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RVHS Bulletin and Home Learning Booklet Message from the Headteacher Aspiration Respect Endeavour I would like to send a huge thank you to everyone in the Roding Valley Community for all of their support during this difficult time. It is a different ‘normal’ for us all at the moment, but I am confident that our students will display the same excellence and resilience they always do when facing a challenge. I would also like to pass on my very best wishes to anyone in our school community who is self-isolating or feeling unwell and thank everyone for supporting the government’s #Stay at home #Stay safe This week the Easter Edition of our student magazine RVHS Exposed was emailed to all parents and is available on our school website for you to read, please do take the time to enjoy our students fantastic work and thank you to Ms. Patel for supporting them. Please do note that this was written prior to the school closure. I would like to say how proud I am of our students for all of the fantastic work they have been producing at home, the standard of this work has been amazing and we have included many examples within this bulletin. We cannot physically include everybody but wanted to continue to celebrate some of the amazing effort of our students even in these difficult times. As I look longer term, I believe that we want our students to be prepared to return to full time school healthy, both physically and mentally, capable of independent study, having learnt some new skills and having been inspired to learn something that will support their future study and life. I recognise that we cannot deliver the national curriculum in full, to every student, at his or her differentiated level by remote learning in the long term. We are now in the process of putting together a plan of how school can operate in the long term from home, to begin after Easter. I am incredibly grateful for the parental commitment from home. However, I totally recognise that this is not without its issues and I think that we all need to catch our breath as we come into the Easter school holidays. I believe that this is a time for families, teachers and students to regroup and refresh and my teachers will not be setting ‘lessons’ during this period. I would suggest that we all try to take some positives from the situation, enjoy family time, and encourage students to take up a hobby, focus on their physical fitness or enjoy reading a book. I have written a letter regarding the current situation, our expectations and plans, which has been emailed to all parents earlier this week, you can read my letter here. Within this bulletin, you will find guidance and tips on mental wellbeing, useful links to physical activities and how you can access platforms that support ‘new’ learning. Please do refer to our Home Learning booklet for your child’s Google Classroom codes, our Google classrooms are continually being updated by your child’s teachers, if you did not receive a copy of this please do email Miss Larkin at plarkin@rodinvalley.net Finally, I would like to thank all the key workers that are currently working so hard to support our community and keep us all safe. Please do ensure you follow all the key advice. Stay home where possible and stay safe. You can read the latest guidance on online safety from the Government here. I hope you all have a healthy Easter. Mrs. Sharon Jenner - Headteacher
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