Staff are invited to nominate students who have demonstrated a Growth Mindset in the past few weeks. This might have been in lessons, in clubs, in tutor time or simply around school. Please note we already award bi-annual subject badges and merits for good academic work, effort and improvement. These Growth Mindset nominations recognise those who show resilience (academic or otherwise); who aren’t afraid to get things wrong and learn from it; those who have a go, take themselves out of their comfort zone or show that even if a task is tough they will persevere.

Education Secretary, Nadhim Zahawi has this week reconfirmed the Government’s plan that examinations due to take place this month and this summer will go ahead. It is therefore timely to remind parents about what schools know so far, and when the next update will be.

New Year- New Chapter

Whether we are promising to get better at returning our library books on time, or making a serious commitment to reading for pleasure, books and reading will often feature in many of our New Year’s intentions.

Staff are invited to nominate students who have demonstrated a Growth Mindset in the past few weeks. This might have been in lessons, in clubs, in tutor time or simply around school. Please note we already award bi-annual subject badges and merits for good academic work, effort and improvement. These Growth Mindset nominations recognise those who show resilience (academic or otherwise); who aren’t afraid to get things wrong and learn from it; those who have a go, take themselves out of their comfort zone or show that even if a task is tough they will persevere.

We know this festive period may be particularly difficult for many. We have been working on the 5 ways to wellbeing in our Wellbeing Wednesday sessions and also considered the gift of ‘giving’. We thought it would be helpful to send some tips for the festive period for all our families.

The French and German departments subscribe to various apps/platforms that your child can access from home anytime to help them improve their language skills.