1. Dates for your diaries
Mon 26th Nov: Year 11 mock exam
Wed 28th Nov: Double dept coursework
Fri 30 Nov: Year 13 reports due
Thur 6th Dec: Year 12 parents evening
2. Mock exam
If you teach Year 11, Danielle will put your copies of the mock exam in your pigeon hole. Please mark it in the agreed format:
- no marks on the paper
- they mark it using the success criteria sheets
- they receive your feedback (still not scores) to see if there's any course they'd like to think out.
- Receive their actual score
- Use the One Mark Booster pack to decide what ideas are applicable to them
3. Standardisation
Please make sure you have marked the folders that are relevant to the KS4 courses you are teaching this year (and next took, if relevant) and mark the folders that apply to those students. We will split into two teams (Team English and Team Lang/Lit) in our meeting on Wednesday, so please prepare the folder(s) that apply to you before then. We are still waiting to hear whether we're going to get the two days off.
4. Dept kitchen
After taking on the task of cleaning the sink, I am now suffering from flashbacks and have the 1000-yard stare of a 'Nam veteran. Please make sure we don't let it get like that again. I've put dishwasher tablets under the sink, so no excuses!
Monday, 26 November 2012
Tuesday, 20 November 2012
Bulletin - 20.11.12
1. Dates for diaries
Wed 21st Nov: 2-3 directed time (Assessment Points + standardisation material)
Mon 26th Nov, 9:00-11:30: GCSE Eng/Eng Lang mock exam
Fri 23rd Nov: Year 10 reports due
Wed 28th Nov, 2:00-4:00: Double Dept meeting
Fri 30 Nov: Year 13 full reports due
2. Assessment Points/Data Grabs
An agreement has been reached between SLT and the unions regarding time for Assessment Points/Data Grabs. As such, it is vital that APs are completed on Serco for Year 7 and Year 11 (other year groups will have their APs populated by the recent reports so you don't need to worry about them).
Please use the directed time on Wednesday 2pm-3pm to complete Year 7 and Year 11 APs.
I did my Year 11s this morning and it genuinely took me about 4 minutes.
3. Standardisation
Please see LMA's email re: GCSE standardisation. We have identified one folder from English, English Language and English Literature for people to 'mark' in time for our meeting on Wed 28th Nov. Please only do the ones that are relevant for the Year 10/11 classes you teach.
4. Work scrutiny
Many thanks for letting me have a selection of your KS3 books. I will look at these and return asap. If there are any books you need back because you are teaching that class, please send a student over and I will return them to you.
I will give feedback at our meeting on Wed 28th Nov
5. Learning walk
Following out of the work scrutiny, there will also be a series of learning walks during the week of Mon 3rd-Fri 7th Dec. The focus will be on the principles of agile teaching and pupil progress.
6. GCSE English/English Language mock exam - Mon 26th Nov
I have arranged breakfast for Year 11 on Mon before their mock exam from 8:30-9:00. If you teach Year 11, please make them aware of this. I am free P1, so will be there and will be offering last minute advice, etc.
7. Dept Detention
Dept Detetion is proving problematic because students are forgetting about it, reminder slips aren't reaching students, etc. I would like to discuss as a department a way of making our behaviour/detention system more robust and more effective. One idea is to run daily detentions so that the consequence is immediate. This might require volunteers to staff these. There is no expectation that colleagues would step forward and this is just one idea - please have a think and bring your thoughts to our meeting on Wed 28th Nov.
8. Xmas meal and Secret Santa
Xmas meal has been booked in for Thursday 20th Dec at the Red Lion in Gloucester Green. Please let me know if you would like to attend (so far it's a table for two for myself and Pat!). Also, please let me know if you want to be involved in Secret Santa this year and I'll get names into a hat asap.
Wed 21st Nov: 2-3 directed time (Assessment Points + standardisation material)
Mon 26th Nov, 9:00-11:30: GCSE Eng/Eng Lang mock exam
Fri 23rd Nov: Year 10 reports due
Wed 28th Nov, 2:00-4:00: Double Dept meeting
Fri 30 Nov: Year 13 full reports due
2. Assessment Points/Data Grabs
An agreement has been reached between SLT and the unions regarding time for Assessment Points/Data Grabs. As such, it is vital that APs are completed on Serco for Year 7 and Year 11 (other year groups will have their APs populated by the recent reports so you don't need to worry about them).
Please use the directed time on Wednesday 2pm-3pm to complete Year 7 and Year 11 APs.
I did my Year 11s this morning and it genuinely took me about 4 minutes.
3. Standardisation
Please see LMA's email re: GCSE standardisation. We have identified one folder from English, English Language and English Literature for people to 'mark' in time for our meeting on Wed 28th Nov. Please only do the ones that are relevant for the Year 10/11 classes you teach.
4. Work scrutiny
Many thanks for letting me have a selection of your KS3 books. I will look at these and return asap. If there are any books you need back because you are teaching that class, please send a student over and I will return them to you.
I will give feedback at our meeting on Wed 28th Nov
5. Learning walk
Following out of the work scrutiny, there will also be a series of learning walks during the week of Mon 3rd-Fri 7th Dec. The focus will be on the principles of agile teaching and pupil progress.
6. GCSE English/English Language mock exam - Mon 26th Nov
I have arranged breakfast for Year 11 on Mon before their mock exam from 8:30-9:00. If you teach Year 11, please make them aware of this. I am free P1, so will be there and will be offering last minute advice, etc.
7. Dept Detention
Dept Detetion is proving problematic because students are forgetting about it, reminder slips aren't reaching students, etc. I would like to discuss as a department a way of making our behaviour/detention system more robust and more effective. One idea is to run daily detentions so that the consequence is immediate. This might require volunteers to staff these. There is no expectation that colleagues would step forward and this is just one idea - please have a think and bring your thoughts to our meeting on Wed 28th Nov.
8. Xmas meal and Secret Santa
Xmas meal has been booked in for Thursday 20th Dec at the Red Lion in Gloucester Green. Please let me know if you would like to attend (so far it's a table for two for myself and Pat!). Also, please let me know if you want to be involved in Secret Santa this year and I'll get names into a hat asap.
Monday, 12 November 2012
Bulletin - 12.11.12
1. Dates for your diaries
Wed 14th Nov, 2-4:45: Jim Smith, The Lazy Teacher
Wed 14th Nov, 6:30-8:30: Year 11 Options Evening (JKY + PTO)
Fri 16th Nov: Literacy Learning Walk
Fri 16th Nov: Year 12 reports due
w/c Mon 19th Nov: KS3 work scrutiny
Mon 26th Nov: Year 11 mock exam
2. Department visitor
Lorna Bambridge will be visiting the department and observing some lessons on Wed 14th Nov. She is hoping to do a PGCE next year and needs some more time in schools. I will send round an observation timetable asap.
3. Ho ho ho, etc.
Dept Christmas meal is planned for Thurs 20th Dec at the Red Lion pub on Gloucester Green. Please let me know if you plan to come so I can book a table.
Secret Santa to be arranged soon.
Wed 14th Nov, 2-4:45: Jim Smith, The Lazy Teacher
Wed 14th Nov, 6:30-8:30: Year 11 Options Evening (JKY + PTO)
Fri 16th Nov: Literacy Learning Walk
Fri 16th Nov: Year 12 reports due
w/c Mon 19th Nov: KS3 work scrutiny
Mon 26th Nov: Year 11 mock exam
2. Department visitor
Lorna Bambridge will be visiting the department and observing some lessons on Wed 14th Nov. She is hoping to do a PGCE next year and needs some more time in schools. I will send round an observation timetable asap.
3. Ho ho ho, etc.
Dept Christmas meal is planned for Thurs 20th Dec at the Red Lion pub on Gloucester Green. Please let me know if you plan to come so I can book a table.
Secret Santa to be arranged soon.
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