Transcript Slide 1
Year 8 Parent Support Evening
Speakers:
Chris Panting – Deputy Head teacher
(Curriculum)
Jay Simmonds- Head of Lower School
How can parents support learning
outside of the classroom?
The dilemma
How do we encourage, challenge and
support yet avoid alienating, threatening,
stressing or doing for?
How do you help to motivate students?
Major concernShould you interfere and tell pupils to work
yet run the risk of confrontation?
How do you encourage pupils?
One of the major questions we get asked by
parents
How did we support our children when
they were in Year 1?
What did we do?
Sit and read
Ask “What new things did you do today?”
Children bombard us with questions
Excitement
Enthusiastic
Why is this?
Does this happen when our students reach
secondary school?
What can we all do
Listen
Remember all want to do well
Recognise the positives and praise
Always have positive expectations
Allow students to make mistakes in their
learning
How can parents support learning
outside of the classroom?
How do we monitor progress?
Progress Review
Report
‘My Bubbles’
Tracking Sheets
Follow up intervention/ letters
The Progress Review
Attainment- 1-6
1= top 20%
2= 20-40%
3= 40-60%
4= 60-80%
5 and 6= 80-100%
Study Skills and Attitudes
Attitude and effort
Grade A-D
Dates
Progress Review- late February
Report- early July
Both reports are key- are there any changes
from Year 7
My Bubbles
My Bubbles
Allows school to track performance from
report to report
Will ultimately be available through on-line
reporting
Very good starting point for a conversation
about progress
Small changes can be very revealing
Student Tracking
Student tracking sheet spreadsheet
Brings together:
1.
attainment
2.
study skills
3.
detentions
4.
attendance punctuality
Aim: reward success and challenge
underachievement
What can you do to support the report
stage?
Have a good conversation about the report
Try to focus on what went well? Why was
that a success?
Link the report to previous reports so you get
a sense of progression
Ask school if you do have any questions
Organisation and Environment
Preparation
Safe and comfortable environment
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Basic preparation:
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Tidy room
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Tidy desk
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Filed notes
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No TV
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Computer and related issues- multi tasking
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Sound?
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Organisation helps relieve stress
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Check Planner
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Homework Timetable
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Timetable for the school week
Preparation
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Equipment:
New stationery
All files, books, paper, pens
Buy a calculator
Pack bags on night before
The importance of literacy and reading
Reading is at the heart of learning
Why is reading important?
Help pupils learn about the world we live in – understand about processes,
history, places, themselves
Good writing starts with good reading
Pupils learn how language work – apply this to their own writing
Pupils learn what they like and don’t like – become critics
Pupils learn – crucial to learning and becoming an independent learner
Reading in school
Independent reading
Shared reading
Individual reading
Reading in other subjects
Reading in the community
Reading is at the heart of learning
What can parents/carers do at home?
Read lots yourself – important to value reading yourself
Look for reading opportunities in everyday life
Read to your child
Be willing to share different books and texts
Books for car journeys
Subtitled films
Be positive about reading
What should we be reading?
Books, newspapers, TV listings, internet, instructions, packets, magazines, leaflets
Don’t expect reading to happen overnight. It can take a long time for children to
learn to read.
Homework support
Homework
Skills based
Worksheets
Skill area and criteria for success are featured on every sheet
Extension task provided
How can you help?
Make sure they are completing it
Encourage your child to assess their own work in front of you using the criteria for
success
Help with homework when necessary
“So please, oh PLEASE, we beg, we pray, Go throw your TV set away,
And in its place you can install, A lovely bookshelf on the wall.”
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Roald Dahl, ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’
Make your home a reading home
Maths and numeracy
My Maths
Username- Ashcombe
Password- polygon
Key Stage 3 and Fronter
Fronter- Maths Key Stage 3 page
Fronter
Schools virtual learning environment
Pupils have passwords
Contact the school if you don’t have details
Online reporting
Also resources on internet
I-tunes
I-tunes
Pod casts
Apps
Video
On-line documentaries
Books- Alistair Smith- Help your child
to succeed?
Visits
Museums
Library
Conversations with other adults
Summary
All students want to do well
Parents can provide a vital support in
organisation
Students benefit from parents who are
actively engaged
Please contact the school at any stage if you
do have any worries
Helpful websites:
www.familylinesurrey.org.uk
www.surreycc.gov.uk/parenting
www.connexionssurrey.co.uk
www.parentlineplus.org.uk
Questions related to the curriculum/ subject
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Pastoral [email protected]