Dear Parents.

Your child’s timetable is now available to view on Edulink [Year 7 children will also have already received a printed copy].

As you know, we have asked that, contrary to normal guidelines, any pupils who feel even slightly unwell [cough, cold etc] do not to come into to school. We have also reminded parents that any pupils who have returned from countries where the UK government has imposed quarantine regulations, must remain at home for the duration of the quarantine period.

As we mentioned in our various communications, 85 classrooms have been equipped with cameras and microphones so that, pupils who are unable to come into school because they are unwell or isolating, will be able to follow lessons from home.  Lessons will be delivered as per the school timetable [they will not be recorded for ‘later’ viewing]

If your child is not coming into school, please notify the school office [via email l.finn@kdhigh.co.uk and c.downes@kdhigh.co.uk ] as soon as possible – ideally the evening before but latest by 08:30 on the morning.  The office will notify class teachers who will then activate the Webcam system in the classroom so that pupils can follow their lessons in ‘real time’ as per their timetable.

We have attached a guide on how to access Teams / on-line lessons for your information*

Best wishes
 

Joshua Rowe
 
* Year 7 pupils will be given their school email address / password on Tuesday.  Should your child be unable to come to school on Tuesday, please contact Harvey Marks  h.marks@kdhigh.co.uk and he will be able to give you login details remotely.

Dear Parent

RE: Back to school

We hope you are having an enjoyable break.

The government has mandated that everyone has to go back to school but has assigned the responsibility for health & safety to us.  Government is keen to get everyone back to school and  is therefore downplaying the risks involved [which may explain why they advise against masks at school]. I would have preferred them to be more candid and say that re-opening of schools inevitably carries a risk [children can be carriers] but that not opening them carries an even greater risk to children’s education and to the economy as a whole.  That is why we have had to work hard on measures to mitigate the risk.

Please find attached a ‘summary’ of the things the school is doing in preparation for its re-opening.   Needless to say,  everything will be kept under constant review and if we find that the virus abates or that testing programmes become available [for schools] or that a vaccine is found, then of course we will adapt accordingly.

We are looking forward to having everyone back at school.

Stay safe and stay well.

Best wishes


Joshua Rowe