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Welcome to Year 7 Information Evening Ambition Bravery Kindness

Ambition Bravery Kindness

Ambition Bravery Kindness

Tonight’s Agenda 1) Welcome and our new normal. 2) Head of Year 7. The Year ahead, form time and pastoral support. 3) The Curriculum for Year 7 and Knowledge Organisers. 4) Homework, planners and blended learning. 5) Assessment/reports and key dates. 6) Students with SEND. 7) Reading Ambition Bravery Kindness

Ambition Bravery Kindness

Mr T Beveridge – Headteacher Ms K Read – Deputy Headteacher Mrs A Allen – Assistant Headteacher Mr T Coggan – Assistant Headteacher Mr M McLoughlin – Assistant Headteacher Mr C Ogan – Assistant Headteacher Mr T Stent – Assistant Headteacher Miss A Thandi – Assistant Headteacher Miss E Jones – Associate Assistant Headteacher Ambition Bravery Kindness

SENCo – Mrs Jo Wright Senco@alderbrook.solihull.sch.uk https://www.alderbrookschool.co.uk/year-6-7- transition/ Ambition Bravery Kindness

Pastoral Team MRS BARRETT- HOY MISS JONES- AAHT MR STOCKMAN- PM Ambition Bravery Kindness

Role of the Form Tutor • First port of call • Day to day support • Mentoring tutees • Support behaviour • Deliver PSHCE • Monitoring welfare & progress Further Pastoral Support- https://www.alderbrookschool.co.uk/pastoral/ Ambition Bravery Kindness

Break and Lunch BREAK LUNCH • 10:30-10:55 • 12:20-12:50 • Servery- • Cartwright Canteen • Outdoor space • Cartwright playground • Wet weather- • Cartwright Canteen & Hall Ambition Bravery Kindness

Start of Term Settling, relationships and well-being. Lighting Fires week Assessing learning including Cognitive Ability and Reading Tests. Ambition Bravery Kindness

Ambition Bravery Kindness

Extra Curricular Clubs will start soon Topic Tracker Autumn Term 1 Autumn Term 2 Spring Term 1 Spring Term 2 Summer Term 1 Summer Term 2 Art Formal elements – Drawing Skills developed Colour Theory Crafty-Exploring a theme Crafty- Using imagination and Crafty - Making drawing a shoe. and recalling skills creativity to design and being 3D clay outcome relating to influence by designers and theme and transfer of 2D to crafts people 3D skills. Aspire Planning for success. Growth mindset. Responding to Collaboration and Personal presentation. Reflection and target Routines and habits. Collaboration, kindness, feedback. Your brain, leadership. Project collaboration. setting. behaviour. revising and memory. Computing E-Safety Computers in the Computational Text-Based Cybercrime Computing Project workplace Thinking Programming Dance Baseline Assessments Around the World Around the World Around the World Dance recommences as a Dance recommences as a as part of the P.E Performing Arts subject in Performing Arts subject in activities. Year 8 Year 8 Darkwood Manor Darkwood Manor Twisted Tales Twisted Tales Circus! Circus! Drama Pre 14 Prose Literature Pre 14 Prose Literature The Power of Femme Fatale Heroes and Villains in The Power of Identify English Focus Focus Persuasion A study of extracts Shakespeare A study of a selection of A study of Oliver Twist By A study of Oliver Twist Transactional writing from female writers A Study of ‘Romeo and Post 1914 Poetry Charles Dickens By Charles Dickens Juliet’ Food Hygiene Oven Safety Food Provenance Fish Food Miles Balanced Diet Knife Safety Nutrition Chinese Culture Sustainability Fruit and Vegetables Fruit and Vegetables French Meeting and Greeting Describing People Talking about family School Life School Life My Town Mathematics Decimals Percentages Formulae and Algebraic methods Ratio notation. Averages. Shape and angles. expressions Geography Geographical Skills How does weather and Developoment Gap UK coastal ecosystems Human Urban Cold Environments climate impact rivers? between the UK and and landscapes environments - poor countries. Birmingham History Introduction to History How William Controlled Medieval England: The role of Tudor The Industrial Revolution The Romans in Britain / The Norman England/ The Church in Thomas Becket, King monarchs Conquest Medieval England John and the Magna Carta Ambition Bravery Kindness

Developing independence • Homework set on Class Charts: lesson content set on Microsoft Teams. • Homework will gradually increase to 1 hour per night to encourage independence and resourcefulness. • All class work will be set on Microsoft Teams to support students who are self-isolating or shielding. Students bring their work into school when they return or submit if isolating. • If we go to a further lockdown we will simply shift all teaching to Microsoft Teams. Students are being taught how to access this. • Equipment and planners. • Knowledge Organisers. Ambition Bravery Kindness

An age appropriate, relevant and responsive Curriculum Autumn Term 1 Autumn Term 2 Spring Term 1 Spring Term 2 Summer Term 1 Summer Term 2 Skills and Recovery – Positive qualities Values and goals. Internet safety and Positive behaviours, Lawfulness and knowledge considering and types of Diversity and recognising bullying illegal activities. harms. Peer relationship relationships, stereotypes. and abuse, rights. pressure and illegal building, hope, including marriage, Acceptance and Where to go for substances, online wellbeing. civil partnerships tolerance. support. and offline worlds. and the role of the parent Find the Relationship and Sex Education Policy on our school website. Ambition Bravery Kindness

The Importance of Reading “Reading is the master skill of secondary school. Skilled reading, writing and talking is crucial for our students to succeed." Alex Quigley, the National Content Manager at the Education Endowment Foundation. A direct correlation between exam success and how much a student reads for pleasure Changes in exams from 2017 means wordier questions in subjects such as Maths and Science, requiring a reading age of 15+ Government guidelines suggest 15 minutes or more of reading each night. Students must be reading appropriately challenging books (roughly, if they struggle to read five words or more on one page, the book may be too difficult). Parents may still have to share read to encourage this! Discuss news with your child- there's a lot of it around at the moment! It's vital children have a sound understanding of the world around them in order to provide context for any texts encountered in schoo l. Ambition Bravery Kindness

Reading in school Weekly DEAR lessons in English (Drop Everything and Read). Accelerated Reader will base line all Year 7 students Reading Age within the coming weeks. Reading Ages will directly correlate to books in our library to ensure your child is appropriately challenged by their reading. A weekly Literacy focus within Year 7 Form Time. Paired mentor reading scheme with Sixth Form students. Ambition Bravery Kindness

Accelerated Reader coming soon! Accelerated reader is an online portal which tests pupils comprehension and inference skills, relating to the book they have recently read. The system tracks reading progress or dips in knowledge, and is designed to look like a fun quiz, promoting engagement. The programme is only beneficial to learning if it’s accessed regularly and at the correct reading level . It’s accessed via our school website under the ‘students’ tab. More details about how to access from home will be provided in the coming weeks.

Progress Updates for Parents and Carers Parental Consultation Evening – 27 th January. Progress Update Evening – 27 th April. 3 school reports – November, March and July Our first report will focus on settling into school, and three important ingredients of successful learning: Approach/effort Behaviour Independence Ambition Bravery Kindness