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• Job Vacancy for Form Tutor and Cookery Instructor

  Sun 25 Jul 2021 Tolga Martin

  Form Tutor and Cookery Instructor at Polygon Specialist School

   

  Fixed Term Contract 01-09-2021(or as soon as possible) to 31-08-2022

   

  Do you have experience working in catering or hospitality or a deep interest in healthy food?

   

  Are you willing and able to be the form tutor for up to 7 boys aged 12-14 years in a key stage 3 tutor group?

   

  Do you believe you can work successfully with boys who have complex neurodevelopment disorders such as ADHD / FASD / PDA / PTSD / ODD /Sp.LD / ASD or developmental delay?

  Are you an organised person, able to keep your head in a crisis?

  Can you motivate and support a young person to prepare and make meals from source ingredients?

  Do you know how to grow vegetables and to use what is grown in a cooking programme?

  Can you empathise with chronic social difficulties, and yet keep firm professional boundaries?

  Are you able to follow a prepared curriculum pathway to ensure our pupils get their best result from a GCSE Food Technology course?

   

  If so, we would like to hear from you!

   

   

  The Polygon School is a specialist school that supports, educates and helps to make a difference in the lives of 70 boys and young men with social, emotional and mental health issues.

   

  This post is expanding our team for one year, to ensure that our pupils get the best possible start in life.

   

  The successful candidate will be working alongside a Support Assistant for most of the school day but will lead the tutor group, ensuring pastoral responsibility for a specific group of 7 pupils.

   

  The post is offered on a one year contract in the first instance and is subject to annual review. It may be of interest to a new graduate who is considering a career in education, or to an experienced person looking for an interesting career change.

   

  It is offered on Unqualified teacher rate of pay.

  The work will involve leading cookery classes; following the GCSE Food Technology curriculum pathway with key Stage 4 pupils, and ensuring that within year assessments take place. Support will be provided for this by the staff team.

  There will be a requirement to uphold all safeguarding procedures and school internal recording processes, to participate in meetings, and to make written reports to a good standard of English.

   

  The post will be for 32.5 hours per week, term time only.

   

  Starting time 08.30 hrs. Finishing time 15.30 hrs during the school term times

  Salary Grade: Unqualified Teacher between £18,169 and £28,735 dependent upon qualifications and experience.

   

  Starting date: 01-09-2021 or as soon as possible thereafter.

   

  For Job description, Person Specification and Application forms, please email Davina.Hargrave@polygon.southampton.sch.uk

   

  The closing date for applications is noon on Wednesday 11th August 2021.

   

   

  Interviews will be held on Monday 16th August 2021 – candidates are advised to keep this date free.

  The Polygon School is currently not offering any vacancies.   

• Letter from Head Teacher Covid- changes to contact tracing.

  Mon 19 Jul 2021

  Headteacher: Mrs Anne Hendon-John 16th July 2021

  Dear Parents/ carers

  Re: Changes to contact tracing in education and childcare settings

  As you know, the Prime Minister announced on 12 July that Step 4 of the roadmap would go ahead on 19 July.

  One of the key changes that will take place from 19 July is that schools will no longer be asked to conduct routine contact tracing. As with positive cases in any other setting, NHS Test and Trace will work with either the positive case – or in the case of children – the parents, carers or guardian of the positive case to identify close contacts.

  What happens after 19th July?

  If you child tests positive for COVID-19.

  Self-isolating and taking a test

  1. If your child has symptoms, they and other members of the household should self-isolate – and you should inform the school office if your child would be in school, especially if you have booked a place for Summer School on 9th-20th August.

  You should immediately order a PCR test for them.

  If the PCR result is negative, they and other members of their household can stop self-isolating (unless instructed to self-isolate for other reasons). If the PCR result is positive, they, other members of their household and any close contacts identified by NHS Track and Trace must self-isolate until 10 days after the onset of symptoms.

   

  2. If your child has a positive result from a lateral flow device (LFD) test, they and other members of the household should self-isolate –you should immediately order a confirmatory PCR test. If the confirmatory test is taken within two days and the result is negative, they and other members of their household can stop self-isolating (unless instructed to self-isolate for other reasons). If the confirmatory PCR test is positive (or is taken more than two days after the LFD), other members of their household and any close contacts identified by NHS Track and Trace must self-isolate until 10 days after the LFD test. 3. PCR tests can be booked online through the NHS Test & Trace website or by calling 119.

  4. PCR test results will be recorded with NHS Test and Trace automatically, but you should also communicate the result to the school if it effects Summer School (9th-20th August).

  Contact tracing

  5. If your child gets a positive PCR test result, NHS Test and Trace will contact you, using the details you registered when ordering the PCR test. You and/or your child will be asked a series of specific questions designed to identify who your child has been in close contact with. Being in school with someone who has tested positive for COVID-19 will not necessarily mean a person is identified as a close contact.

  6. You will be asked to provide the contact details, if you know them, of any of the individuals – or their parents or guardians – who have been identified as close contacts. NHS Test and Trace will then get in touch with these close contacts and provide appropriate instructions or advice (see below).

   

  Self-isolation and/or testing of close contacts

  7. At present, anyone identified as a close contact is legally required to self-isolate and must not attend school. Anyone identified as a non-household close contact by NHS Track and Trace must self-isolate until 10 days after the date of their most recent contact with that person. If they live in the same household, they must self-isolate until 10 days after the date of that person developing symptoms (see point 1 above) or, if that person was asymptomatic, the date of their test (see point 2 above). NHS Test and Trace will notify you of the day on which the self-isolation period ends.

  8. Close contacts are also advised to take a PCR test. If the test result is negative, they must still complete the full self-isolation period, as the test will not detect all positive cases. If the result is positive, they will need to self-isolate for a further 10 days – and NHS Test and Trace will contact them to identify any close contacts.

  9. From 16 August, if the close contact is under 18, they will not have to self-isolate (in line with the policy for fully vaccinated adults) but will be asked to take an PCR test immediately, other than for very young children identified as non-household contacts, and they will not need to self-isolate while awaiting the results of the test. If the PCR test is positive, they will be required to self-isolate for 10 days from the date of the test. NHS Test and Trace will then get in touch to identify close contacts (see points 5 and 6 above). Further guidance on these changes to self-isolation will be provided shortly.

   

   

   

   

   

  We recognise how difficult the past 18 months have been and the sacrifices that all families, children and school staff have had to make. This has been an enormously challenging time for everyone and we would like to take the opportunity to thank you for everything you have done to support our work.

  I wish you a peaceful and healthy summer holiday, and look forward to seeing some children at Summer School in August.

  The new school term starts on Monday 6th September at 11.00 a.m

  Best wishes

   

  Anne Hendon-John.

  

• New Pricing for School Meals from September 2021

  Thu 15 Jul 2021

  Note for parents and carers who pay for school meals: From September 2021, City Catering advises the new cost will be £2.55.

   

  Please click the link below to visit their website:

  https://www.citycateringsouthampton.co.uk/schools

• Coronavirus Update from the Department of Education dated 14th July

  Wed 14 Jul 2021

  Please click here to link to our webpage regarding the Department of Education's Coronvirus update. 

• Southampton Parent Carer Forum Open Day- 17th July at Oasis Academy, Lordshill

  Thu 01 Jul 2021

  Southampton Parent Carer Forum is holding an Open Day Saturday 17th July at Oasis Academy, Lordshill. 

   

  Please click the link here if to find out more on our Parents Information section section.