Letters to parents
20/01/25
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Re:
Friday 24th January 2025
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Dear Parents and Carers,
I am writing to inform you that year 11 students will be taking Functional Skills English on:
- Friday 24th January 2025
Students sitting the exam need to arrive onsite by 09:00.
All year 10 students and Year 11 students who are not sitting the exams should stay at home.
This is essential to ensure that all students have the right support with exam arrangements. Please remember we are a small school and all teachers and learning support will be needed to facilitate the exam accordance with legal requirements
Thank you for your support and understanding.
Yours faithfully,
Ian Bruce
Assistant Headteacher
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2024-2025 Term Dates
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Autumn Term 1 |
Tuesday, 3rd September 2024 - Friday, 25th October 2024 |
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Autumn Term 2 |
Monday, 4th November - Wednesday, 18th December 2024 |
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Spring Term 1 |
Monday, 6th January – Friday, 14th February 2025 |
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Spring Term 2 |
Monday, 24th February – Friday, 4th April 2025 |
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Tuesday, 22nd April – Friday, 23rd May 2025 |
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Summer Term 2 |
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NHS Guidance - Is my child too ill for school?
Coughs and colds
It's fine to send your child to school with a minor cough or common cold. But if they have a fever, keep them off school until the fever goes.
Encourage your child to throw away any used tissues and to wash their hands regularly.
High temperature
If your child has a high temperature, keep them off school until it goes away.
Chickenpox
If your child has chickenpox, keep them off school until all the spots have crusted over.
This is usually about 5 days after the spots first appeared.
Cold sores
There's no need to keep your child off school if they have a cold sore.
Encourage them not to touch the blister or kiss anyone while they have the cold sore, or to share things like cups and towels.
Conjunctivitis
You don't need to keep your child away from school if they have conjunctivitis.
Do get advice from your pharmacist. Encourage your child not to rub their eyes and to wash their hands regularly.
COVID-19
If your child has mild symptoms, such as a runny nose, sore throat, or slight cough, and feels well enough, they can go to school.
Your child should try to stay at home and avoid contact with other people if they have symptoms of COVID-19 and they either:
- have a high temperature
- do not feel well enough to go to school or do their normal activities
Ear infection
If your child has an ear infection and a high temperature or severe earache, keep them off school until they're feeling better or their high temperature goes away.
Head lice and nits
There's no need to keep your child off school if they have head lice.
You can treat head lice and nits without seeing a GP. Let us know if we can support with treatments, which are commonly available in supermarkets and pharmacies.
Ringworm
If your child has ringworm, see your pharmacist unless it's on their scalp, in which case you should see a GP.
It's fine for your child to go to school once they have started treatment.
Scarlet fever
If your child has scarlet fever, they'll need treatment with antibiotics from a GP. Otherwise they'll be infectious for 2 to 3 weeks.
Your child can go back to school 24 hours after starting antibiotics.
Sore throat
You can still send your child to school if they have a sore throat. But if they also have a high temperature, they should stay at home until it goes away.
A sore throat and a high temperature can be symptoms of tonsillitis.
Threadworms
You don't need to keep your child off school if they have threadworms.
Speak to your pharmacist, who can recommend a treatment.
Vomiting and diarrhoea
Children with diarrhoea or vomiting should stay away from school until they have not been sick or had diarrhoea for at least 2 days (48 hours).