BULLETIN FOR PARENTS April 3rd 2020 Issue 2

Cardinal Hume Catholic School

Dear Parents and Carers

We hope that you are all safe and well, and that our students continue to maintain a healthy balance of work, rest and play during these challenging weeks.

EASTER CLOSURE

The school will be closed to pupils

during the Easter holidays. School will

re-open on Monday April 20th

We wish you and your family a very Happy Easter.

Some important advice and guidance for keeping your child safe online:

https:www.nspcc.org.uk/keeping-children-safe/online-safety/

We will all miss celebrating our Easter Services together this year, but we hope that you and your family will en-joy sharing these Reflections and prayer Lord Our Heavenly Father, Guide us, as your wonderful creation, with your everlasting love and compassion. Let us spread your love and the hope of Jesus Christ, saviour of man, to those around us and those we may encounter. Give strength to those who are still working and give them courage to continue working through this difficult time. Help us to keep in touch with our loved ones and to remember the im-portance of our family and friends.

St Cuthbert St Aidan St Bede St Hild St Oswald and St Edmund Campion,

pray for us , Amen Lewis Humble Year 12

Welfare and Safeguarding We are aware that some of our students will be struggling with the recent changes to their routine. We may not be able to see our children face to face but we continue to make their welfare our main priority. For a number of our students, we are going to be making regular phone calls home to speak to both parents and stu-dents. However, this does not prevent other families from seeking support from us. We want to reassure all of our fami-lies that our school office can be con-tacted and a member of staff will listen and respond to your concerns and help where we can.

Y9 Options Reminder

All Year 9 parents should now have re-ceived a text message containing a link to an electronic form which can be filled in with option choices. Reminder that the new deadline date is Monday 20th

August.

Enrichment

Please go to the Enrichment folder on the Learning from Home Portal to find the following, and more:

Wellbeing—see below

Instrumental lessons and More

Duke of Edinburgh: tips for completing your assessments while at home

Family Learning: Why not try some simple and delicious recipes

together

The folder is updated often, so keep looking!

We hope that you and your family will join us

for our Holy Week and Easter Reflections.

Use this link to find the liturgies

https://tinyurl.com/vyqakhl

Wellbeing Folder

Important information, advice and guidance for

students on maintaining physical and mental

health and addressing common concerns at

this difficult time https://tinyurl.com/vhoojya

‘Learning from Home’ portal

Many thanks for continuing to support your son/daughter with their work from the

‘Learning from home’ portal on our school website. Staff continue to work hard

behind the scenes to make sure that materials are uploaded for use at home.

From week beginning 20th April, after our Easter break, individual lessons will be

uploaded for Year 10, 11, 12 and 13 students. Pupils will simply click on the

‘Learning from Home’ link on the school website and go to their relevant class

folder for each subject.

General resources will continue to be uploaded for Years 7, 8 and 9, in line with

department schemes of work.

Just a few reminders regarding home learning for after the Easter break:

It may help with routines for pupils to follow their usual school timetables.

It is important to take regular breaks. Try to monitor the amount of time your

child is spending completing their home learning. If possible, break up the

day with physical exercise and creative tasks.

Encourage your child to read for a minimum of 20 minutes every day. Your

son/daughter could read a novel, poem, short story or an online article.

Ask about his/her learning every day.

Some useful websites are included in this newsletter that can help add varie-

ty to the ‘virtual’ school day.

Books, books, books. They will increase your

lifespan, lower your stress and boost your

intelligence…so why not read?

For your whole family, David Walliams is re-leasing an audio story every day for the next

30 days for free. bit/lyAudioElevenses

Reading At Home

ACCESSING ONLINE RESOURCES

Please ensure that your child can access school emails and that they remember the passwords to login for lessons in future. This can be tested by asking your child to log on to school emails using this link https://outlook.office.com/ .

1. If they have forgotten the password then please email info@cardinalhume.com including the following :

a. Email Subject as PASSWORD RESET REQUEST b. Include pupil name and tutor group details c. Include pupil username or email address

2. All pupils can download and install office or use Office365 using school

email address and password. To download office the instructions as stated below:

1. Open web browser and go to https://portal.office.com 2. Sign in to office using school email and password 3. Click on INSTALL OFFICE button as shown in the screenshot bellow

a. 4. Follow onscreen instruction to install the applications.

Barclays LifeSkills is a free curriculum-linked programme developed to help improve the employability of young people. The website BarclaysLifeSkills con-tains interactive resources for use at home. https://barclayslifeskills.com/

You can use BBC Teach for free. The website

is home to thousands of curriculum-mapped

videos, arranged by age group and subject.

https://tinyurl.com/vcwnnkh

Completion of Year 11 and 13 courses

Students must continue to complete work set through the Learning from Home

Portal. This is important because :

Students will need to complete courses to prepare for sixth form or university study.

Any students who are not happy with their calculated grades can elect to sit an

examination after the summer and will not be prepared if they do not complete

courses

Students applying to sixth form at CHCS will be required to show that they have

completed courses as part of their sixth form application

Examination Boards are recommending that vocational students complete units as

far as possible so that evidence is available to support the award of a grade

Y11 TELEPHONE INTERVIEWS FOR SIXTH FORM If your son/daughter expressed an interest in returning to the Sixth Form on the Application Form they completed in tutor, then one of the Sixth Form Pastoral Team indicated below will be telephoning them at home to discuss this. They will have their most recent grades to hand and their Application Form. On the school’s website will be a link to an updated copy of the Sixth form 2020 Booklet -General Entry Requirements and the specific grades required for Subjects and Pathways (previously issued at Sixth Form Infor-mation Evening). It would be useful to look at this again with your son/daughter and discuss their intentions prior to the telephone interview. As you will appreciate, this is going to be a longer process than normal so we anticipate that the phone calls will take about a month to complete so please don’t be surprised if you are not contacted straightaway

TEACHER PHONING Y11 TUTOR

SWT-Mrs West CCS

SWT AAG

SWT External Applicants

ABS-Mr Brookes EPN

ABS MCE

LER-Mrs Ellender PCD

LER JCL

DAN-Mr Addison RWR

DAN DHN

JLN-Mrs Lawson CCN

JLN MSS

JNN-Mrs Nelson L2 TED

To download the Sixth

Form Booklet 2020, with

information about cours-

es and entry require-

ments, go to:

Awarding of GCSEs and A Levels in Summer 2020 Please see the link to the letter to students regarding the allocation of grades this summer: https://tinyurl.com/vcwnnkh Please be assured that we will be doing everything we can to ensure our students are rewarded properly for their studies. We will keep parents and pupils updated with further announcements. Mr. Robson

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