Which north tyneside schools are closed

We'll keep this page updated with all the latest school closure information in the North East, public transport changes and travel news. Capital has the latest travel information every 20 minutes during Capital Breakfast, from 6am til 10am, throughout the day, and from 4pm on Capital Drivetime. When the bad weather hits, public transport often suffers with delays, cancellations and amendments to timetables.

Whether you're travelling on the bus, trains or in the air, the latest information can be found below. North Tyneside Council Statement. The council expects all schools and other education settings to be open for the full academic year, with all staff and pupils in attendance. The Department for Education DfE recognises the delivery of education to pupils as an essential service. It is vital that schools do everything they possibly can to stay open so that valuable lessons are not missed, exams disrupted or life made very difficult for working parents.

Schools have a duty of care towards pupils and staff in their care, however, where your judgement is that the pupils or staff would face significant risk of serious injury in school or travelling to school then school closure may be appropriate. Last night the government published details of how some school settings could possibly reopen on June 1st if conditions allow.

This follows the statement made by the Prime Minister on Sunday evening where he stated that there would be some face to face contact for secondary students who are sitting examinations next year Year We are seeking further clarification about what this may look like, but it is a scenario we have planned for.

I will update you fully on the latest developments once we have further details from the Department for Education and additional advice from the Local Authority. As stated in my letter last week, our priority will be the safety of all our community.

Schools will remain closed to most until scientific advice indicates it is right to reopen and the five tests set out to beat this virus have been met.

It is important for us to recognise that information in the media is speculation, but it is also important for you all to know that we are planning for all eventualities, whether that is a phased reopening at some point before the summer or that schools remain closed until September.

Our priority in this planning is how we can keep our community as safe as possible. A full update for this week will arrive in a letter that is being posted out today for parents of Years students. A separate letter will be sent to parents of Year 11 students next week. I hope that you all manage to enjoy the sunshine and the Bank Holiday safely with your family. I hope that everyone has stayed safe and well this week.

It is strange to think that we are now in week 6 of the lockdown and just how much our lives have changed during that time. We continue to try and maintain the connection between school and home through the updates, communication with students on Show My Homework and Google Classroom and phone calls home — Heads of Year alone have made over phone calls during this time.

Please do get in touch with us if you need advice or support whether that is about your child or some help you may need as a family and we will do what we can to help. We do understand that home circumstances can make it difficult for children to access the work we are setting so we are sending a substantial amount of work out every fortnight where access to online technology may be difficult.

It is worth remembering that students can access Show My Homework on their x-Box or PlayStation as well as on phones, tablets and laptops. Some students may struggle to access some of the work that is set so please encourage them to contact their teachers if they have any questions as they are available for support throughout the week.

Our SENDCO, Mr Purvis, and his team have been in touch with many families that they work with to provide additional guidance, but for further information have a look at these two links — the first is some advice from the Department for Education and the second is from the Local Authority Dyslexia Team.

As we continue to live through these difficult times the challenges of mental health for some young people becomes more acute. Information on Kooth was provided at the point of school closure, but do please get in touch if you would like further details.

You will have heard that the Government are now working on plans to look at how schools can re-open. I do not think it is right to speculate openly about possible dates and stages of opening, but as I have previously said, rest assured that our priority is the safety of our students and their families alongside the safety of our staff and their families.

We have already planned for what provision may look like and how we will keep everyone safe in school, but will obviously await Government guidance and decisions on reopening before we finalise details that we will then share with you. You may have seen on social media that this week we have been able to work with Longbenton High School in making parts for PPE equipment.

On Wednesday Longbenton delivered visors to Northumbria Healthcare as part of their ongoing efforts to support our frontline. We will continue to work with them to make the headbands that attach to the visors to help keep the production line going. Finally as a reminder, the school office remains open every day between 8. Another week has passed in these strange times. As I said in my letter before Easter, it is important that students access this work so that learning continues for the duration of school closure and we will continue to support as best as we possibly can.

We have delivered well over 50 packs of work this week where students are struggling to access materials online. Please do get in touch if your child needs any resources delivered to them.

If you are looking for additional learning opportunities then the online lesson from the Oak national Academy and the daily updated lesson on BBC Bitesize are of a very good quality and will complement the work that we are setting. If the school had been open year 10 would have been sitting their exams in the next few weeks. These exams have obviously been cancelled and we have no intention of students sitting exams if the school reopens before the summer holidays.

We continue to look for activities that will help Year 11 students make the transition to the next stage of their education. The following resource is useful for students who are considering moving onto A Level study next year. Online safety remains a primary concern now that students up and down the country are engaging in huge amounts of online activity. I would urge you and your child to look at the following link that focuses on online safety at home. The school office remains open between 8.

Please do get in touch if you have any queries or need any support or advice. I hope that you all have a relaxing weekend and are able to enjoy the sunshine. We are aware of a delay in a number of you receiving the FSM vouchers for this week. There appears to be around a 3 working day lag between ordering and delivery via email from Edenred who are the company running the voucher scheme.

We are only able to check the status of orders either late evening or early morning as at other times it is difficult to logon due to the exceptionally high volumes of traffic. The latest updates are:. I appreciate that this must be frustrating for you, but we are doing all that we can to ensure the delivery of vouchers. Edenred are sending millions of vouchers out so I am sure that you understand that the system is struggling to cope.

Please do get in touch with the school office if you require any further advice or support. I hope that you all managed to find time to relax and enjoy the wonderful weather that we have had over the Easter break. I know that this will have been a difficult time for many, but in times of crisis the wonderful stories of communities supporting one another never ceases to amaze.

There were reports in some Sunday papers yesterday that schools were due to re-open imminently, this is not the case and we remain closed until further notice other than provision for vulnerable students or children of critical workers.

The principle remains that where possible children should be kept at home. The claims made in the papers were swiftly denied by the Department for Education, although rest assured that we are already planning for re-opening as and when we are told to do so. We are now back into term time and have published new work for students to access on Show My Homework. The work has been carefully designed so that students can complete the work independently, but their class teachers are available by email, Google Classroom or through the Show My Homework platform if support or explanation is needed.

Please encourage your child to respond to messages from teachers so that we can keep the connection going between school and home. Some advice and support for home learning:. You may have heard in the Government briefing yesterday that there are online resources available from the DfE and that there is new guidance for parents on home learning.

This is currently aimed at Primary level students, but we are expecting further guidance for parents of secondary students this week. The one main exception to this is a series of video lessons that have been developed by teachers across the country called Oak National Academy. Early indications are that they are of a good quality so we would recommend students accessing these in addition to the work that we have set.

We are also looking into the announcement yesterday around the supply of technology equipment and 4G routers for some families. We will be in touch with any families who may be able to take advantage of the scheme as soon as we have more information around eligibility. Free School Meal vouchers are now up and running.

I have checked the Edenred website this morning and can see that vouchers are now live for many students meaning the code has been activated. Please do check your Spam folders if your child is eligible for Free School meals and you have not yet received an email. We are still experiencing problems with the voucher system for the small number of families without access to email, but will hopefully resolve this today.

Year 11 results day has now been confirmed on 20 th August This will be a strange day for students and staff, but we will endeavour to do what we can to ensure students are able to progress in the pathway that they had planned prior to closure. At this difficult time when your children are being asked to access learning at home, we realise that most of this learning is done online, and that some families may not have access to the technology.

Smartphones are great for many simple tasks, but they can make other tasks difficult or impossible in some cases. North Tyneside Council is looking at different ways to try to support families to ensure that every child can access online home learning easily. If you believe your family would benefit from additional support in this area please click the link and complete this short form.

All information gathered is solely for the purpose of getting support to these families and will not be shared beyond North Tyneside Council. Year 11 Update I wanted to get this out to you asap so once we have processed all the information we will update you further. Please note that Free School Meal deliveries will continue to take place throughout the Easter holidays — Contact us today if you do not require a delivery throughout this period as we will be unable to update deliveries during the holidays.

We are still waiting for contact from the voucher provider that we will be using after Easter so we will get that information out to eligible families as soon as we can. A full end of term update can be found here. We will be sending a copy of this letter in the post to you along with a couple of flyers from the Local Authority and Northumbria Police about staying safe. The school office will be open between 9am and 3pm every day, but if you do not manage to get through by phone then please email jschs.

Yesterday the government announced a voucher system for students eligible for Free School Meals. We are currently waiting for an email from the voucher provider that will provide us with full details of how to implement the system following which we will contact parents of eligible children. We intend to end the current delivery service on Friday and I would like to thank Radar Taxis once again for their generosity in delivering the meals for us. The voucher system will commence after the Easter holidays.

The Local Authority have asked us to identify families where both parents are frontline NHS workers or if you are a single parent in one of these critical roles. If this is the case, please can you click this link and answer some quick questions so that we can share this information with the Local Authority. We do continue to have a small number of students in school on a daily basis, but thank you once again for following the government guidelines that where possible children should be kept at home.

We will be open throughout the Easter holidays for the children of critical workers, although I know that virtually everyone has been able to make alternative arrangements. We will be closing registers for this provision on Friday so that we can finalise staffing for the next two weeks.

I will post a further update on Friday, but in the meantime if you have any questions please contact the school office between 8. I hope that your child is managing to login to ShowMyHomework and accessing the work available for them, there should be more than enough to keep them going until the Easter holidays.

If you do need paper versions of the work then please contact the school office between 8. Teachers are currently putting together work for all year groups for after the Easter holidays and we will publish further details in a later update. Mrs Entwistle, from the Art department will be issuing daily Art challenges on Instagram from today so please follow jschs.

It would be great to see our students getting creative and producing some amazing work over the coming weeks! We continue to deliver meals via Radar Taxis until the end of this week. Next update will be on Wednesday, but please do contact the school if you need any information. We have received some further queries from parents regarding how qualifications are to be awarded for our Year 11 students. We are expecting full details of this process from OFQUAL by the end of next week at which point we will have a much better idea of how it will work.

The guidance at the moment is based upon two key areas:. The teacher predictions will be based upon a range of evidence including classwork, homework, performance in assessments and coursework where appropriate. There will obviously be variability in terms of rates pf progress across 5 years so our teacher predictions will reflect this, but when analysed as a full cohort rather than at an individual student level, we would expect that that prior attainment to be a reliable indicator meaning that the system is as fair as it can be in these exceptional circumstances.

Once we provide this information to OFQUAL they will then analyse it at a school and national level before reaching a decision on what grades each individual student will be awarded. I would also like to reinforce the point that I made to Year 11 before they left that it is highly likely that they will be studying the courses or engaged in the training that they had planned to prior to the cancellation of exams.

It is also worth noting that current Year 11 students will be able to opt into examinations in the Autumn Term if they wish to do so, of which more details will follow next week.

Bearing this in mind, we encourage all Year 11 students to access the work set on ShowMyHomework so that they are able to access these exams in the future. Work for Year 11 will be updated after the Easter holidays with a combination of revision tasks and activities helped to prepare them for September. To stand outside our front door and hear the community come together in appreciation of the work being done by NHS workers was inspiring.

As a community we are standing together and following the rules of the lockdown to slow the spread of infection and protect the most vulnerable. As a school, we will continue to do what we can to support our families during this time. One of the best things that you can encourage your child to do over the coming weeks is read. Reading not only develops vocabulary, knowledge and communication skills, but it also offers an escape into another world which, 4 days into home schooling, may be a welcome proposition for parents as well!

North Tyneside Libraries are obviously closed, but they buy into a service called BorrowBox meaning that all NT Library members can download up to 8 e-books or audio books. Follow these simple steps:. I believe that every member of the household can register as long as each individual has a personal email address. Very little to update today as we all adapt to the new rules in place around the lockdown.

We are investigating ways to connect with our students throughout the school closure. Form tutors will be doing this through ShowMyHomework, but we are looking at other platforms where this would be much easier. We dealt with a number of queries regarding ShowMyHomework yesterday and have hopefully resolved most of the problems. Follow the link here for a reminder of the instructions to access ShowMyHomework.

We will be publishing some details regarding activities for Year 11 as well as an update on qualifications in the next day or so. Finally, it was great to see the work of Radar Taxis recognised in The Chronicle yesterday.

We will all be coming to terms with the lockdown announced by the Prime Minister last night and do not doubt that we will all do our best to follow these instructions. This will dramatically reduce the spread of infection.