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The school office will be open from 8am until 10am each day (Monday to Friday).
You can contact us on 01244 550217 or post@elfedhs.co.uk and someone will get back to you as soon as possible.
Support@Elfed
If you think your child would benefit from accessing remote support provided by our School Youth Worker, Miss Gill Smith, please e-mail support@elfed-hs.flintshire.sch.uk Miss Smith will contact you via e-mail to discuss your concerns and if appropriate, make arrangements to get in touch via phone. As a parent/carer, you may also wish to access this support to discuss your child and different support paths which might be available to you.
Resilience Hubs
From Monday 30th March Flintshire County Council will be changing its model for the provision of childcare for key workers and vulnerable learners. The Council will operate a smaller number of strategically located primary, secondary and special school hubs, close to major traffic routes in both urban and rural areas.
You must be able to provide evidence that you meet the essential criteria of being a critical worker whose circumstances require emergency childcare or that your child has significant vulnerabilities which would make emergency childcare necessary.
The message in this national emergency is very clear:
‘Stay Home – Protect the NHS – Save Lives’.
Every child who can be safely cared for at home should be and only where there is no safe alternative should provision be made in schools or other settings.
If you are classed as a critical worker but are able to perform the critical parts of your job effectively when working from home, then you should do so. If one parent is a critical worker but the other parent is not then the other parent should provide safe alternative arrangements at home when possible.
If you feel that you require access to the emergency childcare, please contact us by email at post@elfedhs.co.uk or call us on 01244 550217 between 8am and 10am at least 24 hours before you require emergency childcare so that we can assess your application.
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Arrangements for Supporting Students’ Learning at Home
Although the school site will be closed, our teaching staff will continue to provide online learning experiences. We appreciate that this is not the same as face to face contact, but please be assured that we are doing everything we can to support students’ learning during this difficult and unprecedented time.
Teacher have been asked to set online learning opportunities through ‘Show My Homework’ and Google Classroom; students are familiar with using these online learning platforms both in school and at home.
We ask all students to log into ‘Show My Homework’ each day to access their work.
To further support the online learning experiences set by teachers, we encourage students in years 7 to 9 to read each day, and for students in years 10 and 11 to access GCSE Pod.
On our website, www.elfedhs.co.uk, we have provided the relevant links and help guides to support these online experiences. Please click on the ‘Show My Homework’ and ‘Elfed Portal’ links on the right hand side on our home page. We also encourage you to follow us on Twitter @ElfedHS.
Further details of our online learning platforms are below:
| Online Learning Platform | Guidance documents available on our website |
| Show My Homework:
Link on school website home page App on Apple and Android |
Quick Access Guide: How to log in
Student Guide |
| Google Classroom | Parent Guide |
| GCSE Pod | Relevant links and guidance |
We realise that our students and parents may have technical queries when accessing these resources, and in these instances, we ask that you email post@elfedhs.co.uk for further support and guidance.
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Elfed High School will be closed to all pupils from tomorrow morning (Thursday 19th March 2020).
Please see the attached letter from Mr Stubbs.
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Public Health Wales have issued guidance on the coronavirus. Please click on the link below.
PHW Novel Coronoavirus (COVID19) guidance for schools
Welcome to Elfed High School, an Outstanding Learning Community where the staff and students share a passion for excellent teaching and learning.
We share the values of respect, honesty and integrity, high aspirations and self belief. We learn together and make the most of opportunities in lessons and outside the curriculum. Students are proud to be part of our school community and value the high quality of care and guidance that is available to them. We love learning and our students benefit from the support and guidance of the best teachers.
Like you, we want your child to be happy, safe and successful and to become an adult of whom you and we are proud. We will provide guidance, encouragement and support for your child to become confident and resilient, with a desire to make the most of life.
Please contact me on 01244 550217 for more information or to arrange a visit; you will be most welcome.
Alistair Stubbs
Headteacher
Elfed High School won the Wales Quality Award in 2016.
In 2015 Estyn inspectors judged the school to be ‘excellent’ in both their overall judgements. Read more about the Estyn inspection here.
“Elfed is a school where every single student is supported and challenged to succeed. The results confirm that this is true.” Huw Lewis, Minister for Education and Skills.
