"Welcome to Lockdown Diaries episode four, and we now know from the government that we're going to have several more weeks of lockdown. And it's a strange week this week in particular, as it's the start of our Summer term and, obviously, by definition we have never had a Summer term like this.

I'd like to start by saying thank you to those amazing staff who've done so much to get us into a position where we are going to be graduating our students successfully across the course of this summer. There are sixty-five-thousand exam sittings that have been rearranged, organised through our portal for sixteen-thousand students. An enormous amount of work - thank you so much for everybody who has done that. And thank you also to our students who have been incredibly patient in the main, with waiting to hear how we're going to do this and what it is going to look like. And from Wednesday [onwards] we're going to be able to announce in a lot of detail how we'll be determining first-year marks, how we'll be using the safety-net principle for other Undergraduate students, the arrangements for our Postgraduate students, our re-sit arrangements, and of course how we're going to be publishing the results from this summer's work. Thank you staff, thank you students, thank you everyone. I never tire of saying that, it's amazing how much work and effort everyone's putting in at the moment.

I also said last week, please keep coming to me with stories and information, insight, pictures, what's going on in your world. And I've had loads of fantastic things this week so thank you. I've had the most scary fitness video from Jo who said I ought to be able to do this, and I had to go back to Jo and say "no, no, I really can't do that much exercise." I have had an amazing series of links from Donna and the choir, and an incredible YouTube sensation version of 'Unlonely'. Gary sent fantastic photos of what life is like at the moment on campus, as is Sue, with great pictures of daisies. And Sue said to me could I in particular say thank you to the WMG facilities team who have been so fantastic and so welcoming to her and to others. Jenny sent me a brilliant video of her playing the flute - I didn't know you played the flute Jenny - playing the flute while we were cheering on the NHS heroes last week. And we had someone get in touch to say he was very worried for his partner, because she's working in hospital in Leicester, they didn't have any PPE, and what we could do about it. And our fantastic colleagues around the campus produced a hundred face masks and whizzed them in a couple of days up to the hospital in Leicester which is absolutely brilliant. And Rachel's been in touch and said that I should advertise the really important work being done, if you go to Scrub Hub UK - basically if you are into making clothes or anything like that you can make scrubs for the NHS. Really, really important work at this point in time.

I'm trying to do my bit, I was out delivering medicines around our area just the other day, and I have to say the level of anxiety around is still pretty high. And I think we can all understand that.

So let me finish by saying do keep in touch, thank you, thank you firstly for all those colleagues who are our critical workers who are going into work everyday, on campus, keeping our campus going, keeping important work going, keeping our campus safe. Thank you, it is fantastic work that you are doing. Thank you also to everybody who is working at home, in all of those difficult circumstances that working from home brings. I've only in the last few days just gotten into that position where I feel comfortable working at home, but I know it's still difficult for a huge number of people. And thank you thirdly to our colleagues who are furloughed. Please if you are furloughed, or know colleagues who are furloughed, do encourage them to stay in contact with us, do encourage everyone to keep watching what we're doing, do encourage everyone to remain part of our community - because, if you're on furlough, you are part of our community.

Finally, stay safe, and stay in.

Thanks very much."

Vice-Chancellor, Professor Stuart Croft