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GHS Connect #33 Monday 24th June

Mia's notes

As I said in briefing this week, thank you so much to everyone who has been involved in running, setting up or planning for the many activities and events this term. It is wonderful to see so many things either happening or in the pipeline, but I also know that this takes a huge amount of time and effort. 

This week sees us running Prom for Year 11, the transition evening for Year 6, a continuation of the Kew Gardens trip, trips to University of West London, the St Mary’s Year 9 Residential and trips to Oxford, Cambridge and the Tate, just to pick out a few.  

Thank you to Maya for all of the preparation for International Day, which is coming up on 10th July. Don’t forget that staff are invited to celebrate by dressing up too!

Finally, a massive thank you to Hardeep and the team for their phenomenal efforts in organising and managing all of the exams. Public exams are now finally over!

Have a great week,

Mia

The week ahead

Monday
Normal Day

Tuesday
Department Time - 3.15pm - 4.30pm
Equality Working Party

Wednesday
Briefing 8.15am in the library.
Year 6 to Year 7 Welcome Evening

Thursday
Normal Day
Year 11 final assembly (am) and Prom (pm)

Friday
Common Induction Day

Notes
Year 12 Mocks Week 2
Yr 8 Interim 3

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...  

Pupil Premium Update

Here are our Year 11 PP Cohort for 2024 -2025:

They are the smallest PP cohort, but have the worst attendance of all the PP cohorts currently in school and are arguably the most vulnerable. This document briefly outlines the myriad of issues they face. With the impact of Covid, the cost of living crisis and the increase in child poverty, an increase in the vulnerability of our most disadvantaged students and families is unsurprising. 

What can we do to help them be successful in school and in your classroom?

The research says:

What does that look like on a daily basis in school and in your classroom?

1. Use SIMS to know who the students are. Right-click on the column header within the register, then click PP to display the PP indicator.

Think about their seat, their voice, their engagement in your classroom. Is there anything you can change so that they can be more successful?

2. Feel confident to ask safe questions and offer solutions:

"I've noticed you haven't had a pen for the last two lessons. Do you have the equipment you need to be ready to learn?"

"You seem distracted this morning. Have you had breakfast?"

AG16, student services is fully stocked to support our PP students, so they can be their best learners. It is open from 8.15-8.30 for students. E-mail me if there is anything subject-specific a student needs and the PP budget can usually support this.

3. Remember, you are the PP students in your class biggest resources for academic success. Be the best teacher you can be:

• plan great lessons
• resource carefully to enable workbooks to become a academic revision resource
• think carefully about subject specific explanations
• mark and give feedback that could move their grade on

Jess

Additional Reminders

Please can I ask that if you have any students in your form or lessons that are not arriving to school, missing from your lessons you continue to inform the attendance team and missing from lesson email. We must know where students are and must safeguard students within the school.

Inclusion Heroes

A huge thank you to all the SEN team for all the SEN Workshops that have been running to support the new EHCP students that are coming into Greenford High School in September 24. 

Gurvinder

If there are any concerns about Equality and Diversity (staff)  at GHS please contact A Johal (DHT)