Sunday, 19 October 2014

Bulletin - 20.10.14

1. Dates for diaries
Mon 20th-Wed 22nd Oct: Dept Review
Mon 20th-Fri 25th Oct: Year 7-11 Inter-College Sport
Wed 22nd Oct: 2:25-3:25pm College Meeting; 3:30-4:30: Dept Meeting

And then...HALF-TERM!

2. Reports / Assessment Points

We are still waiting on confirmation about when Year 10 reports / AP1 will be available on Serco but you will be given 3 weeks to complete them from when they appear. Sorry for the confusion.

3. Dept Review
If you have any questions about the focus, purpose, schedule or process of the Dept Review, please ask JKY.

If you observing a colleague, please use the standard Cheney lesson obs form. I've left a stack in the dept office.

4. Multiple celebrations
Ana Alicia has her birthday on Tuesday but won't be at work. Holly's birthday is over half-term and she's off on a Duke of Edinburgh jolly on Thurs/Fri. The Dept Review will be finished on Wednesday...at which point we will have a dept meeting.

I will be bringing lots of cake...

Monday, 13 October 2014

Bulletin: 13.10.14

1. Dates for diaries
Mon 13th Oct: Year 6 Open Morning
Tues 14th Oct, P5: Year 8 PSHE event
Tues 14th-Wed 15th Oct: French school visit
Wed 15th Oct: double dept meeting
Mon 20th-Wed 22nd Oct: Dept Review
Mon 20th-Fri 25th Oct: Year 7-11 Inter-College Sport
Wed 22nd Oct: 2:25-3:25pm College Meeting; 3:30-4:30: Dept Meeting

2. Reports / Assessment Points
Year 10 short report: due Fri 24th Oct

AP1 (Years 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13): due Fri 24th Oct

NB. These still aren't showing up on Serco. ICT have been informed and I'll let you know as soon as they are available.

3. Dept Review: Mon 20th - Wed 22nd Oct
The English Dept review will take place next week.

We will discuss the finer details of this in our dept meeting on Wed 15th Oct but the main message is not to worry about it: teach how you were planning to teach, have your SPOT folders/marking up to date and that's all we should need to do.

Any questions or concerns, please come and see JKY or LMA.

4. The weather...
...turned out nice again, hasn't it?

Monday, 6 October 2014

Bulletin - 6.10.14

1. Dates for diaries
Tues 7th Oct: Year 8 girls HPV vaccination
Wed 8th Oct: Year 11 Humanutopia Day
Thur 9th Oct: Year 9 Humanutopia Day
Thur 9th Oct, 6-8pm: Year 11 Core Subjects Advice Evening (JKY, LMA, MHL)
Fri 10th Oct: Year 7 and 8 Bronze Age Workshops

Mon 13th Oct: Year 6 Open Morning
Tues 14th Oct, P5: Year 8 PSHE event
Tues 14th-Wed 15th Oct: French school visit
Wed 15th Oct: double dept meeting

2. Reports / Assessment Points
Year 10 short report: due Fri 24th Oct

AP1 (Years 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13): due Fri 24th Oct

3. Ice-cream pots?
Now that the design your own ice-cream pot module has been moved out of Year 8 and is now one of the options for the Year 7 media module (Term 3), is anyone planning on doing this module? If so, please let me know and I will start advertising for empty ice-cream pots.

4. TA support in classes
If you have a class that particularly needs TA support for SEN students, please email JKY so that we can put together a TA support timetable. In that email, please outline how you would use that TA.

5. SLT support for challenging classes
If you have a class that is particularly challenging in terms of behaviour and you feel would benefit from some support from SLT, please email JKY so that we can arrange for a member of SLT to help you out.