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If you know in advance that your child will be absent from school, please notify their class teacher/mentor as soon as you are aware. If your child is ill, please inform the class teacher/mentor and Reception as soon as possible on the day of absence, including letting them know if they would normally be on the school bus. Please also notify us by emailing Ìýabsence@tbs.edu.np or phoning 01-5421794.

As we move forward this year, we aim to maximise the teaching and learning opportunities for our students while also working to keep them safe and healthy. The following measures will be important in ensuring a good balance with both of these:

Prevention:

• We have a highly vaccinated community already and also hope to begin vaccination for U12s at the start of Term 1
• Strategies in place are aimed at keeping transmission rates low from confirmed positive cases through isolation and from possible positive cases through vigilance of potential symptomsÌý
• Parents and carers are asked to ensure that children displaying symptoms do not attend school, even if antigen test results are negative
• Contact tracing will continue, however updated measures will be in place for those who have had close contact with positive cases
• Close contacts not living in the same household as a positive case can come to school however:
  • Daily antigen testing is required from Day 1 of the last contact with a positive case to Day 5
  • Close monitoring for symptoms () with awareness that even if these are very mild they should still be taken seriously
  • Mask wearing in school will be compulsory for close contacts
  • 2m+ distance to be kept as much as possible, with 1m minimum at all times
• Close contacts of positive cases living in the same household should continue to isolate for 5 days and test at the end of this period or sooner if symptoms are noted

Identification of positive cases:

• is available to help identify potential cases. Many people (especially children and those who are vaccinated) are experiencing quite mild symptoms now. Please do also watch out for the less obvious symptoms such as a sore throat, fatigue and sickness/diarrhoea.
• Weekly testing for staff and students will continue for the time being, with parents/carers being asked to record results on our school before their child arrives at school.

Covid Support:

• Our specially trained nurses can support community members with advice around potential casesÌý
• A minimum of 7 days isolation will be required from the onset of symptoms, in line with government guidance
• Positive cases should be reported to covid@tbs.edu.np

If you have any questions, please contact us and we will be happy to discuss any aspect of this with you.

Our staff visited our community partners this week to ensure that our links remain strong. We have already started planning ways to work together this year and we are looking forward to building on our previous strengths.

We are extremely excited to welcome all our Early Years and Primary students to the start of the academic year.Ìý

We have many exciting learning opportunities planned and are looking forward to getting to know each other as we continue or begin our learning journeys together.

To ensure that our young learners are able to develop their learning skills and achieve their personal excellence, we are starting the term with our Brainwaves IPC topic where we will be looking at how we learn and the approaches to learning that can best support us as individuals. Our students will be playing an integral part in developing their learning environment to support their progress and we will be looking at our learning animals and how their behaviours feed into our holistic development.

Although very exciting, the start of term is also a time of change for our children and we very much look forward to working with our Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ families to ensure that the transition is smooth and enjoyable for all. We will be in touch soon with details of our Parent Information Sessions where you will meet your children’s teachers and learn about what they will be experiencing over the coming term.

We look forward to welcoming you all back on Monday!

I’m Jess Barnecutt, the new Deputy Headteacher for secondary. I have moved from London where I was also a Deputy Headteacher. My passion is curriculum development and I am really excited to have joined Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ. I am looking forward to working with staff to provide an excellent experience for all our students.Ìý

Yesterday we received our first set of A Level results for this academic year and as always, we are very proud of our students’ academic attainment.Ìý Across all sciences, the average number of A* and A grades was 63%- an incredible achievement for our students. In Maths, 43% of grades were A* or A , and we also had great success in Further Maths. We are still waiting on more results next week, but so far our students have confirmed places at highly respected universities in the UK, the USA and in Korea. Congratulations to all of our students and we look forward to receiving more results over the coming weeks.