Bulletin - 24.11.14

1. Dates for diaries
Mon 24th - Tues 25th Nov: Year 11 Maths mock exams
Mon 24th Nov: Year 8 girls assembly
Tues 25th Nov: Fire drill (tutor time)
Wed 26th Nov, 2:30-4:30: Report moderation
Thurs 27th Nov, P2: French play for Year 8 + 9
Fri 28th Nov: Year 12 DT trip: Solders of Oxford
Fri 28th Nov: Cheney Friends Quiz Night
Mon 1st Dec: Year 12 DT trip: Inspired by Design Exhibition, London
Tues 2nd Dec: GCSE Music / DT mock exams
Wed 3rd Dec, P3: French play for Year 8
Wed 3rd Dec, 1-3pm: Year 12 History trip - Ashmolean Museum
Wed 3rd Dec, 2:30-3:30: College meeting
Thurs 4th Dec: GCSE DT trip: Solders of Oxford
Thurs 4th Dec, 1-3pm: Year 12 History trip - Ashmolean Museum

Fri 5th Dec: GCSE Art mock exam

2. Reports / Assessment Points

AP1: cancelled

Year 8 full reports: due Fri 28th Nov

Year 11 full reports: due Fri 28th Nov

Year 8 and Year 11 report moderation will take place on Wed 26th Nov, please have all reports completed (either in Word or on Serco) and printed out to bring to our meeting at 2:30.

Bulletin - 17.11.14

1. Dates for diaries
Mon 17th Nov, 12:30-2:00pm: Careers Event
Wed 19th Nov, P1+2: Year 9 Classics Enrichment / Year 12 Philosophy talk
Wed 19th Nov: Year 7 PSHE day
Wed 19th Nov, 2:30-3:30pm: Dept Meeting; 3:30-4:30pm: Report writing
Thurs 20th - Fri 21st Nov: Drama BTEC practicals
Mon 24th - Tues 25th Nov: Year 11 Maths mock exams
Wed 26th Nov, 2:30-4:30: Report moderation
Fri 28th Nov: Cheney Friends Quiz Night

2. Reports / Assessment Points
AP1 has been cancelled.
Year 8 full reports: due Fri 28th Nov
Year 11 (core) full reports: due Fri 28th Nov

You will notice that report moderation (Wed 26th Nov) takes place before the deadline for the Year 8 and 11 reports (Fri 28th Nov). This means that the data team won't be able to print out the reports for departments to moderate. Here is my suggestion:

• Year 8 and 11 teachers write the comments section (limit: 500 characters, including spaces) for your reports on Word (to get a character count, select the text, click on the 'Review' tab and select 'Word Count')
• Print off that Word document and bring it with you to the moderation meeting on Wed 26th Nov
• As a department, we will swap reports and proof read
• Staff will make the necessary corrections to their comments on Word before cut'n'pasting them into Serco (and adding current working-at grades/levels and scores for the 5Rs, etc)

It never takes us anything near two hours to proof read our reports (we only have 20 classes to do between twelve of us), so teachers could use the remaining time of that moderation meeting to enter to the comments/scores into Serco without anyone using time outside of allocated time.

If you have already written your reports into Serco, please just print off what you have written and bring it with you to the meeting.

Bulletin - 10.11.14

1. Dates for diariesTues 11th Nov: Year 8 Humanutopia dayTues 11th Nov: Year 7 Remembrance AssemblyWed 12 Nov: Storytelling WorkshopWed 12th Nov: Year 9 Humanutopia dayWed 12th Nov, 2:25-3:25: Dept meeting; 3:30-4:30 Report writingMon 17th Nov, 12:30-2:00pm: Careers EventWed 19th Nov, P1+2: Year 9 Classics Enrichment / Year 12 Philosophy talkWed 19th Nov: Year 7 PSHE dayWed 19th Nov, 2:30-3:30pm: Dept Meeting; 3:30-4:30pm: Report writingThurs 20th - Fri 21st Nov: Drama BTEC practicals

2. Reports / Assessment PointsThere are still no APs or reports on Serco. Please ignore the deadline information on the Staff Calendar until we get confirmation from the data team.

3. Thank you from JKIJolie popped in this morning to leave a box of shortbread (in the dept office) and say thank you for all your hard work during the review. We haven't had the full debrief from Pat O'Shea but her conversations with myself and Jolie were both very positive.

Bulletin - 3.11.14

1. Dates for diaries
Tues 4th Nov: Year 12 GCSE English re-sit
Wed 5th Nov, 2:25-4:30: Double dept meeting
Thurs 6th Nov, 12-3pm: Year 12 SafeDrive trip
Fri 7th Nov: English/Drama Staff Tea
Tues 11th Nov: Year 8 Humanutopia day
Wed 12th Nov: Year 9 Humanutopia day
Wed 12th Nov, 2:25-3:25: Dept meeting; 3:30-4:30 Report writing

2. Reports / Assessment Points
There are still no APs or reports on Serco. Please ignore the deadline information on the Staff Calendar until we get confirmation from the data team.

3. English/Drama Staff Tea on Friday
I'm making brownies...