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               Student Bulletin
                 w/c Monday 30th March 2020
                          WEEK B

         Quality is never an accident. It is
                always the result of
                 intelligent effort.

EMAILING YOUR TEACHERS
When emailing teachers please use your school email addresses

Your teachers are always happy to hear from you and to offer help. Please take a few minutes to look
at this link to ensure you do so in a helpful and polite way:

https://youtu.be/zGEX7Ttz9c4

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ENGLISH DEPARTMENT INFORMATION
Useful Websites and Logins:

Various agencies have given free access to a wide range of resources for the duration of the school closures:

  ●     First News newspaper: A great newspapers for pupils. Mrs Hall will arrange for access to be forwarded to pupils (attached)
  ●     Audible: Use the following link to gain access to a wide range of audio books - for everyone, including parents!

      https://stories.audible.com/discovery/enterprise-discovery-21103929011?ref=adbl_ent_anon_ds_ds_dbb_0-0

  ●     If you like David Walliams, he is telling a story every day at 11am on his website:

              https://www.worldofdavidwalliams.com/elevenses/

RJ Palacio is reading her novel 'Wonder' every weekday at 4pm. She started on Wednesday, 25th March, so you won't be too far behind:

              Search twitter.com/rjpalacio (no login req)

  ●     GCSE and A Level students (including those preparing for A Level study or university) can find some excellent lectures at the following website
        until 30th April using the details below (English Literature, Philosophy, Psychology, History, Classics/Ancient History):

       www.massolit.io       Username: jcs009@jcsonlineresources.org            Password:JCSFoundation

Amazon have made their audio books free while schools are closed.

Here is the link: https://stories.audible.com/start-listen

MATHS DEPARTMENT INFORMATION
The Maths department have subscribed to MathsWatch covering Key Stage 3 (Years 7, 8 and 9);
GCSE 9-1 at both Foundation and Higher tiers (Years 10 and 11) and AS Level Maths (Year 12 or
high achieving Year 11 pupils). Videos, online assessments, feedback tools, independent learning,
printable worksheets are all included to help develop mathematical skills. The producers of the
resource are experienced teachers.
Maths teachers are setting MathsWatch tasks for their classes and the vast majority of pupils have
successfully logged in and are getting used to navigating the site; there is a wealth of Mathematics
available for everyone, and it is easily accessible. A user guide is attached for parents and pupils to
refer to but most pupils are of course working things out for themselves but it may be useful.
Pupils can change their password if they wish to although the main request this week has been to
reset passwords from pupils who have forgotten the password they chose last week! On Monday and
Tuesday MathsWatch was difficult to use simply because of the volume of users but improvements
have been made and the site is back to running smoothly.
Please do e-mail if we can be of any further help,
Mrs Thomas, Mr McLaren, Mr Cakmak, Mrs Freeman, Mr Harrison, Dr Macey and Ms Taylor

DT INFORMATION
We are pleased to see some good work from our students, but we want to see more, please can all KS3 students join the relevant
google classrooms for their year group. Students should sign into google classroom and click the + and join class:

Year 10s: Your theory topics are continuing on classroom, please download the worksheets, complete with your answers and submit to
your teachers via classroom or email. You have one topic a week (2hours), keep on top of your GCSE course, any questions please
email your teacher.

Year 11s: Your coursework is now marked, however it has been confirmed that you can continue to work on this. You must email your
teacher to let them know of your updates so it can be re-marked. Your teacher can give you generic feedback to work on for
improvements, or direct you to a unit that you may need to work on further to meet your MLO/target grade. Email your teacher for
direction.

*Opportunity for Year 11 upwards: online work experience is available in architecture and engineering among other careers see this
link https://investin.org these do have a price attached.

Year 12: Remote CAD learning.

Year 13: Completion of NEA coursework write up, final deadline = Friday 3rd April.

The first week has been set up well for you all to join and carry on with your DT studies. If you have been delayed we hope to see you
catch up work in week 2.

Lastly, we would also love to see how you are being creative outside of your school work, inventing new games etc. Email us. Mrs
Brundish and Mrs Lowe.

MENTAL HEALTH
If you're feeling anxious, stressed or overwhelmed Headspace are currently offering free support.
They provide exercises to teach you the basics of meditation and mindfulness.
Search:

               headspace.com

Click on the blue tab at the top of the page where it says "Get help now"
Alternatively, you can download the Headspace App and go to
Weathering the Storm

ATTENDANCE
Just to remind parents/carers that if you take your child out of school
without our permission for 5 days or more, you will be liable to receive
a penalty notice. Currently the amount payable under a penalty notice
is £60 if paid within 21 days. This will rise to £120 if paid between 21
and 28 days. If the penalty notice remains unpaid after 28 days the
Local Authority will consider a prosecution in the Magistrates Court.

Please note that penalty notices are issued per parent/carer per child,
so if there are 2 parents and 2 children they will receive 4 penalty
notices.

Further details are available in our attendance policy.

TOOT TOOT

If you have forgotten your Toot Toot login please see
  Mrs Howes and she will be able to reset it for you.

            Email: vhs@priorycofe.com