Hare Krishna

Please find attached the full risk assessment for opening on 2nd September. Please pay particular attention to the temporary drop off and pick up times to help maintain the safety of the children.

Should you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact me.

Yours in the service of Srila Prabhupada

Gunacuda dasi

H&S Policy

Sept COVID Risk Assessment

Hare Krishna

Further to my earlier email, this is to confirm that the children will be served lunch prasadam from the temple from next week. Should your child bring a packed lunch from home please ensure there are no nuts or items containing nut products as we have a child in school with a severe nut allergy.

Your child should also bring a mid morning snack and we recommend they bring fruit or a similar healthy snack. Please also make sure your child brings a water bottle.

Yours in the service of Srila Prabhupada,

Gunacuda dasi

Dear parent,

I hope you and your family are well and that we might see you at some of our three events this week in gurukula: gardening afternoon (today), Radhastami programme and the 6 hour kirtan on 30th.

I had emailed the attendance policy to you all a few weeks ago and explained that for this year we would no longer have the procedure where parents can apply at least month in advance for 10 extra days leave to go on pilgrimage.

The gurukula had not received any applications for leave for this new academic year before we closed in the summer so ,following our policy and government guidelines, any absence for holiday from the 2nd September will be marked an unauthorised absence.

Every school is required, as part of safeguarding, to have a Children Missing Education procedure. As with all schools in England, this states that if a child misses 10 days at school without an explanation or notification to the school they will be considered missing and it is a legal duty for the school to inform the Local Authority.

We expect all families to send their children back to gurukula on 2nd September, however if you know you will not be here then please send an email to either myself or Tulsi Seva mataji (via the admin email ) before 28th August explaining why your child will be absent and when you expect them to return.

This is an important part of  our safeguarding procedure and does get checked.

We are aiming to have overall attendance of 97% this year and request everyone’s cooperation to ensure this happens especially as children have been out of school for a prolonged period during the lockdown.

Thank you in advance for your cooperation.

Yours in  the service of Srila Prabhupada,

Gunacuda Dasi

Dear parents

Hare Krishna. Please find attached the updated Attendance Policy which contains important information regarding the Gurukula’s policy and procedures for monitoring absence and attendance.

With Ofsted due to visit this academic year we would like to show improvement in our attendance.  The children have also had a considerable amount of time out of school due to the Covid-19 closures. Therefore, for this academic year the school will not be offering the previous provision of parents being able to apply for 10 days extra holiday for pilgrimage. The governing body will look at this again next year.

We hope to achieve the national target of 97% attendance .

We reopen for all children on Wednesday 2nd September at 8.30 am ( for devotional soft start in classrooms) and lessons will commence at 8.50.

Thank you in advance for your cooperation.

Yours in the service of Srila Prabhupada,

Gunacuda dasi