Dear Families

As of 1 September 2020, all schools in England are required to provide blended learning, where possible.

We too, are therefore looking for new ways to continue to engage with our students through:

• – teaching and learning on site
• – teaching online (when either the staff or the students are unable to be physically at school)
• – learning online (when students access materials made available to them by the school online)
• – home-based learning (when students are at home and are pursuing a range of learning activities such as direct teaching online, pastoral support online or on the phone, therapeutic support online or on the phone, paper-based learning, online resources, family-led learning, peer and community group learning)

Some students are more ready and able to embrace and pursue highly academic remote teaching, whilst others focus on pastoral support only. Our approach is to provide as much guidance and support and possible, whilst accepting that not all students will engage with learning during their absence from the school site, or during partial of full school’s closure, as well as they would in class.

Pastoral Support

Your child’s class team will contact you each day during any period of interruption to offer you an opportunity to ask for support and to generally discuss your child’s wellbeing. These are routine calls and so should not be alarming in any way. This is simply the second-best alternative to actually being able to see and converse with your child daily, in school.

Learning Support

The teachers have been working together to prepare for interruption in learning.

On the first day of interruption, arrangements for the subsequent days will be communicated. The learning will resume from day 2 of the interruption.

We encourage and expect all students to do their best to engage with the remote learning. It is, however, important to acknowledge that home learning may not be possible for all students in all households for a variety of reasons, including due to their special educational needs.

Our aim is to do our best and to open up opportunities and remove any practical barriers to accessing education.

There are three likely situations that a family may face:

1) You are able to follow the daily learning resources on this web page.

2) You are able to follow some of the daily learning resources on this web page some of the time.

3) You are not able to follow these daily learning resources, due to your own personal circumstances and that of your child.

Should you desire any further work or advice, please contact your child’s class teacher. All email addresses are present at the top of the relevant webpage for your convenience.