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St Mary’s Catholic Primary School
Coronation Crescent, Madeley, Telford, Shropshire, TF7 5EJ
Telephone: 01952 388255
Fax: 01952 388244
E-mail: a3357@telford.gov.uk
http://www.stmaryscatholicprimarytelford.co.uk
Headteacher: Samantha Griffiths
Assistant Headteacher: Helen Lambie
School Business Manager: Suzanne Evans
St Mary’s Catholic Primary School
Friday 28th May 2021
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Watch this space… Next half term we have a really exciting English project that we will be undertaking with the famous author Luke Temple. He will be providing all the children with a writing masterclass based on his wonderful books. We will send more information out nearer the time. The children will be able to order signed copies of his book, and ask him questions about his work and how to be a top author.
Child Safety Week: National Guidance and
Information for Parents
Preventing Burns
A small child’s skin burns reallyeasily
as it’s so thin. Here’s how to prevent
serious burns:
Hot drinks – stay hot enough to scald a small
child even after 15 minutes. 8 to 18 month-olds are
most vulnerable as they love to grab.
• Look for safe zones in your house where you
know your child can’t reach your hot drink
• Try to get into the habit of putting your child down
before you pick up your drink.
Cooking – young children don’t automatically
pull away from something that’s burning them.
Hair straighteners – can get as hot as They may forget the rules about not touching hot
your iron and can still burn 15 minutes after they are things.
switched off.
• Push kettles to the back of the worktop and use
• Keep straighteners and wands out of reach when the back rings of the cooker first
you’re using them
• If you’re able to keep children out of the
• Put them in a heat-proof pouch or on a high shelf kitchen when you’re cooking, great. Or try to
to cool. keep them in a highchair or away from the
cooker if not.
Button batteries – if a child swallows a
lithium coin cell battery (the round silver battery like a Bath water – these scalds are really
5p coin) and it gets stuck in their food pipe, it can burn nasty and can happen in seconds.
a hole and cause internal bleeding and even death. • Put cold water in first then top up with hot.
• Keep any loose batteries out of reach and dispose Then you don’t need to worry about there being
of ‘flat’ batteries quickly and safely a scalding bath your child could fall or climb into
• Keep objects out of reach if they have button • Test the temperature of the water with your elbow
batteries your child can get to. before putting your child into the bath
• Stay with your child in the bathroom in case they
Magnetic toys – high-strength magnets fiddle with the hot tap.
in toys can burn through the gut if your child
swallows them. Fires and heaters – a risk to small children.
• Buy from a reputable retailer or a brand name
you know online or in-store, and avoid online • Move cots away from radiators. Then your baby
marketplaces. can’t get their arm or leg trapped against the heat
• Fit fireguards around fires and heaters.
Prevent poisoning
Bright bottles of cleaning liquid, squidgy Everyday painkillers – the most commonway for
washing tablets, shiny packetsof painkillers… young children to be poisoned.
Small children are curious and want to learn • Keep all medicines out of reach and sight of young
more by putting things in their mouth. children, ideally in a high up or lockable cupboard
• Watch out for painkillers left on the bedside table
Unfortunately things that make ourlives easier or in the handbag on the floor.
can be harmful to smallchildren, as their
bodies process poisons differently. Thank Cleaning products – helpful for you but they
can be harmful for small children.
goodnessit’s easy to keep children safe.
• What’s lurking under your sink or next to your
toilet? Move cleaning products to a high up or
Laundry products – small children can lockable cupboard
mistake brightly coloured products for sweets • Put them out of reach again as after use
or toys, especially laundry capsules. But the • Don’t rely on safety caps – they slow children
concentrated chemicals can do serious damage to down but they’re not childproof
children’s insides, skin and eyes. • Look out for products with a bittering agent like
• It’s tempting to keep products beside the Bitrex when you’re shopping
washing machine. Move them to a high up or • Don’t pour cleaning products into other bottles
lockable cupboard like drinks bottles. Children can get confused.
• Watch out for fast little fingers! Don’t leave a
washing tablet on top of the washing
• Put products away out of reach as soon as
you’ve used them
• When you’re shopping, look out for products
with a bittering agent like Bitrex - it tastes
so horrible, children spit it out instead of
swallowing, preventing accidental poisoning.
Breathe easy
Such a scary thought that somethingcould Nappy sacks – young babies naturally
grasp things and pull them to their mouths, but
stop your child breathing.
aren’t able to pull them away. They can suffocate
on flimsy nappy sacks.
But, the steps to stop that happeningare
• Store nappy sacks well out of reach of babies
simple and make sense. • Never store nappy sacks under the cot mattress.
Window blinds – it can take just 20 Choking – babies and young children are
seconds for a toddler to die from strangulation still learning to chew, swallow and breathe in the
with an unsafe window blind cord. right order. There’s no sound to warn you. But
• Fit a cleat hook or tensioner to keep blind cords there are simple ways to stop it happening.
and chains safely away and always use them. • Don’t prop a baby’s bottle up to feed them
New blinds should come with these • Cut round food like grapes, tomatoes and big
• Consider cord free blinds for children’s rooms blueberries in half lengthways or quarters, not
• Remember children may climb and get higher just across
than you think. Move bedroom furniture away • Cut hard food like carrots, apples, sausages and
from cords and chains cheese into thin strips, and chop nuts up small
• Make sure the cords on the back of Roman • Avoid popcorn, marshmallows and hard round
blinds are connected using a device that sweets like mini eggs or boiled sweets
breaks under pressure. • Put small parts from older children’s toys out of
reach
Sleeping and slings – babies can besuffocated • Watch the Chokeables film for first aid advice
by things they can’t push away. www.sja.org.uk/thechokeables
• A clear cot is a safe cot – avoid duvets, pillows
and cot bumpers
• Don’t sleep on the sofa with your baby as it
increases their chances of suffocation massively
• If you’re exhausted or have been drinking or
smoking, or if they are premature or low birth
weight, don’t sleep with your baby in your bed
• Follow the T.I.C.K.S advice for slings or carriers
www.babyslingsafety.co.uk
Free from falls
Scrapes and bruises are a part of growing up. But even a fall from a highchair can cause
a bad head injury. That’s because babies’ heads aretwice as big as ours, which makes
them top-heavy. And when they land,their head takes much of the impact.
It doesn’t make sense trying to stopall falls. Windows – what’s that I can see?
But there are some seriousones you can
• Small children are curious and want to see
easily stop once you know how and why. what’s happening outside but have no real
understanding of danger
Cots, beds and changing tables –now I can
• Take care not to put furniture in front of windows,
wriggle and roll!
especially in children’s bedrooms
• Even small babies can wriggle off a bed or • If you can, get safety catches or locks fitted on
changing table – so change their nappies on the your windows
floor and avoid leaving them on a raised surface • If you opt for a lock, keep the keys somewhere
• As soon as your baby can stand, remove any large you can find them, in case there’s a fire and you
toys they might climb on to get out of their cot, need to get out.
preventing serious falls.
Trampolines – how high can I bounce?
Stairs – I can shuffle and I’m off!
• Even before they’re mobile, babies are injured • The biggest risk from trampolines is having
when the person carrying them falls. So keep a two people with very different weights
hand on the rail going up and down stairs • Let children take it in turns and avoid adults
• As soon as your baby starts moving around, fit and children jumping together
safety gates to stop them climbing or falling • Use a safety
down the stairs. net or cage
so children
Highchairs – is that my drink? can’t be
thrown
• Children may try to get things that are out of onto the
their reach ground.
• They may lean over the side and topple out or
push themselves up and try to climb out
• Get into the habit of using the straps on the
highchair every time you use it.
Safe around roads
It can be hard knowing how best to teach your child to stay safe. Here we helpyou to break it
down and keep it simple.
Pedestrians – younger children In the car
• Get young children into the habit of holding your • Make sure your car seat is the right one for
hand or use walking reins your child’s height and weight and for
your car - not all seats fit all cars
• Ask questions while you’re out to help them
understand simple ideas like ‘fast’ and ‘slow’
Cycling
• You can start teaching the Green Cross Code
• Get your child into the habit of wearing their
from age five, encouraging children to stop, look,
helmet. If you cycle as a family, remember to
listen and think
wear yours too
• But they won’t always remember safety rules,
• Look out for cycle training. Many schools offer
especially if they’re excited or spot a friend
courses to help children gain practical skills.
across the road
• Children will copy what you do, so try to avoid Driving – speed is everything when it comes
stepping into the road without checking for traffic to a child’s chances of survival. They’re 3.5 times
first. If you can do the right thing, it will help more likely to die if hit by a car doing between
them get into good habits. 30-40 mph.
• Keep an eye on your speed
Pedestrians – older children
• Keep your phone in the glove compartment
• Children find it difficult judging the speed and so it can’t distract you.
distance of traffic until they’re at least eight.
Accidents peak around 12, as children start
making independent journeys
• Children learn by doing and practising. If they’re
moving to a new school, help them practise the
route over the holidays. Where are the safe places
to cross? What should they do if they see their bus
and they’re on the other side of the road?
• They can be mesmerised by their mobiles, so
remind them not to talk or text on their phones
or listen to music while crossing the road.
Watch out in water
Drowning happens silently.
A drowning child can’t speak or control
their arms. They slip quietly under the
water. It’s onlyin the movies they splash
about
and cry for help. It’s a scary thought.
But once you understand how and where
drowning happens, there arethings you can
do to prevent it.
Babies and small children – mostly drownat home Older children – can still get into difficulties. They
in the bath or in the garden, in just a few centimetres of may over-estimate how strong a swimmer they are or
water. under-estimaterisks in the sea or open water.
Baths Out and about
• Bath seats are great for supporting your baby • Teach older children to choose safe places
in the bath but they’re not safety aids – a baby to swim like public pools and beaches with
shouldn’t be left alone in one even for a moment lifeguards
as they can slip out
• Explain the dangers of swimming in open water,
• Get everything you need ready before bath time including strong currents, deep, cold water and
because you’ll need to stay with your baby or things under the surface they can’t see.
young child all the time they’re in the bath
• Don’t rely on your toddler to keep an eye on the At the beach
baby while you pop out for a towel, as they’re still
• Teach children to swim between the
too young to understand danger.
two-coloured red and yellow flags – these
mark the areas patrolled by lifeguards
In the garden
• Inflatables can be swept out to sea when the
• Empty the paddling pool out after you’ve used it wind is blowing – keep children off inflatables
• Turn a pond into a sandpit, or fence it in or cover when the orange windsock is flying
it while your children are little and always keep an eye on them.
• Make sure your child can’t get to the neighbour’s
pond
• Be alert to ponds or pools when visiting other
people’s homes.
Fire safe families
You and your family are eight times more likely to die in a fire if you don’t have a working
smoke alarm. That’s because, if a fire breaks out at night, you won’t smell the smoke and
wake up. Instead, the poisonous fumes willsend you deeper into sleep.
So it makes sense to have a smoke alarm upstairs and downstairs, to saveyou from smoke
that can kill in minutes, before you even wake up.
Prevent fires Check your smoke alarms
• Cooking fires are the main cause of fires • You need a working smoke alarm upstairs and
in the home – stay in the kitchen if children downstairs
are cooking
• Test your alarms every month
• Keep matches, lighters and lit candles or
• If you live in rented housing your landlord
tea-lights well out of reach of young children
and teach children not to play with them is responsible for providing alarms.
• Take care not to plug lots of chargers and
equipment into an extension lead from
Plan your escape
one electrical socket - the socket will be • Work out your escape route in case of a
dangerously overloaded fire and practice it with your family
• Stay close by when you have fat heating and • Keep the stairs and escape route clear
never pour water onto hot fat of clutter at night
• Store things like hair straighteners safely – • Keep keys to any doors on your escape
avoid leaving them switched on or where a child route in one place so you know where
might be able to switch them on they are in an emergency.
• Double check your cigarette is out and be
careful smoking if you’re really tired (or in bed) Teach children what to do if
in case you fall asleep with it in your hand. they see a fire
• To tell someone straight away – a grown-up
if possible
• Don’t try to put the fire out yourself
• Get outside as quickly as possible.
Don’t try to hide from the fire
• Never go back inside for anything.Half Term
We break-up today for half-term. The children
will return to school on Monday 7th June. We
hope that you all enjoy your break and let’s pray
for a bit of sunshine too!!
Dates for the Diary
Week Activity
Beginning
24th May 28th May Break-up
31st May Half Term
7th June 7th June Children return to school
9th June Year Three Curriculum Activities
Day
14th June 16th June Year Four Curriculum Activities
Day
18th June Whole School Picnic on the field
21st June 22nd June Year Five Curriculum Activities
Day
23rd June Year Six Curriculum Activities Day
12th July 13th and 14th Whole School Olympics Days
for the children only.
15th Whole School Picnic on the field
19th July Year Six Leaver’s Days
20th July Break-up for the Summer HolidaysTrainers for PE
Just a reminder that children need to come into school in
their trainers or pumps whilst they are still accessing daily
PE sessions.
Sun Safety
We kindly ask that parents ensure that your child is equipped with a
sunscreen that is clearly labelled with your child's name unless you apply
sunscreen that lasts for the entire school day before sending your child in.
It is recommended that all sunscreen provided by parents should have a
minimum Sun Protection Factor (SPF) 30+, be 'broad-spectrum' to provide
both UVA and UVB protection and if labelled with a UVA star rating, carry a
minimum of 4 stars
We ask that parents also ensure their child has access to a suitable sun hat
with them. Sun hats should be either broad brimmed (bucket style) or
legionnaire to shade the face, neck and ears. Baseball caps are not
recommended.
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