SCHOOLS around the country are approaching the end of the first full term with students in school since the start of lockdown. It has also been the first term for Jamie Gutch in a new role as Deputy Headteacher at Ilkley Grammar School (IGS), with responsibility for Post-16 and Personal Development. Here he reflects on how IGS (the founding school of Moorlands Learning Trust) and the wider community have adjusted to new ways of working FOR Post-16, the new academic year starts in mid-August with A level and GCSE results days. Results days this year were like no others ever before, delivered virtually against a national backdrop that was changing almost daily. These were times of extraordinary uncertainty for students and parents.
SCHOOLS around the country are approaching the end of the first full term with students in school since the start of lockdown. It has also been the first term for Jamie Gutch in a new role as Deputy Headteacher at Ilkley Grammar School (IGS), with responsibility for Post-16 and Personal Development. Here he reflects on how IGS (the founding school of Moorlands Learning Trust) and the wider community have adjusted to new ways of working FOR Post-16, the new academic year starts in mid-August with A level and GCSE results days. Results days this year were like no others ever before, delivered virtually against a national backdrop that was changing almost daily. These were times of extraordinary uncertainty for students and parents.