Dear Parent / Carer,

I hope this letter finds you safe and well. I would like to set out some new arrangements that we have put in place to help keep pupils and staff safe. These are all in line with Scottish Government and North Lanarkshire Council guidance. As this guidance changes we will keep you updated.

Transport

Pupils travelling by transport provided by NLC do not have to wear face coverings but can if they wish. We ask that pupils sit it in the same seats for each journey.

Pupils

At the start of interval, start of lunch and at the end of the school day pupils are asked to leave the building by the doors at the bottom of the stairs, this is to minimise/avoid large gatherings. There are hand sanitiser stations at the main entrances to the school and throughout the building, please make use of these to prevent the spread of any diseases.  In addition at the end of each block of learning pupils will be asked to wipe their desk to help prevent the spread of any disease.

Parents and carers

If parents or carers need to speak to someone the first port of call should be via telephone to their Principal Teacher of Pupil Support

Mrs Angela Buchanan (Burns)

Ms Louise Carson (Lochhead, acting)

Mrs Gillian Horn (Fleming)

Mrs Phee (Lochhead)

Mrs Ros Ward (Wallace, Mon, Tues, Wed AM)

Mr Leitch (Wallace, Wed PM, Thur, Fri)

Face to face meetings will only take place in exceptional circumstances and will be pre-arranged.

When dropping off your child at please remain in the car.

Uniform

As we are not permitted under the guidance to use our changing rooms pupils should come to school dressed for outdoor PE and remain in their kit for the rest of the day. We recommend that pupils bring a change of footwear. On all the other days pupils should come dressed in full school uniform.

2 Week Timetable Rotation for S1 /S2 / S3 /S4

To enhance the safety of all in the school community in relation to Covid 19 NLC has introduced a 2 week timetable rotation for S1-S4. The reasons for this are:

• To reduce pupil / staff movement during the school day
• To reduce the number of physical interactions between different staff and pupils
• A reduction in the number of times that pupils ‘cross over’ between classes from 18 to 3
• There will be no loss to any pupils in allocated teaching time for each subject

Please be assured that all pupils will receive 100% of time in their subjects over the course of the 2 weeks

How will this work?

Introduction of a new rotation to the existing school timetable

This will begin from Monday 17th August 2020

Timetables will remain similar, but, follow a 2 week rotation

Week 1 RED, Week 2 BLUE

Mapping the original timetable with weeks 1 & 2 as shown below, please note Mon 5, Tue 5 and Thu 5 map onto both weeks.

Original Timetable

 

 

RED Week 17/8, 31/8, 14/9, 28/9, 19/10, 2/11, 16/11, 30/11, 14/12

 

 BLUE Week 24/8, 7/9, 21/9, 5/10, 26/10, 9/11, 23/11, 7/12, 21/12

 

John Robertson

Headteacher

Calderhead High School