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The Tragic News of Khalid Mohammed's Passing

It is with great sadness that I share the news of the passing of Khalid Mohammed, one of our much-loved pupils. Khalid, aged 17, who was a valued member of our school community, and his loss will be deeply felt by everyone who knew him. 

Khalid will be remembered for fondly. His presence enriched the lives of those around him, and we are grateful for the time we shared together.

At this difficult time, our thoughts and deepest sympathies are with Khalid’s family and friend.

We will remain in close contact with them, and we will respect their wishes about how we honour his memory.

We understand that this news may affect many of you. Support will be available for pupils and staff who would like someone to talk to. Please don’t hesitate to reach out to: Hamesh Rattu (Post 16), Lena Kapoor (Post 16), or Tammy Jenkins (Pre-16).

Together, we will remember Khalid with respect, gratitude, and love.

 

Subject Evening Review, Outcomes and Next Steps.

In June and July 2024 we consulted on how we conduct our subject evenings. Thank you to all of the staff and parents and students that took part in the review. In total we had 151 responses.

Here are the outcomes of the review and the next steps which will start from September 2024.

Subject Evening and School Cloud Consultation Outcomes September 2024

• 74% of staff, 53% of parents and 50% of students said they prefer online school cloud subject evenings and gave many good reasons for this. Therefore, each year group will have one school cloud subject evening each year.

• 26% of staff, 46% of parents and 50% of students prefer in person face to face and gave many good reasons for this. Therefore, there will be face to face subject evenings for parents and staff to meet to discuss their child’s progress. Year 11 and 13 raising achievement evening will now be in person, face to face. In addition, on that day, other year groups will be able to make in person, face to face appointments to see their class teachers.

• Other in person face to face events will remain such as the year 7 and 12 Transition Evening, Year 9 Curriculum Evening, Year 11 Future Focus Open Evening, Year 11 Future Focus 1-1 meetings

• 87% of parents would like more appointments and to meet more teachers. Therefore, we will change the appointments to 8 minutes which will give 22 appointments.

• 63% of staff and 89% of parents say that parents should be able to make appointments. Therefore, 12 of the appointments will be allocated to parents to make. There will be a window of one week where parents will be able to make appointments with class teacher s first. The following week teachers will make their appointments.

• Ideally staff and parents would have preferred to keep 10 minute appointments but they also wanted more appointments and so appointments will be 8 minutes.

• Prior to the next subject evening further guidance will be issued for the smooth running of these subject evening with parents and students for example; Parents commented on the use of technology and welcomed a phone call if at the time the technology did not work for one reason or another. Therefore all teachers will be ask to ensure they have the contact details of their class prior to subject evening and the means to make a call if the parents is not able to connect on school cloud and has technical difficulties.

• It is important that a range of parents have the opportunity to meet with the class teacher and therefore there will be a requirement for staff to meet a variety of students. Teachers must make appointments with students to praise, students that are neither excelling or struggling and all students with an EHCP as well as those that are not making expected progress.

Here is a schedule of contact opportunities over the course of an academic year. Those in white are on school cloud and are virtual opportunities. Those in blue are face to face, in school opportunities.

We would like to take this opportunity to remind parents and carers that these evenings are meetings between parents or carers, the teachers and the student and not older brothers and sisters.

Year group	Subject Evening	Other evening	Other evening	Other evening
Year 7	Subject Evening. May, School Cloud	Year 7 Transition evening (tutors). October, in person	Raising Achievement Evening, February, in person Parental request
Year 8	Subject Evening. March, School Cloud		Raising Achievement Evening, February, in person Parental request
Year 9	Subject Evening. December, School Cloud	Year 9 Curriculum Evening. February, in person	Raising Achievement Evening, February, in person Parental request
Year 10	Subject Evening. January, School Cloud		Raising Achievement Evening, February, in person Parental request
Year 11	Subject Evening. November, School Cloud	Raising Achievement Evening,  February, in person	Year 11 Future Focus Open Evening. October, in person	Future Focus individual meetings. March, in person.
Year 12	Subject Evening. May, School Cloud	Year 12 Transition evening. October, in person	Raising Achievement Evening, February, in person Parental request
Year 13	Subject Evening. October, School Cloud	Raising Achievement Evening, February, in person

 

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