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Registering for Free School Meals If you are in receipt of benefits and think you may be eligible for Free School Meals, register on the Kirklees website: https://www.kirklees.gov.uk/beta/schools/free-school-meals.aspx |
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MESSAGE TO OUR PUPILS Click on the link below to see our Staff message to all our Pupils at Diamond Wood Community Academy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwNYmKZ_iDA&feature=youtu.be |
COVID-19 - CORONAVIRUS
For the most up to date information and guidance on the Coronavirus click on the link below:
https://www.gov.uk/government/topical-events/coronavirus-covid-19-uk-government-response
How to explain COVID-19 to Children
https://nosycrow.com/blog/released-today-free-information-book-explaining-coronavirus-children-illustrated-gruffalo-illustrator-axel-scheffler/
How to explain COVID-19 to Children - Română, Magyar, Polskie
https://www.mindheart.co/descargables
Kirklees Council COVID-19 Useful Information
Click here for details.
Department for Education - Online Educational Resources for Parents & Carers
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-online-education-resources
Government Guidance for Parents & Carers to Keep Children Safe Online
Hungarian Community Response Information - Magyar Közösségi Válasz Információ
https://welcometokirklees.files.wordpress.com/2020/04/hungarian-community-response.pdf
Romanian Community Response Information - Informații de răspuns ale comunității românești
Urdu Community Response Information
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=44&v=r-1CPb6otNg&feature=emb_logo
Punjabi Community Response Information
https://welcometokirklees.blog/2020/04/03/punjabi-video-community-response-information/
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What if I’m worried about my child or another child? What if I'm worried about an adult?
If you’re finding it hard at home with your child and are struggling to cope, call Family Lives for free, confidential advice on 0808 800 2222.
If you’re worried about the safety of another child in our community call:
NSPCC on 0808 800 5000
Police on 999 if you think a child is in immediate danger
Click here for details on how to contact Kirklees Safeguarding Adults Board
Click here to see Diamond Wood Community Academy's Addendum Update to the Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy in response to COVID-19 |
How to Keep Your Child Safe During the Coronavirus Pandemic
The Children’s Commissioner has published a children’s guide to Coronavirus. The guide helps to explain the situation and aims to answer questions. It also gives guidance on how to talk to children about Coronavirus, how to stay safe, protect other people and how to help them make the best of their time at home.
Please click on the link below to access the guide:
Welcome
On behalf of the children, staff and Governors, I would like to welcome you to the Diamond Wood Community Academy website. We are a school which believes in the value of every child and adult who enters our doors.
We are very proud of our school. Diamond Wood is a friendly, caring environment, where work and play go hand-in-hand. We offer a strong sense of community, with close ties with parents and carers. We recognise the crucial importance of a three-way partnership between school, children, and parents/carers, and endeavour to build positive relationships to ensure that all of our children reach their full potential. A successful partnership depends on close co-operation, support and trust, between home and school, and recognition that we have a shared responsibility.
We ensure that our children are educated within a caring, happy, warm and welcoming environment, with a rich and challenging curriculum, in a stimulating environment.
With our dedicated staff, we strive to achieve the very best for every child. This is so they can build a firm foundation of skills, whilst further developing their lively enquiring minds, leaving them equipped for the world in which we live.
If you have any queries please contact our Rachael Hughes in the first instance, Tel: 01924 325308. You will then be directed accordingly.
We hope you will enjoy your journey with us at Diamond Wood Community Academy.
Mrs S Titherington
Head of School
Word Of The Week
This week's Word Of The Week is Good
Save the Children Support
Click here for activities, tips and inspiration for you and your child during lockdown.
School will close at 3.30pm on Friday 20th March 2020 for the foreseeable future
As you are aware school is now closed until further notice. As soon as I have an update we shall keep you informed. School have provided your child with a pack to work from home. Please help your child with this.
If you have any queries or questions at all please email us on:
office@diamondwoodacademy.co.uk
You will receive a reply, there may be a delay in response.
This is a very difficult time for all. I want to wish you all the best. Stay safe and we look forward to welcoming you back into Diamond Wood soon.
Thank you for your support and co-operation
Sally Titherington
Head of School
Our Community Response helpline is open
We’ve opened a new dedicated helpline as part of our Covid-19 Community Response.
We’re working alongside our citizens and local organisations to make sure that together we can all support our neighbours and communities over the coming weeks. We’re working especially closely with local voluntary sector organisations through our partners at Volunteering Kirklees (part of Third Sector Leaders).
Together we’ve developed a co-ordinated Community Response, including a Kirklees Council helpline and online forms that anyone can use to either request help, or to offer support to others. Our response teams in local places will be matching requests for help with offers of support, so that we can work together to support the most vulnerable in our communities.
How to request support or offer support
Anyone can let us know about the things they need help with, or that someone who they are concerned about might need help with. Individuals, organisations and businesses can also tell us about the support they may be able to offer to others.
· Online forms: Covid-19 Community Response
· Community Response helpline: 01484 226919
The helpline is managed by Kirklees Direct and opened at 9am on Wednesday 25th March. It will initially be open from 8am to 6pm weekdays. We will review this daily. Citizens and organisations can share information with us online at any time.
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- School Holiday21Jul2020
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