Bulletin 7th September

Hello everyone and welcome back to the first full week of Cheney, although given how exhausted I was at the end of one day, I'm worried that I'm not going to make it to Friday... Thanks to all for your contributions to the meeting time that we had, notes from which will be emailed around this week.

Anyway, here we go:

Class Lists

There are usually a number of students who are unsure which class they should be in, or have ended up in the wrong group. This is often due to students switching sides of the timetable - if this is the case with a student in your class, could you please email me the details. Thanks.

Year 9:

The class lists for Year 9 look to have changed quite a lot in some instances; I was unaware that this had taken place and can only apologise to those staff who have already sorted out seating plans etc.

Year 10

If you are teaching An Inspector Calls first with your Lit group, I have the copies centrally, so please let me know how many you need. Also, don't forget that we have an audio version of the play available on the shared area, along with some useful looking audio resources which could be used in class.

Department support:

I will put together the dept support timetable this week - for the time being, could staff please make themselves available by letting the rest of us know via email if they are teaching a 6th form lesson today or tomorrow.

Cover:

I'd just like to bring attention to the following info as sent round by Alasdair regarding procedures for staff absence this year:

Cover Guide

In the morning or night before if ill ring 01865 755228 and leave a message on Alasdair Harley's phone, or email ahr@cheney.oxon.sch.uk

All forms for cover, trips etc go to Charlotte Baker based in the office at main reception on extension 261 or email on cba@cheney.oxon.sch.uk

All illnesses during the day could staff ring Charlotte on extension 261 and she will arrange cover

Attempted Strangulation

Should this eventuality take place, please remember the procedure: head wiggle, back step, wrist-squeeze, arm-in-the-air-like-john-travolta, turn and run (I think that's right??).

Have a great week!

Tom