Senior Schools as a hugely powerful and versatile platform for task setting, marking and feedback, resource sharing, publishing reports, and virtual concerts to name just a few. In the Upper Prep and Senior Schools, Microsoft Teams is used extensively for live lessons and events, following pupils’ normal timetables in the most part, with some tweaks to allow for breaks between lessons and time away from the screen. T ese core systems are supplemented by a plethora of diff erent tools in our digital armoury, be they interactive quizzes, virtual whiteboards, green screens or visualisers. Tasks away from the screen are also incorporated, with pupils of all ages showing great creativity completing Art and DT work, carrying out science experiments, producing Music and Drama performances, or completing weekly challenges set by the Head of Prep; possibly even earning the accolade of Home School Hero!


Keeping a sense of normality We know from our pupils and parents that at a time when almost everything else in life is uncertain, the daily routine of school life can bring much-needed stability and a sense of normality to proceedings, so we have sought to preserve as much of that as possible. As well as the full academic curriculum, this has included pastoral group and one-to-one sessions, assemblies and chapel services, virtual Duke of Edinburgh and CCF training, instrumental lessons, and much more besides. Events such as the recent GCSE Options evening, UCAS and


apprenticeship events have taken place successfully in virtual form, whilst online Parents’ Evenings have been a big success, providing the comfort of home and a guarantee of running to time!


Our award-winning Wellbeing provision has


also continued to support both pupils and parents, building upon the series of parent workshops and talks from the last extended remote learning period, with additional resources including a Lockdown Survival Guide and guided imagery sessions to help fi nd moments of calm amid the maelstrom. T is term, new pupils have successfully joined


us and leapt straight into the fray of online lessons without having yet been in the same physical room as their classmates, whilst entrance testing for prospective pupils took place very successfully in remote form, with young pupils able to complete the tests in comfort at home. We received much positive feedback about the straightforward and stress-free process, and believe it really enabled pupils to demonstrate their best work. As we eagerly look forward to all pupils returning


to the classroom and seeing their faces physically rather than on a screen, we take heart from the knowledge that whenever they are required, now and in the future, our remote learning systems are tried and tested, and our pupils supported in the best possible way to continue to achieve their best.


Find out more at our upcoming Virtual Open Day on Saturday, March 6 at www.wellingboroughschool.org/open-events


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