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After Easter, we will be sending out supermarket vouchers to families who have children eligible for Free School Meals.
To receive vouchers you must have emailed office@woodrow.worcs.sch.uk
with your first and last name and the name of your child(ren).
If you do not have access to a working email you must have phoned 527619 to confirm your first and last name, the name of your child(ren) and your address so that vouchers can be posted to you.
You will only receive vouchers if you have made contact in one of the above ways.
Please share this information and encourage people to get in touch. We have not heard from everyone who is eligible yet. We do not want anyone to miss out.
Thank you x
The food parcels for children eligible for free school meals are packed and ready now. There are no sandwiches today.
These parcels are one per child for 2 weeks.
To collect please:
Phone school to say you are on the way (as some foods are in the fridge)
The parcel will be on a table outside the main entrance with your child's name on it. Please help yourself. It is in a bag for you.
If other parents are collecting at the same time as you, please remember the rules for social distancing.
Over the next week, we will be organising vouchers to replace food parcels after Easter.
Thank you
The Free School Meals vouchers are only for families who have completed county paperwork for free school meals as they are eligible because of their income/ benefits.
If you have a child in Reception, Year 1 or Year 2 who has been having a free meal in school this is called Universal School Meals. This does not necessarily mean you are eligible for free school meals- these are 2 different things.
We have a list in school of children who are eligible for free school meals. ONLY THESE CHILDREN are eligible for a government voucher.
If you are unsure, please ring the school office. If you have emailed and are not eligible, we will phone or email to let you know.
Thanks
We have now received information from the government about the voucher scheme for children eligible for free school meals (benefit related - NOT Universal YR-Y2).
If you are eligible, please EMAIL:
Your first and last name
Your child's or children's names
To
office@woodrow.worcs.sch.uk
This will allow us to set you up on the system to receive vouchers via email AFTER Easter. Please note there will be food hampers for collection from THURSDAY to cover the next 2 weeks.
You do not need a printer- you will receive a code via email which you can turn into a voucher for a supermarket and show in store on your phone.
If you have already phoned and spoken to someone in the school office you do not need to email as well.
If you do not have a working email which you can access:
please phone the school office on 527619 and give
Your first and last name
Your child's/ children's names
Your address if you want the voucher to be posted
Your phone number if you want to collect the voucher
The preferred provider out of Morrisons, Tesco, Sainsburys, Asda, Waitrose or M+S food
This will allow us to set you up on the system to receive vouchers AFTER Easter.
Please note there will be food hampers from collection from THURSDAY to cover the next 2 weeks.
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We have received an email from the organiser of Gotta Dance. The show has been officially cancelled and rescheduled for next year (we will be definitely signing up). Ticket refunds will be available from the theatre once it is reopen.
Free school meals
Shire Catering will provide a basic lunch food hamper on Thursday for children eligible for Free School meals.
Please phone school to order one.
It will include bread, some tinned goods, potatoes, fruit, yoghurt and cheese. There will be a limited amount of ham to order. The hamper will cover 2 weeks of lunches for your child.
We will post on FB when they can be collected. This will replace the current sandwiches.
We are in constant talks with Shire Catering about whether vouchers will replace the food hampers after Easter.
Please note that at the moment WE DO NOT HAVE FOOD VOUCHERS.
A huge thank you to Penny and the team at Shire Catering for their continued hard work and support for our Woodrow families.
Please share- especially with people not on FB
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We know that some schools are giving out vouchers and hampers. They generally have their own catering teams in school and so have been able to do this before the government scheme has been finalised.
Our free lunches are made offsite by Shire Catering - therefore because we have a contract with them, they arrange the food not us as a school.
They provide food for a number of schools so are super busy and doing a great job. They have been working on arranging hampers for a week so that families do not need to come to school daily to collect sandwiches.
Their difficulty at the moment is sourcing household sized portions of food as they usually buy catering size!
Their aim is to provide sandwiches for Monday and Tuesday, then all being well have hampers ready for Wednesday (with things like pasta and baked beans- a standard selection of good basics).
If this goes ahead we will be asking you to ring and order on Monday. The hampers will then be available for collection from school.
We will update you on Monday.
Update on Bell Heath
The trip has now been officially cancelled. Thank you for your patience with this.
From early next week, we will be posting cheques as refunds for your paid balance towards the trip.
We can send one cheque per child TO THE HOME ADDRESS WE HAVE ON OUR FILES.
Please telephone the school office between 9am and 3pm or leave a message on the answer phone (not Facebook) to advise who your cheque should be made payable to.
When the cheques are sent out please sign and return the enclosed receipt or phone to inform us of safe receipt.
Thank you again for your understanding at this difficult time.
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This update is in the school website for anyone not in Facebook.