We hope you are all enjoying the last week of your Summer holidays and are looking forward to next week’s Outward Bound trip to Ullswater – we are!
Following government guidance on COVID testing, before we head off to Ullswater we are required to test all of our students. To facilitate this we will need to organise a staggered start to the day with earlier start times for some crews. We will need parental consent to test your son/daughter and will post a parental consent form on our website which you will need to complete this week before 5pm on Thursday 26th August.
Arrangements for the morning of Tuesday 31st August are as follows:
We will welcome each crew in to school separately with the following timings:
7:45am Mr Said / Devitt’s Crew
8:00am Miss Tatters’ Crew
8:15am Mr Dobson’s Crew
8:30am Mrs Mosley’s Crew
Please park on Swards Road as space for visitors is limited onsite.
Students will be signed in to school at the front gate with Mr Lovatt and their Crew Leader and will leave their parents at that point.
We are expecting to leave the site by coach for Ullswater between 10.00am – 10:30am once testing is complete.
We acknowledge that this means that parents will not now be able to wave students away on the coach, however this is beyond our control due to the updated government COVID guidelines. We will be posting videos and photographs online regularly, including our departure from school to keep you updated.
Safety measures in school during COVID testing
At XPG safety of our students is our top priority so we ask that students wear masks as they enter school and move around the building on that morning. Students will also be socially distanced until negative tests are confirmed.
If your son or daughter does test positive, then we will contact you and you will need to collect them as soon as possible. If a student does test positive, then unfortunately as a safety measure, they would not be able to attend Outward Bound Ullswater and we will provide work for them for the rest of the week.
Reminders
Please remember to bring:
- £10 refundable deposit
- Packed lunch (for the first day only)
- Personal medication (tablets, inhaler, epipen for example) – we will post further instructions on this, this week.
- XPG Transition pack including the artefact and answer to the guiding question
As well as your kit bag!
Please contact [email protected] if you have any questions.
Have a great final week of your holidays, stay safe and we will see you on Tuesday 31st August.