Dear parents/carer

At 2pm today, Thursday 28 May, the Education Minister, Senator Tracey Vallois, is making an announcement on the details of the phased re-opening of all schools, colleges and nurseries.

Senator Vallois will be joined at the press conference by the Children’s Minister Senator Sam Mézec, CYPES Director General Mark Rogers and Susan Turnbull, Medical Officer of Health.

You can watch the press conference live on the Government of Jersey Facebook page at 2pm and listen on radio.

I will also share the press release with you after 2pm so that you have all the information.  

Iain George

Headteacher

Dear Janvrin families

Thank you so much to all of the adults who have come to collect their child’s Google Classroom packs.

This has gone brilliantly well so far. 

Children have been able to log on to their classrooms and have started and completed the assignments and activities set by their teachers.

They have also been able to make some written contact with their class friends and say ‘hello’ to each other after all of these weeks in lockdown.

We have had a few difficulties with passwords but, once you let us know about this, we were able to get all of these sorted.

The majority of children are being set at least 2 main activities per day which means that since last Wednesday most children will have had about 8 activities to complete and send to their teacher so far. I have been really impressed with the work that children are sending back and the positive responses from the children. If your child hasn’t logged on yet, don’t worry: they will start their work from the day they log on and will not be expected to complete all of the work already set at this time.

Access to the Google Classrooms is very, very important now as the lockdown continues so it is essential that all children log in to this resource to access the updated, daily activities.

If you have not collected your child’s pack from the main office yet, you must do this urgently now please. The office is open from 8.30-4.00 every day.

If it is difficult for you come to collect the packs please let the school know and we will help you with this.

If you have difficulties with setting this up and accessing Google Classrooms, that’s not a problem. Let the school know and we will do everything to help you with this.

If your child’s pack is not collected by Wednesday we will be making polite phone calls home to see when they are going to be picked up and if there are any difficulties at all.

Kind regards

Iain George

Headteacher

 

Dear children and families of Janvrin school

As always, staff at school are sending you all our best wishes and hoping that your circumstances are as good as they possibly can be at this time. Please contact any member of staff at anytime if you are experiencing any difficulties or concerns at home for you and your child/children.

Google Classroom:

The class teachers at school have been developing lots of different resources and activities for children whilst children work at home.

These have been very successful, but we are going to develop these even more now so your child can hand in completed work and get some feedback from your teacher on certain tasks.

 

This is going to be developed through ‘Google Classroom’. We are in the process of ensuring teachers have the right training on this and that we show you and your child how to get on to this. Google classroom will allow teachers to post recordings of short lessons as well as ‘assignments’ that can be completed and returned on line by the children.

There will be daily tasks for children to complete.

 

We will be contacting you next week with clear, simple instructions of how to get on to Google classroom and with a code/log-in for your child.

 

It would be helpful if you could download ‘Google Chrome’ on to our mobile device at home. This is the only way of accessing your child’s classroom (other versions of Google won’t allow this). If you can’t do this let us know (i.george@janvirn.sch.je; m.chipperfield@janvirn.sch.je; l.McInerney@janvrin.sch.je)

 

We have sent out a survey to parents which many of you have completed and returned. This survey is to find out what devices your child has at home and when these are available.

It is very important that we know if your child does not have a device at home that they can access for a couple of hours throughout each day. It is also important that it has Google Chrome on it.

 

We will send more details around this next week so please keep checking your emails and contacts from school.

 

We know this will have some initial difficulties in setting up and getting out to all families but be reassured we have this in hand with staff at school and will be able to support any issues that arise. Please keep checking for information from school next week and hopefully we can get this started at some point during the week.

 

Liberation Day:

Saturday is Liberation day. 

This is an important and historical reminder to us all about how well we can, as a community, support and work together to overcome the hardest and harshest of challenges and difficulties. These things will pass and ‘liberation’ will arrive at some point. I am looking forward to the time when we can also celebrate together as a community after this lock down. What I do know is how well our community has worked together already in supporting families facing hardships and difficulties. We will continue to do this for as long as we need to.

I wish everyone a very happy celebration tomorrow.

 

Kind regards

 

Iain George

Headteacher

 

Dear Janvrin families
 
Please click below to view the results of this year’s Jersey Royal growing competition that was started before the school closures.

Miss Wilton has now harvested the potatoes from each class and has come up with the 2 winners:

Nursery: for the heaviest amount of potatoes in one crop

5HV: for the largest number of potatoes in one crop

The total number and weight of the potatoes has been sent to the competition organisers who will then compare it to other schools. We will let you know the results from this when they come through.
 
Well done Janvrin potato farmers: another great crop across the school!

Iain George

Headteacher

Dear families

As we develop our teaching and learning at home it is important that we understand what devices you have at home.

We also need to know what your internet connection is like. (If any families still need WiFi vouchers, please let me know).

Please follow the link to complete a very short survey that will allow us to see what devices your child can access on a daily basis in order to do some of their class lessons.

Please submit this to us as soon as possible: where there are restriction to access, we will try and ensure that support and devices are available for children.

 https://forms.gle/v13SFvqJk9cr9wXMA​ 

Thank you

Iain George

Headteacher

 

Good morning

The Government has confirmed the latest decision around school closures

‘The Education Minister has signed a further Ministerial Decision, based on the latest advice from the Medical Officer of Health, to extend the closure of the majority of Government-provided schools and colleges to 22 May, the start of the Summer half-term holiday.

This means that the earliest that schools and colleges could reopen is Monday, 1 June after the end of the Summer half-term break’.

We appreciate the challenges that this extension my make for our families and colleagues and we will continue to work towards supporting our children and school community as fully as possible.

There is a new Government-based website now set up for children and parents to access with some excellent resources and ideas available.

I would encourage all children and families to look at this and explore the resources available.

The Education Minister, Tracey Vallois, has said:

“I am delighted to launch the new Learning At Home online platform to support parents who will be worried about COVID-19, home learning, and the impact that this will have on their child’s development. Schools are doing everything they can to support students to learn at home.

“We need to support the incredible work that our schools are already doing to ensure students continue to receive the education they deserve and need. No-one expects parents to replace their child’s teacher. Our schools will continue to manage their students’ learning.”

The main aim of the new website is to provide parents and carers of primary and secondary school pupils with the necessary tools to support them with home learning.

This new online platform is aimed at students aged 3-19. There are simple guidelines to assist parents and carers with learning at home, and to support them in maintaining the safety and wellbeing of their family.

The new website is:  https://learningathome.gov.je/

Stay safe and healthy;

Kind regards

Iain George

Headteacher