Year 9 Information Presentation Year 9 Families Welcome to Cambridge Academy for Science and Technology Key Senior Staff
Danielle Pacey Principal Key Senior Staff
Colin Bashford Assistant Principal - STEM Key Senior Staff
Alex Caley Assistant Principal – Life Sciences Key Senior Staff
Alistair Easterfield Assistant Principal – Wider curriculum Key Senior Staff
Tracy Brogan SLT Associate – Head of English and Sixth The team
Margarita Jiggins Fiona Donelly (Head of year 9) (Head of Pastoral Care) [email protected] [email protected]
Barry Cooper Christine Rookes (SENCO) (Student Services) [email protected] [email protected] The form tutors - Anning
Yvonne Hogskin ICT and Computer science teacher
[email protected] Mary Anning (1799 - 1847) Mary Anning was a pioneering palaeontologist and famous fossil collector in Lyme Regis during the Georgian years and to this day remains a public figure for explorers and paleontologists around the world.
Area of Science: Earth Science
Notable Achievements: The first complete Ichthyosaur, discovery of Plesiosaurus (sea dragon) in 1823 and Pterodactyls in 1828. The form tutors - DaVinci
Ronald Davies
Chemistry teacher Leonardo Da Vinci (1452 - 1519) [email protected] Leonardo Da Vinci is notoriously famous for his art and paintings, including the Mona Lisa and the Last Supper, which revolutionized Renaissance art. His art was created through dedicating his time to study several fields of science, including human anatomy to understand musculature, physics for light reflection (object reflection) and chemistry for producing the best paints.
Area of Science: Art, Engineering Sculpting, Architecture.
Notable achievements: The Mona Lisa (1503), The Last Supper (1495) and many more. The form tutors - Galileo
Mike Mathews
Head of Year 9 & 10 Maths Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642) [email protected] Galileo was a highly influential Italian astronomer, physicist and philosopher and mathematician known for improving and producing his own telescope. He used this to revolutionise astronomy and pave the way for acceptance of “The Copernican heliocentric system” (the earth was not the center of the solar system, but the sun). Alongside this, he was also known for changing natural philosophy from verbal qualitative account to a mathematical one.
Area of Science: Physics, Astronomy, Mathematics, Engineering
Notable Achievements: Discovery of 4 Jupiter moons (named the Galilean moons), phases of Venus, craters on the Moons, publication of “Sidereus Nuncius” and many more. Pastoral Structure
• First point of contact for any • Fiona Donnelly is the Head of issues is your child’s tutor Pastoral Care and works with students where external service • Second point of contact is support may be needed. the Head of Year 9, Margarita Jiggins • Student Services can help both students and parent with day to day enquires e.g. forgotten lunch, lost folders Conduct and Rewards Using Go4Schools, you will be able to track positive and negative behaviour entries for your children. Punctuality and Attendance • We have an expectation that your child’s attendance will be above 96%, less than the equivalent of 7 days absence in a year. Every lesson counts! • Covid 19 related absences from school will not count against attendance figures . • With many students travelling on public transport, we know at times trains or buses can be cancelled or delayed. We request that students provide evidence as to why they are late e.g. photo of a train announcement board showing cancelled trains to avoid sanctions for lateness. Timetable • Year 9 lessons finish at 2:50 every day.
• With the Covid 19 situation students should leave the building immediately.
• Year 9 have 2 private study periods each week, this is to allow them time to work on any Home Learning they have been given. Microsoft Teams
• Every student has an Office 365 account ending @cap.education •Accessed through office.com •A Microsoft Team has been created for each subject and the students have been assigned to them •Teachers will be using that platform to share electronic resources including PowerPoints, handouts and home learning tasks
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•Student learning •Each half term the student receives more assessed at the start extensive written feedback on what they of lessons and have done well, how they can improve, throughout. their literacy and their numeracy in each •Out of lesson subject. learning is set each •Students act on the feedback and week for each subject make those improvements. This work is and marked in lesson kept in their subject's feedback and the following week. assessment folder. Assessment and feedback
•Exams happen twice a year •Year 9 exam start •Revision is needed in addition to home learning dates •Happens over two weeks with exams in each subject •Wednesday 6th •Held in the hall under examination conditions January •They cover all the work done up to that point in each subject •Monday 14th June •Written feedback given and acted upon. Assessment and feedback
•Results from assessments will •Written reports for each be added to Go4Schools three subject, challenge and tutor weeks after the exams have time will be given once a year in finished. Go4School.
•The progress of all students is •Year 9 Reports analysed, and intervention is put •Thursday 8th July in place where necessary Wider Curriculum
Challenge (Learning the skills needed to be a scientist) Careers guidance Wider curriculum days (personal, social & health education/spiritual, moral, social and cultural development) Extra curricular (sports, arts & crafts, performing arts, science, etc.) Health and Safety – Covid19
Please do not send students into College if they have Covid19 symptoms: • Raised temperature • Persistent cough • Loss of taste or smell
Unless they have received a negative Covid19 test result Health and Safety – Covid19
• Sanitise/wash hands at start and end of lessons • Hand sanitiser and tissues in all classrooms • Use face coverings in communal areas • Use tissues • Avoid sharing equipment • Tables cleaned between lessons • Staggered breaks and lunches with different areas for students to go Key Dates • Assessment weeks, first starting 6th January 2021, second starting 14th June 2021 • Year 9 parents evening Monday 30th November • Year 9 Reports published 8th July 2021 Booking an appointment with the tutor
• The message sent with this presentation contains a link to a Microsoft Form that allows you to request an appointment with your child’s tutor on Monday 28th September between 5pm and 6.30pm •This will be a 5 minute call and once we have received all requests (by Wednesday 23rd September) times will be allocated and you will receive an e-mail with confirmation. •You have an option for either a video call or a telephone call