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.