Well Being – Return to School- Newsletter 1 – 3.7.2020

The new normal As the school prepares to be fully open for all of our school community in September we need to start to prepare our emotional health and well being for this change. The school has brought together some helpful resources in a newsletter to help cope with this new normal.  

Junior Maths Challenge Success

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Nearly 50 students from Year 7 & 8 competed in this year’s Junior Maths Challenge, in a new digital format to enable students to compete from their living room! A number of students achieved the coveted Bronze, Silver & Gold Certificates, but top place in Year 7 goes to Elise while Nabil was top of Year 8. Students… Read more

Letter to Year 8 Parents and Carers – 8.7.2020

Dear Y8 Parent/ Carer,   Re: 1-1 Meetings for Y8 planned for Tuesday 14th July – Friday 17th July   We would firstly like to thank you for all your support with engaging your child with home learning. The next step is for year 8 students to attend a focused 1-1 meeting between one student… Read more

New Provider for Free School Meal Vouchers – Edenred

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Dear Parent or Carer   Following Government guidelines, we will now be changing the company we use to distribute both your weekly Free School Meals vouchers and also the Summer Holiday Food voucher.   From 15 July 2020 we will be using a company called Edenred.   To help you use the new system, I… Read more

Virtual Sussex School Games – 7.7.2020

Good morning all,   There are only 2 more weeks of the Sussex School Games so it would be great to see Longhill move up the leaderboard!   Hopefully some of you took part in last week’s Rugby challenges and were able to earn some points for Longhill!   This week’s challenges are all about Golf. Don’t… Read more

Letter to Year 9 Parents and Carers – 30/6/2020

Dear Y9 Parent/ Carer,   We would firstly like to thank you for all of your support with engaging your child with home learning. The next step is for year 9 students to attend a focused 1-1 meeting between one student and a member of staff. We have already undertaken this with our year 10s… Read more

Longhill High School Lockdown Quiz

During the lock down the school has continued to support our school community on-line in a number of new ways. Here is an example.   See how many questions you can answer with your family, on your own or with your friends in a virtual team.   Enjoy.  

Year 6 Vlog – Episode 3

We are putting together weekly VLOGS to prepare year 6 pupils for their next steps and allow them to see that they are not alone in these very uncertain times. The videos are being created to show as many staff as we can before your child transitions to secondary school and to go through common questions… Read more

Sussex Police Letter to Year 11 Parents 29.6.2020

Dear Parents/Guardians   Due to the coronavirus, which has led to the lockdown and closing of schools we are aware that this year’s school prom/parties for year 11’s and 13’s have had to be cancelled by schools.   We recognise that these young people would like to mark the moving on from their school or… Read more

School Nurses

Dear Parents and Carers   This is to let you know that the School Nurse team have created a video to let young people know they’re still here for them. Please watch this and discuss with your child if they want to make contact.