Welcome to Alma Park
Keeping in touch during the school closure
We know that being at home is the best and safest place for your children, we miss them desperately and want them back soon. In the meantime we want to help you as best we can by keeping in touch for the duration of the closure. We do not want any of our families to feel isolated or uncared for so we are offering:
Staff availabilty
Alma Park staff will be available 9:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. every working day; most are working from home, a skeleton staff is in school.
Family welfare calls
Alma Park's Teaching Assistants will telephone all families once a week, each Tuesday to Thursday. Teaching Assistants will ask: how you and your family are, if you have any particular needs and if you have any information you want share with us. You can help us to help you and inform our provision. Welfare calls will support well-being and our inclusive school community.
Support for well-being
It is always important to promote well-being, but for many of our children, families and Alma Park staff these are very difficult times. Fortunately Miss Cannon has led the way in helping us cope by creating a web page devoted to well-being; there are many useful links, resources, ideas and pictures.
Miss Cannon is encouraging contributions from all members of the Alma Park family, please email her on:
wellbeing@almapark.manchester.sch.uk
Support for home learning
Email teachers with home learning questions:
nursery@almapark.manchester.sch.uk
reception@almapark.manchester.sch.uk
year1@almapark.manchester.sch.uk
year2@almapark.manchester.sch.uk
year3@almapark.manchester.sch.uk
year4@almapark.manchester.sch.uk
year5@almapark.manchester.sch.uk
year6@almapark.manchester.sch.uk
zz@almapark.mancherster.sch.uk
Every class has a web page detailing home learning resources. Class pages also contain a link to a whole school Google drive where additional learning resouces are stored.
Some classes are trialing Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) - we are currently evaluating their effectiveness in suporting home learning at Alma Park. Please look out for Parentmails announcing developments.
Support for general enquiries - the school office
Email the school office at:
admin@almapark.manchester.sch.uk
Telephone calls are saved on the answer phone.
Please keep healthy
If anyone in your household has symptoms of coronavirus, then all household members must stay at home and not leave the house for 14 days. The 14-day period starts from the day when the first person in the house became ill.
NHS advice on coronavirus can be found here
Government advice on Coronavirus can be found here
Advice on washing hands can be found here
Useful contacts for families can be found here
Home learning
Please find below some useful documents about supporting home learning
How to Keep Your Child’s Screen Time Safe
How to Set Parental Controls on Your Devices
