Contact Details
- 01753521811
- enquiries@pennwood.slough.sch.uk
Penn Wood Primary and Nursery School, Penn Road, Slough, SL2 1PH
Penn Wood Primary
and Nursery School
Penn Road, Slough Berkshire, SL2 1PH
Telephone: 01753 521811
Email: enquiries@pennwood.slough.sch.uk
Tuesday 13th July 2021
Dear Parents/Carers
Following tonight’s confirmation of the opening up of restrictions on 19th July 2021, we are currently updating our risk assessment. As always, this will be on our website but I thought that it would be helpful for you if we summarised the main points for you.
In addition:
To parents of children in Year 6:
We have been asked by Slough to ask parents to support their child with rapid Lateral Flow testing and reporting over the summer so that their child understands why they will need to undertake twice weekly rapid Lateral Flow testing at Secondary School and are prepared for testing and reporting on entering Year 7. Community testing sites will support with this if parents go along to a local testing site with their child.
Information about how to undertake a rapid Lateral Flow test (with supporting videos) can be found here: Coronavirus (COVID-19) rapid lateral flow home test kit instructions for throat and nose test - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Instructions on how to report a COVID-19 rapid Lateral Flow test result can be found on the following site: Report a COVID-19 rapid lateral flow test result - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Options for Lateral Flow Testing
Community Sites | The Centre, Langley Pavilions & Mobile Van | Community / Mobile Lateral Flow testing sites where members of the public go to take their test then and there, their result is texted to them approximately 30 minutes later |
Community Collect | The Centre, Langley Pavilions & Mobile Van | Community / Mobile Lateral Flow testing sites where members of the public go to collect their Lateral Flow Device test kits (7 kits in a box) and conduct the test at home and they log their result on the governments website |
Workplace Collect | Workplaces sign up to receive the tests directly | A company registers for Lateral Flow testing kits (containing 5 tests) for their employees. The kits are sent directly to the company to distribute amongst staff who conduct the test at home (the deadline for registration is 12 April 2021 for this service) |
Workplace Testing | Testing in the workplace | Workplace staff receive training in supervising tests and SBC supply tests to your organisation in return for a weekly report of number of tests conducted requires setting up clinical waste removal and follow the LFT SOP) |
Pharmacy Collect | Pharmacies which have joined the service | Members of the public can collect up to 4 boxes of Lateral Flow Device test kits for their household to test twice/week and report all results, pharmacy contractors can choose to provide this service and will sign up to take part |
Home Testing Kits | Members of the public can register to have kits sent to their home directly | https://www.gov.uk/order-coronavirus-rapid-lateral-flow-tests |
Testing Site Finder | Where you can go to have a symptomatic (PCR) or Asymptomatic (LFT) Covid Test |
The children will have met their new teachers for September today. Please see the information below.
Current class | New Year group | New class | New teacher |
| Reception | Pear | Miss Green |
| Reception | Apple | Mrs Davis |
| Reception | Cherry | Miss Alford/Mr McCollum |
Reception | Year 1 | Date | Miss Holland |
Reception | Year 1 | Coconut | Mrs Roche/Mrs Ajmal |
Reception | Year 1 | Cinnamon | Mrs Lewandowska |
Date | Year 2 | Cedar | Mrs Fernandes |
Cinnamon | Year 2 | Redwood | Miss Brotherston |
Coconut | Year 2 | Pine | Mrs Shah/ Mrs Ajmal |
Pine | Year 3 | Willow | Mrs Deol |
Cedar | Year 3 | Birch | Miss Hullait |
Redwood | Year 3 | Maple | Mrs Hothi |
Willow | Year 4 | Beech | Mrs Bhardwaj |
Maple | Year 4 | Oak | Miss Dhillon |
Birch | Year 4 | Chestnut | Miss Nayyer |
Chestnut | Year 5 | Olive | Mrs Gandu |
Oak | Year 5 | Banyan | Mr Griffin |
Beech | Year 5 | Baobab | Mrs Tang/ Mrs Forrest |
Banyan | Year 6 | Teak | Miss Ahmed |
Baobab | Year 6 | Ebony | Mrs Turner/Ms Hill |
Olive | Year 6 | Mahogany | Mrs O’Shea |
If you have noticed that that I have been less visible for a while, it is because I have been unwell with COVID 19. This was picked up through surge testing. I am only saying this so that you know that I am still very much around and love our school as passionately as I always have. I also say it as a reminder that we are clearly not ‘out of the woods’ yet and I believe we all need to remain cautious.
As a school, we have celebrated The UEFA European Football Championship and the team spirit shown by England in the match against Italy on Sunday evening. However, it is really important that as a community, we show our children that racism is wrong. Our key stage 2 children will be watching ‘Racism on social media: Why is abuse online so hard to stop?’ This is on Newsround if you would like to follow up on this at home with your children.
Mrs Hargreaves has now re-located to Hampshire to be closer to her family. We wish her every success for the future and we are grateful for all her good work with us.
Mrs Tilling is also re-locating to be closer to family and we will miss her too. We thank her for years of hard and very good work at Penn Wood.
I really hope that all families have a good Summer and that we have a healthier and less disrupted year next year. All of the staff are committed to providing the best education that we can for your children. You have all been absolutely brilliant when we have needed to close bubbles – I have been truly humbled by your kindness and understanding. I am equally proud of our brilliant staff, children and governors too.
This letter will also be added to our website in case you would like to use Google Translate.
With kindness and gratitude,
Jane Girle
Penn Wood Primary and Nursery School, Penn Road, Slough, SL2 1PH