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GHS Connect #26 Monday 29th April
 Mia's notes
Thank you to everyone for the big push on uniform and other behaviour matters. I was amused by how one of our serial trainer wearers has suddenly got herself a nice new pair of smart, sensible ankle boots. Funny that! As we said at the meeting, this is a group effort, and I know that everyone is trying their very best to make this better, so thank you. And remember, no hoodies, snoods or coats in lessons! In relation to behaviour, we are also looking at further ways to keep students busy at lunchtime, following the success of the boxing club so far. Thank you to Gurvinder for leading on this.
Thank you to Will Halsey for an outstanding Higher Education Fair, those staff out on the Matilda trip, the Year 13 Psychology trip, the Year 7 trip to Brunel, the Year 10 drama trip, the Geography field trip and the Year 12 Natural History Museum trip. What a lot that’s been going on! Thanks also to everyone involved in the CPD on Wednesday and to Niloo for sharing such important and powerful tips on managing stress.
Finally, thank you to Rav for taking our students to a brilliant ‘Southall Resists Day’, an artwork day celebrating and educating students about Southall’s history. If you haven’t already watched it, I do recommend watching the Channel 4 documentary about the Southall and Brick Lane resistance to the far right in the 1970s called ‘Defiance - Fighting the Far Right’. You can see more info at https://www.channel4.com/programmes/defiance-fighting-the-far-right
I hope ‘Made in Dagenham’ went brilliantly, Gabbii!
Mia
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The week ahead
Monday
Normal Day
Tuesday
Department Time - 3.15pm - 4.30pm
KS5 TLR Meeting 3.30pm - 4.30pm
Wednesday
Briefing 8.15am in the library.
HODs and HOYs/DHOYs meetings 3.15pm - 4.15pm.
Teacher marking, planning and collaboration directed time 3.15pm - 4.15pm.
Thursday
Normal Day
Friday
Normal Day
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Learning and teaching: Embedding Excellence
A round up of some of the great learning and teaching strategies we’ve noticed being used around school recently...
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Haydar Shah uses clear and concise explanations, with step-by-step stages on the board. He is explicit with sharing where each mark is obtained, which supports students to bridge the gap to independence with examinations.
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Eleanor Williams scaffolds task requirements to provide additional support, and thoroughly questions students ahead of the task to check prerequisite knowledge and understanding of task instructions.
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Cherish Bristow allocates time at the start of the lesson to answer questions on and explain homework tasks. SEND students asked questions to clarify expectations. This approach supports the success of all students with homework tasks.
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Eleanor Navarro uses low-stakes retrieval for Do Now activities. She uses further questioning during feedback to probe hard thinking.
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Chloe Altman uses the visualiser to model the deconstruction of texts. She uses cold-calling and probing questions to draw on students’ prior knowledge when applying this to a new context.
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Behaviour Reset
The Vision
- Calm corridors
- Students looking impeccable in their uniforms.
- Focussed start and end to lessons.
- Students focussing on their learning.
- Students and staff working together respectfully.
To achieve our vision, we must have a whole school collaborative approach. We need you all to develop, tweak and fully embrace 6 key routines for every lesson.
These routines are listed here
Please ensure you check these regularly.
Mark & Kelly
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Inclusion Updates
SEN
Just a reminder that exams access information can be found below. Please ensure you review the updated list to enable students during revision to get used to adapting to their extra time where possible.
The list of students that have exams access arrangements in place can be found here
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CP Updates
Staying Mentally Healthy During Exam Time
Young Minds have a series of support pages aimed to help with exam stress and anxiety. Their advice is available to help school staff, parents and carers and, of course, young people themselves. You can find this helpful advice on their website
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Student Updates
We have a number of students currently attending provisions off site. Please see below.
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Inclusion Heroes
A huge thank you to Kathy Charles and Ben Dyason for supporting the new Boxing Club. The Head Coach of West London Boxing Club will be working with our Year 8 pupils on Monday lunchtimes and Year 9 pupils on Wednesday lunchtimes, focussing on discipline, resilience and boxing skills.
Gurvinder
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Bright Spot
This week's Bright Spot is Noor Al-Musawi, nominated by Amandeep Phull, who says:
He is always positive and plays an active part in the wider school community. He accompanied myself and Rola to Brunel with 30 Year 7s last week and has also volunteered to stay overnight for the year 9 residential in June.
More recently, on two occasions, I popped into his classroom to set up for my lessons and he was setting an excellent example of 'end and send' with Year 10s and 11s and I felt that if anyone is unsure of how to do this, they should pop in and see him model this.
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Character Champions Hot Chocolate
Every week, four students - nominated by departments - will be celebrated for displaying excellent character in their lesson.
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The following students were rewarded and they, in turn, wanted to celebrate certain members of staff at GHS. (Comments are in their own words.)
Muhammad Ayyan Javed 8M1
Nominated Ms Fowler: “An amazing teacher and helpful.”
Sheryl More 11T2
Nominated Ms Pindoria: “For believing in me when I didn’t believe in myself. I will make you proud.”
Falak Patel 8W1
Nominated Ms Hill and Ms Harbonnier: “... being very helpful, fun games in MFL and both are kind.”
Zain Miah 11W3
Nominated Mr Jaffer: “His lessons are very engaging and allows me to learn efficiently. He also puts hard work into marking paper with feedback.”
Please nominate students, using the stapled forms, in Character Champion boxes. These are in all departmental workrooms.
 
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 At GHS, our staff are very important to us, and we just want to remind you that as a Senior Leadership Team, we are always here to listen and support:
If you are feeling stressed or just need to talk, please contact:
L Grimley (DHT) or G Nayyar (AHT).
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 If there are any concerns about Equality and Diversity (staff) at GHS please contact A Johal (DHT)
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Attendance Tracker
To view the attendance tracker, click here
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For the latest X/Twitter feed from @ghsofficial, click here
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For the latest Instagram feed from @greenford_high_official, click here
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28 Apr 2024
Year 7-9 Tutors
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