Dear Parent and Carers
Red weather warning – Friday 18 February 2022
The Met Office has issued a RED weather warning for parts of the Caerphilly county borough on Friday 18 February 2022. A RED weather warning is rare and indicates a risk to life and significant disruption.
The Met Office states that Storm Eunice may cause significant disruption due to extremely strong winds and as such currently advises:
- Flying debris resulting in danger to life
- Damage to buildings and homes, with roofs blown off and power lines brought down
- Uprooted trees are likely
- Roads, bridges and railway lines closed, with delays and cancellations to bus, train, ferry services and flights
- Power cuts affecting other services, such as mobile phone coverage
- Large waves and beach material being thrown onto coastal roads, sea fronts and homes, including flooding of some coastal properties
The council, as the Local Education Authority, has advised all schools in the area to switch to remote learning arrangements tomorrow (Friday 18th February) in order to keep pupils and staff safe. We appreciate that this may cause some inconvenience, but the safety and wellbeing of the whole school community is paramount. This decision has not been taken lightly, but red weather warnings are rare so we must respond accordingly.
As such, all pupils and staff will learn and work from home tomorrow, Friday 18 February 2022. Our school site will be closed to all. Remote learning will be provided for your child via their google classroom where your child’s timetabled teacher will post the work they should complete.
Changes to school operations next half term
Schools will return to using the Covid Welsh Government Local Infection Control Decision Framework from the start of next half term. This means we will return to our ‘normal’ school session times from Monday 28 February 2022:
0830 Pupils should be on site
0835-0855 Form period
0855-0955 Lesson 1
0955-1055 Lesson 2
1055-1110 Break for all
1110-1210 Lesson 3
1210-1310 Lesson 4
1310-1355 Lunch for all
1355-1455 Lesson 5
1455 School finishes for the day with the exception of after school revision, clubs, etc.
In school we will also continue to ensure ventilation and hand hygiene. Other mitigations remain in place as below
- Do not send your child to school if they have any Covid symptoms or are unwell. Please keep them at home and book a PCR test if they have symptoms.
- Please ensure that your child completes a Lateral Flow Test twice a week (Monday and Thursday morning) before attending school. This is an essential mitigation as LFTs detect positive cases who do not have any symptoms but can still infect other people. If you would like your child to collect LFT packs from school and haven’t signed up for this as yet, please do so.
- Please ensure that your child brings a face covering to school. All pupils will be strongly encouraged to wear a face coverings when moving around indoor communal areas outside of the classroom, such as corridors, where physical distance cannot be maintained. Face coverings will no longer be routinely recommended in classrooms.
- Please have your child vaccinated and/or boosted as soon as they are eligible. This is another vitally important mitigation which supports the health and wellbeing of all within our school and community.
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Spring 2 - Key dates in 2022
Y11 Parents’ Evening – Thursday 3 March using School Cloud
KS5 Parents’ Evening – Wednesday 23 March using School Cloud
Y9 and Y11 Transition – both of these processes continue for the remainder of the spring term, following the detailed information shared with pupils and parents already in Spring 1
Easter break – Monday 11 April – Friday 22 April 2022
Thank you for your support during this half term. I have been pleased with the progress that so many of our pupils have made. It has been lovely to celebrate with and congratulate the Headteacher Award winners this week. We will hold the Y8 Headteacher Award Assembly at the beginning of the new half term.
Yours sincerely
Miss Collins
Headteacher
