Coronavirus update
- New coronavirus cases recorded in the seven days to last Wednesday show 10 in the Penn area (decrease of one compared to the seven days to last Monday); nine in Tylers Green (an increase of two) and three in Hazlemere (the same).
- Tylers Green Middle School is tightening restrictions from today to further reduce the potential risk of spreading coronavirus. Parents are being asked to wear face coverings when dropping off and collecting children and visitors to the school are being further reduced. Essential visitors only are allowed and are being asked to wear masks except when teaching.
- Both Tylers Green First School and the Middle School are holding parents evenings online this week. Parents make an appointment to speak to their child’s teacher via remote access. On Thursday Manor Farm Infant School is holding an open morning Zoom meeting for prospective new parents and has produced a video on YouTube giving a virtual tour of the school.
- Hazlemere Golf Club has moved the November dates of its Christmas pop-up market to the first three weekends of December.
- While Buckinghamshire’s family centres remain open during the new lockdown, clients will need to book an appointment.
- A mobile coronavirus testing site is being set up in Marlow for one day today. It will move to Gerrards Cross on Thursday. The testing site at Buckinghamshire New University in the centre of High Wycombe remains in place all week.
Local news
Ashwells dig – A team of archeologists are due in Ashwells Field, Tylers Green this week to dig and excavate a series of pits to determine if a significant Roman villa was located there (see blog for 18 September). The field is part of a new housing development and can’t be built on until the dig is complete and any finds removed and recorded.