GHS Connect #24 Monday 22 March
From the Head
Welcome back to another week everybody, and well done for making it through the last two! Just a week and a bit to go, before we can have a break from what has been an intense start back in school. Last week felt like a good one - it was great to see so many students working hard in lessons, getting into class on time and being mask-compliant. Thank you to everyone for all of your support with this. Hopefully, you will have noticed some improvement in corridor behaviour, as we are really trying to keep the corridors well staffed. Thank you to everyone who has been out and about helping with this - we will continue to do this, in order to keep the students in good habits.
You may have noticed that a number of new roles have been advertised - a Deputy Headteacher in Inclusion and Student Personal Development, a Mental Health and Child Protection Leader and a Leader in PP and Disadvantaged Students. This is part of the commitment to further develop our pastoral care, and further improve student engagement and behaviour longer term. Our school has grown considerably over the last few years, and we have also had a change in intake, leading to quite a different feel in some year groups. We need to respond to this and will also be advertising for some additional capacity over the coming weeks. Please do speak to Mia if you have any questions about any of this.
Finally, in more news about ‘Catch Up’, Adam would like to thank Chloe and the English department for a very impressive launch, on Thursday after school, of the next round of catch-up intervention.
Dozens of Y10s began their weekly online English GCSE tuition programme via MyTutor that will run until the end of the academic year, ably supported by numerous staff at various points, including: Indy, Jess, Helena, Ifra, Dan, Joe, Adam, Emmet, Amit, Steven and the ICT team.
The students responded really well – a great start that could make a real difference to this cohort over the long term in all kinds of ways.
Thanks, also, to Georgia, Oli and Carl who have started running after-school intervention for Art, Photography and Drama students in their final few weeks of their GCSE courses to ensure they achieve the best possible coursework grades.
Have a lovely week.
Mia