Welcome to the Year 7 Information Evening

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Welcome to the Year 7Information Evening

• 2009 2010
• Thursday 24th September 2009

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Presentations

• Welcome and Introductions Jane Steele
• Aims of the Year Mike Wycherley and Martyn John
• Assessment and Reporting Glen Balmer
• Learning 2 Learn Kirsten Harrison
• NELE Mark Ellis
• The Schools Commitment Jane Steele

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Aims of the YearMike Wycherley

• Attendance
• Achieving and Improving
• Learning to Learn
• NELE
• Making a Contribution

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Goals and ExpectationsMartyn John

• Ready to Learn
• Taking Responsibility Learning Behaviours
• Participation

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• Take care of the small things and the big
  things will look after themselves.
• Gustav Flaubert
• ( Gerard Houllier)

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• Tidy boots, tidy mind
• My Dad

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Learning Behaviours4 Key Messagesfor ALL Staff,
Students and Parents

• Start Well and End Well
• Talk Respect
• Move with Courtesy
• Active Listening

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• Greeting at the door
• Lining up in corridors
• Uniform check using reference poster
• Staff in corridors at lesson change over
• Dismissed in an orderly fashion

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Shirt tails tucked in
Is your uniform neat and tidy ?
Tie and collar done up
Black shoes on
Terry Turner N 11
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2. Talk Respect
No, after you
???
After you
Hello
Bla bla bla....
Hello

• Appropriate use of Language
• Conversational Turn Taking
• Thinking before Speaking

Children have never been very good at listening
to their elders, but they have never failed to
imitate them. James Baldwin
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3. Move with Courtesy

• Corridor Etiquette
• Mutual Respect
• Use of Please and Thank you
• Opening Doors for one another
• Signage in Corridors to
• Reinforce Movement

RESPECT
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Active Listening
YOU
EYES
EAR
UNDIVIDED ATTENTION
HEART
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Assessment and ReportingGlen Balmer

• Academic Mentoring
• Interim Reports and Full Report
• On-line Reporting Parent Group

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Academic Mentoring

• A mentor to guide each child through their time
  at the school
• Regular meetings between student and mentor
  throughout the year
• Twice yearly meetings between mentor, student and
  their parents or carers

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The Reporting Cycle

• 26th November Academic Mentoring Day
• 11th December Interim Report
• 26th March Full Report
• 28th April Academic Mentoring Day
• 24th June Parents Evening

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Reporting ...The Future

• On-line reporting of achievement, attendance and
  behaviour.
• A comprehensive review of what, when and where we
  report.
• 60 parents already recruited from Y7 to join
  pilot/focus group.

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Learning to LearnKirsten Harrison

• To develop students understanding of what good
  learning looks like
• To develop students awareness of what are
  effective learning behaviours
• To develop thinking skills that promote and
  enhance students learning

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NELEMark Ellis

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This Schools CommitmentJane Steele
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Thank you very much for coming tonight.

• Do stay and have a drink and a
• chat before you go.
• We would be very grateful if you could complete
  an
• Evaluation Form for us.