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| | | From the Office | Lunch Booking from 8 March
A hot ‘take-away’ style school lunch will be available from 8 March and needs to be booked on a ‘one week block’ basis via the Report Portal in the same way you would book activities, study or after-school care. The deadline for booking lunches or making changes to your booking is 4pm Thursday of the preceding week.
Instructions can be found on pages 4-5 of this help document, but in summary you need to ‘join group’ for a Monday lunch (main or vegetarian) which will include your child for a full week (i.e. lunch Monday to Friday). The booking then automatically rolls over week-on-week, so your child will be included for lunches for the remainder of the term and you will be charged each week unless you ‘leave group’ (this needs to be done prior to the Thursday 4pm cut-off).
If you had signed your child up for school lunches in January, your booking still stands. So if they no longer require a hot school lunch, you will need to amend your booking. If you cannot remember, you can check by logging into the Report Portal. If you had not signed up but wish to, please do so following the above instructions by 4pm Thursday 4 March.
Parent Workshop “Safe Return to School” - Wednesday 3 March
The RBWM invites you to attend a workshop on Wednesday 3 March between 11am-12noon which is aimed at helping parents and their children with the return to school after lockdown. Please find further information and joining details here.
ALL YEAR GROUPS:
Return to School - Monday 8 March
All year groups are to return to school on Monday 8 March. A few reminders:
- Full school uniform on non-sporting days. Sports kit only on the days boys are playing sport please
- Face masks (no snoods/scarves) to be worn in communal areas and classrooms, as well as on all transport services
- Chromebooks need to be fully charged overnight (and chargers left at home)
- Supervised study will be available after school Monday through to Thursday, but boys will need to be picked up at 5:15pm, as the school coaches will have already departed at 4:30pm.
YEARS 7, 9 & 10:
Lateral Flow Testing - Friday 5 March
All boys in Years 7, 9 and 10 are to have their first Lateral Flow Test (LFT) on Friday 5 March. Appointments will be sent out next week. You must have completed the LFT consent form prior to attending. Those who have not will be sent a final request to complete it next week. Parents are asked to drive into school, but please wait in their car whilst the boys go to the Sports Hall for their test. Boys will need to wear face masks, please. There will be no live lessons for Years 7, 9 and 10 for the day, but all work will be available on Google Classroom, and boys must complete it in the time they have around their LFT appointment time.
YEAR 8 ONLY:
B8 HPV Immunisations and LFT - Wednesday 3 March
HPV appointments have been arranged by the Berkshire School Aged Immunisation Team and sent directly to parents. The boys will also have their Lateral Flow Test (LFT) immediately after their individual HPV appointment. You must have completed the LFT consent form prior to attending. Those who have not will be sent a final request to complete it next week. Parents are asked to drive onto site but wait in their car whilst the boys go to the Sports Hall. Boys will need to wear face masks, please. There will be no live lessons for the day, but all work will be available on Google Classroom, and boys must complete it in the time they have around their LFT appointment time.
YEAR 9 ONLY:
B9 GCSE Options Form - Friday 26 February
The deadline for completing the GCSE Options Form is today, 26 February. If you have not already done so, please do complete it as soon as possible. Please find the GCSE Handbook for further information.
YEAR 11 ONLY:
Ofqual Public Exam Announcement - Thursday 25 February
The update from Mr Wilding following yesterday’s Ofqual announcement on how GCSE grades will be determined in Summer 2021 can be found here.
B11 Mid-Term Assessments - week commencing 1 March
Year 11 Mid-Term assessments are next week, please find the timetable for these. They will be taking place via the boys’ subject classrooms and will require cameras to be on. Please be aware that these are not ‘exams’, but merely an opportunity for the boys to show what they know and understand.
Public Exam Briefing for Parents - Tuesday 2 March 10am
Please join the Senior school heads for a GCSE and A Level Update on Tuesday 2 March 10am -10:45am (http://schl.cc/bF). Many thanks to all those who were able to join us for the Y11-13 Exams Briefing on Monday 22 February. For your information, please find the presentation and live recording from the evening.
Lateral Flow Testing - Friday 5 March
B11 are to have their first Lateral Flow Test on Friday 5 March. Appointments will be sent out next week. You must have completed the LFT consent form prior to attending. Those who have not will be sent a final request to complete it next week. Parents are asked to drive into school but please wait in their car whilst the boys go to the Sports Hall for their test. Boys will need to wear face masks, please. Year 11 mid-term assessments will be completed as normal, with LFT appointment times to accommodate this.
DEPARTMENTAL NOTICES
Linguists of the Week
In German for excellent online participation:
- KS3 - Panashe Chikwanda (9C), Kalin Ilkov (8C), Vito Horvat (7C) and Caspar Bose (7A)
- KS4 - Will Liddiard (11C) and Louis Stewart (10A)
Historians of the Week
This week’s star Historians are Tom Field and Reuben O’Brien (Year 8) for their super work on the New Model Army.
Mathematicians of the Week
Congratulations to all our Mathematicians for this week including James Rapier (Year 8), Alex Belsey and James Binks (Year 9), Oliver Todd (Year 10) and Cesar Meniaud (Year 11).
Scientists of the Week
- Tom Field (Year 8) for excellent work on revising electricity online.
- Reuben O’Brien (Year 8) for showing a high level of knowledge across a range of topics being revised in Science.
- Tristan Lowry and Harry Barraclough (Year 8) for excellent knowledge and skills displayed online in preparation for CT2.
- Eren Bartlett and Harry Walters (Year 9) for their group-work revision slides on the ‘Properties of Ionic and Covalent Compounds’ in Chemistry.
- Oliver Ledgar & Jonah Stevens (Year 10) for excellent application of scientific knowledge and skills in online assessments in Biology.
- Ben Dyer (Year 11) - top scorer in Quizlet assignments.
Book Recommendation of the Week
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