Covid 19 Implications for the current cohort

The last day of teaching before the Christmas holidays was Friday 18th December. The school was then closed until Monday 8th March. Following the government guidelines, the school chose not to proceed with any of the scheduled exams in January. During the closure staff were delivering 50% of the timetabled lessons live online and the rest of the work was uploaded online as set tasks (compared to 5, 50-minute lessons per week, per subject that they would normally have). These tasks continued to follow the specification and primarily focused on note-taking and retrieval tasks to check understanding. Although from the 8th March we had intermittent cases of COVID that resulted in some students self-isolating, on average attendance overall was good. We had a significant outbreak of COVID from June 29th 2021 resulting in disrupted lessons for a number of students and resulted in the decision to teach all lessons live online for a week from 5th July. All students returned to school as normal from the 12th July until the end of term on 23rd July.