Kingsway North | Braunstone Town | Leicestershire | LE3 3BD| Tel: 0116 289 8688 | www.winstanleyschool.org.uk Monday 8th June 2020 Welcome to another newsletter. I do hope this finds you and your families well and continuing to cope in these challenging times. - It is now 11 weeks since school closed! We are hoping to be welcoming our Year 10s back to school for some teaching from 16th June. There is more information about this later in the newsletter. I have found this week deeply unsettling as I have watched images, heard experiences and reflected on the lived experience of racism. It has made me angry and to be honest I think it should make us all angry that in 2020 people still experience racism in any form. We put a statement and a photo on social media to show our support for #blacklivesmatter. It has also made me think about the experience of our black students at TWS. Are there things we need to do differently? I do want to say sorry if at any point you have felt that you have experienced racism in the school. We must use these events as a catalyst to ensure that we are a school where equity and social justice are at the heart of all that we do. We need to focus on our Shine value of supporting others and realise it is about being kind to each other, standing up for members of our community who are treated badly and changing our community to ensure everyone is treated with equity. I do want to say thank you for all your support through this challenging time. I have been so impressed with the way that you have all tried to make the best of a difficult situation. We need to make sure we continue to support each other. You are an amazing community who I feel very honoured to lead. I have missed seeing all of you and I am very much hoping that we will be back to some sort of normality next term. It is really important to continue doing your remote learning - we don’t want anyone to get behind. Mr Scrimshire has got some good tips in his section of the newsletter. As always iIf you are struggling with anything please do contact us via the admin email [email protected] or phone the school during school hours. We want to support you in any way that we can. Keep ‘shining brightly’ by working hard and supporting others. I know lockdown has eased but it is important that we all stick to the guidelines to protect our communities and families from the spread of Covid 19. I pray that you and your families stay well and you know peace and hope at this difficult time. Mr Bennett - Head of School Mr Bennett Message from Year 10 We have put together a short booklet Year 10 Parent/ Carer Booklet which summarises all you need to know about how we plan to organise teaching Year 10 from Tuesday 16th June. If you are a Year 10 parent or carer please make sure you read the booklet and complete the survey we have shared with you - Year 10 Parent/Carer Survey #BLM Assemblies We will be producing an assembly each week for the rest of this term. Each one will finish with an activity or response. These will be put on social media and in your year group google classroom (make sure you join if you haven’t already). Please make sure you do these and share your photos/ response with us so that we can see what you have done. Mrs Boyce’s excellent assembly last week celebrated Eid and got us thinking about volunteering. I hope you all chose to take actions to help others as suggested. This week there is an excellent assembly from Mr Rigby about World Environment Day. Please take time to go through it and watch the short video links. It would be great to hear your messages to world leaders about the environment. Look out on our website as we will be creating a new section for Assemblies.
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Kingsway North | Braunstone Town | Leicestershire | LE3 3BD| Tel: 0116 289 8688 | www.winstanleyschool.org.uk
Monday 8th June 2020
Welcome to another newsletter. I do hope this finds you and your families well and continuing to cope in these challenging times. - It is now 11 weeks since school closed! We are hoping to be welcoming our Year 10s back to school for some teaching from 16th June. There is more information about this later in the newsletter. I have found this week deeply unsettling as I have watched images, heard experiences and reflected on the lived experience of racism. It has made me angry and to be honest I think it should make us all angry that in 2020 people still experience racism in any form. We put a statement and a photo on social media to show our support for #blacklivesmatter. It has also made me think about the experience of our black students at TWS. Are there things we need to do differently? I do want to say sorry if at any point you have felt that you have experienced racism in the school. We must use these events as a catalyst to ensure that we are a school where equity and social justice are at the heart of all that we do. We need to focus on our Shine value of supporting others and realise it is about being kind to each other, standing up for members of our community who are treated badly and changing our community to ensure everyone is treated with equity. I do want to say thank you for all your support through this challenging time. I have been so impressed with the way that you have all tried to make the best of a difficult situation. We need to make sure we continue to support each other. You are an amazing community who I feel very honoured to lead. I have missed seeing all of you and I am very much hoping that we will be back to some sort of normality next term. It is really important to continue doing your remote learning - we don’t want anyone to get behind. Mr Scrimshire has got some good tips in his section of the newsletter. As always iIf you are struggling with anything please do contact us via the admin email [email protected] or phone the school during school hours. We want to support you in any way that we can.
Keep ‘shining brightly’ by working hard and supporting others. I know lockdown has eased but it is important that we all stick to the guidelines to protect our communities and families from the spread of Covid 19. I pray that you and your families stay well and you know peace and hope at this difficult time. Mr Bennett - Head of School
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Year 10 We have put together
a short booklet Year
10 Parent/
Carer Booklet which
summarises all you
need to know about
how we plan to
organise teaching
Year 10 from
Tuesday 16th June. If you are a Year 10
parent or carer please make sure you read
the booklet and complete the survey we have
shared with you - Year 10 Parent/Carer
Survey
#BLM
Assemblies We will be producing an assembly each
week for the rest of this term. Each one will
finish with an activity or response. These
will be put on social media and in your year
group google classroom (make sure you
join if you haven’t already). Please make
sure you do these and share your photos/
response with us so that we can see what
you have done. Mrs Boyce’s excellent
assembly last week celebrated Eid and got
us thinking about volunteering. I hope you
all chose to take actions to help others as
suggested. This week there is an excellent
assembly from Mr Rigby about World
Environment Day. Please take time to go
through it and watch the short video links. It
would be great to hear your messages to
world leaders about the environment. Look
out on our website as we will be creating a
new section for Assemblies.
Kingsway North | Braunstone Town | Leicestershire | LE3 3BD| Tel: 0116 289 8688 | www.winstanleyschool.org.uk
Remote Learning
I hope you are all well and staying safe. In order to support our families, we are intending to work with a company called Studbugs to ena-ble us to communicate effectively with parents. The Studybugs app is free to download and is an easy way to report your child absent from school. If you haven’t already, please get the free Studybugs app, or register on the Studybugs website, and use it to tell us whenever your child’s ill and unable to at-tend school. Get the app or register now (https://studybugs.com/about/parents) We have a number of students across all years attending each day. If you would like your child to come into school, even if just for a short time or just for part of the week, please contact your child’s head of year who will allocate you time and a session.
If you have a new phone number or contact details, please let us know via the school office so we can update our rec-ords. If you have any serious concerns, please contact a member of the safeguarding team at the school or via [email protected].
Mrs Roberts
Staying Safe
Parents! Did you know you can sign up to Seneca and monitor your child’s progress on work that has been set in there? Follow the instructions in the two articles below to do so. Not every subject will be using Seneca at the moment, but many are so it is another tool to help you support your child with their remote learning. https://help.senecalearning.com/en/articles/3661316-how-to-sign-up-to-seneca-as-a-parent
https://help.senecalearning.com/en/articles/3990859-how-to-connect-my-parent-account-to-my-child-s-account
Don’t forget that all work is set through the Google classroom via the school website, and it is good practice to get your child to show you their “To do” list at the start of each school day. If you or your child are having any difficulty with this, please email me at [email protected].
Students! I have sent out a survey to get some feedback from you regarding your Remote Learning experience during school closure. Please be accurate in your responses and we welcome any suggestions to help us improve. Check your emails from me to see the survey - I sent it out on Friday 5th June. Hope you are all safe and well!
Mr. Scrimshire
Sunflower
Challenge
This week we will be sending out sunflower seeds and instructions to all of next year’s new Year 7s and the current Year 7 and 8 (watch out for your envelope). We want you to plant them, care for them and next term we look forward to seeing the amazing flowers that you have grown. Prizes for the best ones!
Well
Being
We know that this time of extended school closure has affected people differently. We wanted to give all students an opportunity to tell us about their well being so that we can support them further. Please complete the student well being survey Student Well Being Survey - 8th June
Follow us on social media to keep up to date with everything that’s happening.
Every Friday we will be doing ‘shout outs’ for students who are ‘Shining Bright’
Kingsway North | Braunstone Town | Leicestershire | LE3 3BD| Tel: 0116 289 8688 | www.winstanleyschool.org.uk
Just some of the amazing work
being completed at home...
Students… keep a look out for emails about Art Challenge, Geography
Competitions and Bake Off, there are plenty of opportunities to ‘Shine
brighter than you thought you could’.
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