June 12th 2020

 

Dear Parents

Thank you for your support with Home School this week.

Next week, we will continue to step up the number of live lessons via Webex or Google Meet to ensure a good amount of ‘face-to-face’ contact between students and their teachers  in all Year Groups, not only Years 10 & 12.

We wish to explain our reasoning here. Currently, there is no definite or published plan in England for all secondary students in any Year Group to return to full-time education in September.

Delivering lessons live on line as part of an offer with Google Classroom allows us to provide high quality ‘face-to-face’ support for all students in all Year Groups at the same time. It also creates the opportunity to put in place a full-time programme for current Year 11, prior to their commencing A level courses.

We are not currently planning to achieve face-to-face contact on site with Years 10 and 12 on the basis of 25% of these students in school at any one time. The cleaning regime this would require, together with the absence of either catering or transport to and from Brockhill, would effectively mean students attended for 2 hours at a time 3 times a week.  Teachers would then be less able to deliver face-to-face live on line lessons to the 75% of Year 10 and 12 students, who were not in school and indeed less able to deliver to students in other Year Groups, all of which are important to us.

We are currently considering how we may offer safe socially distanced parents’ evening style events during the school day and spread over several days for Years 10 & 12 later in the term. We will contact you further in respect of this during next week as we develop our plans further.

We are concerned that our students always remain safe at this time and are providing our Parent Safeguarding Links document prepared by our Safeguarding Lead, Ms Meurice.

We hope you have set up your weekly Guardian Summary email about work carried out by your daughter or son in Google Classroom. If so you will receive your Weekly Guardian Summary today and if not please do contact us and we will help with the setup. We have tracked an issue of the Guardian Summary showing work as incomplete when in fact it has been completed. Please refer to our Handing in Assignments set outside Google Classroom. This should help students overcome the majority of these issues.

 If you have not done so already, please ensure your daughter or son chooses a book for this half-term from our Digital Library with links to some really interesting and gripping new recommended titles for students in each year group to read. 

 

Stay safe.

Yours sincerely

Sonette                                                                    Charles Joseph

Principal                                                                   Senior Vice Principal