Grange Academy

Dear Parents/Carers

A huge THANK YOU to all our pupils for their understanding, patience and cooperation over the first few days of term. We have been incredibly impressed by you!

We have been reflecting on our new procedures over the last few days and in general, thanks the cooperation of our pupils, they have been working well. As expected there are some areas which we will want to refine and improve.

LUNCH

From Monday 17^th August, we will operate a split lunch system. There will be no change for pupils in S4 to S6.

For pupils in S1 – S3 lunch will now take place from 12:20pm with their period 5 class starting at 1:10pm. To accommodate the lunch provision for Annanhill and Park Schools, pre-ordered lunches will be available for collection from 12:40pm. This change is in response to our early experience of welcoming pupils back to school and mitigates against the risk of congestion within the school building during the lunch break.

This change applies on Mondays to Thursdays only. Lunch for all pupils will be at the normal time of 1:10pm on a Friday.

END OF DAY FRIDAY

In line with our arrangements for the early part of the week, we will also release BGE pupils (S1 – S3) five minutes early from their Period 5 class on a Friday. This will allow a staggered release from the building and mitigates against congestion on Beech Avenue at the end of the day.

Senior Phase pupils will be released at the normal time of 1:10pm and school transport will depart as normal at 1:50pm.

An updated overview of these changes is available by clicking on the image below.

We look forward to welcoming all of our pupils back to Grange Campus on Monday 17^th August.

Yours sincerely

Robert Johnston

Head Teacher

Thank you to all our pupils and staff for a great first day! It was so good to see everyone!

We know it was a lot of information to take in but we really appreciate your support. 

A few things to remember:

START OF THE DAY/LUNCH

S4-6: you can go to your Period 1 class when you arrive (any time from 8:30 onwards). Also to save crowds at the very end of lunch it would be helpful if you started to head towards your P6 class. 

S4 PERIOD ONE ARRANGEMENTS – THURSDAY

S4 : you’ll be in Maths period 1 tomorrow. A list of the rooms you should go to can be found here. Room numbers will be on the doors. 

4B1 – F052
4B2 – F053
4D1 – F055
4D2 – F056
4G1 – F057
4G2 – F060
4H1 – F061
4H2 – F063

SCHOOL/COLLEGE COURSES

S4-6 pupils: school/college courses won’t begin until the week beginning Monday 24th. Private study facilities will be available, should you wish to remain in school. 

TIMETABLES

We are aware that some of the details haven’t been pulled through on Senior Timetables. We have sorted this today and will reissue them tomorrow to you. Mr Cowan is working through the subject change requests that have been received from through the form on the school app and will make contact with you.

Thank you

Please find attached arrangements for Period 1 for this week.  Please click on the image to access the full document.

Canteen Arrangements

The canteen is having to operate differently following our return to school.

For the foreseeable future the canteen will not be serving at interval – you should bring your own snack.  Also both can vending machines and all water dispensers will not be operating – you should bring your own drinking water to school.

At lunchtime all food/drinks from the canteen must be pre-ordered through the online Portal – see previous message issued on the App regarding how to activate this.  You will be given  five menu choices each day which will be ready for collection in a bag labelled with your name, year group and what you ordered on it.

To make sure we can issue these meals quickly each of the 5 options will be issued at a separate location:

Main Meal  – (first hot meal choice) –  from the till area that was previously the staff and senior pupil till area

Option 1 – (second hot meal choice) – from the till point opposite the second floor stairs

Option 2 – (panini choices) – right hand side of cold servery till area

Option 3 – (Pizzini choices) – outside Kiosk

Option 4 – (sandwich choices) – left hand side of cold servery till area

Please remember to keep space between each other in each of these queues.  Once at the front of the queue let the ladies serving know your year group and name so they can quickly pass you your food bag and get everyone served as quickly as possible.

You can still eat your lunch in the usual seating in The Street. Additionally the Assembly Hall will be opened up and desk and chairs set out in small groups of six with space between each– do not move the set-up of these desks.  If the weather is reasonable you should then go outside.

Remember these changes are all about keeping everyone safe and especially important is that you must be responsible for your own litter.  If you have bought food from the canteen put all waste back in the bag and bin it straight away.  If you have a packed lunch either bin your waste or take it home in your lunch box.

The cleaning arrangements must be different right now and we must all take responsibility to try to reduce risk as much as possible and binning our own litter in our social areas both inside and outside the building is an important way we can all do that. 

Remember to wash your hands at lunchtime either using soap or hand sanitizer.  Being particularly careful about all aspects of cleanliness such as reducing litter and especially regular handwashing has been shown to be the most important things you can do to reduce the spread of this virus and keeping you and everyone around you safe.

S2-6 – If you are going off campus for your lunch you should remember that like everyone else you should be socially distancing and wearing a face mask/ face covering when in shops.  Remember to be considerate of other people around you and again bin your litter.

We all want to be back and learning in school and by doing these simple things we should be able to achieve that and show your own local communities that pupils can lead the way in making that happen.