"Every child who can be safely cared for at home should be."
COVID-19 Update (31st March 2020 1.30pm)
Access to Office 365/Teams and Pupils Shared Files HERE.
School will be closed on Wednesday 1st April but will re-open on Thursday 2nd April.
Please see an update on school trips at the bottom of the page.
Families eligible for Free School Meals are able to collect a food parcel from Great Harwood Library, Clitheroe Library and Ightenhill Children's Centre.
Key Workers' children should bring a packed lunch as the canteen is now closed.
Parents and carers may choose to supplement the school online offer with support from online companies and in some cases individual tutors. If you do choose online support please select a reputable organisation/individual who can provide evidence that they are safe and can be trusted to have access to children. Support for parents and carers to keep their children safe online includes:
Latest guidance on attendance.
We understand that access to IT for families may be difficult at present and therefore pupils should not worry if they are not able to complete all of the work that is set. Where pupils are finishing the work and looking for more to do they should look up the topics to be studied in the Curriculum Booklet for their year and use the links below (Bitesize etc.) to conduct extra reserach. There are also links to free online resources below.
Where access to IT limits the opportunity to complete assignmetns that have been set, pupils are encouraged to put some time aside each day for silent reading (novel, newspaper, magazine).
Some departments are setting extended challenges - these are optional activities and should be undertaken only when the set work has been completed.
Curriculum Booklets for Each Year
Free Online Resources to Support Learning
Year 11 Resources
MyTutor Online School, are offering extra support during this period of school closure. They are sharing daily lunchtime live group webinar tutorials, as well as short explainer videos and written resources, covering common tricky topics across a range of GCSE subjects. These are all completely free - students just need to register and join via Zoom video link.
Update to Government Guidance on School Closure
School is closed to all pupils other than a very limited number of key workers' children.
Families with children in receipt of Free School Meals (FSM) will receive supermarket vouchers through the post on a fortnightly basis (one set of Tesco vouchers per child). We may move to an online scheme to provide for FSM in the coming weeks.
The government has asked parents to keep their children at home, wherever possible, and asked schools to remain open only for those children who absolutely need to attend.
The fewer children making the journey to school, and the fewer children in educational settings, the lower the risk that the virus can spread and infect vulnerable individuals in wider society. Every child who can be safely cared for at home should be.
Letter for families (19.3.20). Updated Letter (20.3.20)
GCSE Exams
Further details from DFE
"The exam boards will be asking teachers, who know their students well, to submit their judgement about the grade that they believe the student would have received if exams had gone ahead." More to follow.
Online Working
Now that full closure has been implemented, staff will be setting work online via the Office365 / Teams platform. Pupils have received a briefing on accessing this work and a link to the video tutorial can be found here (login required). Pupils should use the same username (e.g. 17SmithPa@sarchs.com) and password that they use for their school login to access resources at home via Pupil Shared Files. Pupils can access the resources via mobile phones and we recommend downloading the Microsoft Teams app (Apple or Android). IT equipment has been issued to families who made this request and completed a Loan Request Form. Additional resources can be found via the following links:
Mathswatch Kerboodle Seneca Bitesize
Families seeking support at this difficult and potentially stressful time can access a range of agencies here.
Prayer Resources (including forthcoming Sunday Gospels)
Trips Abroad
The Government has issued new guidelines regarding school trips abroad, advising against foreign travel with pupils under 18 years (12.3.2020). For the moment all of our foreign trips are set to go ahead although we will continue to monitor the situation and follow guidance from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. If / when we receive notification of cancellation from the travel companies we will update all relevant parties.
France : Year 8, Chateau du Molay 30.4.2020 Please see statement from Travelbound
France : Year 7, Le Touquet 11.6.2020 Families have been sent an email. An urgent reply is requested.
France : Year 9, Paris 24.6.2020
Rwanda : Year 10, Kigali 4.7.2020
Costa Rica : Various, 24.10.2020
Also, the Geography Isle of Arran trip is confirmed as cancelled.
