Victoria School
"Working Together for Success"
Victoria School
Working Together for Success
Latest News
See here for the latest news and updates
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Services for Education Online Learning Resources
Thu 30 Apr 2020Dear Parents
We hope that you are well at this time. Services for Education’s Music Service have been busy putting together an Online Learning Platform for pupils and families to access.
This is a collection of videos to support all levels of learning covering every instrument and the voice. It will help those pupils who have whole class lessons in KS1 through to the upper-level musicians in secondary school and 6th form.
The following link, username and password should be used to log on:
www.sfeonline.co.uk
Username: victorias
Password: guFjuZDgWe hope you enjoy the resources and have lots of fun!
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Speech and Language at home packs
Wed 29 Apr 2020Speech and Language at home packs contain ideas based around play and daily routine to help develop your child's communication skills. They contain simple activity ideas along with some symbols to use together. New packs will be added weekly for as long as the school closures continue.
These can be found under the communication section of the home learning zone. CLICK HERE to go to the page.
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Accessing The School App
Mon 27 Apr 2020For anyone needing a bit of help getting set up or navigating 'The School App', CLICK HERE
To download the app, search for The School App on the App/Play store, or click the following links
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NEW Singing and Signing videos with Judi!
Mon 27 Apr 2020The first of the next series of videos is now on the home learning zone. Kicking things off, Judi signs along to What About Us by P!NK.
To go to the page, CLICK HERE!
Or to go to the Youtube channel, CLICK HERE!
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New Community Hubs to help families
Thu 23 Apr 2020Government, Council and voluntary organisations have banded together to form 10 Community Hubs throughout Birmingham. They have been formed to assist families who have special needs arising ffrom the impact of Coronavirus. This includes financial support where necessary. Families can self-refer but the Hubs will check with schools to support the applications for assistance.
Theninformation follows in an attachment. The Northfield Hub Coordinator is Becky Debenham, 07516 918 133
email: Northfield Families@northfieldcommunity.org
The following link will take you to the attachment:
file:///H:/Coronavirus%202020/Coronavirus%20resources%20for%20Families/Covid-19%20CYPF%20Locality%20Support%20Hubs%20-%20April%202020.pdf
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Communicating by Phone with school staff
Thu 23 Apr 2020As staff are mostly working from home, when they call you, it may come up as "Unknown Number". Please answer these calls as we may have important information to discuss with you.
Please understand that school staff , although working from home, should still be able to enjoy non-work time. With his in mind, please restrict your phone calls and emails to normal business hours 0830-4.00pm weekdays, but not on Friday 8 May 2020 which is a bank holiday for VE day.
For safeguarding concerns, the DSL phone is available at all times.
We have a statutory responsibility to check that all pupils are safe and well when we are not seeing them at school. Please don't be offended if a member of school staff phones you on a weekly basis and asks how things are going. This is done to ensure that our pupils remain safe and well.
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Victoria School opening to a small number of vulnerable children and children of keyworkers on 27 April 2020
Thu 23 Apr 2020Thank you to all parents and carers who responded to phone calls from class teachers earlier this week. For the vast majority of pupils, parents are able to follow the government advice that says the safest place for children to be is at home and that is where they should stay. For a small number of our pupils though (<10%), it is safer for them to be at school or their parent/s are keyworkers and need for their child to be cared for to enable them to go to work.
For those parents who have had a phone call from Pastoral Care Lead, Di Tate, confirming they have a place at school next week, please remember to send in:
Any medications that must be administered during the day, asthma inhalers, nappies/pads, thickener (if used) and anything else that your child will need throughout the day.
The school day is 9am to 3pm.
There will be no nurses or enteral feeders present.
The curriculum will not be delivered. This programme provides safe care for your child.
Your child may be with different peers and staff, and may be in a different classroom to usual.
The Snoezelen Room, soft play and hydrotherapy pool will not be in use.
We will try as far as possible to maintain social distancing but this will not be possible during personal care, feeding and positioning.
Staff will be wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) during these activities where social distancing cannot be achieved. We have supplies of disposable gloves and aprons, S1 disinfectant spray and sanitising hand gel. We have ordered face masks which should arrive on Wednesday 29/4/2020.
Your child will have his/her temperature taken at school using a non-contact thermometer. (The thermometer)should arive on Wednesday 29/4/2020)
Children with symptoms of COVID-19 must not attend.
Children who have had a letter from the government saying that they are in the extremely vulnerable category and should stay at home for 12 weeks must not attend.
Pupils living in a household where someone else has COVID-19 symptoms must remain at home for at least 14 days.
Lunch will be provided as normal.
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What to do if your child needs to return to school
Fri 17 Apr 2020First of all, a big thank you to all parents who have been keeping their children safe at home to protect them and to limit the spread of Coronavirus in the community.
On Monday and Tuesday, you will receive a call from your child's teacher to ask you about 3 things:
1. Home Learning - is the amount of work just right / too much / too little? Are you able to access the learning resources on our website?
2. Have you downloaded the website App yet? If not, please do so as this will help you to keep up to date with all new information posted on the website.
3. Does your child need yo return to school because they are vulnerable and therefore safer at school than at home or because their parent/s are keyworkers essential to the Coronavirus response and therefore unable to care for them safely at home.
We are able to re-open the school from 27 April 2020, to a small number of pupils if they are vulnerable and would be safer at school than at home or if the parents are keyworkers critical to the Coronavirus response and cannot arrange alternative care at home.
Please remember that government advice is still that if the child can be safely cared for at home, then this is where they should stay.
Children with any symptoms of COVID-19 must stay at home for at least 7 days and while symptoms persist.
Children living in a household where anyone else has symptoms must stay at home for at least 14 days.
Children who have received a letter from the government identifying them as clinically vulnerable because of underlying health conditions must remain at home for 12 weeks.
Because of the personal care and positioning needs of children at Victoria, it will not be possible to achieve "social distancing" of 2 metres.
The school nurses have currently been deployed to other NHS roles. We do not know whether there will be any school nurses or enteral feeders available.
Please make sure you take the call from your child's teacher when they ring so we can gain a clear picture of the level of need for Victoria School pupils to return to school.
If at any other time, you feel your circumstances have changed and your child needs to return to school, please leave a message on the school voicemail 0121 476 9478 or email enquiries@victoria.bham.sch.uk.
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Mental Health Support for 11-25 year olds
Tue 14 Apr 2020Through the Summer term, the vast majority of pupils will continue to be learning at home. Encouragingly Birmingham Children’s Partnership will be laying out their growing offer of local and city-wide COVID-19 support for children and families, beginning today with Kooth.
Kooth is being provided now as a free, safe and anonymous service to support young people’s emotional and mental health in Birmingham. Because young people have suddenly had exams cancelled, transition arrangements thrown up in the air and are dealing with the impact of COVID-19 on their loved ones this is important. The new service was successfully launched yesterday for young people from year 6, aged 11 up to 25. The full offer, including online self-referral can be accessed at www.kooth.com.
Kooth is linked into the wider mental health support from Forward Thinking Birmingham and offers:- Online mental health counselling and chat services from midday to 10pm during the week, and 6pm to 10pm at weekends
- Peer to peer support through moderated discussion forums
- Self-care tools and resources to build resilience
- Early response to and identification of emotional wellbeing and mental health problems
- And there are no waiting lists, referrals or thresholds to access the service
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De-escalating behaviour
Wed 08 Apr 2020Many of us feel very anxious in the current situation. Our children are no different. Sometimes they find it hard to tell us that they feel anxious. Instead they might act out or present with distressed behaviours that we find challenging.
Our Federation partner school, Cherry Oak school , has some useful resources about this on their website under the Pupils/Home Learning Tab. Go to www.cherryoak@bham.gov.uk to take a look at a social story about staying at home and some videos on de-escalation techniques.
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