Additional Inset Day – Friday 4 July

Following the success of the additional inset day held in July 2024, there will be one calendared for the same time during the current academic year.  This will be on Friday 4 July with the specifics of the day to be confirmed.  I will write to inform parents/carers in due course so please keep this confidential for the time being.  Should any colleague who does not work on a Friday wish to be part of the day, additional working hours can be claimed.

Staff Surveys

Please see links to two surveys below.  The first is the perceptions survey used previously so will be familiar to many colleagues with the second being a staff stress survey.  Both are anonymous and provided through an external company that benchmarks and analyses the outcomes.

The links will remain open until the 3pm on Friday 28 February.  Please take the time to complete both surveys.

Perceptions Survey:

http://www.asdti.com/checklogin399.php?login=1504&password=s27803

Staff Stress Survey:

http://www.asdti.com/checklogin1199.php?login=1456&password=s95619

Have a lovely weekend.

Andrew

Year 9 Parents’ Evening

Thursday 13th February – 4pm to 7pm

Year 10 Parents’ Evening

Thursday 27th February – 4pm to 7pm

Click here to see current vacancy

Please do not park on the car verges, or outside of the allocated parking spaces.  Cars parked outside of the spaces cause issues for deliveries and for people leaving the site; any cars parked this way will be asked to move to the bottom car park.

• has the potential to come into unsupervised contact with children or
• is in regulated activity with children

an Enhanced DBS with children’s barred list check is required unless the visitor is being escorted at ALL times by a member of school staff (being escorted means at breaks/lunch up to the toilet facilities etc.).

All school staff can now apply for a blue light card.  https://www.bluelightcard.co.uk/index.php

We’re home of a range of official discounts from large national retailers to local businesses in a wide range of categories including holidays, cars, days out, fashion, gifts, insurance, phones and much more!

Reminder that in addition to the services offered by Kirklees Employee Healthcare, staff also have access to our new SAS wellbeing service – the SAS service offers a GP consultation service which is proving really useful for staff.

Please do note however that if you are usually exempt from paying prescriptions, through the SAS GP you do have to pay for prescriptions.

EHC Wellbeing schools newsletter January 2025

We know that our towns and villages across Kirklees are unique and that residents are feeling the impact of increased household bills in different ways. We have many local organisations and services offering fantastic, localised support. Our online resource shows trusted, council-wide support with money, energy and food in one place:

www.kirklees.gov.uk/cost-of-living

Information on our website can also be translated into community languages by clicking on ‘select language’ at the top of the page.

Over the next 12 months we’ll be working to better understand the seasonal challenges we will encounter, like summer holidays and back to school preparations and will continue to develop these resources.