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New Risk Assessment (RA) January 2022 With the emergence of the Omicron variant we now need to make certain changes to our working practices within our schools in order to ensure all our children and staff are safe. 

On the last Friday of term there is often a feeling of celebration that we have done all that we set out to do in September and have ‘made it’ to the Christmas holidays. 

In a news story last year I wrote about the ongoing work to revitalise the Cypress Woodlands that surround the Lower School site in order to bring them back into use and make them more attractive to wildlife. 

With recent higher numbers of COVID cases across the UK the SLT of the Pegasus Academy Trust has put in place some new precautionary measures to keep us all safe as we enter the last weeks of term. 

This week when some children returned to school, they had mixed feelings of excitement and nervousness about the year ahead, but once our Year 6s were in their new classrooms the overwhelming mood was positive and focused. 

It has been so good to come back to school this year to what feels like a ‘normal’ September. 

This week I wanted to illustrate how our school values are captured in our ‘Pegasus people’ statement and at the heart of this is the clear statement “We care”. 

This week we have had hundreds of  minibeast visitors from Crystal Palace aquarium: yes, you’ve guessed it – more critters including cockroaches, locusts, fruit beetle grubs and crickets.

I love the final weeks of term, every week there is something exciting happening in all our classrooms and this week was definitely like that at Cypress Lower.