Parent Bulletin: 26.11.2020
26th November 2020
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Dear Parents and Carers
Year 10 Return
It’s been lovely to have Year 10 back in school this week after their two weeks at home. We are now reviewing the remote learning achieved with both staff and pupils to see what was working well and what can be further improved.
Covid Screening for Staff
As reported to you last week, CamVC staff undertook rapid response Covid screening tests last Friday; this will be repeated weekly until the end of term. The aim of this is to identify and to isolate any asymptomatic cases of the virus amongst teaching and support staff, thus contributing to the measures we’re taking to keep school as safe as possible for everyone. A very high proportion of staff took the test and all tested negative. Ideally, we would like to roll out this process across randomised samples of students in each year group, and to continue the measure for staff, next term. We don’t have capacity to do this at present, but are hopeful that the Government might adopt such testing as a preventative strategy over the coming months. Please see the website link on Page 4 of this bulletin for any information about the school response to the pandemic. We hope to be able to send you the link to the Covid-19 monitoring app explained in last week’s edition, early next week.
Keeping Safe Online
Our Safeguarding Team are reporting increasing numbers of pupils who are taking risks as they are spending more unsupervised time on screens. Activities include accessing pornography and making contact with strangers. High level filters prevent such material being accessed in school, but we strongly recommend to all parents that you keep an eye on what your children are accessing on their mobile phones and iPads outside of school time, when the school filters do not apply. Please see pages 8 & 9 of the bulletin for more information on E-Safety and safe use of social media.
CamVC Christmas Appeal - something more heart-warming!
We’ve been sent a number of generous donations from individuals to buy shopping vouchers for some of our families who may be expecting a very bleak Christmas. We’d love to reach out to more families: any contribution that you can make towards making the Christmas break better for our pupils who are suffering from financial hardship in this exceptional year would be very gratefully received. Please donate on WisePay under the Donations module: WisePay
Sixth Form Consultation
Please remember that our consultation on opening a sixth form on site ends on 9 December. The link to the consultation document is on the homepage of our website: www.cambournevc.org. We hope to have some more details of the planned sixth form and 11-16 buildings to share with you soon. In the meantime, please do respond to the survey with any questions or comments you may have.
Wishing you all a very good weekend,
Claire Coates,
Principal
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