26 December 2024 Calendar

Covid Update

Despite the Prime Minister's most recent announcement and taking into account our local context we have made the decision to retain all current Covid control measures within the academy. This means that, until the end of term, students and staff are asked to continue to wear face coverings indoors, in communal areas such as corridors. As you may be aware, recently updated government guidance states that all secondary school and college students should be offered two on-site Lateral Flow Device tests; 3 to 5 days apart, on their return in the autumn term. Therefore, we have had to amend our plans for our students' return in September to accommodate this large scale on-site mass testing programme. In order to give families as much notice as possible I have shared an outline of our plans below. More detailed information regarding each student's specific testing times will follow next week.

Year Group	First Test Date (returning home after test)	Return Date (8:27am Start) and Second Test
Year 7	Thursday 2nd September	Monday 6th September
Year 8	Monday 6th September	Thursday 9th September
Year 9	Tuesday 7th September	Friday 10th September
Year 10	Friday 3rd September	Wednesday 8th September
Year 11	Friday 3rd September	Tuesday 7th September
Year 12	Thursday 2nd September	Monday 6th September
Year 13	Thursday 2nd September	Tuesday 7th September

For more details on this, please see Ms Ullah's letter of 16 July.