Learning Review Day Appointments for Year 8

I am writing to you to explain our plans to host a Learning Review Day for all year 8 students at school, during the week commencing Monday 13th July. The Learning Review Meetings will give you an opportunity to meet your Tutor ‘face to face’ at a safe 2 metre social distance, to discuss further your general welfare since we have had to close ‘normal’ school due to the Coronavirus. It is really important that you read this information carefully and ask if you are not clear.  I am sorry that we haven’t been able to get you all back in school previously, and that we haven’t been able to communicate our plans sooner.  This is because we have had to wait for clear guidance and because the situation is complicated and something we have never faced before.

Our plan has been made following the guidance from the government but we have made it with two simple but important principles in mind:

  1. The safety of all of our students, staff and their families.
  2. The needs and continuing education of you, our students.

With all of this in mind, and having carried out a detailed risk assessment and considered lots of options, we have created the following plan:

  • On Thursday 16th or Friday 17th July, year 8 students will come into school for an individual 15 minute Learning Review Meeting with a tutor. You will be given a time and date (see the end of this letter) for this meeting which will maintain social distancing and will involve just you and one member of staff. In most cases, this will be your usual tutor.  Your parent(s) are not invited to this meeting as we still need to avoid as many people coming into school as we can.  If you are unable to come to school for your meeting, can you please e-mail Mr Lewis at martin.lewis@teignmouth.devon.sch.uk and we will try our best to conduct the appointment via telephone or on-line platform, at a later date or sometime on the scheduled day of your meeting.
  • The aim of these meetings will be to support you. We want to know how you have been coping mentally and emotionally, and how you have been getting on with your work and remote learning.  We want you to be totally honest and there is no point in pretending that everything is fine or that you have done masses of work if you haven’t.  You will have a chance to ask questions, explain anything you have struggled with or not understood, and request support.

Below is a summary of the key things you need to know for the forthcoming Learning Review Days at school:

  • You must not come into school if you feel ill – particularly if you have a dry cough, a fever or lose your sense of taste or smell. If you develop any of these symptoms when in school you must tell a member of staff and go home.
  • Come into school in your own clothes, not uniform and it is a good idea to wash your clothes when you return home after your Learning Review Meeting and definitely if you think you may have been close to anyone not well.
  • If you can avoid using public transport to come into school for your meeting, please do so. Walk or cycle in if you can. If you do have to use public transport, you should use PPE (a face mask and gloves).
  • Follow the timings for your meeting as close as possible and you should not come into school with others.
  • When you arrive in school, you must sanitise your hands thoroughly and upon entry and exit from the Arts Centre where the Learning Review Days will be held.
  • Remember your social distancing when in the Arts Centre & try and keep 2m apart from others.
  • Please follow all instructions from staff, even more than normal.
  • If you are scheduled to attend school on your meeting day as part of our daily provision and still need to be here on that day, you will still continue to do so and you will just need to ask to be released from your timetabled lesson to attend your meeting at the correct time. Once finished, you will then return to your lesson. Alternatively, if you are able to be looked after at home on the day of your meeting, but would usually be in school, then you only need to come in for your meeting on that particular day.

We are really looking forward to seeing you again and having you back in, even if it is only for a short while.

Best wishes

Mr O’Connell

Principal

 

Teignmouth Secondary

Teignmouth Secondary