Bulletin - 3.3.14

1. Dates for diaries
Mon 3rd-Tues 4th Mar: Whole school SEN review
Tues 4th Mar: Year 8 PSHE day
Wed 5th Mar: 2-3: Dept Meeting (Literacy); 3-4: Own Professional Time
Tues 11th Mar: Dutch students visiting Cheney
Tues 11th Mar, 11:00-21:00: Blood donation
Wed 12th Mar: Year 9 catch up HPV immunisation
Thur 13th Mar, 5-7pm: Year 13 parents evening

Also be aware that there are LOT of KS5 Science ISAs happening in the next two weeks. Please see the school Outlook calendar and Staff News for more information.

2. Reports/Assessment Points
Year 11 (Short): Fri 7th March
Year 12 (Full): Fri 7th March

3. SEN Review: Mon 3rd-Tues 4th March
Pat O'Shea and Lucy Mettyear will be conducting a review of Cheney's SEN provision next week. This will consist of learning walks ONLY by the review team and members of SLT.

Please see Amjad's email for all the necessary information but can we all make sure we:

• know who the SEN students are in all our classes (especially SEN-D students)
• have this clearly marked on seating plans, markbooks, lesson planning documents, etc
• are able to discuss/make explicit all the things we are doing for our SEN students (eg reading interventions at KS3, coursework interventions at KS4, Brookes learning mentors, etc)

Any questions, let me know.

4. Second mock exam
We will stick with Mon 31st March as the date for the second mock exam:

• If you are querying whether a student should change tier, please mark those scripts first and notify Jo Simpson (jsi@cheney...) of any changes before Fri 4th April
• If you would like to check your marking against another teacher's, feel free to swap some sample scripts. The logical pairings would be:
• CSW - PTO
• KWI - PST
• HDY - LMA
• RMI/AAL - JKY (Cheney Plus)

5. Professional development lesson observations

Please make sure that you observe a colleague (either within or outside of the English dept) and email a paragraph of your personal reflection to JKY by Mon 17th March.

6. Departmental lesson observation schedule

Our next round of lesson observations will be w/c Mon 17th March. The observations pairings are listed below, please liaise to arrange an observation. If cover is required, please email Flo Bradley Sutton (fbs@cheney...):

JKY: ACL, LMA

LMA: PST, JKY

PTO: KWI, PWA

PWA: AW, HDY

AW: CSW, PTO