Great Pastoral care Parkside School Transition evening Monday

Great Pastoral care @ Parkside School Transition evening Monday 1 st July

Great Attendance @ Parkside School Attendance expectations • Excellent 100% • Good 98 -99% • Average 97% • Below average 96 -90%

Great Attendance @ Parkside School What does this mean? • 96% attendance is equal to 48 lessons • 95% equates to 10 days 60 lessons missed • 90% equates to 20 days 120 lessons missed • 85% equates to 29 days 174 lessons missed • 80% equates to 38 days 228 lessons missed

Great Attendance @ Parkside School Why is it important? • 97% of students who have an attendance of below 85% do not make expected progress. • 65% of students who have an attendance below 90% do not make expected progress. • 97% of students who have an attendance of above 96% (8 days) attendance make expected progress.

Startling but true. Great Attendance @ Parkside School The 1 to 6 rule If your child misses 1 lesson it takes 6 hours to catch up. If your child misses 1 day it takes 6 days to catch up. If your child misses 1 week it takes 6 weeks to catch up fully.

Great Attendance @ Parkside School Help us to help your children • Hospital appointments • Minor illnesses • Holidays • Family illness

Great Pastoral Care @ Parkside School The House System • • Bronte Hockney Salt Attendance Pride points Sporting activities Charity fundraising Inter house quiz

Great Pastoral Care @ Parkside School Role of the Progress Tutor • • • First point of contact for the students each day 15 minutes tutor time Uniform check Equipment check Planner check Planned weekly activities including literacy and numeracy

Prepared Respectful Independence Determined Excellence

Prepared Respectful Independence Determined Excellence

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Parkside Hierarchy of Behaviour/Pastoral Interventions

Great Attendance @ Parkside School Getting in contact If your child is unable to attend school for a genuine medical reason please contact the school asap. • We do ask that for any extended absence/ongoing medical concern that any Doctor’s letter are copied for school records. • We operate a first day calling for absent pupils. This is often in the form of a text where no contact has been made.

Great Teaching and Learning @ Parkside School Key Staff at Parkside • Student support leader – Mr Goodley • Progress Leader Miss Ashford • Deputy Headteacher - Mr Tague • SENCO - Mrs Butterworth

Great Behaviour @ Parkside School Uniform • Formal uniform – black footwear, black trousers (not leggings or jeans), white shirt, House tie. • We have high expectations of uniform.

Great Behaviour @ Parkside School Jewellery and piercings • Students may only wear one stud in each ear lobe. All other forms of jewellery and piercings are not allowed. • If students do get any form of piercing we advise that this be done during the holidays so that it can be removed during school hours. • All students are expected to remove piercings for all PE lessons.

Great Teaching and Learning @ Parkside School Equipment needed • Essential: - Pen (blue, black and purple), pencil, ruler • Desirable: - Scientific calculator as this will last them through KS 3 and into GCSE. It also needs to have a twin-line display. Lots of our current pupils favour Casio Calculators which they find straight-forward to use. A geometry set including protractor and compasses Coloured crayons / pritt stick

Great Teaching and Learning @ Parkside School The Planner • Means of communication between home and school. • Comments can be written by several interested parties – please sign the planner every week.

Great Behaviour @ Parkside School Mobile/Tablets • Mobile phones are not allowed in school, they must be switched off when students enter the building. • They can be used at social times, outside of the school building. Any phone seen in the building will be confiscated and returned at 2. 50 pm. • Head phones / wires must not be visible

Great Pastoral Care @ Parkside School Social Media • We have genuine concern about young people and their activities / behaviour on social networking sites. • Children putting themselves in potentially dangerous or volatile situations. • Students are having unacceptable conversations on line which are then brought into school.

Mr Goodley Student Support Leader

Mrs Horsfall Teacher of Humanities

Miss Payne Teacher of Art and Photography

Mrs Hunter Teacher of Drama

Mr Lawler Teacher of Maths

Mr Head Teacher of PE

Mr Needham Teacher of Humanities

! d le a e v e r e b ll i w l Al Mrs Ashley Teacher of English