Please click here to read a letter from Mr Williams regarding the “Plan-B” contingency arrangements in the event that exams are cancelled again next summer.
Author: Helena Headon
Consultation on draft Admissions Policy for 2023/24
Lymm High School is now consulting on the draft admissions policy for 2023/24. There is one proposed change to the admissions policy from that which was adopted when the school became an Academy in 2012 and is currently in force. This is a proposed amendment to the third category of the oversubscription criteria, which relates to medical conditions and has been updated to aid clarity. If you would like to send a response or make a comment in relation to the proposed arrangements, you can do so by emailing or writing as follows:
Email: admissions@lymmhigh.org.uk
Write to: Admissions Consultation,
Clerk to the Governors,
Lymm High School, Oughtrington Lane,
Lymm, Cheshire, WA13 0BR.
The consultation period will run from Friday 15th October 2021 – 3rd December 2021
March return to school – testing consent
Please click here to read an important letter from Mr Johnson regarding testing consent in readiness for students’ return to school.
COVID-19 Schools Infection Survey
If your Year 8 or Year 9 child is yet to take part in the COVID-19 Schools Infection Survey, it is not too late. There is still time to register and receive a Home Antibody test kit. Please click here to read a useful leaflet containing information about signing up. Antibody home test kits will be sent to all new participants or participants who missed previous rounds due to unavailability e.g. absent from school. Deadline for new participants to sign up is 23rd January 2021.
Please note, for those children who took part in December’s testing, the next round has been cancelled. Further information on future testing will be shared when known. As part of the study, and to help experts gain a better understanding of the virus, ONS are asking you to fill out a questionnaire online, please click here to complete.
Parent update – 31.12.2020
Please click here to read an update from Mr Williams, following the latest announcements regarding students’ return to school .
Many thanks.
Confirmed Covid case
Dear parents and carers
Please read if your child has come to school this morning – this is for Year 9 students only.
As a result of a confirmed Covid case, we need your child to self-isolate and come home from school as soon as possible. Please can you arrange for them to be collected from school, or let Student Services (StudentServices@lymmhigh.org.uk) know that you give permission for them to walk home?
We will be in touch later regarding return date and work as soon as possible. Siblings do not need to be picked up.
Apologies for the inconvenience.
LHS
Confirmed Covid Case
Dear parents and carers
Please read if your child has come to school this morning – this is for Year 9 students only.
As a result of a confirmed Covid case, we need your child to self-isolate and come home from school as soon as possible. Please can you arrange for them to be collected from school, or let Student Services (StudentServices@lymmhigh.org.uk) know that you give permission for them to walk home?
This is a precautionary measure and it may well be that some students can return to school tomorrow. We will be in touch later today with news on this. Please bear with us while we work today to establish the full facts.
Apologies for the inconvenience.
LHS
LHS Parent Bulletin 18.09.20
Click here to read the latest LHS Parent Bulletin, containing the most important notices for parents from the past two weeks, as well as key upcoming dates.
Update, 23rd March 2020
Dear students, parents and carers
I hope this finds you well and that the first Monday without school hasn’t been too stressful. I am not intending to provide daily updates from now on unless there is particular need, but there are a few points that have arisen today that I think are worth sharing:
- Well done to those of you who have already established a routine for work; the sooner you do this, the easier it will be and the more productive and happy the coming weeks will be. As per my original letter (click here) our strong advice is that you try and follow a schedule as close to your normal school timetable as possible. So, for example, if you would have had English period 1 and Geography period 2, then start the morning with an hour of English followed by an hour of Geography. Of course, you’ll need to be flexible, but this should be a good starting point.
- We are aware that Show My Homework has not always been accessible today. This is because of the huge volume of students across the country who have been trying to access it. We expect this will settle down fairly soon. If there is ever a time you cannot access the site and need work to do, our default advice would be to read a book for pleasure and/or use knowledge organisers for self-quizzing.
- Please do not use the school remote desktop for accessing SMHW or Microsoft Teams. This puts too much pressure on the school systems. You are much better off accessing them via the internet directly.
- Please bear in mind that it is very difficult for teachers to judge how long it will take you to complete tasks – because obviously this will vary from student to student. For those of you feeling a little overwhelmed by the amount of work on SMHW, please just do as much as you can in the time you’d normally have for lessons and do not worry if you can’t get it all done.
- On the other hand, if you are getting through the work too quickly, you may find some ideas on the ‘Exceed and Excel’ section of the school website. As always, reading a good book is also an excellent use of time.
- Unfortunately, it is not possible for students to come and collect exercise books in a way that we can manage without taking unnecessary risks. As per my original letter, please just keep work in a safe place such as a folder or on a USB pen drive.
On a slightly different note, it has been extremely disappointing to hear of students gathering together to socialise in the local area since school closed on Friday. We explained to all students last week why this is a deeply stupid thing to do in the current climate – aside from the risks of contracting Covid-19 yourself, you are being utterly irresponsible by potentially passing it on to others who may be far more vulnerable than you. To those parents concerned, I beg you to be more responsible and not let your children out and about: there really can be no excuse.
For those families of vulnerable children and/or keyworkers:
- Thank you to those of you who managed to find alternatives to sending children into school, in line with government advice. There is no doubt that minimising the number of students in school is the best way to help reduce the numbers of people contracting the Covid virus and therefore ease the burden on the NHS. Equally, we remain open for those of you who really do need us. Please email StudentServices@lymmhigh.org.uk if anything changes as regards likely attendance compared to what you have already told us.
- Students coming into school no longer need to wear uniform.
- The Cat 5 bus from Partington is no longer running. Please contact us if this causes a major problem.
- N.b. at the time of writing, we are waiting for the government’s daily press conference (scheduled for 8.30pm) and will be in touch again if anything changes as regards school opening for key workers.
Finally, I would like to thank parents and carers for all the support you have shown the school during this time. We have been overwhelmed by the number of you who have taken the time to get in touch and I want you to know that the staff really do appreciate it.
Kind regards
Gwyn Williams
Update, 23rd March 2020
Dear students, parents and carers
I hope this finds you well and that the first Monday without school hasn’t been too stressful. I am not intending to provide daily updates from now on unless there is particular need, but there are a few points that have arisen today that I think are worth sharing:
- Well done to those of you who have already established a routine for work; the sooner you do this, the easier it will be and the more productive and happy the coming weeks will be. As per my original letter (click here) our strong advice is that you try and follow a schedule as close to your normal school timetable as possible. So, for example, if you would have had English period 1 and Geography period 2, then start the morning with an hour of English followed by an hour of Geography. Of course, you’ll need to be flexible, but this should be a good starting point.
- We are aware that Show My Homework has not always been accessible today. This is because of the huge volume of students across the country who have been trying to access it. We expect this will settle down fairly soon. If there is ever a time you cannot access the site and need work to do, our default advice would be to read a book for pleasure and/or use knowledge organisers for self-quizzing.
- Please do not use the school remote desktop for accessing SMHW or Microsoft Teams. This puts too much pressure on the school systems. You are much better off accessing them via the internet directly.
- Please bear in mind that it is very difficult for teachers to judge how long it will take you to complete tasks – because obviously this will vary from student to student. For those of you feeling a little overwhelmed by the amount of work on SMHW, please just do as much as you can in the time you’d normally have for lessons and do not worry if you can’t get it all done.
- On the other hand, if you are getting through the work too quickly, you may find some ideas on the ‘Exceed and Excel’ section of the school website. As always, reading a good book is also an excellent use of time.
- Unfortunately, it is not possible for students to come and collect exercise books in a way that we can manage without taking unnecessary risks. As per my original letter, please just keep work in a safe place such as a folder or on a USB pen drive.
On a slightly different note, it has been extremely disappointing to hear of students gathering together to socialise in the local area since school closed on Friday. We explained to all students last week why this is a deeply stupid thing to do in the current climate – aside from the risks of contracting Covid-19 yourself, you are being utterly irresponsible by potentially passing it on to others who may be far more vulnerable than you. To those parents concerned, I beg you to be more responsible and not let your children out and about: there really can be no excuse.
For those families of vulnerable children and/or keyworkers:
- Thank you to those of you who managed to find alternatives to sending children into school, in line with government advice. There is no doubt that minimising the number of students in school is the best way to help reduce the numbers of people contracting the Covid virus and therefore ease the burden on the NHS. Equally, we remain open for those of you who really do need us. Please email StudentServices@lymmhigh.org.uk if anything changes as regards likely attendance compared to what you have already told us.
- Students coming into school no longer need to wear uniform.
- The Cat 5 bus from Partington is no longer running. Please contact us if this causes a major problem.
- N.b. at the time of writing, we are waiting for the government’s daily press conference (scheduled for 8.30pm) and will be in touch again if anything changes as regards school opening for key workers.
Finally, I would like to thank parents and carers for all the support you have shown the school during this time. We have been overwhelmed by the number of you who have taken the time to get in touch and I want you to know that the staff really do appreciate it.
Kind regards
Gwyn Williams