Tuesday 28th April 2020
Outside the Box A newsletter helping the Box Hill School community stay together, stay informed and stay happy.
“Great Minds Don’t Think Alike”
Daily Wellbeing Tasks Take time today to be with family/friends – dinner or Zoom meeting.
The start of the Summer Term Welcome back! We hope that you have all had a good break despite the challenging circumstances and have made the most of this opportunity to spend time with family, read, enjoy the fantastic weather and use technology to keep in touch with friends. Over Easter, we have been readying ourselves for a continuation of remote learning and we have started the new term combining videoconference lessons with more self-guided tasks for students to complete at their own pace. In addition, daily registrations have been implemented; a great opportunity for tutors and students to catch up and work together to solve any issues that may arise. These registration sessions are hugely important not just so that we can check in with students but also so that they can check in with each other and have some much-need social contact with their friends. Although sadly this welcome will have to remain a virtual one for the time being, we look forward to being able to return to School in person!
Do something active – it does not matter what. Get the heart pumping. Start learning a new skill! Give something to someone else. Be attentive to the present – breathe, eat, exercise mindfully
As the first Pastoral newsletter, it is worth reminding everyone reading that the model for pastoral care at Box Hill School quite clearly places the child at the very centre of everything we do. This means that we, as a community, are all responsible for doing all that we can to ensure the wellbeing of our students. After all, “it takes a village to raise a child.” Please do not hesitate to get in touch with us; all the usual Pastoral care structures remain in place.