Bulletin - 28.11.16

1. Dates for diaries (rest of the term)
Thur 1st Dec: Year 12 parents evening
Fri 2nd Dec: Year 13 Biology Trip
Tues 6th Dec, P1+P2: Year 9/10 French play
Wed 7th Dec: Double Dept meeting (Report moderation + 4Matrix training session)
Thur 8th Dec: Cheney Christmas Show
Fri 8th Dec: Staff pub crawl
Mon 12th Dec, 7:30pm: Eng Dept Christmas meal, The Pint Shop
Thur 15th Dec, 5-7pm: Cheney Teachmeet
Fri 16th Dec: End of Term (12:30)

2. Reports/APs

Year 7 short reports: due Fri 9th December

3. PP/SEND review - pt 2

The second phase of the PP/SEND review will be continuing for the rest of this week. This will involve more learning walks, student panels and work scrutinies across the school. Please be aware that people may be coming into lessons and tutor times over the next two weeks (though not, I believe, external observers) so please have SPOT folders to hand.

4. Lesson observations

I have received notification from most of you re: your lesson observations. Please ensure you organise an observation between now and the end of this term. This is essential for your own Performance Management review.

5. Faculty detention

Faculty detentions are for students who have failed to engage with you as a classroom teacher in a Learning Conversation (either didn't turn up or didn't engage properly/appropriately in that conversation). If this is the case, please send me their name, class and details of why they require a Faculty Detention. Please can I ask the classroom teacher to make the phonecall home informing the parents of the situation? It only takes two or three teachers to put one or two students into a Faculty Detention to leave me (Jenny/Phoebe in Jan) with 6/7/8 phonecalls to make and it has simply become too time-consuming. Inform them that they need to come to my room (C3) on Friday lunchtime and if they can't to see me BEFOREHAND to make an alternative arrangement. I will arrange for reminder slips to be issued via the student runner on Friday morning and will follow up any students that don't attend.

6. Dept Christmas meal

Thanks to Phoebe for organising (again!). Please fill in your order on the googledoc link Phoebe has sent around and get your £10 deposit to her asap.

7. Secret Santa

It's that time of year again...Ho ho ho...etc and so forth. Is everyone happy to do Dept Secret Santa again this year? I will assume the answer is YES. If for some reason you can't or don't wish to take part, please email me and I will remove you from the hat. Usual rules? £10 maximum spend?