{"id":12899,"date":"2022-12-07T12:45:07","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T12:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/?p=12899"},"modified":"2022-12-07T12:58:41","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T12:58:41","slug":"greatfields-school-contingency-plans-for-staff-shortages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/?p=12899","title":{"rendered":"Contingency plans for staff shortages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"x_x_MsoNormal\">Dear parent\/carer,<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_x_MsoNormal\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n<p class=\"x_x_MsoNormal\">I hope you and your families are safe and well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_x_MsoNormal\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n<p class=\"x_x_MsoNormal\">We are experiencing an abnormally high level of staff absence at the moment, and as a result it will be necessary to put some measures in place to ensure that students can be safely supervised. Please read the following arrangements carefully as they may affect your child in the coming days:<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_x_MsoNormal\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n<ul>\n<li class=\"x_x_MsoListParagraph\">&nbsp;Year 10 will remain at home tomorrow and work will be sent home, via Teams, for them to complete. They will return to school as normal on Friday. <b>Any students involved in the rehearsals for the Winter Showcase should come into school as normal tomorrow.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">&#8211;<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"x_x_MsoListParagraph\">Year 9 will remain at home on Friday, and work will be sent home via Teams for them to complete. They will return to school as normal on Monday.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">&#8211;<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"x_x_MsoListParagraph\">Year 11 mock exams begin on Monday. During the exam period, students only need to come into school for their exams. If they don\u2019t exam they can stay at home to revise. If they wish to revise in school, they will be able to work in the Cedar Block hall.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">&#8211;<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"x_x_MsoListParagraph\">Year 12, from Monday, will only need to come into school for their lessons. There will be no morning registration and no supervised study periods. If Year 12 wish to remain in school to study, they will be supervised in the Cedar Block hall.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"x_x_MsoNormal\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n<p class=\"x_x_MsoNormal\">Thank you in advance for your understanding of these arrangements, and my apologies in advance for any disruption they may cause. We will continue to monitor the situation carefully and will endeavour to minimise disruption to your child\u2019s learning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_x_MsoNormal\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n<p class=\"x_x_MsoNormal\">Best wishes,<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_x_MsoNormal\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n<p class=\"x_x_MsoNormal\">Mr Paul<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear parent\/carer, I hope you and your families are safe and well. We are experiencing an abnormally high level of staff absence at the moment, and as a result it will be necessary to put some measures in place to ensure that students can be safely supervised. Please read the following arrangements carefully as they may affect your child in the coming days: &nbsp;Year 10 will remain at home tomorrow and work will be sent home, via Teams, for them to complete. They will return to school as normal on Friday. Any students involved in the rehearsals for the Winter Showcase should come into school as normal tomorrow. &#8211; Year 9 will remain at home on Friday, and work will be sent home via Teams for them to complete. They will return to school as normal on Monday. &#8211; Year 11 mock exams begin on Monday. During the exam period, students only need to come into school for their exams. If they don\u2019t exam they can stay at home to revise. If they wish to revise in school, they will be able to work in the Cedar Block hall. &#8211; Year 12, from Monday, will only need to come into school for their lessons. There will be no morning registration and no supervised study periods. If Year 12 wish to remain in school to study, they will be supervised in the Cedar Block hall. Thank you in advance for your understanding of these arrangements, and my apologies in advance for any disruption they may cause. We will continue to monitor the situation carefully and will endeavour to minimise disruption to your child\u2019s learning. Best wishes, Mr Paul<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-publications"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12899"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12899"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12905,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12899\/revisions\/12905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}