We are committed to safeguarding the welfare of our pupils. We expect everyone to share this commitment. View the safeguarding section of our website for more information.
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In November 2023 Ofsted graded Bowlee Park as OUTSTANDING IN ALL AREAS. See the published report here:
https://files.ofsted.gov.uk/v1/file/50236002
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Is your child due to start Nursery or Reception in September 2024? Come along to our open evening on Thursday 2nd November at 3.45 pm
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Bowlee Park has been listed in the top 10 schools in Manchester and the top 2% of schools nationally.
This is according to the Sunday Times top primary schools in Manchester listed in 2023 Parent Power schools guide. The Sunday Times school league tables are based on Standard Assessment Test (Sats) results.
Our school ranks eighth in Manchester and 394th nationally (out of 20,806 primary schools) in The Sunday Times’ Parent Power Schools Guide 2023.
To view the article click this link
Along with our weekly school newsletters, we will be sending out online safety advice as well as advice on any other issues. This advice will help you keep your children safe in the digital world and in the real world.
Remember to look on our weekly school newsletter for end of year assemblies and concerts dates
Please find below a letter sent from the Local Authority with advice for Parents and Carers about the return to school. School reopens on Thursday 6th January
Dear parents and carers,
As we prepare for the return to children and young people to schools, colleges and other education settings, we wanted to thank you for your continued support for our education settings across the borough as they continue to respond to the challenges of COVID-19. We also wanted to share with you some of the key messages that will support and help our schools and colleges to deliver education safely and help keep them open. Our school and college leaders want nothing more than to deliver face-face education as this is the best way for children and young people to learn and they continue to have to balance this against the health risks brought by COVID-19.
You will be aware from the media, that omicron is transmitting rapidly. This may already have had an impact on you and your families as it will for our schools and education settings and their staff. We are asking for your continued support with the following;
Our public health team and our service for schools continue to monitor closely the rates of infection in our schools and education settings. Our public health team may advise further steps to be taken to support individual settings in staying open. Where this is the case, parents and carers will be advised of these by our school and college leaders.
Thank you again for your continued support
Yours sincerely
Sharon Hubber
Director Children’s Services
From Tuesday 14 December, people who are fully vaccinated and identified as a contact of someone with COVID-19 – whether Omicron or not – should take an NHS rapid lateral flow test every day for 7 days to help slow the spread of COVID-19.
Anyone aged 5 years and over, who has been identified as a contact of someone with COVID-19 and who is not legally required to self-isolate, is now strongly advised to take a rapid lateral flow device (LFD) test every day for 7 days or until 10 days since their last contact with the person who tested positive for COVID-19 if this is earlier. If any of these LFD tests are positive they should self-isolate in order to protect other people.
The public health advice for people with symptoms of, or a positive test result for COVID-19 remains the same for everyone.
Latest advice from Public Health
Public Health Advice to parents and carers of children at Rochdale schools
Dear Parents/Carers,
We are writing to update you on the latest position in relation to COVID-19 cases and transmission in our schools and colleges. The number of positive cases in school aged children are still quite high and risk of further transmission remains a concern.
COVID-19 cases in Rochdale have slightly reduced but cases in school aged children are still high. Recently, we are also starting to see rates increase in parents and grandparents with increased hospitalisations.
The council’s education team, public health and schools have worked closely to keep children safe and avoid need to send full classes or year groups home to minimise the continued disruption to children’s education.
Therefore, our Public health team has advised to introduce some additional measures in schools that have minimal impact on education and will help ensure we are reducing the risk of COVID-19 transmission within schools. These include where possible not organising large gatherings, events and activities.
Head teachers are asked to consider the potential COVID-19 related risk increase that an event or an activity might represent, and the measures that can reasonably be introduced that could reduce that risk. For each event/activity, a risk assessment will be completed that details the safety measures to be implemented.
With sufficient mitigation, where we agree for events to go ahead, a combination of measures or all measures will be implemented from the list below:
How to stop COVID-19 spreading
There are things we can do to help reduce the risk of catching the virus:
For more information:
Please visit: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-COVID-19/
For information on local services and support, visit http://www.rochdale.gov.uk/coronavirus
If you have anyone on your family eligible for booster vaccine please visit,
COVID-19 vaccination programme (rochdale.gov.uk)
The above measures will help us to reduce transmission in our school, without having to introduce additional measures that can have a negative impact on the education and wellbeing of children and young people.
Your support with this will help us to keep people safe over winter and reduce the number of COVID-19 infections in the borough.
Thank you for your support.
Yours sincerely,
Covid19 Infection Control Duty Desk