Coronovirus Information
CORONAVIRUS INFORMATION
Government guidelines and advice on this matter are changing weekly, the latest Government advice can be found here:
Willow Banks Forest School is dedicated to creating a safe and secure environment for our young people, to feel safe, and follow their interests. We allow children to lead themselves in their learning and avoid imposing rules on them where possible. We spend the majority of our days outdoors in nature, where transmission of coronavirus is less likely than indoors.
Our primary age young people are unlikely to be able to socially distance themselves from others and we would not expect them to. For those children the school will seem pretty much the same as before, maybe with a bit more hand washing.
For our secondary students, they will be expected to adhere to the government guidelines on testing, face masks, social distancing, handwashing and sanitizing.
The procedures and risk assessment below should enable us to operate with the likelihood of virus transmission reduced as much as is to be reasonably expected.
Willow Banks Forest School’s Covid-19 Operational Procedure & Risk Assessments can be found below:
PLEASE CLICK HERE FOR GUIDANCE IF A CHILD IS DISPLAYING SYMPTOMS OF CORONAVIRUS.
The rainbow children
The Rainbow Children
The history books will talk of now,
That time the world stood still.
When every family stayed at home,
Waved out from windowsills-
At those they loved but could not hold,
Because they loved them so.
Yet, whilst they did they noticed all the flowers start to grow.
The sun came out, they can recall,
And windows, rainbows filled.
They kicked a football in their yards,
Until the night drew in.
They walked each day but not too close,
That time the world stood still.
When people walked straight down the roads,
That once the cars did fill.
They saw that people became ill,
They knew the world was scared.
But whilst the world stood still they saw,
How much the whole world cared.
They clapped on Thursdays from their doors,
They cheered for the brave.
For people who would risk their lives,
So others could be saved.
The schools closed down, they missed their friends,
They missed their teachers so.
Their Mum’s and Dad’s helped with their work,
They helped their minds to grow.
The parents used to worry that,
As schools were put on hold,
Their children wouldn’t have the tools,
They’d need as they grew old.
But history books will talk of them,
Now adults, fully grown.
Those little boys and girls back then,
The ones who stayed at home.
They’ll tell you that they fixed this world,
Of all they would fulfil.
The RAINBOW children building dreams,
They’d dreamed whilst time stood still.
