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Essential College Info​ - 04.09.20 

 

Year 7-13 

  INSET DAY D Mon
  Year 7, 11 and 12 back only I 14th Sept
All year groups back in
Mon Y12 Sussex Uni for Study Skills A Tues
7th Sept R 15th Sept

Tues Y Wed
8th Sept
16th Sept
Wed
9th Sept E Thurs Year 12 TTA 6-7.30pm
17th Sept
Thurs V
10th Sept
E
Fri
11th Sept N Fri
T 18th Sept

S

Dear Parents and Carers,

We are all really looking forward to welcoming students back next week and cannot wait to teach
them in the classrooms, laboratories, music rooms, art studios, dance and drama halls and sports
areas. It is particularly exciting to be welcoming them back to the first of our new buildings. Our
wonderful staff team are working hard to get everything ready for our students’ first day back. The
campus is still a building site and will continue to be so for another year.
I will share photos regularly.

Here are a few:

 

 
Main entrance:

Refectory from the Science mezzanine:

 

 
Year 7 Refectory tables with Year 7 Garden behind:

Refectory with Terrace behind:

 

 
Boys’ toilets:

English classroom:

 

 

Keeping everyone safe from Covid-19
I wrote to you all last week with the documents below. Full details are found in our risk assessments;
the following is a summary of the main steps staff and students are taking to reduce infection.
Please talk your child through these if you haven’t done so already.
Public Health England will be contacted if we have two or more confirmed Covid cases in a fortnight.
We do not want to be in that position as it may be that Public Health England will close the college to
a year group or all year groups. We also need to ensure we have sufficient staff in college every day
for students to learn and be safely supervised. So, adapting Lord Nelson’s famous message:
Uckfield expects every student to do their duty

 

 

Uckfield College summary of steps to minimise Covid-19 transmission for students and parents /
carers
Staff Covid Protocols
Visitor protocols
Uckfield College: Roles and responsibilities in keeping everyone safe through protocols for Covid-19
New College map and room plans

If you have any questions about our covid protocols or any other worry, please submit your
question using this link - ​link to parent question​. We will either publish some FAQs from your
questions or, if it is an individual matter, someone from the year group pastoral team will get in
contact with you.

New information: Masks / Face coverings. ​All students will need to bring a mask or face
covering every day and a bag to store it in when not in use just in case they are in a detention
or removed from lessons (Red Zone or Restore).

New information: Information about PE and ball games
In line with the latest Government guidance, PE lessons (including swimming) will take place
with Covid-19 protocols in place (in line with advice from the particular sports’ Governing Body
as approved by the Government).
Students should, as usual, bring their full PE kit on the days when they have PE lessons on their
timetable. There is a one way system for entering and leaving the changing rooms which
students must adhere to. Equipment will be thoroughly cleaned between each use by different
year groups.
Some extra-curricular sports clubs will begin in a few weeks time, but there will be no fixtures
with other schools for the foreseeable future.
Ball games will n​ ot​ be allowed at break or lunchtimes as we cannot ensure that close contact
between students will be avoided in the way that this can be done during timetabled PE lessons.

Together to Achieve Evenings
The first of our Together to Achieve evening is for Year 12 parents / carers and students on
Thursday 17 September. This will be shared as a video. Thank you for your understanding as
we have virtual meetings / evenings.

Getting to and from College
New information this week:​ Our new system will be as follows:
Lime Tree Avenue
Students coming up Lime Tree Avenue will need to walk to the top of the path between the Limes to
Downsview Crescent. The entrance to the college near Freedom Leisure will not be open to students.
Students will not be permitted to walk up or down the College Drive.

Entrance near Manor Primary.​
This entrance will not be in use for students (unless they are arriving in school coaches). Students
should walk to the main entrance.

The Drive
The main student entrance will now be at the top of the College Drive. Students will cross the drive to
access this. To keep them safe, no cars, minibuses or taxis carrying students will be permitted to
enter the driveway nor the car parks lower down whether for drop off or pick up. Students will not
need to go down the drive anyway as the entrance to the college will only be a few steps from

 

 
Downsview Crescent. There will certainly be no stopping or pulling in permitted by the Main Entrance
because:

1. There will be a zebra crossing there for students
2. There is a new building hoarding surrounding the old school building and it has created a ‘blind

bend’
3. There will be no 3 point turns permitted so close to T junction and the traffic coming in from

Downsview Crescent
4. The paved area to the Main Entrance will only be built for foot traffic, so no vehicles allowed.

We recommend that parents bringing students to / from College either:
A. Ideally, drop / pick up students half a mile away from the site. A short walk will be
good for their health.
B. Failing that (e.g. if they are very late), drive in a clockwise direction starting up by
Tesco Express, travelling South down Downsview Crescent, then turning right into
Southview Drive and dropping their children (only stopping a safe distance from any
junctions). This ‘one way system’ will make a huge difference to:
a. Student safety
b. Reducing traffic congestion
c. Improving everyone’s journey times
d. Enabling buses and coaches to make their journeys.

Disabled students will mostly be dropped off and picked up by the coach /school bus parking to the
North East of the site. There will be disabled access into the College from both entrances along
Downsview Crescent.
Thank you for your understanding with these new arrangements.
Warmest regards,
Hugh Hennebry
Principal

 

 

N​ otices

Please find attached a list of bus services for September 2020.

The main changes are:
● Extra 29 morning bus from Tunbridge Wells direction
● 31 relief bus from/to North Chailey
● 231 afternoon relief bus to Blackboys
● 261 additional relief bus

The coach timetables are available on the East Sussex website together with guidance for travel.
https://www.eastsussex.gov.uk/roadsandtransport/public/buses/bus-service-changes-including-back-to-school
-service-changes/#subtitle1

 

Please find the link to our coach timetables below:
https://www.eastsussex.gov.uk/roadsandtransport/public/secondary-school-coach-timetables/ 

Job Vacancies - ​see link to current vacancies page here for both Support staff and Teachers
https://www.uckfield.college/vacancies

 

ACRES Learning ENGLISH & MATHS Online Courses for adults including GCSE starting this
September.
All our English and Maths courses are *FREE to any eligible learner, who has not previously attained a grade
4/C At GCSE or equivalent.
To receive an enrolment form, ​Email ACRES Learning​ For more details of courses see our W​ ebsite​ For all our
Autumn courses see our A​ utumn Brochure 2020

*To enrol on any ACRES 2020-21 courses you must be at
least 19 years old on 31st August 2020, due to our funding

rules. 

 
Term dates​ for the Academic years 19/20 & 20/21 - h​ ttp://www.uckfield.college/termdates

Reporting Absences - S​ ee li​ nk to information on Website

Uckfield College Life​ ​- ​June’s Issue

Uckfield College Life will be published once a month. W​ e have attached the Newsletter to the title
above - if you wish you can click on the title to see the newsletter. ​Please e-mail details to Toni Fletcher,
[email protected].​

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