Year 12 Mathematicians have recently benefitted from a session with Dave Tuhey from the Advanced Maths Support Programme The workshop discussed the various entrance tests students might face when applying for maths-related degree courses at university and  provided a series of problem solving tasks to give students practical experience of  the type of  questions that could be included.  With Year 12 students currently starting the UCAS process, this session was an exceptionally useful morning and we look forward to hearing about the outcome of their university applications in the next academic year.

 

 

The Department for Education (DfE) today launched a new coronavirus (COVID-19) advice service for the education sector, including parents and carers. The relevant details are detailed below:

Department for Education Coronavirus helpline

We have launched a new helpline to answer questions about COVID-19 related to education. Staff, parents and young people can contact the helpline as follows:

Phone: 0800 046 8687
Email: DfE.coronavirushelpline@education.gov.uk
Opening hours: 8am to 6pm (Monday to Friday)

• No school should close in response to a suspected (or confirmed) COVID-19 case unless directed to do so by Public Health England.

Public Health England (PHE) says coronavirus presents as: “Flu-like symptoms including a fever, a cough, or difficulty breathing. If you have returned from [an affected area] and develop symptoms, however mild, you should stay indoors and call NHS 111. The current evidence is that most cases appear to be mild.”

A number of parents have been making enquiries about the educational visits which are, as you would expect, on the academic calendar between now and the summer holidays in July. Under government guidance in place at the time of writing, we will continue to prepare for those school trips to go ahead. But at the same time, we will also continue to monitor the daily advice being provided to schools by PHE. As you may have seen in today’s national news, the Prime Minister will tomorrow (Tuesday 3^rd March) be announcing new containment measures in relation to coronavirus in the UK; we will, of course, keep you updated with any developments  which impact on our academies.

Mr R Reeve
Director of Welfare

To ensure parents and carers can access the latest PHE guidance and the most up-to-date advice being issued by the NHS in relation to coronavirus (COVID-19), the academy website now has a specific page directing you to helpful and reliable information sources.

This can be found at: www.prioryruskin/parents/pheguidance. These links are being updated with the most recent government information on a regular basis.

As you may be aware from today’s news reports, the British government has updated its advice to travellers who have returned from northern Italy since 19th February. This follows the identified outbreak of coronavirus (COVID-19) in Lombardy and

On Monday 27th January staff and students at Ruskin joined people around the world to mark Holocaust Memorial Day, with the entire academy community coming together in our school corridors to hold a minute of silence. In recent weeks the academy has worked in conjunction with the Holocaust Educational Trust to ensure students really understand the significance of the day, what we are remembering and why it is so important to learn from it. This has been done by sharing powerful individual stories from the Holocaust – seeing the faces and hearing about the lives of some of the men, women and children who perished in the Nazi death camps.

The nation's leading publication for sport in schools, School Sports Magazine, has released its top 100 state schools for sport in England…and Ruskin has placed 26^th. This means Ruskin is in the top 1% of state schools for sport nationally. School Sports Magazine rankings are based on performance of competitive school teams across all age groups in a wide variety of national competitions. Noteworthy successes from  Ruskin for 2019 were:

 

U16 Girls Table Tennis National Finals 4th place
U16 Football ESFA Quarter Finalists
U16 Football County Cup Semi-Finalists
U15 Football District Winners
U16 Netball District Winners
U16 and U14 Boys Badminton Regional Finalists 3rd place
Track and Field Cup Junior Boys Regional B Final Winners
Track and Field Championships Junior Boys District Champions
Gymnastics District Champions
U13 Girls Football County Cup Finalists
Lincolnshire Schools Golf Championships 2019 (Handicap 14-28) – Individual Girls winner and Girls event team winners