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SIMS Learning Gateway. Parental access to student data Username and password from Mrs J Stanley Allows you access to attendance figures, timetable, assessment and personal details Go to college website Pull down menu from Resources Click on SLG Enter username and password
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SIMS Learning Gateway • Parental access to student data • Username and password from Mrs J Stanley • Allows you access to attendance figures, timetable, assessment and personal details • Go to college website • Pull down menu from Resources • Click on SLG • Enter username and password • For more information, click on More student details
KS3 Intervention Objective: to see our young people fulfilling their target grades and to tackle underachievement and develop the whole person Our Mission: ‘Our aim is to help each person achieve their potential and become equipped for an adult life of service to others.’
Subject Intervention • Departments will be addressing significant underachievement in their subject areas • Students are expected to make 2 levels of progress between KS2 and KS3 • 1:1 Tuition in English and Maths aimed at a Year 11 and Year 7 cohort students who are underachieving in these core subjects • Reading with Sixth Formers
Learning Support • In class support • Learning Support withdrawal Literacy and Numeracy • Social Communication Groups • Buddy Scheme with Sixth Formers • Homework Club Monday, Tuesday, Friday lunchtimes • Craft Club – Monday & Wednesday Lunchtime • Supervised Lunchtime Activities - Blue Room • Support for students with English as an Additional Language
Academic Year 2011 - 2012 • Progress Day 1 - 6thDecember • Progress Grade 1 will be recorded in student planner • Progress Grade 1 Christmas Interim report Progress Day 2 - 21st February 2012 • Progress Grade 2 - Easter Interim Report • Thursday 10th May 2012 - Parents’ Evening • Progress Grade 3 & 4 in July • 12th July - Learning 2 Learn Showcase
Learning 2 Learn • BUILDING LEARNING POWER • Professor Guy Claxton • Year 8 follow a parallel course to the foundation course in Year 7 • Building learning power means working on four aspects of your learning: • Resilience: able to lock on to learning and to resist distractions • Resourcefulness: able to draw on a wide range of • learning methods and strategies • Reflectiveness: to think profitably about learning and yourselves as learners. • Reciprocity: making use of relationships in the most productive, enjoyable and responsible way.
RESILIENCE • Resilience: Being ready, willing and able to lock on to learning • Absorption, flow: - the pleasure of being rapt in learning • Managing distractions: - recognising and reducing interruptions • Noticing: - really sensing what’s out there • Perseverance: - ‘stickability’; tolerating the feelings of learning
RESOURCEFULNESS Being ready, willing and able to learn in different ways • Questioning: - getting below the surface; playing with situations • Making links: - seeking coherence, relevance and meaning • Imagining: - using the mind’s eye as a learning theatre • Reasoning: - thinking rigorously and methodically • Capitalising: - making good use of resources
REFLECTIVENESS Being ready, willing and able to become more strategic about learning • Planning: - working learning out in advance • Revising: - monitoring and adapting along the way • Distilling: - drawing out the lessons from experience • Meta-learning: - understanding learning, and yourself as a learner
RECIPROCITY Being ready, willing and able to learn alone and with others • Interdependence: - balancing self-reliance and sociability • Collaboration: - the skills of learning with others • Empathy and listening: - getting inside others’ minds • Imitation: - picking up others’ habits and values