January 14th 2021

 

Dear Parents / Guardians

Thank you for your support of Home School today.

We are now monitoring student attendance to Live Online lessons throughout the day and wish for all our students to participate in all Live Online lessons. 

Our 2 technicians are dealing with IT equipment requests as quickly as they can, but please be aware this may take some time.

If you are a critical worker, please do keep your child at home, unless there is genuinely no other realistic option for you. School closures intervened on account of the rapidly rising levels of Covid-19 infection, both in the community and in schools themselves. Staying at home avoids social contact and is the safest option for students. Please check school transport provider websites in advance of making contact with ourselves, as services have now reduced considerably.

The Police have made contact with us today to warn us of that it has become fashionable for young people in the local area to request explicit images from each other by sending an apparently innocent text to a mobile number with the words: ‘Do you send………..?’

 

Today’s video from the resources designed to support parents with the maintenance and development of resilience of their children in the current circumstances is:

How to Support Your Child to Have Hobbies or Interests

 

Each day this week, we will send you just one of the videos, which generally last 2 – 3 minutes.

All the materials though, can be found together on the

Kent Resilience Hub

 

Here is the link to the BBC Lockdown Learning Programme Schedule, and we recommend watching these on i-player as a complement to Live Online lessons, after the school day and Live Online lessons have finished.

Lockdown Learning: BBC Bitesize

 

Next week’s WONDE system voucher in respect of Free School Meals will be activated on Wednesday. Please see our Parent and Guardian ordering document.

 

Tomorrow, Friday’s Daily Tutor Time activity posted in the Google Classroom is:

 Friday: Quiz

 

Students should access these materials and submit their work to their Daily Tutor at the end of each day. This is a fun activity to carry out as a family though!

                                                                                   

We want all our students to remain safe by following the National Lockdown Guidance

 

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/national-lockdown-stay-at-home

 

as well as to remember social distancing, hand washing and face coverings, so as to play their part in the fight against the spread of COVID-19.

 

Yours Sincerely,

 

Sonette Schwartz 

Principal 

 

Charles Joseph

Senior Vice Principal