1. Welcome to the Year 7
Engagement Evening

2. GCSE performance summer 2016 placed us in the top 10% of schools nationally
ALPS Qi8
Our Mission
We are a learning community which seeks the highest standards of excellence whilst remaining committed to valuing each individual and their gifts.
‘Our aim is to help each person achieve their potential and become equipped for an adult life of service to others.’

3. Academic Year 2017-18 CATS w/c 2nd October 2017
Progress Check 1 8th December 2017
Progress Check th March 2018
Written Report issued w/c 21st May 2018
Parents Evening 8th February 2018
Progress Check th July 2018

4. Assessment without Levels
National Curriculum Levels removed
Scaled Score Maths and Reading
100 = expected standard
CATS – Cognitive Ability Tests
Assessment in Year 7/8
Emphasis on Good Learning Behaviour
Progress Attitude to Learning Taking Responsibility
A -Excellent B - Good C - Inconsistent D -Limited
Assessment against GCSE grades from Year 9
Growth Mindset

5. KS3 Intervention and Support
• Close monitoring of progress in English, Maths and Science
• In class support
• Learning Support: 1:1 Literacy and Numeracy
• Social Communication Groups
• Homework Club at lunchtimes
• Supervised Lunchtime Activities - Blue Room
• Mentoring when necessary
• Departments address significant underachievement in their subject areas
• Paired reading with Sixth Formers
• Pupil Premium directed through in-class support in English
and Maths

7. Pastoral Care Home/College Relationships
Contacting Parents and notification of Absence Attendance
Behaviour for Excellence
Code of Conduct
A Preventive approach
Reporting-on serious incidents
Teachers as Pastoral Leaders
Community witness to Gospel Values
Supporting our students in a Christian Environment
Chaplain
Pastoral Officer
Community Police Officer and Wilts. Council designated officer
Counselling
School Nurse
Careers

8. Threshold for Attendance
Government has raised the critical attendance indicator from 85% to 90%
90% attendance = ½ day missed every week
The College’s indicator target is now in line with the government’s and when a student’s attendance drops to 96%, parents will be contacted to alert them to this so that adjustments can be made to improve attendance
When a student’s attendance drops to 92%, parents will be invited to a School Attendance Meeting (SAM) in the College
Research suggests that 17 missed school days a year = GCSE grade DROP in achievement (DfES)

9. PSHE - Personal, Social and Health Education
Lead confident, healthy and responsible lives as individuals, within the St A’s community and as global citizens
Gain relevant knowledge to make informed choices
To understand issues affecting UK society in 2017

10. PSHE - Personal, Social and Health Education
How implemented?
Delivered through PSHE timetabled lessons every week
Supplemented by the R.E. department who deliver the now statutory Relationships and Sex Education programme
Enhanced by Pastoral programme delivered in form time once a week
Assemblies, Workshops, and speakers also enhance overall provision

11. PSHE Association overarching concepts
PSHE IN YEAR 7
Term
Topic
PSHE Association overarching concepts 1
Introduction to PSHE
Identity 2
British Values: Rights and UK Law
Rights and responsibilities 3
Drug Education: Smoking
Risk/Power 4
Career Learning (Stage 1)
Career 5
Staying healthy and safe
Healthy Balanced lifestyle 6
Ambition and Resilience
Change and resilience

12. Parents in Partnership (PiP)
Please consider completing our PiP questionnaire!
We are interested in:
Visits to school to talk about your work to small groups of students
Mock interviewing
Assemblies on your career journey so far
Career fair representation

13. E Safety
Educate
Protect
Monitor
Support
Report
Website

14. Enrichment Opportunities
Clubs
Music
After school sport
Enrichment Days July
Numerous school visits

15. Relationships and Sex Education in Year 7
Key Stage 3: Where I am
‘Where I am’ examines the journey of transition from childhood, through adolescence towards adulthood, as young people encounter a bewildering array of new experiences.
Our religious education is underpinned by guidance from the bishops conference of England and wales.
Explain that the sexual relationships comes later. In year 7 the focus is upon relationships within family and plutonic friendships and the value and importance of these emotionally and s
Our diocese, Clifton, uses the resources produded by the arch diocese of Birmingham – all that I am. KS3 is called where am I,

16. Relationships and Sex Education in Year 7
Key Stage 3: Where I am
Your child will consider the importance of loving and respecting others as created in the image and likeness of God
As an introduction to relationships within family and beyond your child will consider the concept of all people being made in God’s image with an emphasis on the moral responsibilities this brings particularly in terms of recognising the intrinsic value within all and the implications this has for our relationships with others.

17. Relationships and Sex Education in Year 7
Love needs family:
Your child will examine the roles and responsibilities of family members.
Your child will understand the context of the family as a community where members can grow in faith, hope and love
Your child will develop insight into the reasons why forgiveness is an important aspect of all relationships.
What are the roles and responsibilities for one another within our families, how we can support one another in families, how are families loving and there for each other. How do these roles work two ways from adult to child but also the responsibilities children have in relationship with their parents. We also consider where faith comes into the family context for Christians psrticually in relation to the value and power of forgiveness as demonstrated within the gospels.

18. Relationships and Sex Education in Year 7
Love needs friendship
Your child will consider the importance of friendships.
Your child will understand that love and friendship cannot be easily separated from ‘good’ and ‘bad’ experiences.
To appreciate that for believers, God accompanies them in times of joy and sorrow.
They then consider the value of friendship and how this sometimes comes with difficulties and challenges. This leads us into thinking about loss in its range of forms within relationships and how within Christian belief there is a strong sense of God's accompaniment in times of loss and sadness.

19. The right to withdraw from RSE
It is a statutory right of parents or carers to withdraw the children in their care from RSE. This excludes withdrawal from the elements on human growth and reproduction which fall under the National Curriculum science.
Any parent wishing to withdraw their child from RSE should contact the Head of Pastoral who will arrange a meeting to discuss their concerns.
RSE is a vital part of the school curriculum and supports child development and we strongly urge parents to carefully consider their decision before withdrawing their child from this aspect of school life.
Right to withdraw is there although we strongly advise that RSE is an important of a child's education at St Augustine’s

21. Thank you for your attendance