Dear UCC Families

Our Year 9 Options evening was very successful last night, and we saw high levels of attendance.  This is an exciting time for Year 9 students, as they start to shape their Key Stage 4 curriculum and take more ownership of their studies. I look forward to seeing the option choices Year 9 make later this term. 

I sincerely hope that there comes a time soon when I don't have to mention Covid in a bulletin, but it is unavoidable again this week. With the restrictions lifting and isolation rules changing, our approach can be summarised by the bullet points below:

• continuing with a focus on thorough hand and respiratory hygiene across the school is a sensible measure to retain, pandemic or not, so we will continue with this
• mask wearing is a personal choice
• testing twice per week has now ceased and we should only test if symptoms develop
• the legal requirement to isolate has been removed, but teaching unions have issued the advice below, which we will follow:
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Please take the time to read through the rest of the newsletter, so you are up-to-date on everything that has been happening at UCC.

I hope you have a great weekend.

Take care
Mr Solly.