Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.

• Operation Walkley Deliveries

  Tue 24 Mar 2020 Mr Wallis
  From tomorrow our wonderful team of Walkley staff volunteers will be delivering weekly packs to our Free School Meal Families. Thank you for your kind messages, they do mean a lot.

  

• Daily Diet timetable for the Lockdown Learning Log

  Tue 24 Mar 2020 Mr Wallis

  If you’re wondering how to incorporate the Lockdown Learning Log and how it could fit into your child’s daily routine; here’s an example of how it could be used. The Daily Diet timetable is available here.

   

  Most importantly, try a range of things, don’t put too much pressure on it and remember we’re always here to help. 

   

  Contact us at enquiries@walkley.sheffield.sch.uk

• Thank you parents

  Mon 23 Mar 2020 Mrs Sian
  To our wonderful parents and carers,

   

  Thank you for your overwhelming support and constant email messages of your love, gratitude and concern for our welfare. Our thanks especially to  those parents who are key workers who are doing everything in their power to find ways of keeping our precious children at home. The numbers of required places are reducing considerably. The message to stay home is being taken extremely seriously to reduce risk to our families and to Walkley staff. Our aim is for us all to stay safe and for our Walkley family to reunite in its entirety when the time is right. Your support and efforts will be remembered always.

   

  Forever - Your Walkley Team

   

  Val Sian

   

  Headteacher

• Day 1 with our key worker pupils

  Mon 23 Mar 2020 Mr Wallis
  Here are some photos from our first day with the pupils. Very different feeling but still so very Walkley!

  

• Walkley Primary School new build update 23/03/20

  Mon 23 Mar 2020 Mr Wallis

  It has been wonderful to see the steel structure for the new school be erected over the last 2 weeks. The whole structure is, as promised, now in place and the staircases are also in. The next step for Interserve is the installation of the flooring for the first floor and the drainage solutions to the grounds surrounding the new school. 

   

  Builders are on site today and we'll keep you informed of developments as we look forward to entering the new school in the next school year.

  

• Operation Walkley

  Mon 23 Mar 2020 Mr Wallis
  Walkley staff have come together today to ensure our Free School Meal pupils receive their lunch today. Teams of staff have been working out zones around Walkley and routes for delivering to doorsteps. Here they are ready to set off for Operation Walkley!

  

• A Message for our wonderful pupils

  Fri 20 Mar 2020 Mr Wallis

  To our lovely Walkley children,

   

  You now know that our school is going to close on Monday for most children and we are not going to see each other for a while.  We will miss your smiling faces, your endless laughter and chatter and the way that you light up our lives.

  We are still your Walkley family and we will be thinking about you every single day, wondering how you are getting on and keeping our precious memories of our time with you.  We will send you big hugs all the time, in the hope that you can still feel how much we love and care for you.

   

  You have to be very grown up now and help your adults at home by being good and doing as you are asked the first time. Your teachers have worked very hard, and will continue to do so to put some fabulous activities on your Class Blogs to help you to carry on your learning at home.  I know that you will do your best as you always do.

  Too often we under estimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment or the smallest act of caring which have the potential to turn a life around. All of you are so special, unique and talented and have an abundance of these qualities. Now is the time to share them, be a Golden Citizen every day, knowing even as young people you can make a tremendous difference.

   

  This is not goodbye but an ‘au revoir’ until we meet up again and our school family is reunited, when we will be so excited to see you.

   

  Always remember how special you are to us, how much we care for you and how much we love you. We will miss your jokes and stories that make us laugh and make our day.

   

  We will see you again as soon as we are allowed to.  We promise.

   

  Huge hugs.

  Mrs. Sian and the Walkley Team

• Information about Free School Meals

  Fri 20 Mar 2020 Mr Wallis

  For the parents / carers of pupils on Free School Meals who are not Key Workers, we are working hard with Taylor Shaw to make food vouchers available. Until then, we will be making sure that your child has immediate access to a daily packed lunch.  More details about how to access the meal will follow on Monday morning 23.3.20

• Sheffield City Council Directive 20th March 2020

  Fri 20 Mar 2020 Mr Wallis

  This is an extract from the letter just received from Sheffield City Council. For the full letter please click here

   

  Dear parents and carers

  RE: School closures

  As you will know the government has taken the decision to close schools from the end of today (Friday 20^th March). The government has now published further guidance about how schools will continue to support vulnerable children and the children of key workers.  

  The guidance makes clear that our priority, as a country, is to do everything that we can to reduce the spread of the COVID-19 virus.

  If children can stay safely at home, they should, to limit the chance of the virus spreading.

• Covid-19 update - key worker information

  Fri 20 Mar 2020 Mr Wallis

  Dear Parents and Carers

  It is very important that ALL parents read the entirety of the two attachments:

  Government guidance

  Covid-19 update 20th March 2020

  As they contain government guidance that will apply to all children, whether they are eligible to attend school next week or not.

   

  The government guidance states that:

  1.    If it is at all possible for children to be at home, then they should be.

  2.    If a child needs specialist support, is vulnerable or has a parent who is a critical worker, then educational provision will be available for them.

  3.    Parents should not rely for childcare upon those who are advised to be in the stringent social distancing category such as grandparents, friends, or family members with underlying conditions.

  4.    Parents should also do everything they can to ensure children are not mixing socially in a way which can continue to spread the virus. They should observe the same social distancing principles as adults.

   

  Apologies for the late notice with this and thank you again for your understanding and support.