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Welcome to Brentwood County High School Year 6 Parents’ Evening Tuesday 17 th June 2014 Mark Wright Assistant Headteacher : Teaching and Learning & Head of Lower School. This presentation is available on the school website. Partnership. Introductions: Senior Leadership Team.

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  1. Welcome to Brentwood County High School Year 6 Parents’ EveningTuesday 17th June 2014Mark WrightAssistant Headteacher:Teaching and Learning & Head of Lower School This presentation is available on the school website.

  2. Partnership

  3. Introductions:Senior Leadership Team • Stephen Drew – Headteacher • Dave Richardson – Deputy Head (& Head of Year 11) • Sarah Fowler – Assistant Head: Inclusion • Richard Davies – Assistant Head: Community (& Head of Years 9 & 10) • Neil Arnould – Assistant Head: Standards (& Sixth Form) • Mark Wright – Assistant Head: Teaching and Learning (& Head of Lower School)

  4. Introductions:Pastoral & Support • Caroline Taylor – Year 7 Leader • Sue Wellman – Year Administrator (Years 7 & 8) • Ivy Amoako – Deputy SENCO (Key Stage 3) • Bernie Jones – Student Wellbeing Officer • Teresa Butcher – Admissions Officer (and PA to the Leadership Team)

  5. Introductions:Heads of House • Chris Robinson: Athenians • Chris Quin: Corinthians • Paul Callow: Romans • Lorraine Hatton: Spartans • Alex Gunn: Trojans

  6. Induction Days: Wednesday 25th and Thursday 26th June • A letter has been sent to you about this • Free lunch on both days • Bring a snack and drink for break time • Bring a pencil case (at least a couple of pens and pencils) in their bags • All other resources will be provided.

  7. Induction Days: Wednesday 25th and Thursday 26th June • 08:30 onwards for an 08:45 start – arrive and drop-off your child on the roundabout (no earlier due to school buses exiting) • 15:45 (to 16:00) – arrive to collect your child (no earlier due to school buses exiting): • Park in the back playground • You will be guided to the House venue where your child will be waiting.

  8. Induction Days: Contents • Three Cognitive Ability Tests (CATs) over the two days • Seven ‘taster lessons’, one in each of our seven faculties, focusing on the theme of ‘New’: • English • Mathematics • Science • Expressive Arts • Humanities • Languages • Technology

  9. Wednesday 25th June:Parents’ Meeting with Form Tutor • Parents’ attendance essential from 15:45 (no earlier), all here by 16:00 – park in the back playground • You will be guided to your child’s House venue (you will find out your child’s house when you arrive): • Athenians – Gym Hall • Corinthians – Dining room • Romans – Room 103 (Canteen) • Spartans – Drama Hall • Trojans – Sports Hall • There, you will meet your child’s form tutor and be taken to their classroom, where you will hand in your Home-School Agreement (spare copies available here).

  10. Wednesday 25th June: LIBRARY SEN: • SarahFowler – Assistant Head (Inclusion) • Kathryn Gorsuch – Deputy SENCO • Ivy Amoako – Deputy SENCO Pastoral: • Caroline Taylor – Year 7 Leader Medical: • Bernie Jones – Student Wellbeing Officer

  11. In September • Wednesday 3rd, arrival at 08:30 prompt in Main Hall • Collected by an older student and taken to your new form group • Photos taken in the first few days • House Assembly • Biometric registration for cashless catering • Lessons start that day

  12. Teaching groups • Year group split into two: • Galileo • Marconi • Then split into teaching groups by ability in core subjects based on SAT scores and CAT scores • Sets are reviewed regularly based on student performance.

  13. New Year 7 Curriculum • Core lessons (English, Maths, Science, Language and PE) will be taught as separate subjects • Other subjects (including Humanities, Technology and Expressive Arts) will be delivered via a project-based approach that covers a wide range of topics, delivered by one teacher for 12 hours per week with relevant links to core subjects.

  14. New Year 7 Curriculum • Aim: to deliver a mixture of traditional core subjects alongside a new, creative, project-based curriculum that links multiple subjects by one overarching theme • Core lessons (English, Maths, Science, Language and PE) will be taught as separate subjects • Other subjects (including Humanities, Technology and Expressive Arts) will be delivered via a project-based approach that covers a wide range of topics

  15. New Year 7 Curriculum • The project will be led by one teacher for 12 hours per week to aid the transition from primary to secondary school • The project-based approach: • brings together a range of skills from across different subjects into a unified experience • promotes a more creative, independent and collaborative way of learning • Each project will culminate in an exhibition, which will encourage students to present and evaluate their learning journey.

  16. Examples of Year 7 Projects: • Learning to Learn and Belonging • A two-week project focused on school values, who we are and what makes us rounded individuals • A learning style audit with related tasks • Exploration of the theme of belonging within school, family, religion and neighbourhood • Practical work, e.g. key-ring project, shield designs, pie charts, self-portraits.

  17. Examples of Year 7 Projects: • Enigma: • A one-week project on codes and ‘ciphers’, their history and other forms of 'secret' communication, focusing on: • People, personalities and circumstances that led to the development of modern computing • Why people (still) need to communicate in secret, or keep communications private • Secure communications and modern computing.

  18. Other topics include: • Magic and Mystery • Language Introduction • Local Community • Eco-project • Around the World • Stewardship • Mamma Mia • Shakespeare • Extreme Earth • Life-cycle of a burger • Space project

  19. Bi-weekly Timetable

  20. Year 7 Home Learning • ENGAGING • ENCOURAGING • EMPOWERING • ENRICHING Creative, differentiated, collaborative, independent, preparatory and supplementary

  21. Year 7 Home Learning • Between 1 hour & 1 ½ hours a night • Average of 2 to 3 subjects per night • 30 minutes per home learning task • Students allowed approximately one week to complete a home learning task or the deadline is set after the weekend • English and Mathematics may set a 48 hour deadline.

  22. Year 7 Home Learning • English 3 per fortnight (minimum of 2 evenings) • Mathematics 3 per fortnight (minimum of 2 evenings) • Language 3 per fortnight (plus brief tasks) • Science 2 per fortnight

  23. Student Learning Gateway(SLG) – how to check Home Learning NO HOME LEARNING PLANNERS

  24. SUCCESS

  25. Housepoints =Vivos(each housepoint earns a ‘virtual’ 1p, linked to an online catalogue, which it can be spent on when enough is accumulated) • Phone calls home • Text messages home • Emails home • Postcards home • E-postcards • Student of the Month • Lunch passes (so they can go to the High Street) • Commendations

  26. All behaviour is logged electronically e.g.: • No Equipment • No homework • Phone out in lesson • Disruption • Monitored daily by the form tutor • Monitored weekly by Mrs Taylor • Disruption to learning and the Reflection and Intervention Zone (RAIZ)

  27. Mobile Phone Rules • Your phone must be in your bag in a lesson not your blazer • Your teacher may give permission for you to use it for a particular task • If it is used when it shouldn’t be, it will be taken by a member of staff until the end of the lesson.

  28. Make sure your phone is in your bag and won’t make a noise

  29. NOT BETWEEN LESSONS YES, OUTDOORS  

  30. Uniform card issued weekly • 4 slots that can be signed by anyone for poor uniform • If all slots get signed, you earn a lunchtime detention • Fresh start each week • Blank cards on a Friday get rewarded with Vivos.

  31. Fosters: sales dates and timeswww.greatforschool.com • You need to know the house for the blazer badge • Friday 20th June from 17:00 to 20:00 (Main Hall) (a list of students’ names linked to houses will be provided at this venue) • Tuesday 1st July from 17:00 to 20:00 (Drama Hall) • Monday 11th August from 11:00 and 13:30 (Main Hall) • During term time 2nd Tuesday of the month (13:20 to 14:20) & 3rd Saturday of the month (10:30 to 12:30)

  32. Sanctions: • Lunchtime detentions • Subject/Faculty detentions • School Detention: Wednesday until 16:10 • Community Detention: • Thursday until 17:00 • Saturday morning 09:00 to 12:00 • School Isolation in the Reintegration Centre (house next to the entrance),either 09:00 to 15:20 or 10:00 to 17:00 • Mr Wright – Assistant Headteacher (Head of Lower School)

  33. Bullying is taken very seriously • Reported in lots of ways • Dealt with in lots of ways • Mrs Taylor (Year Leader) monitors this • Mr Davies (Assistant Headteacher: Community) has oversight of this.

  34. Formal report each term with current levels and progress against target for each subject • 3 academic reviews parents have to attend: • Parents’ Evening (Thursday 25th June, 2015) • 2 Academic review weeks: • Mon 15th to Fri 19th December 2014 • Mon 23rd to Fri 27th March 2015

  35. But not in term time...unless a school trip • Holidays will not be authorised • Attendance is monitored very closely by the tutor • Attendance Officer & Mrs Taylor • Education Welfare Officer (Miss Pucill) • Lateness (to morning registration and to lessons).

  36. Last year’s GCSE results • 70% 5 or more A* to C grades for GCSE • 67% 5 or more A* to C including English Language and Mathematics (increase of 9% on 2012) • 98% 5 or more A* to G passes, including English Language and Mathematics

  37. Form Tutor • Pastoral Year Leader – Mrs Taylor • Year 7 & 8 Administrator – Mrs Wellman • Mainly electronic: School Comms (received by you via email or text messages) • All staff contactable through Email • Absence line: 01277 238919 • Student Learning Gateway (SLG) • Friday Focus (weekly newsletter)

  38. Partnership Year 7 “Getting Involved” Evening Tuesday 23rd September 2014

  39. Speaking of partnership...Parents’ Association Stephen Drew • Michelle Lloyd (Chair of the Parents’ Association) • Fiona Bennett (Secretary) • Available afterwards in the Drama Hall (next door) to speak to parents. We are looking for new members to support the school’s activities.

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