Today, for the first time in my career, I had to send an entire Class home as a parent informed me that they had received the result for a COVID-19 test done yesterday, and it was positive. In order to protect the students of Class 7, the teachers of Class 7 and the parents and grandparents of Class 7 I immediately put into place a HUGE operation of sending home all Class 7 students.

This caused huge disruption to numerous families and I never want to be put in that position again.

I have just heard that the Class 7 student has tested positive. Therefore, I am going to put into place two important changes.

Change 1 : With the in-school, in-person exams just days away I am going to move to online school for all Senior Classes (6 to 12) for the next two days, Thursday 27MAY2021 and Friday 28MAY2021. This is for the well-being of all the students at school, the teachers, the parents and the grandparents. Note that Classes 11 and 12 are on study leave, so they will NOT have online classes for those two days but continue as they have all week.

Change 2 : I am going to postpone ALL exams for Classes 6, 7 and 8 in line with the postponement that I put in place yesterday for Classes 10, 11 and 12. This is to enable Class 7 students to quarantine for at least 10 days (as per UK recommendations). Thus Classes 6, 7 and 8 (along with 9, 10, 11 and 12) will have a whole week of extra study leave (no Senior classes next week for any classes apart from Small Group and GCSE A Level) before we start exams all together on Monday 07JUN2021. A new timetable will be posted in due course.

Note 1 : NONE of these issues will affect small group classes 6D, 8D, 9D, 10D and 11D who will continue to come physically to school if they want to.

Note 2 : NONE of these issues will affect the GCSE and A Level classes (10A, 11A and 12A) who will continue to attend school and sit for their exams as per their present timetable.

Note 3 : NONE of these issues will affect either the Junior or Infant Department. Physical presence is non-mandatory in the Junior and Infant Department should you wish to move your children back online, just keep them at home.

IMPORTANT! IMPORTANT! Closes tomorrow at midnight!

Here is the Google form about physical presence in school for the last three weeks.

Closes at midnight on Thursday 27MAY2021.

Please post this notice on every WhatsApp group that you are a member of.

After you have used the form to register your children, you MUST check that they have been registered. We cannot make any changes for these last three weeks. VERY IMPORTANT.

Here is the CORRECT link to check if you have registered.

There is a very important post on Google Classrooms for the following classes :

All Class 9

All Class 10

All Class 11

All Class 12

There will be school tomorrow, Wednesday 26MAY2021, as normal.

Here is a Google Form where you can order your Junior and Infant worksheets for the last three weeks of school, 31MAY until 18JUN2021.

Please do NOT order worksheets if your child is FullTimeInSchool

REMEMBER : FamilyCode NOT username

This form will automatically close at midnight on Thursday 27MAY2021.

IMPORTANT : NEW : We will NOT print any sheets that are NOT asked for via the website. Please post this notice on every WhatsApp Class group you are a member of.

You can now check that you have ordered the correct worksheets by clicking on this link Note that this link ONLY looks at the LAST entry you made in the form. If you find that you have ordered the incorrect worksheets, just fill in the form another time.

Pickup will be Monday 31MAY2021 and Tuesday 01JUN2021 between 09:00 am and 12:00 noon. IF you want your papers to be held with the “natour” for collecting later in the day, please communicate this on the school WhatsApp number 71 183 559 on MONDAY 31MAY2021 between 08:00 and an 12:00 noon.