{"id":5156,"date":"2021-02-17T13:29:10","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T13:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unst.org\/web\/bjhs\/?p=5156"},"modified":"2021-02-17T13:30:22","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T13:30:22","slug":"phased-return-23rd-feb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unst.org\/web\/bjhs\/2021\/02\/17\/phased-return-23rd-feb\/","title":{"rendered":"Phased Return &#8211; 23rd Feb"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/unst.org\/web\/bjhs\/files\/2021\/02\/Phased-Return-Letter-Feb-21.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"width: 600px; height: 900px; \" data-width=\"600\" data-height=\"900\"  data-toolbar=\"bottom\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"off\">Phased-Return-Letter-Feb-21<br\/><\/a>\n<p class=\"wp-block-pdfemb-pdf-embedder-viewer\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Phased Return \u2013 Early Years, P1, P2, P3 and S4 (on a limited\nbasis)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dear Parent\/Carer,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You may be aware of the statement by the First Minister yesterday,\nwhich confirmed that a phased return to school would take place from Tuesday 23<sup>rd<\/sup>\nFebruary onwards. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For Baltasound Junior High School, this means that from Tuesday 23<sup>rd<\/sup>\nFebruary:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>BJHS Early Years will return in full, as\nnormal. Days\/timings will continue as they were before our Christmas shutdown.\nAll staff will return on the days they normally work in BJHS.<\/li><li>P1, P2 and P3 will return in full, as normal.\nTransport, timings and school meals will remain as they were before Christmas.\nAll staff supporting this group will be in school as normal.<\/li><li>S4 will return on a limited basis \u2013 only working\nthrough practical work for certain subjects which cannot be undertaken at home.\nFurther information will follow specific to S4 pupils and parents which will\ncontain information on timetables, transport and testing (see below).<\/li><li>All Secondary students will have to maintain\n2m distancing from each other and staff when on school transport and when in\nschool. This does not apply to Early Years or Primary students.<\/li><li>Students with Additional Support Needs and the\nchildren of Key Workers will continue to access school in the normal way. I\nwill be emailing all key worker parents asking for their requirements to be\nshared with the school for the weeks ahead. Any new applications should contact\nChildren Services using the link on this page &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shetland.gov.uk\/schools\/schools-covid-19-updates\">https:\/\/www.shetland.gov.uk\/schools\/schools-covid-19-updates<\/a>\n<\/li><li>Pupils in P4, P5, P6, P7, S1, S2 and S3 will\ncontinue to learn from home with their paper packs, Teams activities\/assignments\nand live sessions with their teachers.<\/li><li>All staff and S4 students will have the option\nto test themselves for COVID-19 twice per week, using Lateral Flow Device testing\nkits. Consent forms and guides will be provided to these groups this week.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to this, we will continue with our existing COVID-19\nsafe protective measures which include the wearing of face coverings, regular hand\nwashing\/sanitising, minimising the sharing of equipment\/resources and effective\nventilation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the coming weeks, we expect to find out more with regard the\ntimings of other year groups returning to school although it was suggested in\nthe statement yesterday, it would be unlikely to be before 15<sup>th<\/sup>\nMarch. When I know more about this, I will be in contact with you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You may have questions, concerns or general queries about this\nphased return. If so, please do not hesitate to get in touch with me on 01595\n807020, <a href=\"mailto:paulthomson@shetland.gov.uk\">paulthomson@shetland.gov.uk<\/a>\nor through the Monday afternoon Vscene video chats &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/app.vscene.net\/r\/HYWhPQ5Z4S\">https:\/\/app.vscene.net\/r\/HYWhPQ5Z4S<\/a>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Best wishes,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>P. Thomson<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Paul Thomson, Head Teacher<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phased Return \u2013 Early Years, P1, P2, P3 and S4 (on a limited basis) Dear Parent\/Carer, You may be aware of the statement by the First Minister yesterday, which confirmed that a phased return to school would take place from Tuesday 23rd February onwards. For Baltasound Junior High School, this means that from Tuesday 23rd [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4877,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unst.org\/web\/bjhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5156"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unst.org\/web\/bjhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unst.org\/web\/bjhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unst.org\/web\/bjhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unst.org\/web\/bjhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5156"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unst.org\/web\/bjhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5159,"href":"https:\/\/unst.org\/web\/bjhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5156\/revisions\/5159"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unst.org\/web\/bjhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unst.org\/web\/bjhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unst.org\/web\/bjhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unst.org\/web\/bjhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}