Learning from Home

Please click here to read our Thought for the Week

While the school is in closedown, students are expected to access work and activities via Show My Homework for the foreseeable future.

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Click the logo to go to Show My Homework

Work will be set according to each student's timetable. It is important that students check off their tasks upon completion, so their 'to-do' list does not become too congested or confusing.

The tasks set will not require students to print any worksheets, but teachers may request that work be submitted via Show My Homework or by directly emailing their teacher.

This short video shows how you how to submit work to your teacher using Show My Homework:

Teachers may provide feedback using Show My Homework or directly to the students' school email address. If students need to contact their teacher, this can be done via the 'add a comment' feature on Show My Homework. Teaching staff will not respond to emails sent from personal email addresses.

Office 365

As part of the school's new subscription to Microsoft Office 365, students are now able to install Office apps on up to five home devices for free. The video below shows how to install apps on both Windows and Mac devices. You can access the installer by clicking here

To access files saved on your user area at school, you should utilise Home Access Plus - please click here

This video will show you how to use Home Access Plus+:

Key Stage 4 Students can access the school revision portal by clicking here

If you cannot login to your account, please contact the Technical Services team via email - please click here

Mr Beeson's Fitness Challenge

While the school is closed, it's important to keep active and to help with this, Mr Beeson will be setting an easy fitness challenge that can be completed at home each week. He'll release a video on Monday demonstrating the challenge, and setting a score for students and their families to try and beat during the week.

You can keep up with all his challenges on our YouTube channel and watch this week's video below

eSafety whilst Learning from Home

Whilst students are learning from home, they are likely to be exposed to the internet more than they would be during the school day. We appreciate that this may be of concern to parents and carers and would like to share the following resources from the Department for Education which will be of benefit in helping parents/carers keep their children safe online:

  • Internet matters - for support for parents and carers to keep their children safe online
  • London Grid for Learning - for support for parents and carers to keep their children safe online
  • Net-aware - for support for parents and careers from the NSPCC
  • Parent info - for support for parents and carers to keep their children safe online
  • Thinkuknow - for advice from the National Crime Agency to stay safe online
  • UK Safer Internet Centre - advice for parents and carers

Our full school guidance on eSafety can be found by clicking here.

Parent Update from Mr Boyes 20 May 2020
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Easter Holiday Changes to Student Accounts
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