Daily update 27th May 2020 – I hope you have all been able to enjoy the sunshine over the last few days. It has only been 4 days since I last wrote an update, but somehow it feels a lot longer than that in these unusual times.
Year 10 and 12 – guidance from the Department for Education
The further guidance that we have been waiting for was released on Monday. The link to the guidance can be found below for your information. We had started to consider what “face to face support” could and should look like for our students before half term but were keen to have a measured and considered approach to this. The main points from the guidance are as follows:
• Any face to face provision should be to supplement remote learning, not replace it.
• Remote learning should remain the predominant mode of education at this time.
• Schools can have up to a quarter of Year 10 and 12 students in school at any one time.
• This provision can start from 15th June.
We reopen today after 2 days off for vulnerable children and children of keyworkers. We will also take the next few days to finalise the Year 11 and 13 centre assessed grades, analyse the information teachers have put into our systems about how well our Year 10 and 12 students are getting on with remote learning, and consider the guidance, issued on bank holiday Monday, with specific regard to Year 10 and 12 and set this up ready for the same information to be collected for our Year 7 to 9 students.
As I wrote before half term, we will continue to consider the best approach for our students during this week and will ask for your input via a survey on Monday 1st June. We will also be asking our staff for their input. I want to be able to present our thoughts before asking for your feedback as I think it is important that you can see the level of thinking and detail behind our face to face offer to make informed decisions for your children and your families. Our first priority remains the safety of the people in our school and local community.
Visors
Our team have made and distributed over 3000 visors to NHS workers and local care homes. We have so many lovely and thankful messages from these people who have been so grateful for the visors made. We have now turned to providing a few visors for our local primary colleagues; for those who will be caring for children who become ill whilst in school. I’m so proud of this team who have been dedicated to supporting the people in their local community.
As always, if you have any questions, please ask.
With very best wishes,
Jo Tunnicliffe
Headteacher