June 15th 2020

 

Dear Parents

 

Thank you for your support with Home School today.

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. Whilst we are not operating a dress code for students attending live lessons, they should be wearing day clothes.

Please see the link to this week’s Brockhill Family Fun Fitness. We really hope students and their families enjoy it.

We hope all students have now chosen a book for this half-term from our Digital Library and are fully underway with their 20 minutes daily reading.

Please take a look at our Parent Safeguarding Links document prepared by our Safeguarding Lead, Ms Meurice. We are concerned that our students always remain safe at this time.

We hope you received your weekly Guardian Summary email about work carried out by your daughter or son in Google Classroom last Friday. If not please do contact us and we will help with the setup. Please refer to our Handing in Assignments set outside Google Classroom to avoid the issue of the Guardian Summary showing work as incomplete when in fact it has been completed.

Tomorrow’s Tutor Time Activity is Numeracy. Fun for all the family!

Just a reminder from Friday about of our reasoning in respect of our plans for the weeks ahead:

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.

Stay safe.

Yours sincerely

Sonette Schwartz                                                     Charles Joseph

Principal                                                                   Senior Vice Principal