30th March 2021 Dear Year 8 Parents & Carers, I am delighted to be writing to you at the end of this term, with an Academy full of students and the sun shining. I truly hope that this is a sign of a bright, and relatively normal, Summer Term to come. Below are some updates and reminders we would like to share with you: End of Spring Term and start of Summer Term arrangements The last day of the Spring Term for all students will be Thursday 1st April at 3.20pm. Friday 2nd April is a Bank Holiday and the Academy will be closed. The start of Summer Term for all students is on Monday 19th April at 8.25am. Update your contact details and permissions via MCAS We write to you annually to ask you to check and update your contact details for each child to ensure we have the most up to date information. This includes reviewing the consents you have given for your child for things such as photographs. Consents will now be easy to review vis the MCAS app, viewable from Thursday 1st April. Please take the time to check these details over the Easter Holidays. We are coming to Facebook We want to be able to share information and celebrate good news with our parents/carers easily, we are therefore delighted to tell you that we will shortly be on Facebook. Here we will share reminders, events and good news regularly so that you can effortlessly stay up to date. We have added a photographic consent form for Facebook on the options, which will appear on MCAS later this week. Please update this box so that we know whether your child’s image can be shared on this platform. Keep a look out for our page when it goes live. GCSE Options We would like to take this opportunity to apologise to you for the delay in communicating to you about GCSE options. We would like to assure you that work on this is in hand, and there will not be any detrimental impact for students because of this delay. We will write with full details upon our return after the Easter break. Principal – Ms Catrin Green Homefield Road, Old Coulsdon, Surrey, CR5 1ES Tel: 01737 551 161. www.oasisacademycoulsdon.org Oasis Academy Coulsdon is sponsored by Oasis Community Learning www.oasiscommunitylearning.org – part of Oasis UK. Oasis Community Learning is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England & Wales No 5398529. Registered Office: 75 Westminster Bridge Road, London SE1 7HS. Catch-up Immunisation Clinics Please see the below information shared with us from our local NHS team: We are offering appointments for any students who did not receive the Teenage Booster vaccination at school. If parents/guardians have not done so already, please complete and email the consent form to [email protected], even if you do not wish your child to have the vaccinations. Forms can be requested from the above email address if you do not have a copy. These are the following clinics available: Tuesday 6th April- Purley Library (Banstead Road, Purley, CR8 3YH) Wednesday 7th April- Thornton Heath Library (326 Wickham Rd, Shirley, Croydon CR0 8BH) Thursday 8th April- Shirley Library (190 Brigstock Rd, Thornton Heath CR7 7JB) Tuesday 13th April - 12-18 Lennard Road, Croydon, CR9 2RS Wednesday 14th April- 12-18 Lennard Road, Croydon, CR9 2RS Thursday 15th April - 12-18 Lennard Road, Croydon, CR9 2RS These sessions are by appointment only, please call the team on 020 8724 6453. As always, thank you for your support during this past term. I would like to wish you all an enjoyable and restful Easter break. Yours sincerely, Ms C Green Principal Principal – Ms Catrin Green Homefield Road, Old Coulsdon, Surrey, CR5 1ES Tel: 01737 551 161. www.oasisacademycoulsdon.org Oasis Academy Coulsdon is sponsored by Oasis Community Learning www.oasiscommunitylearning.org – part of Oasis UK. Oasis Community Learning is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England & Wales No 5398529. Registered Office: 75 Westminster Bridge Road, London SE1 7HS. .