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Update - Wednesday 23rd September 2020 - Please click here for an important update from Public Health England.
Update - Monday 21st September 2020 - Please click here for an important update from Chris Ward, Sandwell Director of Education.
Update - Thursday 17th September 2020 - Please click here for an important update from our Headteacher, Mr Mike Smith.
Update - Monday 14th September 2020 - Please click here to access the Home Learning procedure if your child is awaiting results from a Covid-19 test and in the event of the child or a member of their household testing positive.
Update - Friday 11th September 2020 - Covid-19 related student absence reference guide
Please click here to for Covid-19 related student absence reference guide for parents/carers.
Update - Tuesday 1st September 2020 - REMOTE LEARNING POLICY
Please click here to view the Phoenix Remote Learning Policy.
Update - Wednesday 19th August 2020 - STUDENTS’ RETURN IN SEPTEMBER
Please click here to access crucial information including return dates and times for each year groups, details of their new school day, measures in place to reduce risk, etc’.
Update - Wednesday 22nd July 2020 - Important Message from Sandwell Council
Please click here to see the latest update from Chris Ward, Director of Education.
Update - Thursday 16th July 2020 - Important Message from Mr Mike Smith
Please click here to see an important message from our Headteacher, Mr Mike Smith.
Update - Wednesday 15th July 2020 - Remote Learning Plan Webinar
A BIG Thank you to all parents/carers who joined our webinar this morning! We hope you found it useful and we were able to answer your concerns. If you missed it, you can watch it back by clicking the video below. Any questions? Contact us via email on info@phoenix.sandwell.sch.uk
Update - Monday 13th July 2020 RE: Remote Learning Plan Webinar
Please join our Virtual Webinar taking place on Wednesday 15th July at 10.30am, where we will explain the vision for September, look at Microsoft Teams and our expectations of students using the remote learning platform. To attend, please see the details below:
Join Zoom via weblink: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88089340956?pwd=NDhtOE9JQ202UFN2a0FoMEtTZldNdz09
Password: 0aLA5g
Webinar ID: 880 8934 0956 - Password: 752177
Update - Thursday 9th July 2020 RE: Full opening of schools in September 2020
Please click here for an update from our Headteacher, Mr Mike Smith on the government's announcement about the full opening of schools in September 2020.
Please click here for an update from Aspens about school meals at Phoenix from September 2020.
Bushcraft Residential Trip - September 2020
It is with regret that we are going to have to cancel this years Bushcraft residential trip to Boughton Woods in September. Please click here for more information about refunds etc.
Free School Meals
If you have received your voucher by email, please see below a user guide on how to redeem your free school meal vouchers online.
User Guide for Free School Meals
Update - Tuesday 23rd June 2020
Update - Friday 19th June 2020
Other important information/policies relating to Covid 19 can be found below:
S03B - Positive behaviour and discipline policy - Covid-19 Addendum
S26c - Child Protection Safeguarding Policy - Covid-19 Addendum
NS07B - Home school agreement - Covid-19 Addendum
NS33 - Covid-19 Risk assessment for students at school
Update Tuesday 16th June 2020 - Phased Return for Year 10 and Year 12 Students
The only students we expect on site are students who have received a letter to invite them to return to school. If you did not receive a letter but are now in a position where you would like to send your child back to school, please email us at info@phoenix.sandwell.sch.uk with your child’s details.
Note that we will need a week’s notice to make the necessary arrangements for your child to return to school.
Please click here for the instructions to Y10 and Y12 students to return to school w/c 15th June.
Support and Advice
SUPPORT: Please click here for help and advice for students and parents/carers on keeping safe at home. Many thanks for your continued cooperation, Mr Mike Smith - Headteacher.
May 2020 Updates
Year 11 and Year 13 Students: Important message from Ofqual
Dear Students,
Ofqual have today issued the guidance on how GCSEs, AS & A levels will be awarded in summer 2020.
For this summer’s awards, the school are being asked to provide centre assessment grades for each of you.
Exam boards will be contacting the school after Easter asking them to submit, by a deadline that will be no earlier than 29 May 2020, a centre assessment grade for every student in each of your subjects: that is, the grade we believe you would be most likely to have achieved if you had sat your exams and completed any non-exam assessment. Judgements will balance different sources of evidence such as:
- classwork
- bookwork
- any participation in performances in subjects such as music, drama or PE
- any non-exam assessment – whether or not complete
- the results of any assignments or mock exams
- previous examination results – for example, for any re-sitting students or those with relevant AS qualifications
- any other records of student performance over the course of study
Your teachers will not be allowed to share these estimates with you.
A letter from Ofqual for all students can be found here
Further guidance on the process can be found here
March 2020 Updates
Dear Parents/Carers, as schools will only remain open for children of key workers from Monday 23rd March, please complete the questionnaire by clicking here so that we can take an appropriate strategy at Phoenix.
As a country, we all need to do what we can to reduce the spread of the COVID-19 virus.
That is why the government has given clear guidance on self-isolation, household isolation and social distancing.
And the most recent scientific advice on how to further limit the spread of COVID-19 is clear. If children can stay safely at home, they should, to limit the chance of the virus spreading.
That is why the government has asked parents to keep their children at home, wherever possible, and asked schools to remain open only for those children who absolutely need to attend.
It is important to underline that schools, colleges and other educational establishments remain safe places for children. But the fewer children making the journey to school, and the fewer children in educational settings, the lower the risk that the virus can spread and infect vulnerable individuals in wider society.
Schools are, therefore, being asked to continue to provide care for a limited number of children - children who are vulnerable and children whose parents are critical to the Covid-19 response and cannot be safely cared for at home.
Parents whose work is critical to the COVID-19 response include those who work in health and social care and in other key sectors outlined below. Many parents working in these sectors may be able to ensure their child is kept at home. And every child who can be safely cared for at home should be.
If your work is critical to the COVID-19 response, or you work in one of the critical sectors listed below, and you cannot keep your child safe at home then your children will be prioritised for education provision:
Health and social care
This includes but is not limited to doctors, nurses, midwives, paramedics, social workers, care workers, and other frontline health and social care staff including volunteers; the support and specialist staff required to maintain the UK’s health and social care sector; those working as part of the health and social care supply chain, including producers and distributors of medicines and medical and personal protective equipment.
Education and childcare
This includes nursery and teaching staff, social workers and those specialist education professionals who must remain active during the COVID-19 response to deliver this approach.
Key public services
This includes those essential to the running of the justice system, religious staff, charities and workers delivering key frontline services, those responsible for the management of the deceased, and journalists and broadcasters who are providing public service broadcasting.
Local and national government
This only includes those administrative occupations essential to the effective delivery of the COVID-19 response or delivering essential public services such as the payment of benefits, including in government agencies and arms length bodies.
Food and other necessary goods
This includes those involved in food production, processing, distribution, sale and delivery as well as those essential to the provision of other key goods (for example hygienic and veterinary medicines).
Public safety and national security
This includes police and support staff, Ministry of Defence civilians, contractor and armed forces personnel (those critical to the delivery of key defence and national security outputs and essential to the response to the COVID-19 pandemic), fire and rescue service employees (including support staff), National Crime Agency staff, those maintaining border security, prison and probation staff and other national security roles, including those overseas.
Transport
This includes those who will keep the air, water, road and rail passenger and freight transport modes operating during the COVID-19 response, including those working on transport systems through which supply chains pass.
Utilities, communication and financial services
This includes staff needed for essential financial services provision (including but not limited to workers in banks, building societies and financial market infrastructure), the oil, gas, electricity and water sectors (including sewerage), information technology and data infrastructure sector and primary industry supplies to continue during the COVID-19 response, as well as key staff working in the civil nuclear, chemicals, telecommunications (including but not limited to network operations, field engineering, call centre staff, IT and data infrastructure, 999 and 111 critical services), postal services and delivery, payments providers and waste disposal sectors.
If you work in one of the above critical areas please click on this link to inform us of your needs for childcare by 3.00pm today.
Please note if you are not in one of the critical sectors then childcare at school will not be available.
Many thanks for your continued cooperation.
Mr Mike Smith - Head teacher
Resources to work at home
Please click here to find the resources that teachers have created for students to be able to continue their learning at home.
If you have any issues accessing this, please contact the school on info@phoenix.sandwell.sch.uk.
Could I please remind parents/carers that they should be isolating their child if they have a new continuous cough and/or a temperature above 37.8 degrees. Note that this needs to be for 14 days and they should not be sent into school before that time.
We will continue to provide you with daily updates, however please also keep up to date with the latest government advice and guidance.
This guidance provides advice for students, staff and parents or carers regarding:
- the novel coronavirus, COVID-19
- how to help prevent spread of all respiratory infections including COVID-19
- what to do if someone confirmed or suspected to have COVID-19 has been in a school or other educational setting
- what advice to give to individuals who have travelled to specified countries and areas within the last 14 days
A UK wide campaign has been launched to provide clear advice on how to slow the spread of Coronavirus.
Please help to support the campaign which promotes basic hygiene practices, such as regularly washing hands and always sneezing into a tissue, to stem the spread of viruses.
