In order to support schools at this time, the Department for Education has set up a coronavirus helpline to answer COVID-19 questions related to education.
Staff, parents and young people can contact the helpline as follows.
Department for Education Coronavirus helpline: Phone 0800 046 8687 Open from 8am to 6pm, Monday to Friday
School office opening times during COVID-19
Monday to Friday – 8.50am to 3.30pm
Letter from the Headmaster - School Re-Opening (dated 01 June 2020)
Code of Conduct - School Re-Opening
Operations Risk Assessment - School Re-Opening
Premises Risk Assessment - School Re-Opening
Letter from the Headmaster for all Year 7 - 9 pupils - 4 June 2020
Letter from the Headmaster for all Year 11 & 13 pupils - 4 June 2020
Letter from the Headmaster - 22 May 2020
Letter from LA regarding the return of Year 10 & 12 students - 21 May 2020
Letter from the Headmaster to all parents - 13 May 2020
Local Authority letter to parents - 12 May 2020
Internet safety leaflet - Cumbria Prevent Team and DfE
Centre-assessed grades for Year 11 and Year 13 students, and Sixth Form information
Letter from the Headmaster - Remote Learning 14 April 2020
Safeguarding poster - Includes guidance and information to help keep children in Cumbria safe.
School provision for children of key workers letter 19 March 2020
Coronavirus (COVID-19) - advice from Cumbria County Council 16 March 2020
NTS Coronavirus (COVID -19) Information letter 13 March 2020
NTS Coronavirus (COVID-19) FAQs 13 March 2020
NTSmiles for the NHS - PE challenge (information and links)
NTS recommended websites for remote learning
How to sign up to SenecaLearning
How to attach files to emails (pupils)
How to create email inbox folders
Pupil use - Opening files online
Remote learning - careers information (also see our careers page for further guidance)
How to upload work onto Moodle
Moodle password reset guidance
Resizing images to upload to Moodle
How to support your child - COVID-19
Still "outstanding"
- Ofsted, May 2013
Nothing that happens at NTS does so by accident. The impeccable behaviour of our pupils (Ofsted’s phrasing, not mine), their politeness and good manners, their achievement (academic and extra-curricular) are all down to sheer hard work — theirs and ours. The standards we have fought hard to maintain have been established over many years by the commitment of a dedicated team of professionals.
The local context (a small industrial town in rural northern Cumbria) is, perhaps, not one you might associate with academic excellence and yet we were the first secondary school in the county to have been judged “outstanding” by Ofsted under their revised framework.
You will probably want to see for yourself what we have to offer and, to this end, I would be delighted to show you around.
Sam Northwood, MA, MEd
Headmaster
We hope you can find all the information you need.
Please feel free to get in touch with us by clicking the contact button at the top of each page.
The Nelson Thomlinson School was the first Cumbrian secondary school to be judged “outstanding” under the new Ofsted framework.
Ofsted, May 2013
It is crucial that, as we continue to develop as a school, we retain the atmosphere and environment that is ‘NTS.’
We call it NTS-ness.
We expect to ‘NTS’ all new members of our community. Staff and students need to understand why we are special, how we achieved this and recognise that it is not a ‘given’. To this end, we want everyone to have pride in ‘NTS-ness’.
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