3. Online Learning Guidance for Parents

Guidance for Parents

Please do take the time to watch Karl Hopwood’s online parent seminar which he filmed for Luckley. This talk can be found here Welcome and Karl Hopwood after the welcome address. Karl is an independent e-safety expert. He is a member of UKCCIS (UK Council for Child Internet Safety) and sits on the advisory board for the UK Safer Internet Centre and the education advisory board for CEOP. Karl has worked for a number of key players in the UK and abroad including CEOP (Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre), BECTA (British Educational and Communications Technology). Karl has also addressed the staff recently. He was due to visit Luckley to speak to pupils this January, but due to lockdown we will be rescheduling this talk for as soon as we are able.

Luckley Lectures

In order to support parents during lockdown, we are pleased to present live on Zoom, an evening lecture by psychologist Dr Aric Sigman. Dr Sigman will chat to parents about ‘parenting a demanding generation’ and ‘living in a Covid world’ amongst other topics and will also host a Q&A session.

Dr Aric Sigman is a PSHE health education lecturer primarily to children, parents and staff at schools, as well as to medical schools and NHS doctors, and to companies and conferences. He is a member of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on a Fit and Healthy Childhood and publishes peer-reviewed medical papers on health and development subjects. Dr Sigman is the author of five books on PSHE-related topics including Getting Physical which won The Times Educational Supplement’s Information Book Award.

More information is available here. To express interest, please complete this Form:

Academic Support

Luckley House have subscribed to ClickView, this gives a fantastic array of free GCSE study guides. Click on this link to access the guide of your choice. Luckley ClickView

Elevate has worked with Luckley for many years now, having delivered study and revision sessions to our pupils last term. Elevate will be running sessions throughout lockdown and these updates will be posted here and via email.

Study Skills Visit the Luckley House website for tips and techniques to help information ‘stick’ more successfully in your long-term memory. There are also useful Revision Tips and videos available on our website here.

Online Learning Guidelines

The following guidelines will help to provide a positive environment for online learning. We would ask parents to please support these guidelines where possible, but do recognise that every home situation is different, so please do adapt these as fit for your home. Should you need to deviate from any particular protocol significantly or are concerned about doing so, please let us know.

1. Please report absence to the office in the usual way. We are required now to report daily absence to the DfE. 2. Your son/daughter should select a suitable, neutral location for their lesson. Try to avoid using their bedroom for lessons if at all possible. 3. Please select an area with as few distractions as possible. 4. It is preferable to use a space with a suitable desk and chair for comfort and safety. 5. Encourage your son/daughter to keep a regular schedule around their timetable. Consistent times for waking up and going to sleep would be advantageous. 6. Please encourage your son/daughter to engage with extended day and other activities. Make use of the creative and sporting challenges and spend some time away from the screen each day. Staying fit and active, as well as being creative and wider reading beyond curriculum activities are good for balance and wellbeing. 7. Lessons will run according to the usual timetable, with the same start time but slightly shorter lesson durations. Single lessons will run for approximately 50 minutes. This will give pupils a tenminute break between lessons. They should use this time to prepare for the next lesson and to stand up, stretch and have a few moments away from the screen. 8. Mobile phones are not needed during online lessons and the same rules apply. Phones can be a distraction and we recommend that mobiles are turned off and put away during lesson time. We do know that some pupils may need their phone and ask that parents use their discretion monitoring this at home. 9. Please do let your son/daughter chat to their friends online when they are not in lessons. It may add to screen time but it does provide an opportunity for friends to remain in touch in these challenging times. 10. Please encourage your sons/daughters to be wise with their online profiles. Their digital footprint is important. Appropriate policies relating to online learning/e-safety/behaviour are all relevant and remain valid during online lessons. Copies of our policies can be found here: School Policies.

Technical Guidance

It would be helpful if you could please ensure the following:

1. The software on your son/daughter’s device is kept up to date including antivirus and systems software. 2. Your home filtering software is up to date and in place. 3. Your child’s device is plugged in and charged. 4. If digital pens are used, please do keep a supply of batteries to hand. 5. Pupils should please use headphones for a better sound experience and especially if working in a communal area. 6. Remind your son/daughter to mute the microphone unless they are contributing to the lessons or collaborating with peers to limit audio feedback. 7. If you struggle with bandwidth, encourage your son/daughter to turn the video feature off unless actively speaking in the lesson or asked to be visible by his/her teacher. Mr Wilkinson is available for technical help and support. He can provide remote guidance and assistance via email on Dan.Wilkinson@luckleyhouseschool.org . Mr Wilkinson has also established a ‘drive-through’ service. If needed, you will be invited to visit site where he will be able to connect to the Surface remotely while you remain in the comfort of your car. For complex IT problems that cannot be fixed in this way, Mr Wilkinson will take the Surface from your car and return it to you in a Covid-safe manner – fully sanitised. Microsoft has published specific guidance for online learning with 365. Distance learning with Office 365. You can also access short 30 to 45 second tips on understanding Teams in a series ‘how to’ videos called Teams for Parents. These are not Luckley specific, but you may find them helpful never-the-less. If you are an iPhone user, Apple has a number of Family Sharing tools that should allow you to get weekly reports on screen time, set downtime for app use and apply safety restrictions. Apple guidance for this can be found here Family Sharing. You may also find it useful to access Vodafone’s Digital Parenting Guidance. This website contains useful hints and tips as well as Parental controls and filtering advice for a variety of devices. Further resources can be found at the Safer Internet Centre Safer Internet Centre or via the NSPCC.

There are many things that Mr Wilkinson may be able to help you with, but if you need further assistance with your home internet settings, your Internet Service Provider should have specific guidance your device regarding safety and optimum performance.

Tutors and Head of Year 4. Pastoral Care

Pastoral care remains central to all we do at Luckley and there are a variety of points of contact for both parents and pupils. Form tutors will continue to be the first point of contact for queries. Tutees will register remotely every morning via their Form Team. At least once a week, they will have a chance to meet with their tutor face to face online, in a small group to discuss how things are going. Form time will give pupils an opportunity to discuss any challenges they have faced, ask questions and share their successes. Tutors will also encourage pupils to participate in the wide variety of activities on offer. There are a number of special Luckley Online awards available and we hope pupils will earn many achievement points for their engagement and attainment in online lessons. Staff will also have an opportunity to nominate students who deserve a special prize for engagement with Luckley Online to the Head. The prize will be given out weekly in assembly. Mrs Gilding-Brant will be posting a weekly video update for pupils each week: Part 1 Standards of personal conduct Part 2 Cameras in online lessons Part 3 Kindness Part 4 Support & care in school.

Heads of Year (HOY) will continue to meet regularly to discuss a pupil wellbeing and they will be available to both pupils and parents should there be any questions or queries. HOY will also contact home regrading absences and will retain an overview of academic progress. In addition to whole school Monday morning assemblies, HOY will run special assemblies and quizzes for their year groups. Details of these will be communicated directly by the HOY. Links to Monday assemblies will be sent directly to pupils via email and also posted on their Form Team.

Meet the Heads of Year:

Head of Sixth Form Mr Richard Battrick

Richard.Battrick@luckleyhouseschool.org

Head of Year 11 Mr Matt Humphrey

Matthew.Humphrey@luckleyhouseschool.org

Head of Year 10 Miss Jennifer Cumming

Jennifer.Cumming@luckleyhouseschool.org

Head of Year 9 Miss Rachel Vallance

Rachel.Vallance@luckleyhouseschool.org Head of Year 7 & 8 Mrs Esther Brown

Esther.Brown@luckleyhouseschool.org

5. Activities and the Extended Day

The Health Centre

The Health Centre will be open every afternoon. Our highly qualified nursing team will be available to discuss any queries or concerns, be these Covid related or not. If you have any medical concerns please contact the school office or the nurses via Louise.Doel@luckleyhouseschool.org. Lateral Flow Testing continues on Mondays and Thursdays for staff and pupils on site e.g. children of key workers. Despite lockdown, we are still able to host vaccination updates for selected girls in Year 10, the Health Centre will contact pupils and parents directly. The Health Centre will also create a series of health-related videos including topics such as:

• Good night’s sleep – here • Diet – here • Exercise – here • Creating routine – here The counselling service with Emma Sharp remains available, so please contact Mrs Gilding-Brant with any queries Claire.Gilding-Brant@luckleyhouseschool.org Mrs Gilding-Brant will continue to have an overview of the pastoral needs of all pupils at Luckley and is in regular contact with all HOY, the Health Centre and School Counsellor.

Extended day

We have a full programme of activities running for Week A and/or Week B. Extended Day Brochure Extended day will run from 16.20 – 17.00. There may be a few activities that go past this allocated time and this information will be detailed in the brochure.

If you wish to join an activity, please email that member of staff and they shall add you to their extended day team.

You can attend as many clubs as you like; this is a great time to try things that you have not done before; you never know, you might really enjoy it. We encourage as many of you as possible to join in and engage within such a diversity of clubs and clinics. Links to these will be accessible through the brochure. Some clubs include:

• Year 7 & 8 challenge • Walk in the woods • Various academic clinics • Fun fashion folding

• Paint by numbers • Bible and

Cake

• Music • Drama • Art • Sport… and much more.

In addition to the extended day there are a number of activities, including visiting speakers. Updates will be sent via email and via this brochure.

Wellbeing day

The videos from our Wellbeing Day in January are available on our YouTube channel here, so please do make use of these and master the Bhangercise dances and skipping tricks!

Practical Projects for Homework from the Wellbeing Day can be found here.

Parents’ Prayer Group and Thursday Morning Reflection

The date for the Parents’ Prayer Group is 5 March. The group meets via Zoom, from 09.00- 09.15 for a catch up, prayer from 09.15-09.45. Anyone interested can email Mrs Salome Laschinger salome_laschinger@me.com to join the group. A copy of the Prayer Diary can be accessed here: Prayer-Diary-Spring-2021 On Thursday mornings we run Staff Reflection and during lockdown we would like to invite parents to join us for this. Mr Norman Patterson (Licenced Lay Minister in the Church of England) runs the group and will send an appropriate Zoom link to any interested parents. The reflection is liturgical and you may choose to participate while muted, you will not be asked to contribute unless you wish to. Please complete this form should you wish to join us: Expression of Interest - Prayer and Reflection

Bible and Cake

Bible and Cake is open to all pupils on Wednesday lunctimes. Please join us as we explore the word of God and how we can implement it in our lives, over lots of delicious cake! Email Miss Vallance for more info on how to join.

Reading

The Library Team continues to host our Termly Book Review competition. Pupils are encouraged to record a review of the book they have most recently read to win points for their Houses and a weekly prize for the best review from the Head. The Luckley Library Team also hosts recommended reading lists. You may also wish to listen to audiobooks and review these. The English Department encourages you to consider these competitions Writing Competitions and the ISA Essay Competition.

In addition, Oak National Academy has teamed up with the National Literacy Trust to offer a free Virtual School Library. Each week a different author will provide free online books, an exclusive video as well as their top three recommended reads. This week is Jacqueline Wilson introducing Tracey Beaker.

Wokingham Library

As well as a click and collect service, Wokingham Library also offers you a chance to borrow a range of e-books, e-audio, newspapers and magazines completely free of charge if you are a library member. See their website for details.

Literary Tours

Miss Bahbra has put together a list of ideas for relevant virtual tours and museums.

Monthly Making Challenge

Head of Food and Nutrition, Mrs Gibson is running a fantastic monthly challenge. A short presentation of all the entries and winners from the January Pizza Challenge is available here. The February challenge is Making Valentines Biscuits. Watch the video on how to make the biscuits here. The recipe can be found here. Sixth Form student Isobel B has shared her wonderful Lemon and Poppy Seed Cereal Bar recipe with us. Follow Isobel’s tips to create your own cereal bar ‘How to Video’. The recipe can be found here.

The Positive News Challenge

Run by our Senior Prefect Team, we invite all pupils to film a positive news round up. The Senior Prefects will tell you more about this challenge in assembly.

Luckley House Friends

The Luckley House Friends hosted a wonderful Bingo evening and will continue to play an active role in School life during lockdown. The next event is the Family Cook-Along on Saturday 20 March. Luckley House Friends is asking parents to send in their ‘Luckley Lockdown’ family recipes beforehand and hope to compile a LHF recipe book. The winning recipe will be chosen to be cooked at the cook-along. Email to Luckleyhousefriends@luckleyhouseschool.org

Lockdown Lesson Awards

Have one of your teachers just delivered the most amazing lockdown lesson that goes above and beyond all expectations? If so, nominate them for a prize them here. Teacher Nomination

6. Music

Our rich musical experiences continue with Luckley Online. Senior Choir- An opportunity for our senior students to enjoy singing together and music from various genres, including well known classics and more popular arrangements. Songs will be arranged for 3 to 4 parts so all can enjoy the challenge of singing in harmony. Junior Show Choir- Students will be able to enjoy singing and performing songs from their favourite West End musicals.

Swing Band- Come and play fun and catchy jazz arrangements for our young woodwind and brass players along with a rhythm section. Orchestra- (By invitation)-Luckley Musicians are invited to join our large orchestral ensemble and play lots of different types of music, including famous classics to film and show music. Music Tech- A new club for our budding young song writers and music technicians to learn composing skills and how to use the industries music software. (Paid activity) Rock School- Currently for Year 10 & 11. Rock School is run by James Mitchell our Guitar teacher and has already built up a great reputation for its rock performances. If you play guitar, bass guitar, keyboard, drums or sing, sign up and come and join the band. Junior Rock School is being run by Mr Phillip Lupton as part of extended day. Watch their latest amazing performance here Tour Choir - As the choir prepare hopefully to go on tour to Salzburg in July, we will hold sectional rehearsals during this time of remote learning. Music Theory lessons – These lessons continue through this half term, do contact Mrs Ellwood for details.

Luckley Young Musician of the Year Competition: The closing date for the first round of Luckley Young Musician of the Year Competition was Sunday 21 February. Those students who are successful will go through to the semi-final will perform in a streamed performance on Tuesday 23 March Musical Theatre Competition: From Legally Blonde to Les Misérables, the world of Musical Theatre has something for everyone and is the perfect way to show off both musical and dramatic skills combined. This competition is run by the ISA and open to all Luckley pupils. Click here for details.

Spotlight on Music

On Thursday 25 February at 1pm, there will be a Q&A with Christopher Hann, a choral director and professional singer, currently the Director of Berkshire Youth Choir, works with the National Youth Choir and many other ensembles. Find out more.

7. Drama

The Drama Department continues to provide a wonderful practical drama experience for pupils. In addition to the continuation of live Speech and Drama lessons, there is a full extended day programme, highlights of which include the Junior Drama Club and their long-awaited production of ‘How to Spot an Alien’.

Look out for:

• Scripted performances from Years 11 and 13 • Devised pieces from Years 10 and 12 • Online performances of Year 8 monologues based on the methods of Stanislavski • Year 9 work using the technique of Verbatim Theatre

Spotlight on Drama

We are excited to announce this Virtual Q&A with Theatre Production Designer Andrew Edwards next Wednesday 24 February at 1pm. Zoom details are available from the Drama Department.

Find out about Andrew’s amazing list of credits here.

Coming Up in March

Musical Theatre performer, Beccy Lane will join us for March's Spotlight on Drama. Beccy trained at Performance Preparation Academy (PPA) receiving a Level 6 Diploma in Musical Theatre. She has just finished touring The Jungle Book, and has performed in Bare: A Pop Opera, Flashdance, Starlight Express and Sweet Charity, as well as being a Lead Vocalist for Norwegian Cruise Line. She will be delivering a live Musical Theatre workshop for students to join in with. Details to follow…

Trinity Showcase

Watch this space for details of our Trinity Showcase which will be streamed in March. The show will feature a collection of monologues from the Trinity exams for a video performance.

8. Art

Art continues to thrive with extended day, and the following activities are on offer: Art club for Year 9 - Run by Mrs Gibbs, this club will be looking at different ways to improve your artistic skills and develop new ways of working with materials. GCSE and A level Art, Graphics and Photography Club – Students can benefit from extra help and also develop new ways of working within their chosen subject area. Art and Photography Competition – this bi-weekly competition is open to all pupils in all artistic disciplines. We also have an exciting KS3 workshop coming up for our artists – more details to follow.

Photography Competition

Recreate a famous painting as a photograph.

Closing date 5 March

Find out more here

ISA Film & Digital Art Competition

The ISA Film & Digital Art Competition is held every year and with students currently on lockdown this is an excellent opportunity to show what you can create! A fantastic opportunity to use both creative and technical skills combined to produce art works in the digital genre. Our three categories, Computer Animation, Short Film and Digital Art offer a range of ways for pupils to explore and showcase their work.

More details here.

Art Materials and Equipment

To help support students further, materials and equipment can be collected from the school if required each week. Please email Richard.Battrick@luckleyhouseschool.org should you need anything.

9. Sport

Video Update from Mr Humphrey. (12 Feb)

Spotlight on Sport

On Fridays at 13.00 the department hosts a live talk and Q&A with a range of professional players, coaches and those working in professional sport. These will be sent out to all via email and also posted on the Luckley Online Sport Teams. Follow our social media platforms over the next couple of weeks for some exciting announcements. Twitter (@LuckleySport) and Instagram (@luckleyhousesport)

Luckley Sport Loan

As a department and school, we are loaning some of our sports equipment to pupils that may not have it at home – the list of these items can be found below. The role of this scheme is to ensure that no sporting opportunities are limited to our pupils, especially some of our extended day sessions. • Basketballs • Tennis Balls • Skipping ropes • Footballs • Rugby Balls • SAQ Ladders • Netballs • Cones • Kettlebell/Medicine Balls • Hockey Balls and Sticks If you need to loan any sporting equipment, please email Mr Humphrey on Matthew.Humphrey@luckleyhouseschool.org to organise a day and pick-up time.

ISA Limitless Skills Series

Information regarding this ISA series has been sent out to parents and includes links of how to join the app, this is a great opportunity to release your inner competitive side as you can compete in challenges against the rest of the ISA schools in the UK

Timetabled Fitness Sessions

During lessons, pupils will have access to a wide range of classes, ranging from high/low intensity HIIT, strength, Pilates, Zumba, functional core training, power and sport-specific. There will also be lessons where pupils will have autonomy over what they do, with access to sport-specific challenge cards and other resources. This timetable will be given to pupils via their MS Team. Year 7 and 8 also have live ‘Healthy Me’ sessions and Year 9 will have ‘Introduction to GCSE PE’ sessions.

Weekly Remote Challenges

Watch this space for a series for all the family to get involved with. Each week, we will upload a video to our Twitter (@LuckleySport) and Instagram (@luckleyhousesport), as well as each year group Microsoft Team. Pupils, parents and staff can all get involved and can gain points for their Houses, which will go towards the sports day totals (entries via email or MS Forms). There will be prizes for any standout achievements or commitment!

Luckley House School Strava & Park Run

As part of our continued push to keep everyone active we have created a Luckley House School Strava Club! All you need to do is search for the school via Strava clubs and click join. Our department aim will be to cover as many kms as possible over the most recent lockdown! Mr Standing will also be organising whole-school park runs – click here to join Luckley House School Run. Links for pupils are posted on the Team page.

Luckley Sport Strava Challenge - As a department we are also challenging the school to see if we can complete 1000km over the month of February – to monitor this we are going to use Strava and you will need to follow Luckley House Sport, where you will then be invited to our private club. The km’s can be running, walking or cycling!

Athlete Development Programme (ADP)

Our ADP will continue to run for those selected – these details will be emailed out and communicated to all pupils. For the juniors, they will have group physical literacy sessions and access to a bank of exercise videos, based around their ‘At home exercise plan’ and our seniors will have 1-2-1 and group sessions, run both in lessons and as a lunch time/extended day, which will be bespoke to them and their sport. Seniors will also have access to the bank of exercise videos with their own programme to be logged on their OneNote. We will also have live sessions on diet and managing workload this half term via Teams.

Skills to Master in Lockdown