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FROM THE DEPUTY PRINCIPAL’S DESK
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D
ear Parents,

Our students have continued to stay committed to their Online Learning and we are ensuring

that members of staff deliver high-quality lessons and After School Activities. Our Heads of
Faculty have continued to monitor the syllabus to ensure that Schemes of Work are covered. Staff members

have also continued to offer extra support to students who are not gaining mastery of certain aspects of the
syllabus. There has been great synergy between students and staff and this has kept us motivated.

In recent times, we have received requests from some students to cancel the PSHE examinations because they
do not see the relevance since it is a non-examinable subject. In my opinion, the PSHE lesson is perhaps the
most important subject in the development of a child during their teenage years. Students focus on issues that

affect their development. Since we started the Online Programme, Key Stage 3 students have focused on
topics to do with Online Safety and Bullying, including Staying Healthy physically and mentally, while the
Key Stage 4 students have treated topics to do with Achieving Goals, Emotional Intelligence and Self-

awareness. Particularly with the pandemic and lock-down, where social interaction has been limited, PSHE
helps for mental well- being and social engagement.

It is important that as parents, we continue to discuss these topics with our children and hear from them on
issues that affect them. We sometimes think all is well with them but do not realise some of the challenges

they might be passing through as teenagers. Sadly, if we do not teach or advise them, their friends and
strangers might. We have to be watchful of who their role models are especially in our present world where
people live fake lives on social media to the admiration of many young people. We know as adults that this is

often very far from reality.

We do not take our PSHE Programme lightly and have continued to look for ways to improve the delivery

and to ensure that our students learn from it. The examinations would follow the same pattern with their
weekly quizzes where students read a text, watch a video and answer multiple-choice-questions. We continue

to look for ways to bring this information to their attention and ensure they are learning from it. We
encourage them to be prepared for all their examinations and in particular, the PSHE Examination.

We would like to thank our parents for the huge increase in the number of those who have changed the
Google Classroom Summaries responses to ‘Daily’ from ‘Weekly’ or ‘No Access’. They are now able to
monitor their children’s work in their Google Classroom.

We wish all our students success in their forthcoming examinations.

Kind regards,
Mr. Olusegun David Akinola - Deputy Principal

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