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5 WAYS TO WELLBEING – BE ACTIVE
Being active is not only great for your physical health and fitness. Evidence also shows it can also improve your mental wellbeing by: raising your self esteem helping you to set goals or challenges and achieve them causing chemical changes in your brain which can help to positively change your […]
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Staffordshire County Council SEND Consultation
The following message has been sent out by Staffordshire County Council and relates to their planned SEND consultation for parents and carers: Do you have a child with a special need or a disability? Would you like to be involved in council decisions and sharing your thoughts on processes that […]
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COVID Update – W/B 11 January
The following COVID message was sent out to parents on Monday 7 January: We are just dropping you a line to map out where things are in terms of schooling and to hopefully give you some direction as we move forward. Home Learning: We well appreciate that home learning brings […]
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Exams 2021 Update – Y11 & Y13 Parents
The following message was sent out to Year 11 and Year 13 parents on Thursday 7 January: We appreciate the news that GCSE and A-Level exams have been cancelled this summer will bring a lot of uncertainty – and though we cannot yet address every concern – we are hoping […]
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School Library Books in Lockdown
We are keen to support any children who wish to increase their reading at home during lockdown and we are happy to organise delivery of library books loaned via the school website. Although students can’t currently browse the school library’s bookshelves in person, this can still be done virtually. Available books can […]
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Blue Monday & Surviving Lockdown
The third Monday of January has been awarded the gloomy title of ‘Blue Monday’ due to combinations of post-Christmas blues and cold dark nights. Our Focus Week addresses this theme and the wider issue of mental health and has become even more pertinent with the advent of the last lockdown […]
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5 Ways to Mental Wellbeing – Focus Week
As we start the New Year we find ourselves back at home in a national lockdown and although we are now more used to how this works for each of us, it is still vitally important that we look after our wellbeing in order to get through it! January is […]
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Do You Qualify for Free, Extra Mobile Phone Data to Help with Home Learning ?
The DfE have announced a scheme whereby parents can contact their child’s school to register for free increases in data allowances for mobile phone users on certain networks. This is so that children can access the internet on their laptops via their or their parents mobile phone. The scheme is […]
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Remote Learning – Live Seminar Schedules
We have a series of online ‘face-to-face’ sessions through this period of Remote Learning which are mapped out for you below. As a snapshot in the first week – bearing in mind we started on Tuesday with the extended programme after less than 24 hours notice – we have had 378 ‘live’ seminars and 985 learning tasks […]
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COVID Update – W/B 28 December
The following COVID message was sent out to parents on Thursday 31 December: You may well be aware that we have another change of plan for the start of term following Gavin Williamson’s announcements yesterday afternoon, and though the picture remains very unclear, we will try and map out what […]
