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‘Outstanding Progress for All’
Home Bulletin 3rd July 2020
Dear parents and carers Yesterday, the Government published its guidance to schools for reopening in September and additional guidance for parents and carers. I met again with my senior team last night to work through the implications of the guidance, which is divided into these five sections: Section 1: Public health advice to minimise coronavirus (COVID-19) risks Section 2: School operations Section 3: Curriculum, behaviour and pastoral support Section 4: Assessment and accountability Section 5: Contingency planning for outbreaks There is a lot of detail in the 36 pages, but here are some of the points we have started to address: Curriculum Schools are expected to deliver the ‘full curriculum’. Substantial modification may be needed at the start of the year so ‘teaching time should be
prioritised to address significant gaps in pupils’ knowledge with the aim of returning to the school’s normal curriculum content by no later than summer term 2021.’
‘Remote education may need to be an essential component in the delivery of the school curriculum for some pupils, alongside classroom teaching, or in the case of a local lockdown.’
Movement We are asked to keep children in ‘class or year group sized ‘bubbles’ and encourage older children
to keep their distance from each other and staff where possible’. It is likely, therefore, that year groups will be based together in separate parts of the school. This will minimise contact with other years and reduce movement around the school. We will not be scheduling assemblies for the time being.
Teachers and other staff will be able to ‘operate across different classes and year groups in order to facilitate the delivery of the school timetable’.
Attendance Attendance will be mandatory. Schools are expected to ‘work with families to secure full attendance
from the start of the new academic year’.
Headteacher’s Blog
Word of the Week:
Remonstrate: argue in protest
Inspections
Ofsted’s routine inspections won’t resume until January 2021.
We are in a very strong position to address all of the above. The school has been open to a small number of students since the lockdown started and we are now into the second week of wider reopening to Year 10 and 12 students. Our hygiene, health and safety measures are well-embedded and understood by students and staff. Our existing risk assessments are very thorough. We do have, however, a huge challenge ahead of us. To emphasise this point, I am sharing the thoughts of two of the country’s leading Headteacher representatives . Paul Whiteman (general secretary of the NAHT) said, ‘… no-one should underestimate the scale of the challenge school leaders will now face in making these plans work in practice, especially in secondary schools.’ Geoff Barton (leader of ASCL) said, ‘The logistics of keeping apart many different ‘bubbles’ of children in a full school, including whole-year groups comprising hundreds of pupils, is mind boggling.’ Despite this, we will rebuild our school community and ensure that students can return safely to Stowupland in September to resume their learning together. My best wishes to you all for the week ahead. Peter Whear Headteacher
Church Road Stowupland Stowmarket IP14 4BQ
Headteacher: Mr Peter Whear
Chair of Governors: Mrs Karen Hudson
Company Number: 10298832
Contact Details:
Main School: 01449 674827 Miss K Elmer and Ms E McNaught
Email:
[email protected] Miss F McLauchlan
[email protected] Mrs S Lewis
[email protected] Mrs K Southgate
[email protected] Mrs N Wooldridge
[email protected] Mrs A Cranfield
Absence Line: 01449 742428
Website: www.stowuplandhighschool.co.uk
Headteacher’s Blog (cont’d)
Information and Updates
Progress Teams—2020/2021
Year Group and Progress Leader
Assistant Progress Leader Tutor
7 - Mrs Cook Mrs Rolfe
7TT Mr Tanswell
7SP Mr Page and Mrs Main
7TW Ms Walton
7DW Mr Willcox
7RJ Mrs Johnson
7DT Mrs Turner
7MR Miss Roberts
8 - Mr Walters Miss Riches
8CK Mr Kruger
8MDH Mr Hill and Mrs Estrada
8AL Miss Leadon
8STK Mrs Tulk (formerly 7RTR)
8KP Miss Pollard
8OW Mr Williams
8KL Mr Leech (formerly 7SD)
9 - Mr Rapley
9SC Miss Coe (formerly 8MP)
Mr Canfer
9NP Ms Peirson (formerly 8CJ)
9SJC Mrs Clarke
9WCM Mr Cullum
9AG Mr Guichard
9SZ Mr Zbrozek and Ms Elliott-James
9GE Mr Erhorn
10 - Mr Benson Mr Perry
10KC Miss Curtis
10KF Mrs Flury
10RLB Miss Bird (formerly 9DT)
10LBL Mrs Blake
10NF Mr Faliveno (formerly 9CP)
10NA Mr Allan
10SW Miss Wardley
10SB Mr Broom
Congratulations!
On behalf of Mr and Mrs Holden, we are delighted to announce the safe (albeit late) arrival of their
daughter on 2 July 2020. Mother and baby doing amazingly well!
Mr Holden will be taking two weeks’ paternity leave but will return to school duties from 20 July. Mrs
Rudling and senior leaders will continue to support students in Mr Holden’s absence.
Praise Certificates
Congratulations to the following students who have been awarded certificates in recognition of their
high quality commitment, engagement and completion of remote learning:
Isabella North-Fields (7KP); Dylan Stretch (7RTR); Lexi Brundell (8GE); Megan Meadows (8CJ); Ross
Clarke (9KC); Emma Healy (9CP); Rosie Ager (10JF) and Alexander Crawford (10MB)
Apologies to Thomas Glanville who received a certificate on 8 June but was not recognised in the
home bulletin that week.
We know other students have achieved great things in lockdown; our congratulations go to them too!
And thank you to all our parents and carers for supporting them.
Information and Updates
Progress Teams—2020/2021 (cont’d)
Year Group and Progress Leader
Assistant Progress Leader Tutor
11 - Mr Holden
11BY Mr Young
Mrs Rudling
11MB Mr Bartholomew
11JG Mr Garrett and Mrs Land
11ST Mrs Thomas
11ED Ms Dixie
11JF Mr Fowler
11 RT Miss Truscott
6th Form -
Mrs Walden Mrs Southgate
12FS Mr Schmidt
12TL Mrs Leeks and Ms Carter
12CG Mr Gray
13CC Mr Clarke
13JS Ms Sheldon
Bedrock Learning Here at Stowupland we have been committed to helping students improve their vocabulary and comprehension skills. The Bedrock Learning programme enables students to complete online lessons to develop these skills. During lockdown, every student in Key Stage 3 was asked to complete 1 or 2 lessons per week alongside their English schoolwork, if possible.
I have been extremely impressed with the commitment of many of our students and would like to take the opportunity to recognise and share their fantastic achievements. Between 22 March and 27 June, students across KS3 have completed an astonishing 6,639 online Bedrock lessons!
Congratulations to the top five students across the entire key stage and within each year group:
Across KS3 Ezmai Elmer (9KF) - 83 Kieron Forsdyke (9SB) - 76 Brooke Davis (8MP) - 75 Megan Leeder (8CJ) - 75 Liam Waters (8SZ) - 72 Year 8 Brooke Davis (8MP) - 75 Megan Leeder (8CJ) - 75 Liam Waters (8SZ) - 72 Isabelle Bates (8CJ) - 71 Charley Bridges (8WCM) - 65 Miss K Curtis Assistant Subject Leader, English and Media Studies
House Points
ShowMyHomework A reminder that parents and carers can access their child’s homework calendar to see their ‘to-do list’. Please email [email protected] for further information.
House Points
Clarkson 25
Anderson 23
Edmund 21
Boudicca 20
Ryder 18
Wolsey 16
Information and Updates
Year 9 Ezmai Elmer (9KF) - 83 Kieron Forsdyke (9SB) - 76 Tyrell Kanyemba (9KC) - 67 Alfie Rawson (9DT) - 46 Gemma Holberry (9SB) - 39
Year 7 James Williams (7MDH) - 50 Rhys Barton (7KP) - 42 James Wicks (7CK) - 42 Oscar Baldry (7CK ) - 41 Isaac Styles (7RTR) - 40
Clarkson is still in the lead, but only just!
Special mention to Ezmai Elmer (9KF) and Ben Jolly (9SB) who both received 5 house points this week.
Click and Collect School Library Service To support our students through the summer the school Library is offering a 'click and collect' service. The library catalogue will be available to all students. They will be able to search and reserve books on the Reading Cloud website and will also be able to access reading lists, write book reviews and see at a glance when new books are added. Once a student has reserved a book it will be safely selected and stored in a named plastic bag where it will remain for 72hrs. It will then be available for collection from the main Reception. Students returning books should place them in one of the plastic boxes in the front lobby. Collection and pick-up arrangements during the school closure will be confirmed at a later date. Students will be able to reserve up to three books at one time but will need to return them prior to requesting any more. Further details of student log in and passwords will be shortly. Please encourage your child(ren) to make the most of this service and do not hesitate to contact Mrs Burns via [email protected] if you have any questions.
NHS Charities Together
Posters Recipes Thank-you cards
Information and Updates
It is vitally important for our students to have access to read-ing a wide range of texts; this has been particularly difficult during lockdown. Books are a wonderful portal into other worlds and cultures and can boost wellbeing. Reading also leads to empathy, open mindedness, curiosity and so much more.
Sunday 5 July, 5.00pm
