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What is a parent forum?
A forum where parents/carers can meet to:
• Receive information and have your say about what happens in school
• Discuss and share ideas to improve your school and the local community
• Organise and make decisions about whole school events that affect your son/daughter
Why get involved?• To give your opinion and be involved in the decisions that are made in school
• To socialise with other parents and contribute to the wider school community
• To report back on the outcomes of your feedback and what changes we have made.
• To share with you our plans to work collaboratively with Cheadle Hulme High School to help us drive school improvement.
• To hear from you about what area of school improvement you would like the parent forums to focus on next
• To build stronger relationships and improve communication between parents and the school.
Objectives for this evening
Exam Results
A Level• 25% of all A’ Level results at A* or A grade.• 55% were A*-B grade.
GCSE• 53% gaining 5 A*-C including English and Maths.• 66% of students achieving 5 A*-C grades.
University Course PlacedPlymouth Marine TechnologyGloucester Film Production (going next year)Manchester Met Medicinal and Biological ChemistryUniversity of York EconomicsMedia City Post Media ProductionNewcastle Uni Combined HonoursManchester Met Biomedical ScienceUclan Journalism
Huddersfield Chemistry with Industrial Experience
Sheffield Hallam Social WorkManchester Met Biomedical Science (Foundation)Sheffield Hallam Film and Media ProductionSalford Journalism: BroadcastSheffield Hallam IT with Business StudiesLincoln Graphic DesignManchester Met Product Design and TechnologyEdinburgh Linguistics and English LanguageLoughborough Aeronautical EngineeringUniversity of York Environment, Economics &EcologyChichester Film and Television StudiesSalford Media ProductionEdge Hill Media, Film & TelevisionLoughborough Aeronautical Engineering
Highest Achievers
A* A B
Ellen Dean 7 3 1
Frances Cope 5 6
Sam Foster 4 7
Ellen Scotney 4 7
Alex Greensmith 4 2 4
Thea Bannister 2 9
Molly Winterbottom 1 5 4
Harry Hughes 1 5 2
Andrew Daniels 4 5
New Mills is a school where:
• all students and groups of students have high aspirations, enjoy learning and achieve their potential
• students, staff and the local community are proud of their school
• students and staff feel valued and are happy to be part of
• more parents make New Mills their first choice
Vision
• Raise levels of progress through raising expectations
• Provide high quality marking and feedback to students to aid student progress
• Create better systems for tracking and addressing under achievement
• Raise levels of achievement by ensuring that teaching is consistently good or better across all subjects
• The setting of homework needs to be consistent and challenging
• Raise standards of behaviour, appearance and punctuality through consistently high expectations and application of school systems
What needs to improve?
Your Feedback - What needs to improve
• Standards and Discipline• Homework• Reporting, parents evenings and marking of
books• Communication• Teaching
Standards and DisciplineYou said:• Uniform not
consistently monitored• Students out at
lunchtime• Smoking• Code of conduct should
be enforced• Disruptive pupils not
dealt with adequately
We did:• Appoint two new pastoral
managers
• New behaviour policy
• Uniform standards reinforced daily
• Sanctions for smoking and being late
Homework
You Said:• Regular homework • Lack of consistency in
homework marking• Homework timetable –
enable parents to plan/support/check complete
We Did:• Homework policy
• Homework timetables
How much homework?Subject Year 7-9
English 2 x 30 minMaths 2 x 30 minScience 2 x 30 minFrench/German 1 x 30 min eachHistory 1 x 30 min*Geography 1 x 30 min*RS/PSHE 1 x 30 min*DT 1 x 30 min*Music 1 x 30 min*Art 1 x 30 min*PE 1 x 30 min*
Year 10 & 11Students in years 10 and 11 should be set an average of at least 1 hour per subject per week, with the exception of English, Maths and Science (at least 2 hours per week).
Reporting, Parents Evening and Marking
You said:• Reports at the end of
year – no written feedback
• Not enough time at parents evening
• Homework handed in, never seen again
We did:• Written reports for all
year groups
• 3 hour parents evening
• Marking and feedback policy
Communication
• Communication • Support on-line? – for
parents to help pupils with homework
• Website up-to-date ALWAYS – awful
• Letters• Newsletters• Sims Learning Gateway• Parent Forums
You said We did
Teaching
You said:• Some teaching not
seen as inspiring
• Differentiation within lessons
We did:• Appoint a Director of
Teaching and Learning• Staff training
programme focusing on teaching and learning
• Working with CHHS an outstanding school and training school