How we worked with our pupils and families in Covid

It seems that we have moved on so far from our 'Covid times' but, in reality, it is a very short time ago. At Nantgwyn, we celebrate how the whole #teamnantgwyn came together in this time and felt that a page on the website might serve a helpful point of recognition for the efforts of pupils, parents, staff and governors.

Thank you so much everyone for your support.

During Covid, we worked together to:

Go to live lessons three days after the initial lockdown in March 2020
Ran the full timetable for all pupils from age 3 through to age 16 through synchronous learning sessions
Some mums and dads joined in the synchronous learning sessions too!
Made phonecalls if anyone wasn't in the synchronous learning session to try and support everyone progressing in their learning
Ran online small group sessions, in the same way that we would have in school, to provide a little bit of additional support for pupils
Ran emotional support sessions for pupils
Ran a 'superhub' for childrens of keyworkers to attend who would have ordinarily attended over 20 other local schools, working with the fabulous staff from all of those schools
Sent children different things - colours, paper, sunflower seeds
Our art teacher made every year 10 and year 11 GCSE pupils an individual pack of materials and resources that was specific to their pieces and interests
Did regular check ins with all families and had chats with mums, dads, aunties, uncles, nans and grandads (and a whole host of other family members)
Worked with our amazing local community to put together food and supplies for families who needed it
Make sure that it was safe on site when we did return - measuring desk distances, working out different timetables, teachers moving to your classrooms instead of pupils moving around, changed break and lunchtimes, communicated a lot
We ran the 'Nantgwyn strip' to make sure that drop off and collection was safe and that people didn't need to congregate to collect children.