1. Coaching your son/daughter through Year 11

2. An effective parent coach
Doesn’t tell their child WHAT to do or HOW to do it, rather listens and asks the right questions to move them forward
Recognises their child’s strengths and builds upon these
Helps their child recognise the barriers to their success
Guides and supports their child through their difficulties
Helps their child find the right solution for them
Encourages their child to ask for support from the right people
Notices and rewards small step success

3. Why coach not tell? It is their life! Their results!
The most important skill you can help them develop is their ability to face and manage things themselves and take ownership
Time to grow up and take responsibility – you are the bridge to a successful adult life

4. Where is your child now? 135 school days until study leave
Term 1 reports – what now?

5. ‘I don’t know why I got a minus!’
What are they saying?
‘I don’t know why I got a minus!’
And you say….
What do you have to do to find out?
How can I support you?
Would a meeting with your teacher help?

6. ‘I haven’t got any homework!’
What are they saying?
‘I haven’t got any homework!’
And you say….
What do you have to do to find out?
How can I support you?
Would a meeting with your teacher help?

7. ‘There aren’t any after school sessions at the moment’
What are they saying?
‘There aren’t any after school sessions at the moment’
And you say….
What do you have to do to find out?
How can I support you?
Would a meeting with your teacher help?

8. ‘I don’t know what I should revise!’
What are they saying?
‘I don’t know what I should revise!’
And you say….
What do you have to do to find out?
How can I support you?
Would a meeting with your teacher help?

9. ‘I don’t know what to do to get to the next grade’
What are they saying?
‘I don’t know what to do to get to the next grade’
And you say….
What do you have to do to find out?
How can I support you?
Would a meeting with your teacher help?

10. How organised are they with coursework and Projects?
Resistant Materials/Art /ICT
You ask….
Which tasks are outstanding?
When are you planning to do it?
How can I help you make this feel less overwhelming – let’s break it down

11. Have they got a place to revise at home?
How prepared are they?
Have they got a place to revise at home?
Warm
Quiet
Place to put files
Well lit
No distractions
OLC open every night until 4.30pm
After school revision sessions

12. 1.5 hours per subject per week = 17 hours a week
How prepared are they?
Is there a revision plan
Do you have an agreed amount of hours of revision per week
1.5 hours per subject per week = 17 hours a week

13. Have they got revision notes/study cards for each subject?
How prepared are they?
Have they got revision notes/study cards for each subject?
Book notes not enough!
What resources have your teachers recommended?
How can I help you to get them?

14. How will you know they are in the right place?
They know what they need to improve specifically in each subject (not maths: solving equations. Not PE: muscle groups…)
They know what they are doing to improve
You can see them doing it
They look you in the eye when explaining
They are calm and confident
They answer in the first person and take responsibility i.e. I need to, I will

15. What else? You are their coach
You are their biggest fan/resource and the one that knows them the best for the good and for the bad
Don’t accept excuses!
Help them feel strong enough to overcome challenges and step it up – whatever their level!

16. Effective Partnership with your Child
Build on their strengths
Reward and encourage hard work and EFFORT!
Don’t allow any obstacle to stand in their way
Don’t accept excuses: my teacher didn’t say, doesn’t help, the class is noisy, no-one has told me…
If you aren’t sure and need clarification: form tutor/subject teacher

17. ATHENA Mrs Celia Richards (ACAR) celia.richards@gillotts.oxon.sch.uk
Mr Phil Yeatman (APJY)
Miss A Sanders (AAS)
Mrs Jane McAleese (AJMM/SLR)
Mrs Sarah Rawlings (AJMM/SLR)
Mrs G Silk(AGS/JJ)
Mrs Jo Juster (AGS/JJ)
Mr Borhan Ahmed (ABA/LEG)
Miss Lilian Glypti (ABA/LEG)

18. BRIGANTIA Mr Andrew Sykes (BAPS) Andrew.sykes@gillotts.oxon.sch.uk
Mrs Cathy Davidson
Miss Kerrie Orlando
Miss Jackie Stoffels
Mrs Hazel Waeland (BHRW)                     
Mrs Helen Geen (BHEG)       
Mr Tom Burnett (Head of House)            
Brigantia Housebase               

19. CALLIOPE Mr Tom Britten (CTAB) Thomas.Britten@gillotts.oxon.sch.uk
Mr Allan Thomas
Mr Luke Harding (CLUH)
Miss Katie Stepney (CKRS)                          
Mrs Jane Fenn (CJAF)                   
kMiss Hannah Driver (CHAD)                        
Mr Rupert Keeble (Head of House)        
House Base                     

20. MORRIGAN Miss Sarah Price (MSP) - Sarah.Price@gillotts.oxon.sch.uk
Mr Chris Horton (MCH) –                             
Miss Lucinda James (MLKJ) –                     
Miss Sophie Cronin – (MSAC) -                 
Miss Lucy Winchcombe (MLJW) –             
Mrs Janice White (MJAW) –                       
Mr Tom Nash (MTWN) –                             

21. ZEPYHRUS Alison Beer (ZAJB) Alison.Beer@gillotts.oxon.sch.uk
Angela Knott-Fryer (ZAKF)
Chris Fulton (ZCJF)
Emily Dunstan (ZELD)
Louise Sadler (ZLOS)
Simon West (ZSJW)
Housebase: