Information for St Gabriel's families

Dear parents and carers,

I am writing to you about the alternative arrangements we have put in place for St Gabriel’s primary school and nursery.

Work is ongoing on site by SGN. We continue to meet with them for updates on work and likely timescales when we can safely return to the building. The company has advised it is too early to say when the work will conclude, but, to avoid further disruption to you and provide you with certainty, we have decided that alternative arrangements which started today will remain in place for the rest of this week.

Our teams are on standby to move into the building as soon as it is possible and complete the reinstatement of services and necessary cleaning should it be available before Friday. We will let you know if this is to be the case. However in the meantime, please continue with today’s arrangements for the rest of the week.

We know that nursery parents are keen to have the details for their own children’s attendance confirmed. Nursery will remain closed tomorrow but will open on Wednesday. We will update nursery families directly tomorrow. We want to ensure that the arrangements we put in place work for all of our learners and particularly our youngest children. We are moving this forward as a priority so we can provide you with the high quality early learning and childcare you are used to from the team at St Gabriel’s in a different space.

Children settled well to learning today in their new environments and we will continue to support them throughout the week. Thank you for your continued support in these unusual circumstances.

Best wishes,

Mr Buchanan

Head Teacher, St Gabriel's Primary School and Nursery