'Coronavirus' updates

Today Ofqual announced how grades will be calculated for GCSE and A-level students. Please click on Mrs Cooke's letter below. The official Ofqual message and guidance is included lower down the page.

Please click on the relevant letter below:

Please click below to see a letter from Mrs Cooke to parents, and another to Year 11 and Year 13 students.

Please see below for information from Kooth.com, a confidential web-based service to support wellbeing and resilience of young people during this difficult time.

The school will be closed from Monday 23rd March until further notice. Supervision will only be provided where a place has already been agreed. These places are for children of key workers where there is no other option. The number of children and staff in school needs to be kept to a minimum to reduce the risk of these children becoming infected, thereby keeping their key worker parents safe and able to do their essential jobs. Other students need to stay at home and to ensure social distancing. We should not be socialising other than online. This will be tough, but we all need to do the right thing to slow the spread of COVID-19 transmission.

From Monday 23rd March the school will be closed to all students. The only students in school will be the few who have arranged supervision in school because their parents are key workers in helping to slow the spread of coronavirus. School will also be closed to most staff, except a few who are supervising. Your teachers will be setting you work from home. Most of the school will be locked.

In these difficult times we as a school have the aim to do the best we can for every single pupil of Hanley Castle High School and Sixth Form. We need to ensure that we support pupils both academically and pastorally.

Dear Year 11 or 13 student / parents / carers.

Dear Parent / Carer,