Winston is Ready for You!
Winston is ready to get the new academic year started and we are all looking forward to welcoming back our students to the classroom.
The site team have been busy and you can expect to see some significant changes, with more to come over the next term.
Classrooms have been changed and in some cases up-graded by making them bigger! Painting, new flooring and lighting have made a difference and of course, the new toilets at the bottom of the science stairs.
There are zones on the patio for each year group and new barriers to ensure that queues for our canteen can be managed appropriately in the current pandemic. We will all have responsibility to keep each other safe.
Parents and staff have been informed of the following:
Face Coverings: if you wish your child to wear a face covering to and from school and in our corridors, please instruct them that this is fine but it should be a face mask, as a scarf of any type is not acceptable. Students must remove masks in the classrooms or if requested, when having a conversation with a member of staff. Currently this is not compulsory. This, of course, applies to staff, if you want to wear a mask or a visor we will support you.
From 1st September a product is being sprayed on tables, doors, hand rails and toilets which will captures and destroy coronavirus. The product is used on the underground and in hospitals and last for 30 days. This is just one of the measures that we are taking to reduce the risk within our community.
Reminders:
I would like to welcome your children back into Winston in the following way:
Wednesday
2nd September Year 7 and Year 11.
Thursday
3rd September Years 7, 10 and 11.
Friday,
the 4th September Years
7, 8, 10 and 11.
Monday,
7th September all
year groups, including Year 9.
Students will be dismissed gradually
at the end of each day:
Year
7 at 2.35pm
Year
8 at 2.40pm
Year
9 at 2.50pm
Year
10 at 2.55pm
Year
11 at 3.00pm
If students are remaining behind for
an extra-curricular club or to use the library, they should wait in the main
hall, within their Year Groups, for the bell to ring at 2.55pm before moving to
that activity.
Lets all work together to make this a success.
I look forward to seeing students back in our classrooms.
Zoe Johnson-Walker
