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New Parents' Handbook 2019/20 New Parents’ Handbook 2019/20 Contents 3 Welcome 4 Spiritual and Community Life 5 Minerva and our Teaching and Learning Philosophy 5 Parent Workshops 6 Structure and Organisation of the School Day 7 Curriculum 11 Communication 13 Grades, Reports and Parents’ Evenings 14 Pastoral Care 15 Houses 16 Code of Conduct, Rewards and Sanctions including Online Safety and Anti-Bullying 17 Uniform 20 Equipment 20 Personal Belongings Including Mobile Phones 21 Transport 21 Parking 22 Catering 23 Security 24 Extra-Curricular 27 Trips and Visits 27 Key School Events 27 Finance and Fees 27 Policies 2 LOUGHBOROUGH AMHERST SCHOOL Welcome We are delighted that Loughborough Amherst School has been entrusted with the education of your child. This guide should provide you with a central point of information to help you and your child with all of the key parts of life at Loughborough Amherst School. Joining a school and trying to understand its systems can be a daunting exercise for even the most confident individual. I remember with great clarity my own feelings of trepidation when I first joined the School as Headmaster. I can say with all confidence that you and your child will be made most welcome and we are incredibly proud of our friendly, vibrant and cohesive community. We encourage and challenge every pupil to become the very best version of themselves and aim to help parents in their task of nurturing confident, compassionate and happy young people. Our Mission Statement encompasses all that we are most proud of: We are a Catholic School. We welcome everyone and we respect everyone for who they are. We work together to become clever, kind and brave. We are one family, and everyone is known and loved. When we leave, we will go into the world and make it a better place. Dr Julian Murphy Headmaster 3 Spiritual and Community Life Collective Worship As a Catholic school, we aim to help our pupils to In addition to collective worship in assemblies, four or five times a experience the spiritual dimension in life through all year the whole School gathers for a Mass. aspects of the curriculum and their daily lives. On a less formal level, each House’s feast day includes a pupil designed and led liturgy. We also have a start and end of year We seek to encourage all pupils to develop a habit of liturgy for Year 7 and exam liturgies for Years 11 and 13. contemplation and stillness that will help them remain centred and calm through life’s ups-and-downs. We help them to discover Preparatory pupils also have their own liturgies for key feasts in the satisfaction felt in serving others and living as part of a the liturgical year. community. Finally, we also seek to help them find spiritual joy in All our acts of worship are designed to be inclusive of all pupils, all their activities and talents, be these academic, sporting, musical, regardless of their faith background, and celebrate both the dramatic, artistic or entrepreneurial. diversity and the solidarity of our community. Tutor groups pray and reflect together and the whole School community regularly gather for assemblies. Our Chapel contains its own special area for private prayer, and all pupils are welcome Charity to make use of it at any time they wish. We also have a separate Fundraising for charity is a key part of our Christian ethos. Each Reflection Room for those who do not feel comfortable praying or year, our Houses vote and select one chosen charity for the next meditating in the Chapel. academic year that all fundraising goes towards. Our aim in all this is to help nurture young people who, regardless For 2019/2020, our chosen charity is Following Felix which raises of their personal beliefs, have a capacity for inner stillness, a money for the charity Duchenne UK. This charity supports sense of wonder in the face of existence, and the inner strength to families and funds research into children who have Duchenne embrace the best and face the worst that life has to offer. Muscular Dystrophy which is described as a rare fatal disease in children. Assemblies We have whole School assemblies at least once a week. All pupils, whatever their faith, participate in assemblies. Assemblies are usually rooted in Catholic and Christian ideas but do not seek to force these ideas on anyone. Assemblies seek to address issues that are of relevance to the pupils in their day-to-day lives. Assemblies are also an opportunity to celebrate the achievements of individuals or groups of pupils. Assemblies are often led by pupils. On alternate Mondays the whole School comes together for ‘Congers’, which is a celebratory sing along of favourite songs of worship and celebration and is always an uplifting start to the week. The Preparatory School also participate weekly in their own ‘Congers’. 4 LOUGHBOROUGH AMHERST SCHOOL Minerva and our Teaching and Revision Learning Philosophy We have formalised the expectation that revision should take place throughout the year, often with gaps between the end of a All our colleagues at the School have been considering unit and the unit test. This is known as ‘spaced learning’ and helps the things we could do to help children improve their maximise retention of knowledge. learning efficiency, happiness and results. Minerva could be used to help reduce anxiety about tests, Homework make constructive criticism easier to handle, improve skills for Where appropriate, pupils may be asked to spend half of their extracting information from reading, and enhance the ability to homework time reading and then the other half writing under work effectively. Just some of the key ways that Minerva makes exam conditions. a difference and that you will notice about the Teaching and Learning approach in our School are: Parent Workshops Route Maps Close and supportive communication between School At the start of the year, every class receives a route map for each and home is a vital part of any pupil’s academic and subject. This includes a calendar of learning tasks, times of key pastoral growth. tests and a list of the skills that they will be seeking to develop. We aim to ensure that all of our parents feel supported in their journey with us at Loughborough Amherst School. Every half- Reports term we run a Parent Workshop in the evening which parents are warmly invited to attend. The dates and topics for this can Our reports are succinct, focusing on SMART targets that provide be found on our Key Dates card, but we are always open to each pupil and their parents with a precise understanding of suggestions for topics that parents may wish to learn more about. what to do to access a higher level of achievement. We do not use effort grades (a blunt and unhelpful instrument) and instead grade on six different approaches to learning, thereby providing more nuanced and individual feedback. 5 Structure and Organisation of the The Senior School Day School Day 08:40 Form time begins Start of Year 09:10 - 09:40 Period 1 09:40 - 10:10 Period 2 All new pupils should arrive at School by 08:30 on Monday 2 September, where they will be welcomed and directed to 10:15 - 10:45 Period 3 their Form Room. 10:45 - 11:05 Short break The School Day 11:05 - 11:35 Period 4 11:35 - 12:10 Period 5 Each School day begins with Senior School pupils arriving at their Form Room by 08:40. Pupils may arrive at School from 08:00 12:10 - 12:40 Period 6 when the Refectory is open and serving breakfast. 12:40 - 13:10 Period 7 Unless involved in a School activity or prep (homework) in the 13:10 - 14:20 Lunch Justham Library we request that pupils leave the School premises by 16:00. Your son/daughter may register to study in the Justham 14:25 - 14:55 Period 8 Library until 17:00 when he/she must either be collected or safely 14:55 - 15:25 Period 9 make his/her own way home. 15:25 - 15:55 Period 10 Preparatory School pupils arrive at their classroom from 08:30. Before this, there is no supervision on site unless pupils pre-book 15:55 End of School day into our onsite Breakfast Club. Preparatory School pupils finish at 15:40. Parents are welcome to wait in the playground if they are waiting for older siblings to finish their School day. All pupils must be supervised by a parent whilst waiting. Any Preparatory School pupils catching a school bus walk to the Loughborough Schools Foundation main car park with Senior School pupils. Members of staff from Loughborough Amherst School will be on duty with other Foundation staff in the car park until the last bus has departed. Out of hours care for Preparatory pupils is provided at Fairfield Prep School, who are also part of the Loughborough Schools Foundation. This provision operates from the end of the School day until 18:00. Pupils are walked to Fairfield by a member of our staff. Pupils have the opportunity to eat tea and do some of their homework, as well as accessing recreation and play opportunities. Places for this provision need to be pre-booked. For more details and rates, please visit the Out of Hours Care page on Firefly. 6 LOUGHBOROUGH AMHERST SCHOOL Reader Programme which allow us as Teachers and parents Curriculum to share in our pupils/child’s reading journey. There are many The curriculum at Amherst reflects the activities of reading competitions throughout the School year, Reading Clubs the whole human being and encourages pupils to be for all Key Stages, and dedicated reading time both in Accelerated Reader lessons and in Form time.
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