The Hallifordian 2020-2021-v1

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Spring Highlights

Halliford School Test site

The Halliford Test Centre by Mr James Davies, Headmaster

The Halliford School Test Centre was created in record time to be ready to receive students and staff for mass testing to keep the Halliford School community safe. Whilst not needed for the first half of the Spring Term, it was ready for when we returned to school after the lockdown period on Monday 8th March. A huge thank you to our wonderful parent volunteers who helped with the testing. We simply could not have managed without the help and support of the parent volunteers. It is a mark of our wonderful school community that they all gave their time so generously to assist us. One parent volunteer commented, “It has been an absolute pleasure volunteering to help the students with their lateral flow tests. I’m sure you already know this, but what a stellar group of boys and girls who were beyond polite and

Testing at home

thanked me after I’d encouraged them through a quite unpleasant experience. I am actually very #proudtobeahallifordian parent.” With our array of Covid secure measures in place, we were so pleased that we did not report one positive case amongst our students or staff, as we moved to home testing, and I am so grateful to our students for continuing with testing at home as we do all we can to keep our community safe.

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