The Flagpole

To support the progress of our new Year 7 pupils, we will be offering face to face meetings with your child’s tutor to discuss how they are settling-in to life at Princethorpe. Alongside this, senior staff will present some key messages for the year ahead, including how to support pupils’ learning at home. As targets will be made for further improvement we expect that pupils will also attend the meeting wherever possible.

Parents will be given the opportunity to book a 10 minute slot with their child’s tutor electronically; an email will be sent out with more information and booking details before the evening itself.

Michael Spencer
Deputy Head – Academic

To support the progress of our Year 10 pupils we will be offering face to face meetings with your child’s tutor to reflect on how they are settling-in to GCSE study, and to discuss future targets. These will be preceded by a presentation from senior staff to explain how we can use YELLIS testing data to inform these discussions, and to highlight some key messages for the coming academic year. As we are discussing their individual targets, we expect that pupils will also attend the meeting.

Parents will be given the opportunity to book a 10 minute slot with their child’s tutor electronically; an email will be sent out with more information and booking details before the evening itself.

As our new Lower Sixth students settle in to life in Sixth Form, we would like to invite all parents to our Lower Sixth A-level Information Evening. This will include a talk by Mr Spencer who will explain how we can use the results of recent ALIS tests to support our students to succeed. This will be followed by the opportunity for a personal meeting with your child’s tutor or member of the Sixth Form Team to discuss how your child is settling in to Sixth Form and how their individual ALIS predictions can inform their personal targets. The meetings will follow a very similar format to what would normally occur at our 360 Review Evenings lower down the school. Further information and instructions on how and when to make your bookings will follow next week.

Please see the link here for the equipment pupils will be expected to have for the start of term.

Kind Regards

Dr Liz Pyne
Assistant Head - Teaching and Learning