Parents Open Evening - Welcome! • Home/School Agreement • E – Safety Rules • School Equipment • PE/Swimming • Behaviour • Homework • Success for All Programme • Cross Curricular topic work • Creative Lead • Healthy Schools Award • School Library • Adult Learning • Parental Involvement/Parent Voice • Holidays • Study Buddies • VLE - Fronter • School Prospectus • School Newsletter • Contact with the school • Extended School Opportunities • New School • Mellor Vision Statement
Home/school Agreement These are now to be kept by parents/carers. A separate slip is sent out with the home/school agreement for you to sign and return to school. Please be aware that signing the slip gives permission for: • your child to attend events at Cross Corners during the course of the school day • digital images of your child to be taken and used in publicity and for display on the school’s digital notice board and website
E-Safety Rules Please read the school’s e -safety rules with your child and sign and return the e-safety agreement to school. Please be aware that signing the agreement gives permission for: •your child’s work to be electronically published • appropriate images of your child to be published on the school website but without their name • your child to access the Internet at school
School Equipment It is important that children come to school with the correct school equipment, including PE kit, swimming kit, school bag/backpack and pencil case. We also ask all parents to support the school’s dress code policy. If in doubt of the dress code or school equipment required please refer to the school website, digital notice board or collect a flyer from the office. All children need to wear plimsolls inside the building.
PE/Swimming Please ensure that your child does not wear jewellery on days when they take part in PE or swimming, as staff are unable to look after valuables for children. Children are required as part of the national curriculum to take part in swimming. If there is a medical reason why your child is unable to swim then a doctors note should be obtained and handed in to your child’s class teacher. In exceptional circumstances, when a child brings a note about the following they may be excused from swimming: • a cold or viral infection • a physical injury • a fungal or contagious infection • menstruation
Behaviour We aim to establish good relationships and behaviour within a secure caring environment. We emphasise the ways in which we can create a positive atmosphere stressing the need for mutual respect. We use a set of rewards and sanctions to ensure consistency across the school. Rewards include special mentions, table and team points and vouchers, stickers and peer support. Our ‘consequences for behaviour’ follow a series of steps and range from a verbal warning, entry into the incident book, letter home, detention and finally, as a last resort exclusion. A copy of our rewards and sanctions can be seen on our parents’ notice board.
Homework All children in Key Stage 2 receive homework each week. This consists of reading for 20mins per night, spelling practice, completion of a maths activity from their ‘fun with maths’ booklet and completion of science homework as required by the class teacher. In addition, homework challenges are set weekly and provide children the opportunity to develop their thinking skills and creativity. Homework journals inform parents/carers of the homework set, provide a record for staff as to whether homework has been completed and serve as a reminder of work to be done for children. These are checked by school staff on a weekly basis. We will also make homework available via our school VLE. Each child has their own username and password and will be able to access homework information, activities and support resources from home or wherever they have access to the Internet. Further information regarding our homework policy and procedures can be found on the school website. www.mellor.leicester.sch.uk
Success for All The school uses the Success for All Programme as part of our continuing drive to raise oracy, reading and writing standards. Children are grouped according to their current reading ability and will receive targeted lessons, aimed at accelerating their progress in reading and writing. Pupils will be assessed every eight weeks and regrouped on the basis of these assessments. The Success for All Programme consists of two parts – Roots and Wings. Underpinning the Programme is a philosophy of collaborative learning, where children are encouraged to take responsibility for their own and others’ learning. Roots The Roots programme provides children with rich opportunities for developing their speaking and listening skills while at the same time introducing a rigorous phonics programme as recommended by the Rose Review. The phonics programme is set within a broad and rich language curriculum that takes full account of the speaking, listening, reading and writing requirements of the literacy framework.
Wings The Wings programme consists of a series of reading and writing modules, designed to progressively develop children’s skills in reading, analysing, responding to and writing texts from different genres. Again, this programme is set within a broad and rich language curriculum that takes full account of the speaking, listening, reading and writing requirements of the literacy framework. All year 1 children start on the Roots Programme. Children throughout the rest of the school will be grouped according to ability.
Cross Curricular topic work Curriculum guides for parents have been designed to make you more aware of the topic work and trips your children will be undertaking each half term. This year, wherever possible we will be making links between Science, ICT, History and Geography. Teachers will also use Art and Design Technology, Drama and many other creative techniques to allow children to make connections across their learning. In addition we will be having a number of Focus weeks throughout the year to teach subject specific skills through a range of topics.
Creative Work This year we will be working with Helen – our Creative Lead – on a number of creative projects, including our October production of ‘The Lion King’ and our peer mentoring initiative. Cross Corners Cross corners is our space for the sports and the arts. It offers many opportunities for artistic enrichment both during and outside of school hours for children and adults.
Healthy Schools Award Mellor has gained Healthy School status. We ask you to continue to support us, particularly in providing your child with healthy packed lunches and snacks and taking part in community learning projects in order to support your child at school. Remember the more you learn the better placed you are to help your child with their learning. Supporting the school library Book vouchers can now be purchased from the office. Instead of buying sweets for celebrations we are encouraging parents to buy a book voucher that will either buy a book or go towards the cost of a library book. Your child’s name will go into the front of the book and a card of thanks will be sent out to parents.
Adult Learning at Mellor We have a range of exciting learning opportunities for adults this year. For further details of all of these courses please ask at the school office.
Taking holidays in term time. School is an important part of the lives of your children. It is where they begin to develop new skills, make friendships and it helps prepare them for their future. When a child misses school they can miss out on these vital opportunities. Missing a day of school every week means that a child will miss the equivalent of over 7 ½ weeks per school year. Schools may only grant up to 10 days a year for holidays and the head teacher’s consent must be obtained. LA guidance dictates that if a holiday is taken without the permission of your child’s school, a fixed penalty notice may be issued in the form of a fine of • £50 per parent per child if paid in full within 28 days • £100 if paid in full after 28 days but within 42 days More information regarding this issue is available from the office.
Study Buddies We are pleased to be running Study Buddies for the seventh year with our Year 6 pupils and their families. This involves parents and/or other family members supporting and sharing in their child’s learning. This year we will be asking all children to complete the Study Buddy sessions as all learning materials will be made available via the school’s VLE (Virtual Learning Environment). These can be accessed from home providing you have access to the Internet. If you do not have access please inform your child’s class teacher and we will try to ensure your child has regular access to the VLE during school time. There will be a different session every week starting after half term. Sessions will focus on either Reading, Writing or Maths. These will include a lesson guide for the children to follow, access to a range of interactive activities and homework to be completed for each session.
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