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Update Evenings May 28 th & 29 th 2012. • Teacher team Building and IT works Uniform Transport to school Transfer days Transition Meetings Timeline to September Any questions..?. Today. Teacher team (not all of them!). Contracts have been awarded
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Update Evenings May 28th & 29th 2012
• Teacher team • Building and IT works • Uniform • Transport to school • Transfer days • Transition Meetings • Timeline to September • Any questions..? Today
Contracts have been awarded • Meetings taking place right now to decide “FF&E”! • Loads of IT kit in every classroom • School VLE will be available to families soon after half term! Building works
Ordered via Clive Mark Schoolwear • Prices & other information emailed/posted to you this week • Measuring session – 11thJune • Pick up session – mid-August Uniform
Bus to-and-from Kempston being organised right now • Just waiting for final numbers from parents • Will be subsidised by the school • Will cost ~£12/week • Passes and details will be available mid-June School transport
Like all the other upper & secondary schools we will have transfer days • Year 7s – 11th July • Year 9s – 12th July • Will be run just like a “normal” school day – including school staff, bus etc • Details to follow… Transfer days
EVERY family will be invited to have a transition meeting • Most have said easier to do in school • Invites/slots being organised from after half-term • This is where we will sign the home-school agreement • …and start your Individual Learning Plan Transition meetings
June: • Uniform fittings & orders • Middle-school meetings • Transition meetings • July: • Transition meetings • Transfer days Timeline to September
June: • Uniform fittings & orders – 11th June • Middle-school meetings - ongoing • Transition meetings – ongoing • Parent & student focus groups - tbc Timeline to September
July: • Transition meetings -ongoing • Meet the tutor evening – 9th July • Transfer days – 11th/12th Timeline to September
August: • School picnic – tbc? • Tours of the site – tbc! Timeline to September
September: • Official staff induction – 3rd, 4th & 5th • First day for students – 6th Timeline to September
Would you like to get involved..? • Friends of Bedford Free School • Parent governor • Contribute to our Enrichment Curriculum • If so – let us know! Timeline to September
Any questions?