Dear Parent/ Carer,

As you are aware, the school will be opening for Year 11 and 10 students only on Wednesday 5th January 2022. Year 11’s will have their tests and once the results have been confirmed they will go into lessons. Year 10’s will come to the Sports Hall at the designated times as set out below, wait for the results and then make their way back home. If your child is in Year 10 and tests negative they will return to school on the morning of Thursday 6th January 2022. On this day, the government guidance requires us to test the students upon entry to the building. This process needs to be completed just once at this moment in time. Should you not wish for your child to be tested, please complete the following form https://forms.gle/yYeysKgtt4LJLzWo8 or contact the academy on 01253 353155.

If we do not hear from you, we assume you consent to the testing procedure.

Once the students in each class have been tested they will wait on the tennis courts until all results for that class have been established. If students are negative they will go directly, with their form tutor, to the school building. Any students that test positive will be isolated and sent home with a PCR home testing kit in order to confirm the result. If the PCR test is positive the student will isolate for 10 days in line with Government guidance. At this point there should be no contacts as the student will have been supervised exclusively in an outdoor environment.

Testing will commence at the following times for each form:

11T 8.40am – 9.10am
11O 9.10am - 9.40am
11A 9.40am – 10.10am
11S 10.10am – 10.40am
11P 10.40am – 11.10am
10T 11.20am – 11.50am
10O 11.50am – 12.20pm
10A 12.20pm– 12.50pm
10S 12.50pm – 1.20pm
10P 1.50pm– 2.20pm
10I 2.20pm – 2.50pm
10R 2.50pm – 3.20pm

 

Please ensure that your child arrives at the Sports Hall just before the allocated time for their form.

The entrance to the Sports Hall is on Garstang Road West. The postcode is FY3 7JH.

Students not expected to be in school during the testing will need to access remote learning on Google Classroom with teachers running remote lessons.

We hope you have a restful Christmas and we are really looking forward to coming back in January.

 

Yours sincerely,

Mr J Woods
Headteacher