Please follow this link to a video we have created from today's leavers' assembly.

The video comprises the component parts of the assembly.

It begins with the formal aspect of the assembly, including Mrs Singh's speech and a speech from the Head Boy and Deputy Head Girl. This is followed by the photo presentation we used, with backing music.

We send our best wishes to your children as they begin their secondary education and hope you all have a wonderful summer holiday.

With best wishes,

Mrs Singh and Mr Watts

Please follow this link to see the presentation Mrs Singh used in today's Leavers' Assembly.

Please follow this link to watch the speech given by the outgoing Head Girl and Head Boy.

With best wishes for a happy summer,

All at NWJS

With best wishes,

NWJS

Please bear with us if you are using the website.

Over the last two days, I have again been liaising with our website provider as we keep losing the ability to log in and make changes. A temporary fix has been applied, allowing me to post this message, and a longer-term solution is being sought.

With thanks for your patience, 
NWJS

Please bear with us if you are using the website.

This afternoon, when uploading a document to the website, we noticed that some pages would not load. We have been in touch with the technical team and are awaiting a resolution.

With thanks for your patience, 
NWJS

We hope you have had a relaxing summer holiday and wish you a happy autumn term.

It has been lovely to have the children back in school again over the last few weeks.

We look forward to welcoming you all back again after the Easter holiday.

Wishing you a happy Easter.

With best wishes,

NWJS

My apologies once again for the difficulties that some of you faced this evening when trying to access the meeting with your child’s Teacher.

I have contacted our ICT support team to request their help, in order to resolve the problem.

It would be helpful if you could you let me know, by sending me an email to this address: help@nascotwoodjm.herts.sch.uk how you attempted to access your consultation meeting this evening, and if you were successful.

By that I mean, did you use your personal google login, or your child’s google Login, and were you successful or not?

I will pass this information on to our support team tomorrow with the hope that this will help them to diagnose the problem.

As I said in my email earlier this evening, if you were unable to meet with your child’s Teacher this evening, we will be in contact with you to reschedule.

With apologies once again for the difficulties this evening,

Simon Watts

I am sorry to report that there appears to be a problem with Google Classroom this evening.

It does not appear to be allowing us to admit some parents.

The parents that have been successful have accessed the meeting via their child’s Google Classroom login.

Although we would expect to be able to admit participants from outside of the organisation, this does not appear to be working.

With this in mind, when you try to access your meeting, please do so via your child’s Google Classroom login.

If you have been unable to access your meeting this evening, we will be in touch to re-schedule.

With apologies for any difficulty this has caused.

Simon Watts

It has been lovely to welcome you all back, after the half term break.

Thank you for your continued support in these first few days, it is very much appreciated. 

With best wishes,

NWJS

It has been lovely to have the children back in school again this academic year.

Thank you to you all for preparing your children so well.

With best wishes,

NWJS

Please follow this link to see the Leavers' Assembly recorded by Mrs Singh, on our Facebook page.

With best wishes,

NWJS

Please follow this link to see a message from Mrs Singh, and information regarding transition from Y2 into Y3, in September 2020.

With best wishes, NWJS

To further support you during this unusual time, we are asking Class Teachers to telephone each family approximately once a fortnight.

The purpose of this call is simply to ‘check in’ with you, allowing some continuity of contact, for you as a family, with the school, whilst your child is unable to attend.

It’s not to discuss progress, or to check up on work completed, it is simply to maintain some semblance of contact with you, hopeful aiding a smooth transition once we return to more normal schooling.

The Class Teachers will aim to speak to the families of half the class per week, on a rolling program. If the Class Teachers are unable to contact you, they will leave a message and/or try again another day.

I would ask that you help to keep the phone calls relatively short, perhaps to approximately ten minutes.

It is not necessary for the Class Teacher to speak to your child, however, if you particularly want your child to have an opportunity to say hello to their Class Teacher, it is of course okay to do so.

With best wishes,

Mr Watts

For ease of use, we have temporarily repurposed one of our pages so that it is the central place for you to look for information while the school is closed.

The link is on the right hand side of the Home page button, at the top of the screen and is titled 'Closure'.

Here we will post information about the closure as we get, as well as having easy access to the class pages on the right hand side.

This will also be where you need to look to find Mrs Singh's assemblies.

Wishing you a happy Easter, 

NWJS

This morning I led an assembly with the children about the Coronavirus.

The aim of the assembly was to explain some of the facts about the virus and to reassure them that there are steps we can take to mitigate the risk of contracting it.

I used information that has been sent to schools from Public Health England to create a Power Point presentation, to structure the assembly.

I spent time discussing with the children, good practises with regard to coughing, sneezing and hand hygiene.  

I reiterated to the children that if they need to cough or sneeze, they should follow the NHS guidelines of ‘Catch it, bin it, kill it.’

The children should cough or sneeze into a tissue, dispose of the tissue and then wash their hands.

If this is not possible, they should cough/sneeze into the crook of their bent arm, into their elbow or their hands, rather than coughing or sneezing into the air.

I then discussed how best to wash our hands and played the children an NHS video clip about good hand hygiene.

Please see the attached slide show to see the presentation that I used in today’s assembly.

With best wishes,

Simon Watts

Deputy Headteacher

Over the next few weeks, I will be looking at our website in order to streamline it, for ease of use.

Please do not worry if you temporarily see changes to the placement of pages or duplication of pages etc, the changes will be due to me trialling different approaches to how we display the information.

With thanks for your understanding,

Simon Watts

Deputy Headteacher

I wanted to take this opportunity to thank the children for all their hard work during this successful term. Also, a big thank you to you for your continued support.

Wishing you all a very happy and restful Christmas holiday and we look forward to seeing you in January.

Christina Singh and Simon Watts

Please follow this link:

https://nationalonlinesafety.com/resources/wake-up-wednesday/

to find a variety Parents’ guides to different aspects of the online world. There are guides about the different social media platforms and gaming.

National Online Safety produce a different guide, every week, which you might find useful.

With best wishes,

NWJS

Many of you will be familiar with Ofsted’s ‘Parent View’ questionnaire, which we ask you to complete annually.

To reflect changes in the new Ofsted Framework, Ofsted have updated their questionnaire.

We would be incredibly grateful if you could spend a few minutes completing this, giving us valuable feedback for the school.

We would particularly appreciate your time in completing the questionnaire if your child is having an overall positive experience at school.

Parents are often keen to give feedback, in order to affect change. However, the positive comments are often missed, as parents do not always feel it is necessary to give them

Please follow the below link to the questionnaire

https://parentview.ofsted.gov.uk/login…

As always, if you have any thoughts regarding things that you would like us to consider for improvement, please do make an appointment to Mrs Singh or Mr Watts, or alternatively catch them at the gate each morning.

With thanks,

NWJS

Please follow this link, to see the letter sent to the parents of Y6 children, regarding WhatsApp.

With best wishes,

Simon Watts

Please follow this link to see a recent report created by Mrs Singh.

With best wishes,

NWJS

We look forward to welcoming you all back to school today (Wednesday 4^th September) and hope that you have had a relaxing summer holiday.

With best wishes, 
NWJS

Thank you for attending the induction meetings. Please see below for the slides used in Mrs Singh’s presentation.

The school is closed today.

Having been on site since 6am this morning, we have unfortunately had to take the decision to close the school. 

We have assessed the conditions and deem it to be unsafe for staff and children to travel safely in.

I am sorry that this message has not been posted earlier.

Due to heavy usage with our internet provider’s server, it has not been possible to post the message on our school’s website despite repeated attempts. 

Messages should have arrived to you via the Everbridge notification system and School Comms/Gateway. 

With thanks and apologies for any inconvenience,
NWJS

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The school is closed today.

Having been on site since 6am this morning, we have unfortunately had to take the decision to close the school. 

We have assessed the conditions and deem it to be unsafe for staff and children to travel safely in.

I am sorry that this message has not been posted earlier.

Due to heavy usage with our internet provider’s server, it has not been possible to post the message on our school’s website despite repeated attempts. 

Messages should have arrived to you via the Everbridge notification system and School Comms/Gateway. 

With thanks and apologies for any inconvenience,
NWJS

Having been on site since 6am this morning, we have unfortunately had to take the decision to close the school. We have assessed the conditions and deem it to be unsafe for staff and children to travel safely in.

With apologies for the inconvenience,

NWJS

Having been on site since 6am this morning, we have unfortunately had to take the decision to close the school. We have assessed the conditions and deem it to be unsafe for staff and children to travel safely in.

With apologies for the inconvenience,

NWJS