Dear colleagues,

Week one is now firmly in the bag. Thank you all for making it so successful. It really felt like a a very positive start to the session.

It was great to see young people back, almost all in uniform. It is important that we all remind pupils to wear the uniform. Where a part in missing, please complete an orange slip and the office team will send a text home looking for support. Inevitably there are some young people who are exempt. Form Class Leaders and PTs PS will keep us up to date with that.

Keeping us all safe and well remains a priority. Please push the importance of twice weekly testing with your form class and pupils in general. Tests can be collected from the reception. Reinforce that pupils should not come to school if at all symptomatic. They should book a PCR test and only return if negative.

We had one positive case last week. I have alerted parents and staff with the standard letters.

There will not be a whole staff meeting this week. I have removed it from the collegiate calendar. Amanda shared the dates of Parents' Meetings for the session. We are running with two parents evenings for each year group with the exception of S1. The thinking behind this is that parents nights are a richer experience than writing or reading reports. So there will not be full reports for any year other than S1. We are continuing with S1 Reports and only one parents night for them. The reason for this is that is that parents/carers cannot see all teachers at parents nights. We believe that it is important that parents/carers have an overview of progress from every subject to mark the end of the year.

With thanks and best wishes,

Elaine