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Thank you to our school community for the way you have maintained communications with us during this time. We have a number of differing priorities at the moment and just wanted to update all on the changes in place.
The following video is only 2.33 mins long and will give you an understanding of changes in place at the school. This is unchartered territory for all and our main focus is ensuring that we have the right measures in place, balanced with the needs to provide progress tutorials for our students without compromising the safety of our staff.
We will be providing different videos for others as the routes they use to the classrooms will change. It's important that that everyone recognises the changed environment. While we are keen to get back to something bearing a little more similarity to previous practice, for now we are confident that our approach is right for our school community.
What this video won't be able to communicate to you is how much we miss our students and our staff. Without our school community, we are a selection of empty buildings. Today we started to rebuild our school community, a small piece in a much larger puzzle.
In parallel to these changes, if your daughter is in year 10, she will soon be contacted to schedule in either one to one or small group tutorials across the subjects she is taking at GCSE. We are exploring how to expand this to other year groups.
For information, the government issued new guidance for secondary schools today. We will of course continue to adhere to these in collaboration with local schools and the Local Authority https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/preparing-for-the-wider-opening-of-schools-from-1-june/planning-guide-for-secondary-schools#:~:text=From%2015%20June%2C%20secondary%20schools,year%2010%20and%20year%2012)
What can you expect from us - yr 10:
Some students will be allocated to a Bubble to work within school which will be based in one space all day, they will not share facilities with others and have no contact with other bubbles. The staff allocated will be known to your child but may not be their class teacher. The aim of onsite presence is NOT to teach lessons but offer progress tutorials and progress sessions to support online learning, review and ascertain gaps for the approrpriate department to address. This presence on site will be supplemented with one to one or small group remote sessions. The online offer remains central to our provision.
What are you doing to keep my daughter safe?
When will you be open for other year groups?
We are following the advice from the government, scientific advisors and national bodies on when we will be permitted to open and when we can do this safely. We will continue to communicate with you about this.