Parents

9 July 2020

Dear Parent/Carer

Virtual Progress Meetings – 14 – 16 July 2020

In June, you heard from our Teaching and Learning team about how staff and students have been engaging in learning during the period of lockdown. Our approach has been one that has provided regular work and contact with teachers with deliberate variety in the work students have received, with a view to promoting greater levels of engagement. We have also sought to develop the quality of virtual learning by training staff to use new technologies and have found that some students have enjoyed taking up opportunities for ‘live’ sessions during this most unusual school term.

For more information please red the letter below:

Y7-10 Virtual Progress Meetings (pdf)

9 July 2020

Dear Parent/Carer

New Intake

I would first of all like to thank you for your patience and understanding during this very different transition period, I’m sure the step up to secondary school has been the topic of conversation in many households, and I hope that recent communication regarding tutor groups, the virtual parent’s evening discussions and the transition webpage have served to answer some of the many questions you may have had……

For more information please red the letter below:

New Intake – Final (pdf)

7^th July 2020

Dear Parents/Carers

As you will have undoubtedly heard, the government advice about the reopening of schools from September was published late last week.  We are working through the advice to make sure that we have all safety measures in place and will update you with how this will operate at Trinity school next week. Our risk assessments will be published on the school website soon. It is clear that we will need to spend some time during the first few days of term explaining safety procedures to students.  We will therefore be staggering the start times of year groups and will confirm the start times and entry routes in the details we send next week.

Please read the full letter below for more information:

Covid 24 (pdf)

Dear Parents/Carers,

Instructions are below for parent/carers who are attending appointments over video call for a virtual event:

Video_ Parents – How to attend appointments over video call – SchoolCloud Parents Evening (pdf)

Dear Parent/Carers,

We hope your child has had the opportunity of being part of our ‘Enrichment Hour’ this week. This will run again next week at the same time: 1:00 to 2:00 every day. Please see the school’s Twitter feed – or the school’s web page – for details of what is on every day. In addition to the variety of learning tasks your child will have had access to this term, we would like to offer another online session to your child. From 2:05 to 2:30 every day we will be running a ‘Read Along’ session; we will be choosing a book from our library’s e-book range and reading it live. Students can follow the session via Microsoft Teams, which is available through their Microsoft 365 access.

Please read the letter and Teams Student Guide below for more information:

Read Along Letter 030720 (pdf)

Teams – Student Guide (pdf)

Dear Parent/Carer,

We look forward to your son/daughter joining us, for what is likely to be the most important phase of their education to date. As promised in our previous correspondence, we have now been able to allocate your child to a form group, the details of which are shown above.

Trinity staff have been working hard over the past few weeks, liaising with all the primary schools who know and understand our new students, and we have had extensive discussions to identify their learning characteristics and habits. This process is hugely important and allows our Year 7 students to make the best possible start to life at Trinity School; to make the progress they are capable of and of course to help them with the transition to secondary school.

Please read the letter below for more information:

New Intake – Virtual Induction Evening (pdf)

25 June 2020

Dear Parents/Carers

Key Stage 3 Enrichment Hour

As teachers at Trinity School we are hugely appreciative of the lengths that you have been going to in supporting your children at home with their learning.

In addition to the varied home learning tasks that students have been completing we would like to offer your child access to the ‘Enrichment Hour’. This would be an hour-long session every school day between 1:00 and 2:00, and it would be held using Microsoft Teams. Each day a different subject will take over the session and it will be led by a subject specialist. The ‘Enrichment Hour’ is intended to enthuse students in a subject area and to enrich their understanding. Sometimes there will also be opportunities for students to complete follow-on tasks, or to share projects and learning with other students via Microsoft Teams.

Please read the letter below for more information:

T and L Team 2 Letter 250620 (pdf)

19 June 2020

Dear Parents/Carers

As Trinity School’s Teaching and Learning Team, we are writing this letter to update you about aspects of teaching and learning across the school during lockdown.  We wanted to share our principles as a school about remote learning and give some thoughts about what we plan to do next, should this situation continue in the Autumn term.

Before sharing our aims, I think it is important to reassure parents/carers and students that we will do our utmost to support any student that has fallen behind, for whatever reason.  We have specific plans in place for Year 11 next year, where we have redesigned the tutor team and the school day so that we can fit more catch-up and extra teaching into the school day.  We will retain this model for as many years as necessary so each year group will benefit from intervention when they reach Year 11.  If we need to provide intervention for Year 13, we will do this too.

Please read the letter below and the KS3 and Year 10 set work information:

T and L Team Final letter 190620 (pdf)

KS3 work per subject area (pdf)

Year 10 subject specific work being set (pdf)

19 June 2020
Dear Parent/Carer

I hope you and you families are keeping safe and well during these difficult and unusual weeks, as lockdown is eased, and schools make the first small steps in returning students back into school.
As outlined in the previous correspondence, we will aim to give you a regular update on how we are planning to make the Transition to Trinity as smooth as possible, with more information coming to you over the coming weeks to keep you informed and confident that we are doing all we can to support your child, despite the unusual set of circumstances we find ourselves in.

Please read the letter below for more information:

New Intake – Y6 Induction SC (pdf)

USE OF FACE COVERINGS ON SCHOOL TRANSPORT SERVICES ADVICE FOR PARENTS, CARERS AND SCHOOLS

The Government announced on 04/06/2020 that face coverings will be required while using public transport services in England from 15/06/2020. Further information is available via the link below:

Face coverings – parents, carers and schools advice 150620 (pdf)