Dear Parents/Carers

School is open today for keyworker children who have been attending.  All pupils who are learning at home should continue with their online learning as normal. 

Many thanks 

Mrs Shah

Dear Parents/Carers

Due to the adverse weather conditions, and for the safety and well being of staff and pupils school will be closed today.  Please continue with the online learning provision.

If you need to contact school please do this via the email addresses below:-

To contact the school office please email:- enquiries@highhazelsacademy.org.uk

To contact the Early Years Team (Nursery – FS2) please email:- earlyyears@highhazelsacademy.org.uk

To contact our Special Educational Needs Team:- inclusion@highhazelsacademy.org.uk

To contact our KS1 Team (Y1 – Y2) please email:- KS1-Y1-2@highhazelsacademy.org.uk

To contact our KS2 Team (Y3 – Y6) please email:- KS2-Y3-6@highhazelsacademy.org.uk

We will monitor the situation and inform all parents and carers if school is to re-open tomorrow.

Many thanks

Mrs Shah

Dear Parents/carers

I am writing to you today to inform you that we have had a fantastic launch of our online live teaching for all year groups. This is a testament to the brilliant work of my team and your commitment to your child/ren's education. For this, I am grateful. I would like to take this opportunity to share with you our 'Remote Learning: Pupil Code of Conduct'. Please take some time to read and share this with your child/ren. Our expectation is that all pupils will engage appropriately and in accordance with our shared code of conduct with their daily online learning provision. 

If you need any further clarification or support, please contact school using the usual emails.

Please click here to view to code of conduct

Yours sincerely

Mrs A Maqsood-Shah

Headteacher

Dear Parents/Carers

As you may already know we will be offering daily live teaching for all pupils in all year groups starting Monday 11th January. I have been inundated with positive feedback from you and our pupils who are no doubt really looking forward to engaging with their teachers daily. Throughout this week my staff have been contacting all of you to offer their support on how you can guide your child/ren with the online provision. For this, I am thankful to my team. 

It is paramount and the expectation of the school, Local Authority and the DfE that every child must engage with their daily learning and we will work with each family to mitigate any barriers you may have. 

I am including a link below to a very helpful video which we have created to guide and support you and your child with the logistics of logging onto the online learning. Please do refer to this. 

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Dear Parents/Carers, 

Please see a timetable below to show allocated times for you, as parents, to come to school and collect books and resources that your child will need to support them with their online learning. 

Please come to the main school gate (Fisher Lane) at your year group or class' time slot. 

Thursday 7th January 2021:

Nursery and FS2 - 10:30 - 11:30 

Year 1 - 9:30 - 10:30 

Year 2 - 11:30 - 12:30 

Year 3 - 12:30 - 1:30 

Year 4 - 1:30 - 2:30 

Dear Parents

Re: - New telephone system

We have a new online telephone system called Horizon.  This allows our staff to safely fulfil the higher volume of calls during school closure.  This means that when we ring you, there will be a Manchester number on your screen.  Please accept this call as it is from us.

Many thanks

Mrs A Maqsood-Shah

Dear Parents/Carers

I am writing to inform you about the remote learning arrangements for our pupils. From tomorrow your child should be able to access daily online learning through their TEAMS account (please see the attached guidance for how to log onto TEAMS). My staff will be contacting you directly over the next few days to confirm that your child/ren can access their learning online. However, if you need urgent support then please contact school via the school office number or email the teachers directly using the below emails and someone will get back to you with support. 

To contact the school office please email:-enquiries@highhazelsacademy.org.uk

To contact the EYFS team (Nursery – FS2) please email:-earlyyears@highhazelsacademy.org.uk

To contact our Special Educational Needs Team:-inclusion@highhazelsacademy.org.uk

To contact our KS1 Team (Y1 – Y2) please email:-KS1-Y1-2@highhazelsacademy.org.uk

To contact our KS2 Team (Y3 – Y6) please email: KS2-Y3-6@highhazelsacademy.org.uk

Please click here for Learning Guide for Nursery and Reception Pupils

Please click here for Learning Guide for Y1-Y6 Pupils

As I mentioned in my letter to you yesterday, it is paramount that all pupils continue their learning by accessing their online provision every day and your support with this is invaluable to us. Once again, I want to thank you for your co-operation, support, and efforts in supporting the continuity of learning for your child/ren. I know that with my team's hard work, determination to offer the best education for our pupils and your support we can ensure that no child falls behind or misses out on their education during this lockdown. 

Yours sincerely

Mrs. A Maqsood-Shah

Headteacher

Urgent - Covid-19 Update

Dear Parents/Carers

The Government has this evening announced that, on the advice of its medical and scientific experts, all schools will now begin the term under remote learning. This is in order to help minimise the transmission of the virus even though the risk to young people remains very small.

Therefore, as a result of this, we will be providing all pupils with a full online curriculum and lessons which will be available from  Wednesday 6th January. As you will understand, the announcement of the full Lockdown has only been made this evening and with very little warning, so we are moving very quickly to provide a full timetable but it may take us a day to have everything completely in place. to this end the school will be closed to all pupils on Tuesday 5th January and the day will be an INSET day for all staff. 

The children of key workers and those who are deemed vulnerable will be able to continue to come to school from Wednesday 6th of January.

Those pupils who are eligible for Free School Meals will be sent vouchers to cover these for this week and we will let you know as soon as possible about what will be provided in future weeks. 

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Dear Parents/Carers

This is my last message to you of 2020. What a year it has been! We have had many successes despite all the challenges of the pandemic and for this I am very grateful to all our amazing staff and families of High Hazels Academy.

As we come to the end of autumn term, I am filled with pride to be part of such a fantastic team and learning communities. We have managed to maintain our high standards of teaching and learning for all pupils, support all our vulnerable families, and kept school open for learners. There is so much to celebrate this term. Please do read through the rest of the newsletter to find out about the experiences your child/ren has had thus far. I hope that you like our new format of the newsletter too.

I would like to take this opportunity to wish all our staff, pupils and community a Merry Christmas, Happy New Year and a restful break. Please stay safe during the festive period. I look forward to working with you all again in January 2021.

Please click here to view the newsletter

Kind regards

Mrs Shah

What a busy term we have had in Nursery! We have been learning all about celebrations of light and made our own diva lamps and fireworks! We used lots of new words to describe them such as bright and sparkly. We have also been looking at seasonal changes in the outdoor environment - we even used some leaves to make our very own owls to sit on the bench! 

In the middle of this term we enjoyed a visit from some owls. We went into the hall and did our best listening and looking as we watched a flying demonstration. Some of us even had a turn at holding an owl on a special glove on our arm- we had to be very brave! 

In the second part of the term we have been learning all about Christmas. We have enjoyed using a variety of materials to make different Christmas decorations and learnt all about shapes at the same time! We have also made Christmas biscuits and enjoyed listening to Christmas songs. 

We have enjoyed all our new learning and experiences this term - make sure you ask us all about it!