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We have updated our Transition page with a presentation from Mrs Tansey & Mr Connor.
Mrs Tansey (Year Leader for our new Year 9 in September) and Mr Connor (Assistant Headteacher) have visited Chantry, Newminster and Dr Thomlinson’s Middle Schools (both face to face and virtually) to answer questions and go through some information about life at King Edward’s. Here is a recording of the presentation for anyone who missed it.
GCSE Level Results will be released to all students on Thursday 12 August. Results will be available for collection, in person by individual students from 9.30am from the Upper School Hall. At the time of writing, Covid guidance remains in place and we ask that only individual students come on to the school site.
Alternatively, results can be emailed out to a student’s 3rivers account by 12 noon on Thursday 12 August. Please contact [email protected] if you would like to arrange for your results to be emailed. Otherwise any uncollected results will be posted home on the same day.
We have updated our Transition page with some videos of our school – these videos were made by our key worker students last lockdown.
Tour of our classrooms
School layout
We have updated our Year 8 into Year 9 Transition page with a video from Mrs Tansey.
Year 8 students from across our Middle Schools have sent through some excellent questions regarding life at King Edward’s. Mrs Tansey goes through some of these to help give you a clearer picture of what your time with us will be like.
As you will be aware from media reports we continue to see a rise in cases within schools. Since I last wrote to you we have had a further 12 cases across the school in all three year groups.
In addition we have seen a significant rise in the numbers of both staff and students being asked to self isolate as a result of contacts with positive cases outside of school. There has also been a rise in the numbers of staff with children who have been sent home from school to self isolate.
I continue to ask that all students take twice weekly lateral flow tests as requested. In addition can I ask that you remind your child to continue to wear face coverings on both public and school transport as requested as well as on corridors and in communal spaces in school.
We have added three useful guides to our Covid-19 page. They provide information around asymptomatic and symptomatic testing as well as close contact advice.
Following a number of positive cases of Covid 19 over the weekend at The King Edward VI School we have been in discussion with Public Health teams this afternoon to review our Covid 19 risk assessment and planned provision.
The Public Health team have advised us that we should cancel Year 8 into 9 Transition events planned for this week.
The letter issued to all parents and carers can be read in full here
I just wanted to take the opportunity to update you following last week’s letter regarding the recent rise in the number of positive cases of Covid-19 since the start of the month.
I am pleased to report that following additional testing only two further cases have been confirmed.
As you are aware, testing is an effective way of finding and isolating any possible new cases and we ask that all students continue to take twice weekly lateral flow tests as requested.
The letter issued to parents/carers on 18 June, can be read in full here
We will be supporting students, parents and carers with transition from Middle School to High School through our Y8 into Y9 Transition programme which will consist of online updates on the school website (you can find the Transition page under the Essential Information tab), videos from Mrs Tansey (Year Leader) and other key staff members, questionnaires and face to face activities such as school visits.
Please find below our parent/carer handbook which has lots of useful information for prospective parents and carers and students.
