This term we will spend some time in school further developing our Relationships and Sex education provision, to enable our students to more fully understand the challenges that they face growing up in today’s society.

Assemblies next week will focus on sexual harassment, with a particular focus on online abuse. Following the assembly, students will be given an opportunity (via Google Classroom) to complete a questionnaire which will give us an insight into the experiences of teenagers in our school. This is an optional survey, but I am keen that we receive as many completed versions as possible, to further inform our curriculum, teaching and supervision arrangements. 

In addition to the work we are doing in school, I encourage you to explore this topic with your child. This link to the Children’s Commissioner website provides helpful information that could form the basis of your discussions.

A copy of the letter issued to all Parents/Carers can be read in full here 

On Tuesday 29 March, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, set
out the next steps for living with COVID-19 in England from Friday 1 April. In
line with this, the DfE has updated the specific advice for schools which we
will follow from Monday 25 April, following the Easter break.

The key principle of the updated guidance is that Covid is to be managed in
the same way as other respiratory illnesses. The UK Health Security Agency
(UKHSA) health protection in education and childcare settings, contains an
alphabetic list of infectious diseases.

To read the letter in full, please click here

We will be holding a non – uniform day on Friday 8 April.

We would encourage all students to contribute £1 which will be forwarded to the Disasters Emergency Committee to provide Humanitarian Aid for the millions of Ukrainians seeking sanctuary in other countries.

Parents are able to pay this amount via School Gateway or alternatively, students can bring £1 into school and give this to their tutor.

The letter issued to all parents/carers can be read in full here.

Thank you to all parents who completed the uniform consultation earlier this year. As expected, there were a range of views expressed. We have noted the opinions of all stakeholders and are proposing the new uniform policy which can be found here. 

We will now hold a further consultation period around this draft policy and would ask for any feedback to be emailed to kevi@the3rivers.net marked Uniform Consultation by 4pm on Monday 25 April.

The letter sent to all Parents/Carers can be read in full here