Dear Parents / carers of Y7 students at XP.
We have been advised by Public Health England that there has been a confirmed case of COVID-19 within the Y7 Year bubble.
The student tested positive over the weekend, and was not in school on Friday.
We have followed the national guidance and have identified that your child has potentially been in close contact with the affected student as they are a member of the Y7 XP year bubble. In line with the national guidance your child should now stay at home and self-isolate for 14 days.
We are asking you to do this to reduce the further spread of COVID 19 to others in the community.
If your child is well and does not have any Covid-19 related symptoms at the end of the 14 day period of self-isolation they can return to usual activities on Monday 7th December.
Other members of your household can continue normal activities provided your child does not develop symptoms within the 14 day self-isolation period.
We will now move to an online educational provision as shown below – this has proved to be highly effective in supporting students in other year bubble closures as engagement rates have regularly been above 95%:
- All Crew sessions and lessons will take place LIVE via Google Hangout and the timetable is highlighted below.
- Students will receive input from teachers and have time to complete activities on Google Classroom.
- Students are registered in Crew (8.30am), at the beginning of the morning session (9.15am) and afternoon (1.15pm).
- All students are expected to join each session. If a student is absent, Crew Leaders will contact home to ascertain the reason why. If a student is unable to join a session, for example, they are unwell, we ask parents to please contact the office.
- Crew Leaders and Subject teachers will send Google Hangout invitations to their classes.
- Invites for live sessions will be sent through email.
We wish the student and his family the very best for a quick return to good health.
Best wishes everyone.
Jamie Portman (Principal of XP and XP East)