We sent out by email, a first of the FSM voucher codes from Birmingham City Council, at the end of last week. Parents were then called or text with the codes if we did not have your email address.
Birmingham are due to send out the second code to schools tomorrow to cover FSM for next week. These will be sent out to families as soon as we are able to.
The national voucher scheme is also being rolled out to schools and so from next week you will receive your codes from Edenred. These will be sent out to families, who are entitled to FSM, at the end of next week and then weekly from then on, until we are back in school.
It is much easier for us to email the codes to you so if we have not yet sent in your email address then please email
fsm@timberleyacademy.bham.sch.uk
with your child's name and DOB.
Please remeber that these are only for children entitled to FSM, not the Universal FSM offered to all recpetion, year 1 and 2 children.
1st April 2020
Dear Parents/Carers,
We hope that everyone is safe and well and observing the lockdown rules and social distancing measures currently in place. We all know the importance of following the government advice and the impact that our actions can have on the spread of COVID-19 at this time.
As we enter the second week of school closure, we hope that parents/carers and children are well. We are pleased that everyone is pulling together and doing their bit to protect the NHS and other key workers by staying at home. We have seen that lots of children have put up rainbows in the area to show their appreciation for the NHS. They look lovely.
We expect that in many households, the first week of school closure may have seemed more like the start of a holiday. However, if children are not to get bored and fractious, as they often do by the second week of the summer holidays, some sort of routine and structure is important and is needed during home learning. Please log your children on to the different packages we subscribe to and they will know what to do next.
Although school is currently closed to the majority of children, we are providing emergency child care for some families where both parents are key workers. Some parents who originally asked for child care have made alternative arrangements and have been able to keep their children at home. We thank those parents who have put arrangements in place in order for their children to remain at home. As a result, we have fewer children attending our emergency provision than we first though. This in turn is helping protect school staff by allowing many to work at home.
We want to say a huge thank you to everyone staying at home during this lockdown situation. You are definitely helping to save lives. However, teachers still want to make sure that their children are well and safe. Over the next two weeks, your child’s teacher or another member of staff known to them, will make contact to ensure that home learning is going well and that you are accessing all the resources provided on the school website and the packages we subscribe to. They also want to say hello to the children. Please be patient, this contact will take place as regularly as we can and when teachers are in school.
We have been replying to parents of children who are entitled to free school meals to send them the codes needed to access the shopping vouchers sent through from Birmingham City Council. If your child was entitled to free school meals before the closure (not the universal free school meals for reception – year 2) then please email
fsm@timberleyacademy.bham.sch.uk
Keep safe, enjoy the sunshine and treasure this quality time with your children. Make new memories, work on fun things together, help them with their learning and listen to them read.
You already know that your children are fantastic little people. These are strange times, however, we now have time to spend with our children. Children grow up so quickly, but we can enjoy special moments during these unprecedented times.
Stay safe everyone. Stay indoors, protect the NHS, and save lives.
Kind Regards
Mrs C Harris and SLT Team at Timberley Academy
A letter has been sent out today regarding the Coronavirus and official Government and NHS advice that has been issued.
The letter states changes that will be implemented from Monday 16th March 2020. These changes affect after school clubs, stay and play and swimming lessons. If you did not receive a letter, it can be downloaded from the noticeboard section of the school website.
As of now, school is open.
If any changes are made, we will contact our families and inform you all by text message and website/twitter updates.
Thank you for your co-operation and support during this time.
Key Stage 1
Well done 1C who got 95.3% attendance this week
2nd 2C 94.4%
3rd 2B 93.5%
4th RO 92.7%
5th 1M 92%
6th 2R 91.3%
7th 1B 89.5%
8th RL 88.8%
9th RS 97.5%
Key Stage 2
Well done 3H who got 97.2% attendance this week
2nd 5S 96.9%
3rd 6K 95.9%
4th 5H 95.5%
5th 4S & 4J 95.1%
6th 4M 94.5%
7th 3D 93.6%
8th 6B 92.6%
9th 5M 92.5%
10th 3M 92.2%
11th 6P 91.8%