

A really big thank you to Mr and Mrs Walker for giving up three hours of their weekend to cut

down the stinging nettles in All Saints’ Forest School area. The children in school are really

benefitting from being able to use this area in the hot weather so thank you very much!

Norfolk Constabulary Newsletter

The last newsletter from Norfolk Constabulary this term is being sent together with our

newsletter today. It contains useful information and activities for the children.

Dinner Money at St Martin Mrs McAnulty has sent reminders out for the amount outstanding for dinners. Presently this is quite a substantial amount: £1290. We are aware that Covid 19 may mean that some people may be in financial difficulty, please let us know (in confidence) if you are. If you are lucky enough for this not to be you we’d really appreciate the balance being cleared as soon as possible. Many thanks. Nursery Places at St Martin

We currently have spaces for September available for pre-school children

aged 3 years old or above in our Nursery at St Martin. We have a new,

experienced, Nursery Manager in place so you will be joining us at an

exciting time. Please help us spread the word as widely as possible. If you or

anyone you know might be interested please contact Mrs Goodrum in the

school office in the first instance. We can talk to you on the phone or via

Zoom and will happily arrange a virtual tour for you.

Best wishes for a happy weekend. Katherine Howe

Can you see what fun and learning is happening in the sun where you are?

Can you spot your friends?










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Dear SECT and Residents, WEEKLY UPDATE TUESDAY 23 June - Shouldham Emergency Contingency Team (SECT).

Nigel has asked me to cover the weekly update this week and what a momentus one it is!

The daily Downing Street briefing yesterday announced the start of what I’m sure is both a welcome and quite difficult

adjustment for those in the ‘shielding’ category who have been ‘confined to barracks’ for 3 months. The message is

that you have a couple of weeks to wait until the 6 July, after which you can gradually start to venture out and enjoy

the freedom of the outdoors and resume some of those routine/mundane tasks to shop and visit or have visits from

family and friends. Of course, the advice is that you adjust to this at you own pace and dependent on your own

circumstances and measure the risk versus benefit accordingly.

Just as the Government has said they will ‘pause’ the Resilience Support of food packages and volunteer services etc,

then it seems the right time for SECT to review the need for it to continue in its current form beyond the 1st August.

As you probably know we set up SECT, supported by the Parish Council, a week before the lockdown on 23rd March,

in response to the community talking about how we might support each other to face what was to come. The

Government Community Resilience Volunteer groups were not set up for another month, by which time we had

covered some 20 requests for assistance. We have currently satisfied 72 requests and we are very aware that ‘Family

and Friends’ support network probably covered much more than that in and around the community and we thank all

who are involved.

We will be contacting residents that are shielding and using the service provided by SECT in the next couple of weeks

to find out how you plan to take the next steps. We will not pause or suddenly stop the service if there

is anyone still in need. Importantly we as a team must not take our eye off the ball and no one will be

abandoned in a rush to return to ‘normality’ (or the pub!)

Please would you be kind enough to spread this message as widely as possible.

No one is to be left in a vulnerable position.

COVID-19 updates from the Parish Council (SECT) during this difficult period will only be promulgated from official

government sources. Please do and continue to follow the Government Directives.

Keep well and stay safe. Mike Inder

Nigel Walsh

Shouldham Emergency Contingency Team (SECT) Coordinators

Duty Phone 01760 632011

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