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Thornleigh Salesian College - A Sports College
WelcomeYear 8Information Advice Guidance
Evening

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Introduction Mrs Burrowes Care, Guidance and
Support Mrs OCallaghan Curriculum, targets
reporting Mr McGovern Study Support Mr
Johnston Form Tutors and other colleagues will
be available at the end if you wish to speak with
them.

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Care,Guidance and Support

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• We strive for and expect the highest standards of
• Attendance
• Punctuality
• Behaviour
• Courtesy
• Respect
• So that your children will be ready for the adult
  world and the world of work.
• We will work to support them to achieve their
  highest academic potential.
• We will challenge them if they do not meet our
  expectations.
• We seek to work in partnership with you to make
  them the best that they can be.

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• All students should aim for 100 attendance.
• Anything below 93 will have a significant impact
  on their achievement
• 90 attendance means that a student is absent
  from lessons for the equivalent of one half-day
  every week

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If a student continues to attend for only
90 of the time, then over five years they will
miss the equivalent of about half of a school
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There is a direct correlation between a students
attendance and their attainment They need to be
here! They need to be here on time is a
student is late they will receive a lunchtime
detention for the same day. They need to be
ready to learn they need all the right
equipment and they need to be in the right frame
of mind. We do not allow fizzy drinks, energy
drinks, lucozade etc. Students are not allowed to
be eating between lessons and we discourage them
from having family size bags of crisps etc. They
need to be free from distraction no mobile
phones or MP3 players are allowed on or even
visible during or between lessons. Please dont
ring or text your child during the day.

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• Behaviour for Learning means that students are
• Engaged
• Ready to learn
• Prepared
• Completing work to the highest standard
• Actively seeking to improve all the time
• Allowing others to learn effectively too

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Care Guidance and Support Team Mrs Pawlowski
Director of Care Guidance and Support Mr
Hockenhull Assistant Director Care Guidance and
Support Mr Grant Director of Learning
Support Mr Angus Lead Learning Mentor for Year
8 Miss McKinnon Student Progress Co-ordinator
for Year 8 8 Alpha Miss Wilson 8 Beta Mr
Fairclough 8 Gamma Miss Doorey 8 Delta Miss
Carroll 8 Kappa Miss Reid 8 Theta Miss
Collins 8 Sigma Mr Hesford 8 Omega Mrs
Slater

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• Home School Partnership
• Its important that we are aware of issues that
  may be going on at home, these often impact on
  school
• Your childs form tutor is a key person in their
  life they co-ordinate the big picture in
  respect of your child so please contact them if
  there is an issue, either telephone school, or
  email to contact_at_thornleigh.bolton.sch.uk with
  their name on and the message will be forwarded
  to them.
• If you require any support from individual
  subjects in terms of study support then please
  contact us so that we can help with this.
• Core Subject Leaders are
• Maths Mr Dewhurst
• English Mrs Harmer
• Science Miss Burke
• Please support us if we have to make a difficult
  decision regarding your child we are on the
  same side and all want what is best for them.

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Curriculum Organisation Targets Reporting

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How Students in Year 8 are Organised Form
Groups All students are in one of 8
mixed-ability form groups Alpha, Beta, Gamma,
Delta, Kappa, Theta, Sigma and Omega During the
first 15 minutes at the start of every day
students either attend an assembly or a
Registration period with their Form group. Once
a week students have a Tutorial Period during
this time they work on developing a variety of
skills that can be used across the
curriculum. The year group is split into two
halves ABGD and KTSO.

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• Teaching Groups
• Students in Year 8 are taught in sets that are
  determined by ability.
• There are different sets for
• English
• Maths
• Science
• Languages
• Technology
• RE
• Geography
• History
• Art
• Music
• Citizenship

There are 5 sets for each curriculum area in each
half of the year.

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• Target Setting
• When students join Thornleigh in Year 7 we
  receive details of how they performed in their
  National Curriculum KS2 tests in English and
  Maths SATS.
• As parents you were given the results in terms of
  levels Level 4,5 etc.
• We take the actual scores and further refine
  these levels into what we call sub-levels.
• For example a large number of students may have
  received a level 5. By using the scores we will
  sub-divide this cohort into
• students who just got a level 5 - 5c
• a middle cohort - 5b
• the highest achieving level 5 students - 5a
• We use these sub-levels as the starting point
  from which we set targets.

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Target Setting The Government expects that all
students should make 2 levels of progress between
the end of KS2 and the end of KS3. If a student
enters Thornleigh having achieved a level 5b in
English we would expect them to have at least
reached a level 7b by the end of Year 9. Using
this benchmark we set targets for every student
in every subject.

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Target Setting A students English target is
based on their KS2 English result A students
Maths target is based on their KS2 Maths
result All other targets are based on an average
of a students KS2 English and Maths
results Students know what their targets are
and are expected to write them at the front of
each exercise book. Targets are always shown
alongside a students current Attainment grades
on all reports..

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• Analysing Student Performance
• Data about how well students are performing is
  collected centrally 3 times a year.
• Each time this data is collected a students
  performance relative to their target is assessed
  by
• The class teacher
• The Head of Department
• The Year groups Care, Guidance and Support
  Team
• A member of the schools Leadership Team

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Tracking Marksheet

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We are currently reviewing how we set our Key
Stage 3 targets. At the moment we use the
Governments benchmark that students should be
making 2 levels of progress from end of KS2 to
end of KS3. Certainly for some students this
needs to be more ambitious.

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Analysing Student Performance The aim is to
know exactly how each student is performing and,
if necessary, to put in place strategies to
address problems before its too late. The
later intervention strategies to correct a
situation are implemented the more difficult it
is for them to be successful. By effective
analysis of each students performance the aim is
to KEEP UP rather than CATCH UP.

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Year 8 Reports There are three reports in the
year. Report Dates for this Year Progress
Report 1 This week Progress Report 2 February
31st Full Report July 22nd Parents
Evening Parents Evening Thursday 8th March

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Study Support

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The Bigger Picture
Preparing young people to take their place in a
rapidly changing world. by 2020 there will be
3 million fewer low skilled jobs than today
by 2020 40 of all jobs will require a degree
by 2014 UK will need 324,000 more scientists and
engineers the top 10 jobs today did not
exist 6 years ago

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The bigger picture Qualifications for
the future
Dont just think of 2015 but 2017 and 2020!

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Success in the education of children depends, at
least in some part, on the involvement of their
parents. If a child sees that their parents are
enthusiastic about education, they are far more
likely to view their schooling in a positive
light, and be more receptive to learning.

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VLE

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VLE

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My Maths
General access User name Thornleigh Password
cube Students have a specific user name and
password to access work set for them by their
teacher.

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SAM Learning

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of staff available now if you wish to speak to
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