Bulletin - 23.9.13

1. Dates for diaries
Next two weeks: Year 8 mentoring
This week: Year 12 course suitability
Wed 25th Sept: 2-3: Performance Management preparation time
Thur 26th Sept: Students leave at 1:20
Thur 26th Sept: 6:30-8:30: Open Evening
Fri 27th Sept: Staff INSET DAY: Performance Management
Tues 1st Oct: 5-6pm GCSE 'Make A Difference' evening
Wed 2nd Oct: 2-3pm: Performance Management; 3-4pm: Lead Practitioners

2. Open Evening / Open Morning - 26.9.12 / 30.9.13
We'll follow our usual arrangements for Open Evening. We'll set up C5 with:
- a running PowerPoint of one of our KS3 modules (Everest?)
- have KS5 Media videos playing on some of the computers around the room
- table displays of student work
- banana writing (any other English games people want to contribute?)
- some samples of KS3 and KS4 reading books
- an overview of the KS3 curriculum for parents to take away
- do we have any student volunteers to show storytelling?

On the following Monday morning, potential parents/students will be visiting the site and may well pop into your lesson. If you have a lesson you'd rather they didn't come into (Controlled Assessment or just a crazy set) please email Linda Jennings.

3. Performance Management - 27.9.13
We will follow a similar structure to last year. Performance Management will be conducted with TLR holders within the department. NQTs won't have a full PM session but will meet with with their mentor to discuss targets for the coming year and be introduced to Bluesky.

The pairings will be:
AW: LMA, ACL
SHA: JKY
JKY: PTO, PWA, PMO
LMA: HDY, KWI, RMI
PWA: JD, PST
PTO: CSW, GSN

Please liaise with your mentor/mentee partners to make the necessary arrangements.

4. Make a Difference Evening - 1.10.13
Invited Year 11 students and their parents will be coming to school on Tues 1st Oct to have visit some sessions run by core subjects on how to improve student performance. For English, these will be run by LMA and, depending on paternal circumstances, JKY.