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Catholic Caring Community Challenge

“Our mission is to provide an outstanding whole-person education through which all are challenged to grow in wisdom, understanding, self-esteem and closeness to God.”

The St Mary’s Way

Catholic Caring Community Challenge

Literary Canon…

Literary Canon

• Demanding question formats in Year 11 and 13,

reading age of 15.

• Increase exposure to books and to develop a rich

vocabulary.

• Form tutors will lead a Literary Cannon made up of

books from different genres, cultures and eras during 30 min before lunch.

• The first book will be Huckleberry Finn by Mark

Twain.

• We encourage all parents to discuss the book

students are currently reading in school.

Huckleberry Finn…

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Revision and practice, what the evidence tells us…

1.

• 1. Retrieval P

Practi actice

What this is:

• Retrieving something

from memory (often with the help of a cue)

• Effort to retrieve

information strengthens memory (desirable difficulty)

What t this isn’t:

• Re-studying notes /

revision guides.

• Trying to retrieve

something you have not previously learnt!

What d t does r s retrieval p practi ctice ce l look l like?

• Flash cards.
• Self quizzing
• Mind-mapping

from memory

• Completing

practice papers without notes

2.

• 2. Spa

pace ced P Practi actice

What this is:

• Returning to topics

previously studied with increasing gaps

• Revision being chunked

and spaced

What t this isn’t:

• Mixing topics up

together

• Returning to

something too quickly

What d t does s s space ced p practi ctice ce l look like?

• Two hours study on

Sunday becomes 30 minutes on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.

7Z1 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Week A Bedrock Vocabulary* Hegarty Maths Art Technology English Science English RS Music Hegarty Maths Spanish Science History Geography Science Week B Bedrock Vocabulary* Hegarty Maths Technology Spanish RS English Hegarty Maths RS ICT Science Drama English Music ICT 7X3 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Week A Bedrock Vocabulary* Music RS Hegarty Maths Technology Drama Hegarty Maths ICT English English Science RS Geography Music English Week B Bedrock Vocabulary* Science Spanish Hegarty Maths RS Art Hegarty Maths Spanish ICT English Science Science Histroy Technology

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Year 7 Assessments and Key Dates…

Recording and Reporting Calendar 2018 – 19

Year 7 Sept 17-Oct 8 CAT / GL Assessment including NGRT and PASS. Dec 13 Progress Day. Feb Progress Check Report. June 14 GL Assessment (2 weeks) June Written Report home.

Test Schedule SATs Primary School CATs – Cognitive ability Year 7 once only GL Progress - En / Ma / SC Baseline Yr 7 – Progress checks at end of Year 8 / 9 WRAT – Reading words Transition Week NGRT – Reading and comprehension Year 7, 8, 9 and 12 (Sept / Oct) PASS – Pupil attitude to school and self Year 7,8,9 (Sept / Oct)

Our E-Learning Schemes

Aims

• To use modern learning technologies to improve your children’s learning both at

school and at home.

• To give every student ownership of their own mobile device.

We currently offer two schemes at the Academy;

• The Chromebook scheme
• Bring your own device scheme (BYOD)

Parental Contributions

• We ask that parents contribute £10 a month to join the scheme and we

collect this over 24 months by standing order.

• Pupils who receive the pupil premium funding will be asked to contribute

£5 per month.

• The device remains the property of the academy until the completion of the

contributions.

• It is essential that pupils treat the devices carefully as damage caused by

lack of suitable care will be charged in line with Academy policy.

• Signing the Gift Aid mandate ensures that the Academy receives a

significant amount of money back from the government which helps us fund the devices at the reduced cost. This has no effect on individuals tax allowances (must be a UK tax payer).

INSIGHT

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Anti bullying

Bullying…

“Behaviour by an individual or group, repeated over time, that intentionally hurts another individual or group either physically or emotionally.”

S everal T imes On P urpose

Support…

• Telling school
• PCSO
• Pastoral assistant

Heads

• HOLH
• Pastoral

manager

• Form tutor
• Chaplains
• Family

Support Worker

• On line

reporting

Online security

“I recommend focusing on times of day; for example no screens before school, no screens at mealtimes, no screens at bedtime” “Try to keep screen use in a public place as far as possible, and watch for more general signs of distress”

“If you are introducing a screen curfew and they

• bject, explain why”

“Discuss social media together, take an interest and explain your concerns.”