Welcome to the weekly Newsletter for parents and carers of students attending John Hanson Community School.
Inspire - Care - Succeed
‘HEAD’ Lines
When 7 becomes 5
Dear Parents/Carers
As we move to what seems to be the next phase of ‘living with COVID’ I am keeping this week’s ‘HEAD’ Lines very much focused on the facts and actions.
You will be aware that From Monday 17 January, people who are self-isolating with COVID-19 will have the option to reduce their isolation period after 5 full days if they test negative with a lateral flow device (LFD) test on both day 5 and day 6 and they do not have a temperature. For example, if they test negative on the morning of day 5 and the morning of day 6, they can return to school immediately on day 6.
The first test must be taken no earlier than day 5 of the self-isolation period, and the second must be taken the following day. All test results should be reported to NHS Test and Trace. Evidence of these 2 negative tests in the form of the email/text received form NHS Test and Trace should be provided to the school before the student returns – a photo of the Lateral Flow Test cassette is not sufficient.
If the result of either of their tests is positive, they should continue to self-isolate until they get negative results from two LFD tests on consecutive days or until they have completed 10 full days of self-isolation, whichever is earliest.
Anyone who is unable to take LFD tests or anyone who continues to have a temperature will need to complete the full 10-day period of self-isolation.
I have included a diagram below that hopefully helps to explain this change:
Stay safe and well
Russell Stevens
Headteacher
CLICK HERE or on the image below to find out more about the Hampshire and
Isle of Wight Saliva Testing Programme
Next Thursday (20th of January) is the third John Hanson Community School PSHE Day. During the day students will be off timetable covering a number of important topics. Please see the below list outlining what your child will be covering:
Year 7
Parents in prison – Tutor session
What to do in an unsafe situation
Refugees
British values
Human Rights
Emotion Coaching
Mental Health
Year 8
Climate Change documentary – Tutor & session 1
Climate change - What the government say
The plastic problem
Local Nature Reserves
Recycling
Grow your own
Year 9
BCOT – Assembly
The option process
Life after John Hanson
Choices – Winchester Uni
The Buzz Test
Employment
Life Skills
Andover & Sparsholt Collect
Year 10
Parents in Prison – Tutor Session
WEX Launch
Knife Crime
Etiquette
British Values - Tolerance
Gender Based Violence
Honour Based Violence
Year 11 - Must wear PE Kit all day
Coercive Control – Tutor and session 1
Online Relationships
Condom Demos
Silly Cow
Thinking about a future healthy lifestyle
Having a child
We are delighted to announce that John Hanson Community School has been awarded the E.A.L Excellence Silver Award from the Ethnic Minority Traveller Achievement Service (EMTAS). The award has accredited our ongoing and consistent work with students who speak English as Additional Language and their families.
The framework has proved to be an invaluable tool which has enabled our school to ensure the provision we are offering is making the very best impact on all our EAL students and their families. There are officially, 117 students that attend our school that have a very diverse cultural and linguistic background. EMTAS has offered John Hanson vital support throughout this whole process, via e-mails, Teams meetings as well as several visits to the school.
This self-evaluation set of standards have helped our school monitor our practice, our provision and supported us to reflect other areas that might need improving. The EAL Excellence Silver award reflects our school vision and ethos to ‘Inspire, Care, Succeed’ and links perfectly with the work already being undertaken at our school since 2010 by Miss C Ferreira.
The areas that were assessed in order to achieve the award involved;
Leadership and Management
Pedagogy and Practice
Data, Assessment and Progress
Teaching and learning
Parental Engagement
We would like to thank all the students, staff and parents who contributed to this achievement.
As a school, we are thrilled to be the first secondary school in Hampshire to achieve this award! We will aim for Gold!
Miss Crissie Ferreira
EAL Co-ordinator
Russell Stevens - Headteacher, Crissie Ferreira EAL co-ordinator and Mrs Helen Smith the Excellence award validator, Specialist Teacher advisor, district Co-ordinator for Hart & Rushmoor and Operational Lead - Traveller Team EMTAS
Please encourage your son/daughter to use their SCHOOL EMAIL for work rather than their own private email. This is important for safeguarding and also some of our messages for students are being sent to school email addresses.
Social engineering is a common technique malicious actors use to gain the trust of people, offering valuable lures or using impersonation to gain access to valuable personal information. Students need to be able to identify the most common social engineering techniquesand the psychology of influence ( for example: scarcity, urgency and reciprocity), in order to combat these threats.
Social engineering attacks happen in one or more steps. A perpetrator first investigates the intended victim to gather necessary background information, such as potential points of entry and weak security protocols, needed to proceed with the attack. Then, the attacker moves to gain the victim’s trust and provide stimuli for subsequent actions that break security practices, such as revealing sensitive information or granting access to critical resources.
Specifics to look for:
Baiting - As its name suggests, baiting attacks use a false promise to pique a victim’s greed or curiosity. They lure users into a trap that steals their personal information or inflicts their systems with malware. For example, a fake teacher account may offer students 10 extra stamps if they click a specific link. Beware! That link might give away your personal details.
Scareware - Scareware involves victims being bombarded with false alarms and fictitious threats. Users are deceived to think their system is infected with malware, prompting them to install software that has no real benefit ( other than for the perpetrator ) or is malware itself. Scareware is also referred to as deception software, rogue scanner software and fraudware.
Phishing - As one of the most popular social engineering attack types, phishing scams are email and text message campaigns aimed at creating a sense of urgency, curiosity or fear in victims. It then prods them into revealing sensitive information, clicking on links to malicious websites, or opening attachments that contain malware.
Please see the other useful links.
Think you know – Activity Packs relating to online safety Who’s watching yours? – 17% increase in children livestreaming since lockdown (Advice to help parents/carers minimise risk to children online) Mental health – How to look after your family’s mental health when stuck indoors Houseparty – Everything you need to know.
John Hanson Computing Department
Performing Arts
Our after school activities return as normal starting next week.
Instrumental Lessons
If your son/daughter would like to learn to play a musical instrument please contact Mike Adams - Head of Music and Drama for details. Email - mike.adams@jhanson.hants.sch.uk
Teachers from Hampshire Music Service visit the school and we can offer lessons in Piano, Woodwind, Brass, Guitar, and Percussion (Drumming).
We have added a page on the website of video How To Guides
