Meet the Teachers Evening September 2012

1. Meet the Teachers Evening September 2012

2. Welcome Jonathan Oliver

3. Lead Learner for Year 7 Mr Tom Fishwick

4. Be Respectful Be Responsible Be a Worker Be Kind Lead Learner role is rooted in leading Year 7 students to:

5. If students progress at the expected rate:- Level 3 students at Key Stage 2 achieve a grade D at GCSE. Level 4 students at Key Stage 2 achieve a grade C at GCSE. Level 5 students at Key Stage 2 achieve a grade B at GCSE. Targets challenge students to make more than the expected rate of progress. Monitoring Academic Progress

6. Encouraging academic progress

7. 7Hi 1688 pts (down 2) 7St 1734 pts (up 1) 7Mu 1754 pts (up 1) 7Ar 2025 pts (down 1) 7Gi 2224 pts (down 1) 7Sc 2288 pts (down 1) 7Ml 2333 pts (down 1) 7Bn 2550 pts (down 1) 7Ne 2595 pts! (down 1) 7Bl 3027 pts (up 6!) DALEY House = 3422 pts (=) HOY House = 4304 pts (=) ADLINGTON House = 4512 pts (down 2) BOLT House = 4620 pts (=) ENNIS House = 5360 pts! (up 2) Well done to Ennis House and 7Bl for winning this term’s achievement points competition! Achievement points! (Since Easter)

8. 7St 7,491 pts 7Ml 8,407 pts 7Mu 8,664 pts 7Hi 8,754 pts 7Sc 9,036 pts 7Ne 9,905 pts! 7Bn 9,968 pts 7Gi 10,308 pts 7Bl 10,358 pts 7Ar 10,479 pts! DALEY House = 16,245 pts HOY House = 18,632 pts ENNIS House = 18,765 pts ADLINGTON House = 19,344 pts BOLT House = 20,384 pts! Well done to 7Ar and Bolt house for the most points of the year! Achievement points! (Since September)

9. Students with 95% attendance or above: 82% achieved 5 A*-C (inc Eng & Maths) Students with less than 95% attendance: 28% achieved % 5 A*-C (inc Eng and Maths) Monitoring Attendance

10. Someone who achieves 95% attendance has had 8.5 days off in the school year What does 95% attendance ‘look like?’

11. 7 Hoy Bn 95.7% ↑ 7 Adlington Gi 95.7% ↓ 7 Daley St 95.8% ↓ 7 Bolt Ne 95.9% ↓ 7 Ennis Ml 96.1% ↓ 7 Adlington Sc 96.1% ↑ 7 Daley Hi 96.2% ↑ 7 Bolt Ar 96.6% = 7 Ennis Bl 97.2%! ↓ 7 Hoy Mu 97.4% ↑ ADLINGTON House = 95.9% = DALEY House = 96.0% = BOLT House = 96.3% ↓ HOY House = 96.6% ↑ ENNIS House = 96.7%! ↓ Year 7 Overall = 96.3%! = The same as last time  and a great achievement overall! Well done in particular to 7Mu and to Ennis House! The Form and House with the best attendance this year is:

12. All students with 100% attendance are entered into a draw to win an IPod Touch! How else do we encourage attendance?

13. Positive behaviour is so critical in helping students’ academic progress Rudeness to staff and peers won’t be tolerated Low level chat won’t be tolerated Passive learners will be encouraged to be as interactive as possible Monitoring Behaviour

14. Students can be given detentions if they don’t follow the 4 main classroom expectations. These may take place at lunchtime or after school, lasting for 30 minutes or an hour. Detentions

15. Being at school on time ensures that students are in the right frame of mind to get the most out of their lessons. Students should aim to arrive to school at 8.35am as tutor time begins at 8.40am. If your child is late more than once in a week, they will sit an after-school detention with Mrs Diston, (although allowances are made if there’s an accident or a late bus that affects many students). Monitoring Punctuality

16. Year 7 Tutors Adlington: Miss Otoo & Miss Storey Bolt: Mrs McLeod & Mrs Sykes Daley: Mr Caldow & Miss Smaje Ennis: Mr Doody & Mrs Nelson Hoy: Miss Gibbs & Ms Muñoz

17. Tutor Groups

18. There are 3 levels and 6 classes: 7X1 and 7Y1 7X2 and 7Y2 7X3 and 7Y3 Within each class, there’ll be quite a big range of ability. Whatever class students are in, they’ll be challenged to allow them to reach their potential Parallel banding – Year 7 sets

19. Monitoring your child’s progress The Bucks Learning Portal – Mrs Charlotte Mattingley Assistant Headteacher

20. Developing Literacy Mr Chris Doody Head of English

21. How important is Literacy • Speak to the person next to you about your plans for the weekend without using words containing the letter ‘e’

22. Literacy in English • Starts of lessons • Reading Homeworks • Built into every lesson • Marking and Assessment • GCSEs

23. Literacy Across the Curriculum

24. Developing Numeracy MyMaths Mr Charles Otoo Second in Maths

25. MyMaths Homework Guidelines Open your internet/web browser eg: internet explorer. Enter the web address www.mymaths.co.uk into it. Enter the school’s general login and password details as: LOGIN: wyevalley PASSWORD: homework Enter the student’s personal 3 or 4 digits login and 3 letters password in ‘‘my portal’’ and click ‘‘view’’. Login: eg: 1012 Password: eg: dol Note: Topics showing in red are over-due (*detention**). Topics showing in blue are yet to be due-in.

26. MyMaths Homework Guidelines continued Click on the topic you want to work on, under my tasks. Click ‘‘launch homework’’. Note: Can revise first by clicking ‘‘revise first?’’ Answer all questions by entering answers in the spaces provided. Note: Be careful not to miss question number 2 out. Click ‘‘mark it’’ at the bottom of the question pages. Click ‘‘checkout’’ (or refresh) for your work to be saved.

27. Reading and Spelling tests Mrs Sarah Hassell SENCO

28. Homework on the Wye Valley VLE Mr John Ricketts Assistant Headteacher

29. Monitoring Academic Progress If students progress at the expected rate:- Level 3 students at Key Stage 2 achieve a grade D at GCSE. Level 4 students at Key Stage 2 achieve a grade C at GCSE. Level 5 students at Key Stage 2 achieve a grade B at GCSE. Targets challenge students to make more than the expected rate of progress.

31. learning.wyevalley.bucks.sch.uk If www is put before this, it will NOT work. Every student will need to know their specific user name and password. These will be the same as your Bucks gfl username and password from your last school. You can change your password, but if you do you must REMEMBER IT!!! Getting started on the Wye Valley Virtual Learning Environment.

32. The Wye Valley VLE is an on going project. It is continuously being developed with additional resources. National Curriculum levelled questions and answers, revision activities, homework and direct links to revision websites are all available. Sometimes you need to ‘left click’ on the yellow bar at the top of the screen to download files. When using the VLE, only ever use a single ‘click.’ Don’t double click! Using the VLE

33. Website and Extra-Curricular clubs Miss Sophie Cheston Deputy Headteacher

34. FOWV meeting: This evening Longridge: 20th & 21st September Open Day: 1st October Zambia quiz night: 5th October Whole School photos: 8th October FOWV bingo: 12th October Parent Panels: 22nd October Year 7 Disco: 25th November Academic Review Day (ARD): 6th December APC sheets distributed: 6th December Pantomime: 18th December Important dates for this term

35. Key pieces of information: Students should remember to: Bring a change of clothes Bring lots of food and water Ensure they arrive to school punctually Bring epi-pens, medicines etc for known illnesses / allergies

36. A friendly, informal group of parents and staff who plan events to raise additional funds which are used in a variety of ways at school.  Following this meeting we will have a short 20 minute meeting to plan our next event on 12th October We hope that new parents will join us in the canteen for that meeting and/or support us at the Bingo evening Friends of Wye Valley (FOWV)