Dear Parent/Guardian,
Happy New Year to you all.
Your child has brought home a data sheet, which I would like you
to check for us. Each year we have to provide information to the
authorities on which our funding is based. It is absolutely vital
that we have accurate data on free school meals, ethnicity, postal
codes etc. You may have changed address, your place of work or
mobile phone. Please make any alterations to the sheet and return
in the envelope provided to your child's Form Tutor. Could I stress
that we do need a 100% return. Some sheets will have a section
highlighted where we have missing information. Please ensure that
these sections are completed.
This is a very short term because Easter is in March this year.
We have a lot to do in a very short period of time. Could I inform
you of the following:
Training Days
We have two more staff training days in this academic year. Please
note that no students are in school on Friday
4th February and Monday
4th April.
Review Week
Each February we have a review week where every student in the
school has a ten minute meeting with their tutor to set targets
for the year. To enable that to happen we finish school at 2.15pm
for a whole week, to enable the appointments to take place during
the final period of the day.
The Review
Week for 2005 is 14th February to 18th February. Your child
will be given an appointment time by his/her tutor. On the other
four days they will be coming home early.
Tsunami Appeal
We have decided that we would like to raise money for those in
South East Asia who had their lives thrown into turmoil by the
devastation on Boxing Day. Staff and students have already creatively
raised money for the Tsunami Appeal. You may have already given
your support but we ask that you join us in our fund raising efforts.
There will be a no school uniform day on Friday 21st January when
we will ask that your child donates £1 to the appeal. We
are also organising a PTA quiz; a family event, to be held in
school on Wednesday 16th February. This fun event will
have a serious purpose. We would like to do our bit to rebuild
the lives of those cruelly affected. A family ticket will cost
£5. Further details will be circulated in early February
but please put the date in your diary.
A small group of staff and students are organising other means
of raising money. If you have any ideas please contact Miss Cowan
in school.
Parent Governors
My thanks to Mrs Griffiths and Mr Thompson who are our new Parent
Governors. We now have a full complement.
Parents Evenings
Our next three Parents'
Evenings are:
Year 11:
Wednesday 23rd February;
Post-16: Tuesday 1st March;
Year 9:
Tuesday 15th March.
Thank you for taking the time to read this letter. Please return
the data sheet ASAP.
Yours sincerely,
Clive Pickles
Headteacher