The KING DAVID HIGH SCHOOL, Yavneh Yeshiva High School, Yavneh Girls

Dear All

Please see below our provisional plan of action for reopening school in September.  We are calling it ‘provisional’ because there could be changes in the government’s guidelines.
 
As you are aware, government guidance [and our ideal] is for all children to return to school in September and to operate as normally as possible.  However, pupil and staff safety is the school’s  responsibility and if the school feels that the risk is too great [eg, if there is a spike in COVID cases in the area], we will reduce class sizes and operate a ‘rota’ system,  with some pupils attending at school and some following lessons remotely from home.  As you will see from the plan, the school has equipped classrooms with webcams and microphones so that, should a rota system be necessary, live lessons will be transmitted as they take place.
 
I hope you all have an enjoyable summer break.
 
Stay safe and stay well.
 
Best wishes
 
Joshua Rowe
1. COVID
  • Sanitiser – Automatic, non-touch dispensers to be installed everywhere
  • Masks – pupils must wear them on the school buses, in classes and when moving around school. These must be  ‘disposables’ or be regularly cleaned at home, like the uniform [masks and social distancing are probably the most effective methods of protecting against transmitting and catching the disease]. Masks are to be plain coloured [no fancy designs].
  • Enhanced school cleaning  
  • One direction seating for pupils in classrooms  [possibly a formal seating plan to enable ‘tracking’ in event of need]
  • Kitchens – Only 3 meal options [plus the health / salad bar] will be available – prepared in advance - to keep traffic moving through dining hall quickly
  • Cashless lunches – we are setting up a ‘cashless’ system for the dining hall  [separate instructions will follow]
  • One direction seating in the dining hall – 5 rows of pupils all facing in the same direction gives us capacity to seat around 100 [one year group] at a time. 
  • Breakfast club – we will not be running the breakfast club
  • Face visors for Teachers – we have them available for every teacher
  • Additional staff room in room 210  - greater space for staff
  • Webcam and microphones – to be installed in all classrooms so that ‘remote teaching’ can be provided for any pupils who are self-isolating or not in school [or if we have to limit numbers and operate a ‘rota’]
  • Tablets / Ebooks / textbooks – considering the possibility of providing pupils with tablets / e-books to avoid the risk of cross contamination when sharing textbooks and to enable electronic access to textbooks in the event of a lockdown  [if we go with this plan, the £50 ‘resources fee’ will go towards the cost of tablets and cost of annual  ‘subscriptions / license fees’] -  see Parental survey.
  • Separate outdoor play areas – possibility of making further adjustments to keep groups of students separate but only as far as is practicable 
  • One way system on corridors – has been considered but unlikely to be possible / practical
  • Rota – preparations are being made in case we need to limit numbers at school and operate a ‘rota’ system etc
  • Years 7 & 8 – subject to timetabling / rooming constraints, possibility of these classes remaining in the same classroom [with the exception of PE / Art / Science lessons] and teacher coming to them – rather like at Primary Schools
  • Behavioural issues >> with the focus is on academic ‘catch up’ and with lots of COVID related priorities and limited resources,  there will be less tolerance for bad behaviour [limited space in exclusion zone] and greater risk that disruptive pupils will be sent home.  Addition to SIMS; failure to adhere to social distancing rules etc
 
2. EDUCATION

Usual school priorities
 
Pupil well-being & happiness, religious ethos and high standards of behaviour
 
Rigorous academic standards – maximising every pupil’s potential / continue to take advantage of the lessons learnt during the closure >> maximising ‘self-learning’ and ability to ‘apply knowledge’
 
Catching up with anyone who has fallen behind [priority to years 11 and 13 and then to 10 etc].  We have allocated additional teacher time in timetables for this priority
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