Welcome to Upper School
The Headlines 2018-19
Areas of focus for 2019-20 • Teaching, Learning and Assessment • Slight Shift in Admissions and Pupil Recruitment • Develop Pastoral Care and Wellbeing • Communication • Further investment in facilities
Admissions from September 2020 • Reduce 7+ intake to 3 classes (from 4) • Maintain 11+ intake at 7 classes (has been 6 until this year) • Total number of pupils remains the same but reduces in time • Commitment to maximum class size of 20
2018 2019 2019 2020 Developing Teaching and Learning Independent skills in Y6 • • (Latin to start in Y7) including Reading prep Revamped KS3 curriculum • Mixed ability teaching in • Introduction of Spanish Y6 English • Digital Learning • KS3 Mixed ability teaching in English • Outdoor Learning •
Benefits of mixed ability teaching
What mixed ability looks like in English.
Furt rther d r differentiation Additional support Additional extension • Word banks • Higher order thinking skills: evaluation and comparison • Sentence starters • Key vocabulary defined
Ma Mark scheme me
Enrichment in English
Scholarship 11+ and 13+ 11+ Academic awards: Pupils nominated by teachers based on • assessment data including CEM tests (also done by external candidates) Music awards also available 13+ awards in a range of subjects. Pupils nominated by subject • teachers based on assessment data from Y7 and Y8. Discussions at Parents’ Evenings •
Reports and Parents’ Evenings
Key changes
Communication • New Office Manager – Mrs Kerry Mitchell • Communication Audit • New Receptionist • Office Layout • Website, Newsletter and Social Media – Rosie Togher - Marketing Assistant
Interactive Newsletter Links to key areas- Lunch Menus, Calendar etc.. Head’s Letter and Key Updates for the week ahead are in a PDF embedded in the email. It can be accessed by clicking here. If parents are short for time we recommend that the PDF is read each week. Head’s Blog is similar to the Head’s Letter • Main body of the email are news stories of Head’s letter • events and activities that have taken place communicates important at Belmont that week. information from the school to parents. • Parents can choose which stories they Operational matters are • Links to the Belmont social channels- want to read/what is relevant to their child removed from the blog take a look at what is going on in the by clicking on the news story which takes More photos will be • classroom @MillHillBelmont you to the website to read the full story added to the Head’s blog
PDF: Head’s Letter and Key Updates Lower School & Upper School Head’s Letter: Communicates Week Ahead: Broken down day by day. The A5 Updates: Updates are split into important information each week. printed Calendar is only correct at the time of the two year groups. Notices from Crucial to read it as information can going to print so important to read the PDF. other Departments and Areas be missed. Our aim is to cut down on This table can also change depending on then follow e.g. School Nurse, the amount of emails we send each changes to fixtures etc. so important to check Photos for purchasing etc. week. So we try to include as much SOCS regularly & the live website calendar information in this as possible.
Clubs information is updated every term before the clubs go live to sign up on SOCS. Here you will find Website descriptors and a timetable of each of the clubs. Shortcut to login to Clubs (SOCS) Lunch Menu’s are updated every week Choose how to view the calendar & filter
Social Media Follow @millhillbelmont to keep up with what is going on at Belmont and for a sneak peak into life at Belmont! We have a Facebook, Twitter and Instagram page!
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