I would like to also pass on our best wishes to the 40 plus students who have been identified as contacts who are having to self-isolate and will be staying at home this weekend. Our thoughts and best wishes are with the two students and I think it is worth mentioning at this point that no one wants to be ill or catch coronavirus, nobody is to blame. Sadly I think that this could become just our normal way of working as we go forward. It has been disappointing and upsetting to have confirmed cases of Coronavirus in Year 8 and Year 9. This has been a week of highs and lows at YHS. Thank you to Mr Walker for organising the event in a covid secure way for very worthwhile cause. Luckily for me my Leeds Rhinos shirt came in handy again. Congratulations to all of those who have walked a mile and to those who found something yellow to wear. Well done to all of the students and staff who have taken part in the Hello Yellow fundraising today. Lastly we do have something extra to a normal week to report. Next week we will be sending out our parents survey please let us know what needs changing, what you need to know. SMHW was unable to do this, SMHW was however very good for Homework and currently we are aware that there are teething issues with homework on Google Classrooms. We have moved from SMHW (Satchel One) to Google classrooms so that if we have to close to a year group or for a period of time we will be able to deliver interactive lessons. The only tech needed will be a smartphone or tablet/laptop. Parents will be able to book their own appointments and we will be able to have 1 to 1 video calls to discuss the students progress. It is extremely unlikely that we will be able to hold traditional parents evenings this year so this week we have researched and bought a programme which will allow us to host a virtual parents evening. Due to the restrictions it feels like an achievement for everyone at YHS to get through the week without incident.
Rod and staff weekly lesson planner update#
In a normal year I would use weekly update to talk about all the extra things that we would be doing in school. After our initial worries over face coverings all students are now wearing face coverings in the corridors. Our measures to minimise risk are in place and students and staff are following the procedures.
We have been fortunate again this week to have recorded no positive cases of Coronavirus. Best wishes to any of you whose jobs will be affected by the announcements, if we can help in any way we will, just contact us. To all the families who have supported us through the last 5 weeks thank you your support is totally appreciated. On a positive note we raised over £500 for Mind last week, so well done again to Mr Walker and all involved. We sent out yesterday a link to the parent survey your views are really important to us especially during these changing times. There are however opportunities in further links with other schools.īack to our main business, education! Our students and staff are working hard although both are starting to feel the effects of a long half term especially after school closure. Since joining the South Bank Trust they have been great at allowing us to retain our identity as York High School and we will seek to protect that identity in the future. Today we will be sending by email a letter from The South Bank Multi Academy Trust which outlines the plans to explore a merger with the South York Multi Academy Trust. Let’s hope we do not get to that position. For example if it was one of my Maths classes I would “teach” for the first 20 minutes either through use of a webcam, a visualizer or a presentation and then be available for the next 30 minutes to answer questions. The main reason we have moved from Satchel to Google Classrooms is so that if students have to stay at home as a whole year group then we will be able to have interactive live lessons. We are planning for a variety of scenarios involving staff and student absence. The position looks stronger next week but as always in these strange times let’s see what next week brings. It has been a tough week as we have had 20% of our staff absent for many reasons such as self-isolation or where their children have been sent home from school as well as Non Covid illness. We have had no further positive cases at the time of writing and now have all of the students back from isolation. They will need all of our support to understand. Now it feels the opposite, I know many of my Year 11 Maths students were finding it hard to understand why there are two totally different sets of rules in school and out of school. At the start of the term it felt very strange in school due to the measures we have in place to reduce the risk of Covid transmission and very normal outside of school. It’s a strange end to the week after the announcements yesterday.
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