Our Brilliant Club children graduated in style on Tuesday evening.

Unfortunately they were unable to travel to Oxford, as previous cohorts have done, but they still attended a graduation ceremony via Zoom and even better were treated to pizza afterwards! Congratulations to everyone on their graduation.

A message from the London Borough of Newham:

As part of our commitment to provide health promotion information to parents and families across Newham we offer virtual workshop sessions.

See attached flyer: National Child Measurement Programme

Please share via your preferred parent mail system, with all parents/carers that have children in Reception and/or Year 6.

The flyer provides a link to choose and book tickets (free)

An opportunity for parents/carers to meet the school health team providing the national child measurement programme (NCMP) in their child/rens school, join via a zoom webinar, parents/carers will be able to ask questions using the chat function.

All Parents/carers are welcome to attend a workshop either before or after the national child measurement programme has been completed in their child/rens school.

Events scheduled across a variety of days and times to enable as many parents as possible to apply for tickets.

Please share with your parents as soon as possible, the next event is Wednesday 5th May 2021.

Newham are releasing statistics each week to show the current state of the pandemic in the borough.

The latest dashboard is shown below and was published on 28th April with information for the week 18th to 24th April. There has been a drop in the number of positive cases but the number is still very high.

Please click here or on the picture of the statistics to download a copy of the dashboard for 28th April 2021.

Anyone in Newham can now order free rapid tests to be delivered to you at home and then to do at home https://www.newham.gov.uk/coronavirus-covid-19/covid-19-testing/3

You can also pick up tests from a number of places around Newham as well https://www.newham.gov.uk/coronavirus-covid-19/covid-19-testing/2

Vaccines are now open to everyone 45 and over in Newham. All the different ways you can book are listed on this website:

https://www.newham.gov.uk/coronavirus-covid-19/covid-19-vaccination/4.

We're also offering even more places where residents can get their vaccine if they live with someone eligible and come along with them. This will now include the Excel centre. Go along with the person who is eligible and has booked and you should be able to get your vaccine. Please do share this with others.

For now the way to get the multigenerational vaccine is to show up with the person who is eligible then the others in the household can get a vaccine then and there OR you can book in for another time

There have been a few questions about going to have a vaccine with someone in your household is eligible for their vaccine. This is available at all the vaccine sites in Newham (the GPs, the pop-ups, the pharmacies, Excel) except Westfield - it's a big deal we can do it at Excel as that's a site that Newham does not locally lead / run.

This offer of being able to be vaccinated with someone you live with is something that Newham has pushed hard for - and argued for with central government - so please do share any stories you have of using it so we can keep it going.

Remember:

HANDS - wash your hands often, for 20 seconds with soap and water.

FACE - wear a face covering whenever you’re inside a public space.

SPACE - stay 2 metres apart from people you don’t live with.

Become a COVID-19 Health Champion

Another big surge in Bronze Awards this week, which is fantastic news as this shows lots of children are behaving really well, virtually all of the time, well done everyone!.

If your child finishes the day on the Bronze or Silver level or is awarded a Gold Letter you will receive a message in the MarvellousMe app (MMe). If you are yet to download the MMe app please do so as soon as possible as all Gold Letters, House Points and messages etc. from the school will be sent via the MMe app.