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Posted on: 3/12/2021

Job Vacancy - Teaching Assistant

JOB VACANCY TEACHING ASSISTANT Required ASAP Grade: APT&C Scale 2 (£21,408 to £21,795 pro-rata)  39 weeks per year - 5 days per week   Our Lady of Grace is a friendly, successful primary school which needs a committed Teaching Assistant to join our excellent team.  In the first instance, this will be to work alongside individual children and groups in class and also in managing small groups of pupils for specific interventions as required.  You may also be required to support children with Special Needs on a 1:1 basis. Our successful candidate should be confident in working with children across the age range (5-11) and it may suit someone thinking of teaching as a career. You should have experience of working with teachers in creating and delivering specific educational programmes, adapting these to individual needs.  You must be able to work on your own initiative, but need to be a good team player too! We are looking for an applicant with experience of comparable work in a similar setting and hold at least NVQ3 or equivalent.  You should be a confident user of ICT and hold a First Aid qualification or be willing to train for one. References will be required and as part of safeguarding the welfare of all our children, a DBS clearance will be undertaken.   An application form, further information and how to apply can be found at:    https://www.tes.com/jobs/vacancy/teaching-assistant-greenwich-1533787   Closing date for applications:        Monday 13th December 2021 at 12.00 noon. Interview date:                              Week beginning 13th December 2021.
Posted on: 3/12/2021

Christmas Performances

Dear Parents and Carers, I am pleased to say that the children continue to work hard during rehearsals, despite the disappointment from last week that the performances cannot be opened up to visitors and parents. At the moment, we are liaising with the IT company that supports the school, as to which platform we will use to make the video available for the KS1, KS2 and Guitar performances.  Information about the time of the release; platform and how you will access it will follow next week. The filming will be done by the school’s IT company, with OLOG staff to assist. The footage will be edited and so hopefully the quality will be good; but I must stress that none of us are professional film makers! A rehearsal for filming will take place on Thursday 9th December, with actual filming taking place on Monday 13th December.  KS2 will be filmed in the morning and KS1 in the afternoon.   Yours sincerely,   Dawn Webb (Deputy Head)
Posted on: 1/12/2021

Stars of the Week

Week commencing 29th November 2021 We are delighted at the return of our Achievement Assemblies to celebrate the children's best efforts in the classroom and around the School. Year 1 - St David: Joymaria & Lily Year 1 - St John Bosco: Feranmi & Mia  Year 2 - St Joseph: Amelia & Makai Year 2 - St Gerard: Ela & Julen Year 3 - St Martin: Tife & Jessica Year 3 - St Peter: Niamh & Alfie Year 4 - St Martin de Porres: Tishe & Blaithain Year 4 - St Francis of Assisi: Marco & Alana Year 5 - St Elizabeth: Maxima & Riaz Year 5 - St Patrick: Timi & Ellie Year 6 - Oscar Romero: Pippa & Rwyet       Congratulations everyone!
Posted on: 26/11/2021

KS1 and KS2 Christmas Performances

Dear Parents, Subsequent to my letter of Monday, I am writing to inform you that, very regrettably, we will have to cancel both the Christmas Fair and performances in front of parents. We do not make this decision lightly as these events are vital to our community. After eighteen months of COVID, we had hoped that the continued ‘normalisation’ of school life, would allow us, once again, to welcome parents to our school to celebrate Christmas. A rising number of cases, however in school, as well as seasonal sickness, has made this decision inevitable. Our primary concern must be to protect all of us in our community and to ensure that our core business of learning in school can continue uninterrupted until the end of term. The children have worked so hard in preparing the KS1 nativity and the KS2 carol concert. It is a delight to watch them mount the stage and confidently read, act and sing. We do not want all this work to go to waste, therefore, both performances will be filmed and loaded on to Google Classroom. Although this is not the same, hopefully it will give you a taste of how truly wonderful your children are and, please God, next year we will be able to yet again have live performances.   Yours sincerely,   Mr Sean Small Headteacher
Posted on: 23/11/2021

Parent Governor Election

Dear Parents, Re: Election of Parent Governor I am pleased to inform you of the result of our election for parent governor. • Elected: Jamila Dixon (For full results, please see letters to parents page) I would like to thank those who put their names forward and we are sorry that we were unable to accept all the applicants as governors at this time. There may be vacancies in other schools in the area, and if you were unsuccessful and would like to be considered as a school governor elsewhere, I know that the Borough’s Governor Services Team will be pleased to hear from you. Please ask in the school office for the contact address if you would like more details. We welcome Jamila to the Governing Body and thank her for joining us in the task of improving our children’s education.
Posted on: 22/11/2021

Latest COVID Cases

22nd November 2021 Dear Parents, As we near the end of November, it is evident that COVID is making a resurgence within the school. Last week, attendance in many of the classes was down on the previous week.  This was as much to do with seasonal sickness as with COVID.  Presently we have three teachers isolating after testing positive.  As we only cover using Our Lady of Grace staff, ensuring that all the classes are covered is a challenge at the moment. As a community to minimise the spread, please help us to maintain social distancing, hand hygiene, cleaning, wearing face coverings when appropriate and limiting social interactions. As I have said previously, our Christmas Fayre and performances are very important to us as a community.  Nevertheless, we have to be realistic as to our current circumstances and the risk posed by COVID.  I will make the decision on Friday as to whether or not to cancel the live Christmas performances and move to a virtual platform.  If I have to make that decision, it will be with a heavy heart, but my entire motivation is the health and wellbeing of the staff and children.   Yours sincerely,   Mr Sean Small Headteacher

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