Live lessons start tomorrow.  You should follow your normal school timetable from home each day.

All live lessons will be accessed via Google Classroom.

Your class teachers will share a link to their Google Classroom and any other instructions in ClassCharts for you if you haven’t already joined their class.

Go to the teacher’s Google Classroom at the normal time – a register will be taken in each lesson.  There is no tutor time.

• Lesson 1: 8:45 am
• Lesson 2: 9:35 am
• Morning break
• Lesson 3: 10:40 am
• Lesson 4: 11:30 am
• Lunch break
• Lesson 5: 12:50 pm
• Lesson 6: 1:40 pm

Once your teacher has joined the live lesson, a Meet link will appear at the top of the page in the Google Class.  This link will not be visible until your teacher has joined the meeting – please be patient!

Once the Meet link appears, click on it to join the live lesson.

If your teacher is absent for any reason, cover work will be set in ClassCharts.

Any issues, please contact your Head of Year or Student Welfare Officer.

Please ensure you stick to our live lesson rules below:

Ready, respectful, safe

Appropriate dress, location, background

No distractions, devices, eating or fizzy drinks

Microphones muted and cameras off except for register or when asked by teacher

Pin your teacher’s screen to the main screen

Use the Raise hand facility to ask a question

No recording, photographing, sharing

Leave lesson promptly at end when asked

Rewards: Home School Engagement reward for attendance at each lesson

Consequences: Verbal reminder, formal warning, removal from lesson, parents contacted.

2018 saw students at Belmont sitting the new style more rigorous GCSEs and achieving impressive results.  Results in nearly every subject are up with the most impressive improvements in English, Maths, Science, MFL and History.

The Local Authority’s investment in new science labs last year meant students could really get to grips with all the practical elements of the new rigorous GCSEs.  The results have soared as a consequence; surpassing expectations, as well as local and national averages this year.

Paul Marsden, Headteacher said: “We are thrilled for the students, who have all done so well!  These results mean they have greater options available to them post-16 and enable students to secure their first choice courses.  It will give them the self-belief to go on and become the next generation of doctors, teachers, engineers and scientists the country needs.  Belmont School is undergoing a renaissance, but we need to keep the ball rolling.  We welcome the investment from Durham County Council and have shown what we can do as a local authority school with their backing.  We believe these results highlight the need for further investment, as we are one of the only remaining Durham schools without a new build.  They are down to hard work from students and staff alike.  Everyone needs congratulating!”

The school’s growing reputation has meant that it is oversubscribed for the first time for new students in September 2018.