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¡Hola a todos! Since creating this post in the final days of 2020, we are now in a nationwide 'confinamiento' from 6th January 2021 therefore all groups are remaining online for the foreseeable future. For students in Grupos Honduras, Mexico, Argentina and Nicaragua that signed up to the 4 month DD plan in December or the 11 month DD plan in August/September we promised to adjust the fees to the online rate of £12 per class. Today (14th January) I have initiated new direct debit plans to reflect a 13 week term at the online group rate. Hopefully your previous plans are now cancelled and your next instalment on 31st January will be for a lower amount. Gocardless should have spat out some emails about these changes with the details for you. For students who paid the deposit of £25 via the website or bank transfer invoices have also been sent out this week for the balance at the online rate. You can settle invoices by card, BACS or use the link in the cover email and on the invoice to set up a 3month direct debit plan. Invoices regularly end up in junk folders so please check if yours has not come through. If you have any queries relating to this terms fees or cannot remember if you paid the deposit or set up a plan (we have all had a lot on our minds lately) then please just ask. Also if you would like to view my calculations for this, believe I have made an error or have any queries please get in touch by phone or email. Gracias Katherine 🧚‍♂️

Wow we have made it to the end of term, all be it online and but looking at the rising virus cases, I think we made the right decision to move all groups back to online learning. It has also enabled us give smaller groups a longer lesson of 1.5hrs. The online learning has not hindered progression and at the end of this term we celebrate Andrea's A2 Thursday evening class Grupo Honduras completing the A2 course and they plan to move on to B1 in January 2021 ¡olé! The new term begins on 6th & 7th January for 13 weeks to 31st March & 1st April 2021. I have sent group (and some individual) emails about the plan for the new term. If in September you signed up to the 11 month DD plan you do not need to do anything, we will book you in for the new term in your usual group. For those that need to re-enrol there are two ways to do this: 1: BOOK ONLINE We are asking students to either pay a £25 deposit or set up a 4-month direct debit plan by 24th December 2020. All groups are open for booking on the website (under the adults tab) but this time it will only charge the £25 deposit when you book and I will invoice for the balance (where there will be an option to pay by card, BACS or set up a 3 month direct debit). 2: SET UP A 4-month DD Please check in this week's email and the timetable if your group is planned to return to the classroom without Zoom attendance/recordings or with Zoom attendance/recordings or if it will remain online next term and choose the relevant DD plan below before 24th December. The first instalment will be charged on 31st December 2020. Online group Spanish 4-month plan at £40 per month Classroom group Spanish 4-month plan (NO Zoom attendance/recordings) £43 per month Classroom group Spanish 4-month plan (with Zoom attendance/recordings) £46 per month We have set the timetable for the new term in the adult classes section of the website so either click the coloured text or take a look at the screen recording below. Classroom groups are planned to return provided there is no further lockdown or that we are not raised to tier 3 here in BANES. All students will receive a new term welcome email prior to the first lesson with info for groups returning to the classroom and new meeting links for those that will be online.

Hola a todos I think we were all hoping that by this point in 2020 we would be back to some form of normality, but following a second lockdown and going straight into Tier 2 means we are still a long way off this being the case. Local cases of Covid-19 are falling, so the measures in place are working but we all still need to do what we can and minimise the contact we have with others, protect our community and stop the spread of the virus. Below is the December Update 1, with our plans for the coming weeks. We will be adding information to this post as we formulate 'Plan A' for the new term in January 2021. The cover emails leading you to this post will contain information and requests specific to your group. Actioning the requests in these emails will help us to plan our services for the new year as there are a few changes that will have an affect on our timetable, the most important being Andrea returning to live in Spain and therefore will only be delivering online classes during term time.