Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment. The majority of our organisational emails are sent directly to parents via Iris Parentmail.

• Link to form to give school permission to issue Google accounts - and for GDPR

  Sat 20 Jun 2020 ES
  Permission for Google Accounts and GDPR

• Y2, Y3, Y4, Y5 Survey

  Wed 10 Jun 2020
  Y2, Y3, Y4, Y5 Survey

• Year 6 Return to School survey

  Wed 10 Jun 2020
  Year 6 Return to School survey

• Booking Form for children of Front-line Critical Workers

  Tue 09 Jun 2020 HK
  Booking form for a schoolplace for the children of Front-line Critical Workers

• School Updates Monday 8th June 2020

  Mon 08 Jun 2020 HK

  Dear families and friends of Instow,

  We have seen a successful first day of school expanding its numbers to accommodate pre-school children in the parish hall; reception children and year one children, as well as maintaining a service to the children of critical workers in our community.

  The organisation has been challenging but we're getting there. We now have an established home-learning team headed up by Mrs Brewer; these staff will maintain responses and dialogue with the children learning at home for the time-being while many of our teachers are now running limited sized teaching groups on the school site. Both in school and at home, we are all following the two-weekly planning that has been sent out to you.

  I attempted an assembly from my office using Google Meet today - try sharing your screen and then loading the image from an ipad in each classroom onto the smartboards! Oh my word! Another challenge to improve, especially with wifi from the top of a Devon hill!

  This has clearly been a time when we have all been challenged but I know with your support we are working towards a level of normality for those children able and eligible to attend school.

  Mrs Slater will be sending out a survey to parents of Year 6 pupils this week, in order for us to gauge the next step of having our beloved Year 6 pupils on site - the surveys returned are vitally important as we can then plan whether we have to go to a part-time timetable, dependent on numbers. We are planning for Year 6 pupils to return from Monday 22nd june BUT must have replies to the Year 6 survey before we make further plans.

  Please be reassured that using our Google surveys are very important to us, rather than individual phone calls and emails requesting places. It does create additional work for everyone when we have to strictly plan for eight pupils per group for the time-being; we hope this may change, but is dependent on H&S guidance on social distancing for adults.

  In other news - Our wonderful Mrs Trudi Elphick, who works to support children in Reception Class 1, has made a very difficult decision to spend more time with her family, travelling between Staffordshire and Devon. While she loves our school very much and has been a most important part of our team, nurturing everyone along the way, she will be leaving us at the end of June. We shall miss her dearly and want to give her a good send off - albeit virtually! If you wish to contribute towards a thank gift that will help their self-sufficiency life we'll be sending out further information in the next week or so. It's not compulsory but I know many families would like to know how to contribute their gratitude.

  Many of you have given us positive feedback when you have attended our Family Workshops during the time your child has been in Reception class over the past three years. I know our staff have really enjoyed delivering the materials and spending time with you. If you are interested in further quality parenting skills courses online, please read your Parentmail sent out on 8th June with information for free places for parents. Please do read through the materials and apply to take part, as they are highly recommended. There is even a course for impending teenagers for our Year 6 parents!!

  That's it for now, please take care of yourselves and I'll email you soon with any further information. We are in school if you want to call for any clarification.

  All the best, Mrs Knight and team xx

• Link to survey for key worker families and EHCP

  Tue 02 Jun 2020 ES
  Survey for key worker families and EHCP

• Link to survey for pre-school, reception and year one parents only

  Mon 01 Jun 2020 HK
  Survey for parents of pre-school, Reception and Year One children

• Two weekly planning can be found on your Parentmail account over three emails

  Mon 01 Jun 2020 HK

  Dear families and friends of Instow,

  Please find attached our planning for you to dip in and out of over the next two weeks when needing to support your child's study from home. Our topic is for super scientists out there to work on light and shadow themes! Any children on the school site will also follow his planning in order to share similar experiences.

  We are also including some great links on the Reading Resources page, that enable you and your child to access wonderful on-line reading opportunities - keeping up reading is the most important pleasure and skill combined for our children. Thank you for continuing to support your child with enjoyable reading, but you may be running out of ideas, so these links may really help you!

  Changes are underway on site, in preparation for the initial return of up to 8 pre-school in the parish hall, Reception children in Class 1 and Year 1 in Class Two from next Monday 8th June. If we find that there are more than 8 wishing to take up the place in school, then we might have to consider a part-time school place in order to accommodate everyone, while keeping the site as safe as possible for your children and staff.

  Key worker children continue to be in school when key worker parents have to work and this provision is under continuous revision, so that our school site is able to cope with the government guidance on social distancing, especially for children, staff and parents.

  If your child is in Pre-school, Reception or Year One, please complete the linked survey, even if you completed it a couple of weeks ago, as it eliminates the 'unsure' option. We have to calculate safe numbers on site now that I have sent you our information pack on our safety measures, so we would be grateful for those year group parents to complete one survey per child within this age range. Guidance is changing all the time and we are constantly reviewing arrangements, balanced with health & safety compliance.

  Parents of children in Pre-School,Reception Class and Year One - kindly follow this link to complete the survey within a couple of minutes, thank you: Pre-School, Reception and Year One Parent's Survey from 8th June

  There will be a number of emails being sent to you today that link to the planning for the next two weeks,

  Fondest regards

  Mrs Knight and team x