February 2015

FARLINGAYE HIGH SCHOOL

MATHS, COMPUTING & ARTS SPECIALIST SCHOOL

WOODBRIDGE

HEADTEACHER’S REPORT TO GOVERNORS

October 2014 - February 2015

No on Roll 1875 Main School 1447 Sixth Form 428 Eligible for Free School Meals 135 Ever 6 Free School Meals approx. 253

Teaching Staff - full-time Head + 103 - part-time 24 (individuals – 13.6 FTE)

Head + 116.6 FTE 1

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A WORK RELATED TO MONITORING, OUTCOMES AND EVALUATION

A1 Current Year 11 and Support for Exam Groups

We are doing the following to support Year 11:

 Two catch-up coursework sessions from 4-7 pm.  Lots of revision clubs; the staff are superb about the time they give to this.  Residentials – We will encourage as many as possible to attend. This year we are going to trial doing day for each group and not staying overnight. Staff became frustrated with students being out so I am trying to support this, though both Miss Gilmour and I feel the existing structure worked well and added significantly to our improvement. I am proposing that we again use Pupil Premium money to pay for all of them.  Over Christmas I analysed in depth the performance by the current Year 11 Pupil Premium students and a further 99 borderline students. We are currently holding a meeting of English, Maths, 1 to 1 team and Year team staff to discuss each student.  We will again give out the trial exam results formally with a Results Day. We are following this up with each student having a dialogue about how they are doing with Leadership Team member or Head of Year. A copy of the notes made will be posted home with their next report.  We’ve continued with the mentoring with both staff and business mentors.  All staff have completed a form for me about how their Year 11 class is performing. I will write to all those who’ve been praised and we are monitoring those causing a concern.  A level support for students continues to be excellent. We have appointed a 1 to 1 tutor for Maths A level.  We will hold ‘blip’ factor meetings for 2 subjects at GCSE and/or A level.  Mrs Laird runs our A2A group for borderline students and I run the Freddoes group for able but underachieving students.  We have focused on Disadvantaged Students in Year 11 through issuing a time plan that I monitor (see Appendix A), the individual detailed analysis as mentioned above, A CPD session for all staff on January PD Day and all Disadvantaged Students invited in on PD day for three hours of core subject tuition. We hold a meeting every three weeks of the Disadvantaged Students team with LT members and Heads of English and Maths. We held a meeting this week with all one to one tutors. We have continued with considerable one to one support in Maths and English (using Pupil Premium money) and have tried to target this very specifically at those most likely not to get a C. Currently 138 are receiving tuition in Maths and 96 in English.

A2 Achievement Schemes

The Year 8 Achievement Scheme is due to start at the beginning of February. A six-week scheme, the target group are those who have been identified through their reports as underachieving or who are felt to lack confidence in their learning; it is not about inappropriate behaviour.

The scheme starts with an after school meeting between the Head of Year, Mr Read, Mrs Laird and the parents and students. Using their report, the students and their parents identify two or three targets that they need to focus on. The scheme was updated last year, with the students carrying a report card displaying their targets and for which they are awarded a star to show whether they have met each target completely, partly or not at all. Stars are also awarded for attending clubs, participating in school events, contributing to the tutor group, etc. The stars are then monitored each week and so it is easy to track their progress and provide extra encouragement or support as needed.

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At the end of the scheme, students who have done well get a bronze, silver or gold award and an appropriate award.

Last term we held a successful Year 9 scheme (focussing on disadvantaged students) and my thanks go to Mr Harris and all the Year 9 tutors.

A3 Year Trails

We have continued with the Year Trail process as our main way of evaluating the quality of teaching and learning. Last term we trailed Year 11 and you will soon be sent a copy of the report. It was very positive overall. Thank you to Mr Macdonald for organising the trail. The Year 12/13 trail starts after half term.

A4 SEF and OFSTED

I have updated our SEF though I am hoping we will not get an Ofsted inspection this year. I have attached a copy of the current one (Appendix B). This will show you the areas we currently need to focus on. The main area for improvement is narrowing the gap for 5A*-C between Disadvantaged Students and Non-Disadvantaged Students.

I continue to do one Ofsted inspection a term and any money from these (it’s not much!) is going into the school budget.

A5 Staff Self-Monitoring and Faculty Monitoring

All Sixth Form staff have self-evaluated a lesson this term and Mr Piddington and I see the outcomes of these twice a year. All faculties have completed a subject A Level/GCSE SEF as well as the grids which are part of this report.

A6 Behaviour Watch

We continue to use “Behaviour Watch” which records concerns about behaviour. It continues to be a bit of a mixed blessing!

A7 RAISE online/Published results

We have received this for the unvalidated KS4 results. Mr Moran has sent all governors the relevant pages. It looks really strong. (Have not included different ethnic minorities as such small numbers):

All rated as significantly positive for 2014

 % achieving 5 A*CEM  Capped total point score (best 8)  % achieving 5 A*-G  Average points per pupil in EBACC Maths  Total point score  Male capped point score  Female capped point score  FSM total point score  Low prior attainment capped and total point score  Middle prior attainment capped and total point score  High prior attainment capped and total point score

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 Non-mobile students capped and total point score  SEN with statement capped and total point score  All EBACC subjects except Humanities  Value added for Best 8 (1,027.8 – 13th percentile which is excellent)  Value added for Maths and all sub groups (except CLA)  Value added for Science, Languages and Humanities including some sub groups  FSM difference between our VA and national average for group  Value added for middle and high prior attainment  Value added for non-mobile students  Value added for statemented and non SEN students  % overall making expected progress in English including middle and high prior attainers  % overall making expected progress in Maths plus boys, girls, FSM, Disadvantaged students, low, higher and middle prior attainers, SEN, non-statemented and School Action

Neither significantly positive or significantly negative for 2014

 Average points per pupil in EBACC English  FSM capped score  LAC capped score  School Action SEN  Humanities EBACC  Value added for English  Value added score for low prior attainers  % making expected progress in English who are CLA, FSM, Male, Female, Disadvantaged

Significantly negative for 2014

 Value added for CLA (5 students)  English Value added for FSM, CLA, Low prior attainment, SEN

A8 Forecast Attainment Update (Mr Chris Moran)

The following charts show the GCSE and A2 results for 2015 if each student gained the grade predicted on the most recent report. You also have the usual subject analysis attached as an appendix. My personal view is that some staff have over-estimated with GCSE so please don’t get too excited!

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Year 11 2014-2015

Percentage achieving at 5 or More Grades at C or Above Including English and Maths 80%

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50% Year 10 Year 10 Year 10 Year 10 Year 11 Year 11 Year 11 Year 11 Rep 2 Rep 3 Rep 4 EOY Rep 1 Rep 2 Rep 3 Rep 4 All 70% 60% 69% 71% 68% 69% Boys 64% 57% 64% 65% 64% 65% Girls 76% 63% 74% 78% 72% 73% Target 65% 65% 65% 65% 65% 65% 65% 65%

Year 11 2013-14 for comparison

Percentage achieving at 5 or More Grades at C or Above Including English and Maths 80% 75% 70% 65% 60% 55% 50% 45% 40% Year 10 Year 10 Year 10 Year 11 Year 11 Year 11 Year 11 Year 11 Rep 2 Rep 3 Rep 4 Rep 1 Rep 2 Rep 3 Rep 4 GCSE 2014 Target 65% 65% 65% 65% 65% 65% 65% 65% All 61% 63% 69% 68% 71% 60% 72% 69% Boys 51% 55% 64% 62% 63% 51% 66% 62% Girls 70% 71% 74% 74% 79% 68% 78% 76%

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Year 11 Report 2 2014-15

FSM Performance Published Ethnic Ever SEN - SEN - All Boys Girls LAC FSM Forces SEN - E Indicator Target Minorities 6 & K All LAC 5A*-C (EM) 65% 69.1% 64.5% 73.5% 50.0% 16.7% 70.0% 37.0% 75.0% 14.3% 12.5% 12.8% 5A*-C 81.6% 76.6% 86.4% 50.0% 45.8% 85.0% 56.5% 100.0% 28.6% 34.4% 33.3% 3+ Levels of progress in 80% 92.0% 90.2% 93.7% 100.0% 80.0% 100.0% 82.5% 100.0% 100.0% 76.0% 78.6% English 4+ Levels of progress in 61.3% 53.0% 69.0% 50.0% 40.0% 58.8% 47.5% 50.0% 0.0% 40.0% 35.7% English 3+ Levels of progress in 80% 82.1% 79.7% 84.3% 50.0% 47.4% 82.4% 62.5% 100.0% 50.0% 60.0% 59.3% Maths 4+ Levels of progress in 44.7% 39.1% 50.0% 0.0% 15.8% 47.1% 22.5% 25.0% 0.0% 16.0% 14.8% Maths No of 288 141 147 2 24 20 46 4 7 32 39 Students

Year 11 Report 2 2013-14 for comparison

SEN SEN Performance Published Ethnic With All Boys Girls LAC FSM Forces School School Indicator Target Minorities Statement Action Action+ 5A*-C (EM) 65% 71.4% 63.6% 78.9% 0.0% 4820.0% 57.9% 60.0% 0.0% 20.6% 16.7% 5A*-C 76.0% 66.7% 85.0% 20.0% 55.6% 68.4% 70.0% 11.1% 23.5% 16.7% 3+ Levels of progress in 80% 89.5% 85.0% 93.0% 50.0% 87.5% 100.0% 100.0% 50.0% 67.7% 66.7% English 4+ Levels of progress in 44.4% 35.0% 52.5% 50.0% 20.8% 50.0% 55.6% 0.0% 25.8% 50.0% English 3+ Levels of progress in 80% 86.5% 84.8% 87.7% 0.0% 75.0% 83.3% 70.0% 20.0% 72.4% 44.4% Maths 4+ Levels of progress in 61.1% 56.0% 66.7% 0.0% 41.7% 55.6% 60.0% 0.0% 41.4% 22.2% Maths No of 287 132 147 5 27 19 10 9 34 12 Students

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Year 11 2014-15 (Yr 11 Report 2)

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Year 11 2013-14 (Yr 11 - Report 2) for comparison

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Key Performance Indicators Based on Report Grades Subject Monitoring

KS5 Year 13 report 2 2014-2015

100% 90% 80% 70% 60% 50% 40% 30% 20% 10% 0% % 3+ A*-B % 3+ A*-E Boys 33% 89% Girls 31% 93% All 32% 91%

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0 APS per student TPS per student Boys 218.5 649.2 Girls 227.8 678.2 All 223.1 663.8

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240.0 APS per student trend 230.0

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210.0 Boys 200.0 Girls 190.0 All 180.0 Y12-2 Y12-3 Y12-4 Y13-2 Y13-3 Y13-4 Boys 210.5 202.4 208.1 218.5 Girls 221.3 215.7 221.3 227.8 All 216.0 209.1 214.7 223.1

Year 13 2013-2014 for comparison

Year 13 AS Grades Achieved 120%

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0% % 3+ A*-B % 3+ A*-E Boys 38% 94% Girls 44% 91% All 41% 93%

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B EVENTS

B1 Open Evenings and Information Evenings

We held a very successful Open Evening in October following our usual format. Every faculty area looked very good and visitors were very impressed and made many positive comments. I am grateful to all staff, including all the Support Staff, who did a lot of work to make this evening a success. Approximately 300 students also helped at the evening. We have had our highest number ever of applications for Year 7.

We held an Information Evening for Year 10 parents in October, covering Work Experience, careers, study skills and coping with GCSEs. My thanks go to Miss Gilmour and Mr Wakeley, Mrs Ewers and Mrs Stuart for their organisation of the evening. We again had a carousel of three presentations, delivered by Mr Moran, Miss Gilmour and me, which seemed to work well.

We held two successful Sixth Form Experience Mornings for nearly 60 students from other schools which were well received. Last week we held our Sixth Form Open Evening which seemed to go very well. Once again we attracted a massive interest from external students. The evening was very busy with two presentations in the New Hall and the Gym. We believe about 600 people attended the evening (amazing – especially in view of the FA Cup Match v Southampton!). We have a PAN for external candidates of 75, so would accept 110 applications before using the criteria – this allows for double applications.

This year we again held two Certificate Presentation Evenings. There was a formal evening for ex-Year 11 students in November which worked well. There was a very informal evening with refreshments for Year 13 students at the start of this term. It was lovely to hear how well they were getting on.

B2 “Reflection and Resolution” Fortnight

As all governors are aware, we have firmly established the idea of a special fortnight each Autumn. They started in 2006 and the last two years have been “My Future” and “Independence and Responsibility”. This year the activities took place throughout the Autumn term to coincide with the Centenary of World War One and the theme was ““Reflection and Resolution”. I co-ordinated it and was pleased with the range of activities offered to the students. Staff were fantastic in their support for the event, running various events at lunchtime and after-school and trips to The Battlefields in Belgium, The Houses of Parliament and Warhorse. Highlights included a wonderful Centenary Evening of music, dance, drama and readings. There was a “One Life Day”, organised by Mrs Laird with over 20 visiting speakers who gave accounts of their personal stories and adventures. We had two inspirational speakers – with their stories of living through wartime. Our librarian, Mrs Mason, organised an excellent Human Library Day with visitors with mental health issues. The Art department created lovely thought trees and Miss Chapman organised us all making over 700 origami doves!

I attach a copy of the programme of events so that you can see all the other fun things that took place. I would like to thank all the staff who did so much to make the fortnight so successful.

B3 Concerts and Plays

We had a lovely evening at St Mary’s Church in Woodbridge which raised over £500 for the Woolverstone Wish and this was followed by an equally lovely carol service in the school. In addition, this year we once again held an afternoon concert for the elderly in the community, with over 140 visitors. We gave them all a present, donated by parents, and the kitchen staff

11 February 2015 made cakes for afternoon tea. My thanks go to Mrs Phillips, Mr Phillips, Ms Martino and Mr Picton for all the work they did for all events. They also took students to sing and play at Haughgate House.

We held our Super Rock Evening in November, and our ICT Technician, Mr Deeble, did a great job co-ordinating the sound and lighting. About 23 bands participated (with 29 auditioning). It was a great evening with a sell-out of 600 in the audience and we raised over £2400 for Miles’s Wheelchair Fund. Mr Piddington, Mr Picton and I co-ordinated the evening and we are very grateful to Fabian Marshall-Tierney, Dan Watson-Brown and David Nunn, three Year 13 students, who give their time unreservedly.

We held two Drama Showcase evenings in November which worked well and showcased some excellent talent in non-musical theatre. Thanks to Ms Cowley for work on this and to the FHSF for helping me and the Leadership Team with the bar and canapés.

“The Little Shop of Horrors” takes place on February 10th and 11th at 7.00 pm and there are two performances on Thursday, February 12th at 4.30 pm and 7.30 pm. My thanks go to Ms Tyndale-Hardy, Ms Martino Mr Picton, Ms Lansdowne-Phillips and Miss Baldwin for all the work they are doing to prepare for this. If any governors would like two tickets for any of the performances, please can you phone Michelle Berriman as soon as possible. I’m sure it will be brilliant!

B4 Christmas Events

In addition to the musical events and the Presentation Evenings, we had our usual good fun at Christmas. We did our hampers which were, as always, stunning and we again delivered these ourselves and it worked well. We sent them to the Salvation Army, the Royal British Legion, St John’s Church, the Refugee Council, FIND, West Villa, Age UK , Homestart, The Lighthouse Trust, Leading Lives and local individuals. Mrs Ling, my secretary, did a great job organising these.

The celebration assemblies went well and students thoroughly enjoyed the staff pantomime. This was based on Peter Pan and was very entertaining. Huge thanks to Mr Fitch and Miss Gilmour for writing and co-ordinating it and to Mr Deeble and the AV team for their hard work.

B5 Miles’s Wheelchair Fund

We successfully raised close to £18,000 for Miles’s wheelchair. The required total of £16,750 was reached within 10 weeks and we have ordered the chair. The money was raised through the following:

Donations through cheques and Just Giving Website £2,890 Second hand uniform donation £2,000 Centenary Event £1,131 Y7 Halloween Disco £483 Miles for Miles – Sponsored Row £3,554 Super Rock £2,151 Non Uniform Day £3,092 Ruby Ford – Bawdsey Primary School £150 Staff Bake off £312 Rotary Club £650

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Hopkins Homes £300 St Audry's Golf Club £100 Halloween Biscuits - Kitchen £200 Silent Auction £416 Cake Sale & Raffle £154 Carol Singing Marks and Spencer £50 Calendar Income £6 Candy Cane Sales £82 Busking £28 Cory Logistics Donation £1,000 Martlesham Brass Band £1,100

B6 FHSF Events

The Craft Fayre was held in October. It was as successful as always, raising over £3,000. Mrs Hodge, a parent, did a brilliant job organising it and Ms Purkiss organised the catering. They were very ably helped by all the members of the committee, volunteer parents and staff. I would also like to recognise the work that Mr Moran does throughout the year to chair and lead the group.

Our next event is the Quiz which will be held on 27th February. I would really appreciate governors’ support for this. Please put the date in your diary now and try to encourage your friends to come along with you!

C COMPETITIONS

C1 Young Enterprise (Mr Ian Howlett)

The Young Enterprise Scheme involves students setting up and running a business with the support of a Link Teacher and a Business Adviser from the local community. The current adviser is Colin Maunder of ‘The Writing House’. As part of the process students must take on relevant roles and responsibilities before identifying a business opportunity and taking that to market. This commitment includes after school meetings and arranging to sell their own products/services at numerous events. This year’s company consists of Year 12 students who trade under the name of Vision. Their first product was to take vinyl records and turn them into clocks; they created a product that was well received particularly at Woodbridge Christmas Market.

Going forward they are continuing along the recycling theme. In the conceptual phase at the moment Vision are sourcing old tin cans for a variety of uses such as desk tidies and condiment holders with a range of designs and themes. Alongside the commercial activity students will shortly be writing a Company Report to help them gain entry to the area competition. They will also prepare a presentation and a trade stand for the competition and aim to come away with some of the awards on offer.

C2 Mock Trial

I have just started working with the Year 9 team for this year’s Magistrate’s Mock Trial competition and the first round is on 21st March.

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C3 Rotary Young Chef Competition (Mrs Sadie Ewers)

On Wednesday November 13th, 12 students from year 7 to 11 competed against each other in the “RIBI Young Chef” supported by over 40 family, friends and staff. The competition was organised by Mrs Ewers and Mrs Fisk and run by the Rotary Club of Woodbridge Deben’s Rotarians Dudley Gowen and Peter Senior, a professional chef in his own right.

The contestants were: from year 7, Eden Rogers, Grace Moussa, James Gilman-Earle; year 10, Ollie Smith, Katie Merrin, George Baker, Theo Sheppard, Franki Selby and Fiona Banham; and year 11, Jakob Poffley, Josh Richards and Maddy Masters.

Each student had to prepare, cook and serve a three course meal for two people based on healthy eating within 2 ½ hours. They had a maximum budget of £15. The winners were 1st prize – Maddy Masters, 2nd prize – George Baker and 3rd prize – Franki Selby. All competitors were presented with a certificate and a Jamie Oliver recipe book. Maddy will go through to the District Final in February at Kings Lynn.

D TEACHING AND LEARNING

D1 Teaching and Learning Group (Mr Peter Smith)

The Teaching and Learning group meets regularly to discuss current projects, as well as share good practice. Last term’s focus for the group was to plan a Teachmeet, a sharing of good ideas between like-minded staff. Planning has taken place and the event will be held this half term.

The intended focus for this term is to look at “Marginal gains”, a phrase coined by the Sky cycling supremo Dave Brailsford. The group are looking for little things that teachers do in the classroom that have a big impact on learning. We will then look to share our ideas and findings with staff.

D2 Leading Edge developments (Mrs Laurinda Rudge)

Several key events took place last term. The Most Able day on October 6th gave students the opportunity to research and present a key moment which shaped the world. Thanks to Mr Hawtin, Miss Chapman and Miss Baldwin for their work on this.

In November we ran the first of our CPD meetings for second year teachers at Seckford Hall. The session was led by Ms Hargadon and focused on areas suggested prior to the meeting by the participants. We welcomed colleagues from and both Mr Smith (Deputy Head, Farlingaye) and Mr Legg (Deputy Head, Kesgrave) attended. The evening concluded with an excellent meal together in the restaurant. Two further meetings are planned. Our third year teacher meeting focused on “micro skills” and was led by Mrs Curtis and Mrs Rudge.

Mrs Cornell has been running our research community which offers support to those members of staff completing MAs and PhDs. The group has met twice. The school is now linked to Camstar which provides expert advice, feedback and the chance to share research with other teachers in the network. Sue Brindley from Camstar will be visiting this term.

We welcome back our assessor, Anthony Smith, from the national Leading Edge on Thursday 29th January to look at the projects we are undertaking this year. On Friday 6th February the English faculty will be hosting a Leading Edge English day with visitors following a programme of seminars, learning walks and sharing good practice. In March we will again be holding our

14 February 2015 teaching and learning conference on Promoting Success at Key Stage 4; presentations and workshops will be offered and all Suffolk schools will be invited to attend.

Thank you once again to everyone on the team for their commitment and enthusiasm.

D3 Teaching Schools (Mr Peter Smith)

Our focus for the Teaching School this term is to put in place effective training opportunities for Newly Qualified Teachers across Suffolk. We intend to hold a micro-conference, using our extremely successful KS4 event as a template for NQTs towards the end of this term. With uncertainty over County Council support for NQTs, we feel that we can offer a chance to share the expertise we have through an original and worthwhile training event.

In other matters the Teaching School continues to support other schools though the provision of SLEs, (Senior Leaders in Education) with various areas of expertise, and have deployed them across the region to support a large number of schools. We are just starting the process of recruiting additional SLEs and hopefully will put forward several Farlingaye staff.

Our link with the Schools Direct training continues, we currently 32 trainees across 16 schools in Suffolk. Additionally, we have approximately 15 School Direct Tuition route trainees from University of East Anglia and Suffolk & Norfolk Initial Teacher Training. The recruitment process for 2015-6 has already started and interviews are currently being held with staff from Farlingaye involved in ensuring that the trainees for this area are of the highest standard.

E CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENTS AND STUDENT RELATED DEVELOPMENTS

E1 Curriculum Update (Mr Ian Piddington)

2014/15 is a period of curriculum calm before the extensive range of changes being introduced for the academic year 2015/16 and beyond.

Key Stage 5

The introduction of A Level Film Studies this year has been successful, with 2 groups established in Year 12. However, much of the discussion regarding the A Level curriculum has been focused on the new linear A levels being introduced in 2015/16, and therefore offered to students for the first time in the recently published sixth form prospectus. Whilst many ‘Modular’ A Levels remain, some subjects are being required to introduce a ‘Linear’ A level specification. For these subjects the A level grade will be generated from exams sat at the end of Year 13 only, and will take no regard of the marks or grades gained at the end of Year 12 in ‘stand alone’ AS qualifications. This mixed economy will run, at least until September 2018, when all A levels will be linear and decoupled from AS exam marks.

One current A Level course has been discontinued from 2015 (Economics and Business). Instead we will be offering Economics A level (with some business content). We will also be introducing the Cambridge Technical Level 3 course in Business as an alternative choice for students. Other new AS courses chosen for 2015/16 are Computer Science, Creative Writing and Government and Politics.

Key Stage 4

As with A Level, the Farlingaye GCSE/Level 2 curriculum has been relatively unchanged in 2014/15. However, Maths, English Language and English Literature are being asked to make significant preparations for curriculum change in September 2015 and all other Level 2 subjects will be changing thereafter. In Maths there will be a significant increase in the content that

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Discussions are taking place about the nature of grading in existing BTec courses and CACHE. Their current assessment regimes do not lend themselves well to the new Progress 8 or Attainment 8 measures. The school may therefore need to revert to GCSE equivalent subjects to maximise student grade outcomes for this purpose.

Alongside these considerations are discussions relating to the content of the Key Stage 4 offer to current Year 9 students. Again, the new school performance measures emphasise the importance of EBacc subjects for every student in their ‘basket’ of options. We have discussed the balance between EBacc choices and those subjects that fall outside this classification, when forming option pools. We will present our draft KS4 curriculum at the meeting for discussion.

Key Stage 3

The school has undertaken an audit of the Key Stage 3 curriculum in the autumn term. The outcomes of this audit suggest that subjects are aware of the changes to the National Curriculum at this level. They are well placed to meet the needs of students joining us in Key Stage 3 from our feeder primaries and with an on-going appreciation of the forthcoming changes at Key Stage 4 will prepare students well for their GCSEs.

2015 onwards will be a time of unprecedented change regarding the introduction of examination curricula, new forms of assessment and school performance measurement.

E2 Year 9 Diploma (Miss Sophie Mawson)

As a result of so many students taking part in such a variety of extra-curricular and out of school activities this has given many students a huge amount of points towards the Diploma. At the end of last term we held a raffle, where students collected a raffle ticket for every 20 points they had collected. Lotte D’Hane and Ryan Parish won a prize for their success. This term students will be completing their Humanities, Languages and Creative Arts projects. Students will also have the exciting opportunity of taking part in the ‘Challenge Me’ project, which allows students to be creative and create their own project on an area of interest which enables them to gain further points.

E3 Communication and Literacy Developments (Mrs Laurinda Rudge)

Our word of the week and literacy focus of the term continue to be very visible round school. The literacy link teachers from each faculty have been producing resources for use in tutor time to support each half-term’s focus. Year 7 have started work on their literacy booklets in tutor time. In March we will celebrate World Book Day with a DEAR slot (Drop Everything and Read) in each lesson.

E4 Numeracy Developments (Mr Andrew Gemmell)

A weekly Year 7 maths club held at lunchtime allows students who enjoy maths to study more challenging problems. Cypher club for all years is taking place. This allows students to crack codes using mathematical logic and skills. The Maths photography competition continues to have entries of a high standard. The competition is designed to promote the subject across the school and to enable students to become more engaged in the maths around them.

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The mathematical team challenges and individual challenges have been taking place throughout the year. So far the senior maths challenge has taken place and the intermediate maths challenge is due to take place later this term.

E5 Most Able Developments (Mr Barry Hawtin)

The Most Able policy at Farlingaye was reviewed following a leadership meeting and communication with Governors to better meet the needs of the school. Among the key changes was the approach to ‘Talented in subject’ identification and communication. It was agreed that this cohort would be referred to as ‘Potential for talent in…’ with the faculty link staff responsible for monitoring this group twice in the academic year and to provide intervention where necessary. Additionally the previous term of Gifted and Talented has been changed to Most Able and will be used in all future references.

Recently Farlingaye’s provision for Most Able students was inspected by Ofsted HMI Dr Howard, who graded the school’s approach as “outstanding” (confidentially) which is testament to the whole school approach to this cohort. He also said that he thought the school was ‘inspirational’.

The most able staff team continues to meet regularly and has been busy this year organising and running the inaugural KS3 gifted and talented day ‘Moments that shaped the World’. The day had a great buzz around it with teams preparing and presenting to a judging panel including the head teacher, governors and selected senior staff. Additionally, subject-specific talented days have been organised by our very hard-working most able subject links.

The monitoring of our most able students has continued in accordance with our policy. A copy of any student dialogue is now passed on to the appropriate faculties, which allows classroom teachers to be aware of what has been discussed and how they can help to tackle any issues arising from the conversations.

Finally, we are keen to further student experiences and to this extent we will be investigating the implementation of specialist classic languages and extended project qualification courses. Other areas of focus for the team include supporting the most able girls’ well-being and raising their aspirations with the aid of external speakers.

E6 Extra-Curricular Activities

Although these take place throughout the year, I would like governors to be fully aware of the huge range of extra-curricular activities that take place. We pay for a late bus on three nights of the week at a cost of some £26,000 a year. There are over 40 weekly clubs. There are a huge number of sports clubs and fixtures this year with up to 100 students participating in clubs, practices and matches every day. On top of this, by Spring, there will be over 30 revision sessions each week that students can attend in Year 11, plus the support we will give to Years 9, 10, 12 and 13. The plays, concerts and musical productions take up a huge amount of staff time and often involve Sunday rehearsals. In addition there are various fun trips as well as curriculum trips. We are so lucky to have so many staff willing to give up their time to run these.

E7 Student Voice

We have continued to involve and consult students through a variety of strategies:-

 We continue to have Year Councils, School Council and Green Council;  Many staffing appointments involve a student committee who interview or “speed date” the candidates. Students often have lunch with candidates if it is an all day interview;

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 There are two student representatives at governors’ meetings;  Each Year Trail involves 18 to 24 students being interviewed;  Sixth Form staff have sought students’ views in completing their self-evaluations of lessons;  All students complete a national survey every other year.

E8 Library Activities (Mrs Sarah Mason)

 Year 7 Bookmark competition: A very high standard of entries, I asked the Art department to help judge the winners. 1st place- Annabel Kimbar 7E £10 voucher, 2nd place Connor Laureano 7I £5 voucher, 3rd place Emilia Rolland 7L Sweets. I awarded the prizes in year 7 assembly.

 Human Library: On Tuesday 11th November the library welcomed the Human library. The Human library is a unique opportunity for the students to attend a session that will move and inspire them. The Human library involves Human books telling their own personal story, such as, Hilda living in care, Paul who lives with OCD, Jeanette spoke about her experience of being adopted and Christine talked about caring for her daughter who has the diagnosis of Schizophrenia. Students attended sessions throughout the day to hear the books speak and were given the opportunity to ask questions. Several students commented that the day had been a valuable learning experience to hear about the challenges that the Human books face.

 Bookbuzz: The library subscribed again to the programme and gave all year 7 students the opportunity to choose their own free book to keep. With the help of their English teacher and myself year 7 had the choice from a list of 17 amazing titles. Before Christmas the books were delivered to the school and distributed to the students during English lessons.

 Carnegie Group: The group is increased in size and now has 21 members. We are currently choosing our book to battle with Northgate, St Albans and Copleston in March. Also during March we have been invited to Copleston to meet Author Justin Somper.

 Writing group: is still going strong; this has also increased in size and Sixth Form have started to attend. Every week I run a different writing activity such as persuasive writing, poetry, newspaper articles. I am collating all work so we can produce our own book!

 Film Club: The club is proving to be very popular and I have now introduced a recommendations box.

 Book Fair: During late November and early December the library hosted the Scholastic book fair. I sold £405.00 worth of books for the fair which in total raised £160.00 for our library. As part of hosting the fair I am given a £ 25 voucher to run a competition with. I launched an Acrostic poem competition; students had to use the name Farlingaye. Sophie Williams 7S won.

E9 National Biology Week (Dr Gemma Hegarty)

October (13-17th) saw us celebrate National Biology Week. During the week’s many activities, a large number of students explored the familiar and less-familiar life around us.

Many students were up with the lark during the week as they explored some of the flora and fauna of the school grounds. On one of the mornings, a group of students surveyed birds that they saw and heard as they walked around the school. This was followed by breakfast and

18 February 2015 quick quiz to work out which of the bird songs the students had learnt! Among those songs identified were the wistful tones of the Robin and the energetic “chis-wick” call of the Pied Wagtail. On the following morning a larger group of students came in before breakfast to see small mammals up-close. We had set 10 humane traps the night before – baited with such goodies as sunflower seeds, fly pupae and dog food – and in the morning all 10 traps were inhabited by a small mammal. The total count was eight Wood Mice and two Common Shrews. This was then followed by breakfast and David Attenborough’s Life of Mammals.

On 14th October a group of year 9 students went the Natural History Museum London to take part in "the Great Debate" workshop. The students discovered the opinions and evidence used to construct one of the most controversial theories of all time. Darwin's Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection. The students took on the roles of the main characters involved in the debate; Darwin, Owen, Huxley and Wilberforce. They collected data from various exhibits in the museum and presented their arguments for or against the ground breaking theory. The second part of the day involved the "Cocoon" Darwin research centre. Here you are able to view interactive exhibits and examine some of the cutting edge scientific research that the museum do every day. After the heated debate and discovery students were able to look around one of the world's largest collections of Natural History exhibits including the iconic Diplodocus. There was also time to raid the gift shop before heading home!

An overwhelming number of students from all years watched our rat and frog dissections and others captured invertebrates from leaf litter to examine under the microscope.

The finale of the week was a visit from Martin Rapley, The Bug Man. Martin presents all over the country and on TV and had year 8 hooked from the very start of his ‘Animal Variety’ workshops. They were enthralled as creature after creature was brought out and discussed. Many conquered their fears and held spiders, snakes and stick insects. It was great to see ‘Stumpy’ the chameleon catching locusts and a tree frog decide whose leg looked most like a trunk. The iguana was also huge hit, as was the pygmy hedgehog, and many students stayed over break and lunchtime to make the very most of their experience.

F VISITS FROM OTHER SCHOOLS AND SUPPORT FOR OTHER SCHOOLS

 We hosted Marie Kellerhoff, a German teacher for two weeks (15-26 September 2014) co-ordinated by UK-German Connection.  Jenny Leek, Chair of NICE Partnership met with Ian Piddington to set up the revised remit for NICE on 23rd September 2014.  Tennille Jansingh, Lead Spanish Teacher from Thomas Mills met with Debbie Harvey to discuss how we run our Spanish course on 2nd December 2014.  The Head of Business at Alde Valley, Mike Hallett has met with Nigel Edge in January 2015 and they will meet again this term. Nigel has shared resources and is helping Mike with SOW and the structure of lessons.  An Assistant Head and Head of Subject from Pakefield School have met with Chris Moran to understand how to set up 4Matrix.  Ben Scarce, Teacher of Music at Alde Valley School has met with Gemma Martino to discuss our music provision and structure of lessons. Further support will be offered this year.  Victoria Reed, Head of Art at Pakefield School has spent one lesson within our Art department to look at our approach to GCSE.  Curriculum Leader visited from Linton College on 26th January 2015 to look at our School Leadership and Science department.  We had 19 visitors come and observe lessons in a range of departments. Some of which were funded through the School Experience Programme.

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 We have been granted £5,000 to support . Sue has met with Angelo twice and we have developed a plan to support different areas in the school.

G TRIPS AND EVENTS

G1 Trips (Residentials)

 37 students are participating in the annual German exchange (26 from Farlingaye and 11 from ). The Germans from our partner school (Friedrich Koenig Gymnasium in Wuerzburg) visited us between the 1st and 8th October and we will be visiting them in April. Thanks to Mr Craig for all his work on this.  We are expecting our French visitors on Monday 23rd February and they will be in Woodbridge until Tuesday 3rd March. In addition to being hosted by the families of our Year 9 and 10 students taking part in the exchange, our French visitors will enjoy visits to Sutton Hoo, Norwich and Cambridge as well as exploring Woodbridge and the Tide Mill. Our students go to France on Wednesday 18th March. There are 28 students from Years 9 and 10 and 3 students from Year 12. This year Woodbridge School are having a year off so we will be running the exchange entirely from Farlingaye. Mrs Elizabeth Green, who has joined us from Woodbridge School, will be accompanying the students, with Mr Hall and Miss Pearce. Many thanks to them in advance for their help.  37 students from Years 10-13 with four members of staff are going on a four day Geography Trip to Iceland in February half term. Students will take a tour of the Golden Circle and South Shore and visit the Blue Lagoon. Thanks especially to Mrs Plumb, and also to Mr Webb, Miss Thurlow and Mr Harris for all their hard work in the organisation of this trip.  53 students are taking part in a Ski Trip to Folgarida in Italy from February 13th to 21st. Thanks to Mr Parks for organising this.  Year 11 Revision Sessions take place in March and April – there will be six in total. They will probably not involve an overnight stay.  There is a Year 9 History Battlefields Tour in June.  We also have a trip to Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands in July.  In Activities Week 2015 we have a Watersports Trip to Southwest France

I would like to thank Miss Gilmour once again for the excellent work she is doing as Trips Co- ordinator.

G2 Duke of Edinburgh Report (Mr Colin Shaw)

We are now well underway with all levels of the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award and have had a very positive response with numbers higher than ever at Bronze and Silver levels.

Bronze We currently have over 100 students enrolled and working towards their Bronze Award. We have held a number of after school sessions to discuss the volunteering, physical and skills sections and many students have made really good progress on these sections already.

We will also be holding after school workshops to get students logged onto the eDofE system which is an online portfolio of evidence of progress through the Award.

Silver During October half-term, we took 39 Year 11 students on their Silver practice expedition to the New Forest National Park.

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The Silver Award will culminate with a presentation evening on 1st July, where the groups will present the aim of their expedition – a project which has to be researched and undertaken during the qualifying expedition.

Gold We have 19 students enrolled onto the Gold Award programme this year. The qualifying expedition is planned for the Lake District although the students have been given the option of choosing somewhere different and coming up with a reasoned argument for their choice.

G3 Other trips and events that have taken place

October 6 KS3 Gifted and Talented Day October 6 Applied Science trip to Colchester Zoo October 7 Year 11 Geography field trip October 8 and 10 Year 8 Geography trips October 9 Year 12 Technology London Trip October 9 Physics event at Northgate High School October 12 Craft Fayre October 14/15 Year 13 Geography field trip – sand dunes October 14 Year 9 Science Gifted and Talented trip October 15 SEN Parents Coffee Morning October 16 Year 12 Geography field trip - rivers October 16 Suffolk Cross Country Championships at RHS October 16 Year 10 Information Evening October 17 Year 7 visit to Mountfitchet Castle October 18 Year 8 Martin Rapley, ‘The Bug Man’ workshops October 21 Centenary Evening Event October 22 Year 12 Sexual Health Day October 22 Suffolk skills show October 24 Year 7-9 Co-space competition at BT October 25-28 Silver Duke of Edinburgh Practice Expedition November 3 Year 12 Road Safety Awareness November 3 Year 9 Houses of Parliament trip November 4 Super Rock Concert November 5 Careers Convention November 5 Book Mastermind November 5 Year 7 SEN parents’ consultation evening November 6 Year 7 Settling In Evening November 6 Senior Maths Challenge November 7 One Life Day November 7 ‘Resolution and Reflection’ focus ends November 10-15 Year 7 mini geography field trips November 11 Years 10-13 SEN parents’ consultation evening November 12 Year 10 Rotary Chef Competition November 12 Year 11 Certificate Evening November 18 Year 10 Suffolk Food Hall trip November 19/20 Drama Showcase Evenings November 25 Coursework Evening November 26 Year 11 parents’ consultation evening November 27 Sixth Form Experience morning November 27 Sixth Form Art Gallery Visit December 3 Sixth Form Experience morning

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December 4 Travel and Tourism Trip to London December 5 Clothes Show Trip December 8 Sixth Form Economics Conference December 9 Maths Inspiration Lectures & King's Chapel, Cambridge December 10 Church Christmas Concert at St Mary’s Church December 11 Senior Citizens Concert December 11 Year 13 parents’ consultation evening December 15 School Christmas Concert December 17 Christmas Hampers December 18 Staff Pantomime December 19 Celebration Assemblies and Staff Pantomime January 7 Year 13 Certificate Evening January 14 Sixth Form Open Evening January 24/25 Bronze Duke of Edinburgh Training Weekend January 27 Year 9 parents’ consultation evening January 28 Year 9 SEN parents’ consultation evening January 30 Year 10 Triple Science London trip

G4 Future Trips and Activities

February 2 Year 11 Art Gallery Visit February 4 Year 12 parents’ consultation evening February 4 Year 12 Geography Trip to Foxburrow Farm February 5 Coursework Evening February 5 Intermediate Maths Challenge February 5 AS Evening Recital at St Mary’s Church February 7-8 Gold Duke of Edinburgh training weekend February 9 Year 11 Revision Mornings February 10-12 Whole school musical production of ‘Little Shop of Horrors’ February 13-21 Ski Trip to Italy February 14-17 Geography Trip to Iceland February 23-Mar 3 French Exchange students come to Farlingaye February 24 Year 9 Options Evening February 27 FHSF Quiz Night March 3 School Experience Morning March 4 Progress Evening – Years 9-13 March 5 A2 Evening Recital at St Mary’s Church March 5 World Book Day – DEAR Day at FHS March 10 Year 11 Parents’ Revision Evening March 11 Year 8 and 9 SEN Parents’ Consultation Evening March 16-26 Year 11 Residentials March 21 Year 9 Mock Trial Competition March 23-24 Choral concert with primaries March 25 A Level Philosophy Conference – Dr Peter Vardy March 25-Apr 1 FHS French Exchange visit France March 25 SEN Parents’ Afternoon Tea March 27-Apr 1 Gold Duke of Edinburgh Practice Expedition – Yorkshire Dales April 9-12 Silver Duke of Edinburgh Qualifying Expedition –Peak District April 14-23 Year 11 Residentials April 14-21 FHS German Exchange visit Germany April 18-19 Bronze Duke of Edinburgh Practice Expedition April 21 Year 10 Technology London Trip April 23 Art G&T Day

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April 23 Year 7 Achievement Scheme Parents Evening April 25-26 Bronze Duke of Edinburgh Practice Expedition April 28 Year 10 Maximise Day April 30 Gym and Dance Show April 30 Junior Maths Challenge May 5-8 Year 10 Internal Exams May 6 Year 8 parents’ consultation evening

H STAFFING MATTERS

H1 Staff Development (Mr Peter Smith)

The staff development day in November was a great success with all teaching staff spending the day in another school to look at good practice. Staff visited 38 different schools and the feedback was hugely positive giving teachers a chance on what we do well at Farlingaye as well as the opportunity to experience a different school and take the chance to share good ideas, as well as forming links with other colleagues in the county. We are very grateful to the schools who accepted our staff for the day and we have already had requests to return the favour and host staff here.

The Professional Development day in January allowed staff the chance to attend key workshops focused on school priorities such as supporting achievement for disadvantaged students and looking at effective strategies for deploying the new school assessment policy. The in-house programme continues this term, offering opportunities for staff to learn from other colleagues and share good ideas. External course attendance also continues and we hope to run an Improving Teacher Programme in the summer term.

H2 Staff Survey

Staff recently completed a survey. Appendix C shows the results of this. We are now meeting to look at what we can do about the areas where concerns were raised.

H3 Performance Management

The Headteacher, Deputy Heads and Chair of Governors met three times in Autumn term to discuss these.

 19 staff of 19 went up a grade on the Main Pay Range following a review and approval;  One teacher applied to ‘double jump’ on the Main Pay Range and this was reviewed and approved;  16 staff applied for UPR1 and 15 were approved;  Four staff applied for UPR2 and three were approved;  Two staff applied for UPR3 and two were approved;  LT were all reviewed by me and discussed at Governors Meeting in December.

I SPORTS REPORT (Miss Kate Alexander)

We are currently in the middle of a very busy sporting season and students in all year groups are progressing well through the various competitions.

In boys Football the teams in years 7,8 and 10 have got to the semi-final of the County Cup so we hope to have some teams in the Finals later in the term which would be a fantastic achievement.

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The sixth form Rugby team are unbeaten and are looking forward to a few more matches later this term. Many of the tournaments this year are played at a central venue on one day and the year 10 team competed very well in their County Cup and won the tournament. Year 7, 8 and 9 have a central venue tournament which is being played in the next few weeks. They have had various friendly fixtures so far and year 7 and 9 are undefeated in these and year 7 haven’t even conceded a try in 3 games and have scored over 100 points.

Basketball teams play some local fixtures in order to get the chance to progress to the County Final play-offs. Currently, the combined year 10 and 11 girls team and the year 8 boys team have progressed to the play-offs and the year 7 boys team are on course to do the same. The year 7 boys team have won all their games so far and the year 8 girls are also unbeaten. Netball fixtures tend to pause over the winter months due to the weather and the poor light. Teams are looking forward to their tournaments that are coming up and also to continue with the league games that they started so successfully at the beginning of this year.

We have had great success in Volleyball this year and this is particularly impressive as we only started the school club last year. We entered the U16 Ipswich and South Suffolk Tournament and both the boys and the girls team played fantastically well to reach the County Final. They encountered some tough opponents at the finals but students were extremely pleased when they finished runners up in the girls competition and County Champions is the boys.

The under-16 girls Badminton team also won the Ipswich and South Suffolk tournament and the four girls played very well and reached the County Finals. In the Finals they finished in a very creditable fourth place.

Cross Country continues to go from strength to strength at Farlingaye and we are so fortunate to have a number of staff from various faculties around the school who support the students in their training. The first school event of the season is the South Suffolk race which can attract up to 200 runners in an age group. As well as in individual event this is also a team event and Farlingaye students won the team competition in six of the eight groups: Minor boys, Junior girls, Junior boys, Inter girls, Inter boys and Senior girls. Many students were invited to compete in the County ‘A’ race which was held at Leiston and the top 40 from that were invited to compete at the County ‘B’ race which was held recently at . Students performed fantastically and we really do have some very committed and talented runners; many of whom have recently found out they have been invited to represent Suffolk at the Anglian Schools Championships which are being held at the beginning of February.

We have also just had a very successful Sports Hall athletics competition which was held at Westbourne Academy against schools in Ipswich and South Suffolk. The year 7 and 8 students love this event as it is very fast paced and great. Both the boys and the girls won the competition and have progressed to the county Finals which are being held in Bury St. Edmunds in a couple of weeks.

J PREMISES RELATED DEVELOPMENTS INCLUDING HEALTH & SAFETY REPORT (Mrs Mandy Rozier)

J1 Health & Safety

 The portable appliance testing was carried out in December  The fire doors were inspected by Mandy Rozier and Jason East. The doors in the science classrooms are sticking so they will be planed and adjusted in February half term.  The football goals on the field were inspected by Mandy Rozier and Jason East.  The ladder register has been completed.

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 Chubb have carried out the quarterly checks on the intruder alarm.  Safety Boss visited the school in January to carry out the Fire Risk Assessment, a report will be presented to Governors.  The health and safety risk assessment has been completed by faculty heads and any remedial works scheduled for the caretakers. See separate report.  It has been decided to relocate the SEN Team room into T11, create a classroom where the team room is and moving the office into the resource room. This work will take place at Easter.  There are no incidents to report relating to asbestos.  Appendix D shows the Health and Safety Faculty Reviews.

J2 Buildings

 Mark Peck our decorator has returned to work following surgery and is busy decorating the corridors.  Planning permission finally received from SCDC to make the parking on the field more permanent with some bollard lighting. This work should take place in February half term.  The carpet in the Head’s office and the entrance matting in Deben will be replaced in February half term.  The new equipment to be purchased by Chartwells should be in place in the next few weeks, which good news as the steamer oven needs repairing now. There will be some work to move gas pipes around so that the new fryers are safely under the extraction system.  The new storage shed for PE was erected in November and the caretakers have fitted it out with shelving. Suffolk County Grounds will quote for a new access path.  Bid submitted to the EFA via the Condition Improvement Fund, one for replacing roofs, skylights and asbestos fascias and one to refurbish the Creative Arts Toilets. Decisions will be known at the end of March. These funds are now very oversubscribed so we have used Atkins to help write the bid to ensure we have all the technical jargon in place.  The toilets in creative arts, the boys toilet will be changed into a unisex toilet using the current space and the instrument storage room. The existing girls toilets will be changed into a male staff toilet with urinals and the instrument storage room will be relocated here.

J3 Governor Involvement

Mandy Rozier met with Andrew Dalby on 7th October 2014 to look at health and safety in Creative Arts and on the 9th December 2014; this meeting included meeting with the caretakers to help resolve issues. The next meeting is on the 30th January when the focus will be Technology.

J4 Catering

Chartwells have now been on site for almost 3 years and Steve Small the Head of Kitchen manages the unit very well. The cook has changed again, this was an internal promotion, and Sharnet is producing very good food. She will also be undertaking a project as part of her training looking at the 6th form provision. The Costa coffee offer has been extended until the end of the school year and then a new free trade offer may be installed. We will be kept informed and students will have the chance to participate in the decision making.

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The new equipment, up to a value of £20,000, has been ordered and this should be in place over February half term. This includes a new steamer oven, new fryers and an electric meat slicer, so Steve can cook ham, turkey on site for slicing into sandwiches and salads. The budget is on track to deliver a small return again this financial year. We have a new regional manager Bruce Gilliam who replaced Liam Swift; he visits the unit about every three weeks.

K SAFEGUARDING (Mr John Tunaley)

This report covers the period from September 2014 to January 2015

The school’s Designated Safeguarding Lead is John Tunaley, with Louise Gilmour, Hilary Magnall and Paul Macdonald the alternate designated members of staff.

K1 Policies

The FHS Safeguarding Policy was reviewed in June 2014 to reflect the changes in the ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education 2014’ policy document.

K2 Training

Dec 2015 John Tunaley & Paul Macdonald Designated Safeguarding Lead update Jan 2015 John Tunaley & Paul Macdonald Training 4 Trainers Jan 2015 New staff Introduction to Safeguarding

K3 Child Protection Register

Below is a breakdown of the number of TAC/CIN/CP students in each year group. There are 27 students that are receiving support from outside agencies. Of the seven Tier 3 students - four are on the register for SEND reasons.

Year Group TAC (Tier 2) CIN (Tier 3) CP (Tier 4) 7 2 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 8 7 (2) 2 (1) 0 (1) 9 3 (1) 4 (1) 0 (1) 10 1 (0) 1 (0) 0 (0) 11 7 (5) 0 (0) 0 (0) 12 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 13 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) Total 20 (8) 7 (8) 0 (2) (Figures in brackets show numbers from previous report).

K4 Referrals to CYP (Children and Young People)

4 MARF referral and 8 CAF referrals were completed.

K5 Meetings attended:

Meeting Type Oct 14 - Jan 15 June – Sept 14 Feb – May 14 Team Around Child 19 19 20 Child In Need 11 5 7 Child Protection 0 4 4 LAC Review 7 6 6 PEP Review 7 6 5

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Much time and support has been given by the Heads of Year to deal with this very important and significant meeting load.

K6 Day to day activity and monitoring

There are currently 143 students on the FHS secure list. All students on the secure list are monitored to varying degrees and the input of the Year Coordinators is invaluable in helping to achieve this.

Students on FHS secure list are represented as shown in the table:

Year Group Students

7 12

8 24 9 23 10 30 11 33 12/13 21 Total 143

K7 Safeguarding meetings

The safeguarding meeting last term was held on 12th December. Meetings are multi-agency and representatives from external agencies were invited to attend – CYPS, EWO, Police, Educational Psychologist, LACESS, Just 42 and the School Nurse. It has been really pleasing to have representatives from the Coastal Integrated team who have been able to offer support. Also in attendance are our year coordinators, the upper and lower school coordinators, behaviour support assistant and attendance & workplace learning coordinator. The number of students for discussion has been reduced to allow us to focus on the most concerning cases.

Students discussed at the safeguarding meeting are represented below:

Date Y7 Y8 Y9 Y10 Y11 Total 12th Pupils 3 9 4 6 7 29 December Discussed

K8 Looked After Children

We currently have 13 Looked After Children on role. At the time of the previous report there were 9 LAC students on role. Since then we have gained 4 new Looked After students, a further student who was already on roll, but educated elsewhere has gone into care and one LAC has been permanently excluded. There have been 14 PEP/LAC reviews attended.

This year we have organised a project for the looked after students to help motivate them towards joining clubs, making progress in lessons and gaining commendations. The students have a set period of time in which they collect points and these points all mount up to earn them the reward they chose at the beginning. The rewards ranged from horse riding lessons to football shirts; all of the rewards have been funded from the funding that we get specifically for LAC students. After the success of the first round of projects we have now launched the project with the rest of the students that have recently joined us. We have also managed to secure an opportunity to take the LAC students to UEA for some sessions on study skills and exam techniques to prepare them for the end of year exams. Following the session at UEA we will be

27 February 2015 going to the cinema and then for a meal at pizza express. Again all of this is being funded by the grants we get specifically for LAC students.

(SH – Please note that John and I are concerned that 10 LAC have applied for, and will automatically receive, places in year 7 next year, plus 10 statemented students)

K9 Planned Developments

We will be working with CYPS to assist with the delivery of ‘Suffolk Signs of Safety’ which is the model Suffolk has switched to when working with young people. There is a focus on strengths and areas for development.

With the restructuring of the integrated services team there is a great deal of uncertainty about what the final model will look like and what provision will be available for our students who are in need. What we are clear about is that there will be far less support than we have been used to. In the last 3 weeks we have seen 3 referrals come back from the integrated team with the response that these cases do not meet their new thresholds for support. This means we are going to have an increasing amount of pressure placed upon the support networks that we have in school. We will have to plan ahead to ensure that we are able to support our students fully and this may include an investigation in to developing a family support worker role in school. I visited a school in Ipswich who currently have someone in such a role and they have had some great outcomes as a result.

L Development Areas

L1 Key Issues from Last Report

1. To update SEF and faculty SEF reports; Achieved – with new approach to subject SEFs 2. To run a successful Year 6 Day and Open Evening; Achieved 3. To hold successful events including Super Rock, Craft Fayre and Christmas Concerts; Achieved 4. To complete the Performance Management process; Achieved 5. To hold ‘blip factor meetings’ for any concerns from exam results; On-going 6. To hold a successful ‘not-really-a-fortnight-focus-fortnight!’ including the Centenary Evening Event; Achieved 7. To review all work on Pupil Premium students; A lot of work done on this and on-going 8. To review the work we do on Gifted and Talented. Achieved

L2 Key Issues for Next Few Months

1. To hold a revision morning for Year 11; 2. To hold the Year 11 Study Residentials; 3. To review the existing School Improvement Plan and produce a new one for May 2014; 4. To appoint new staff as and when needed (this is already looking time-consuming!!); 5. To continue to work with borderline GCSE students and underachieving able students to ensure they achieve their potential and particularly focus on the borderline Maths, English and Science groups; 6. To focus particularly on performance of Disadvantaged Students in Year 11; 7. To continue with our other strategies to support students, e.g. COMPACT scheme, One to One tuition, Mentoring, A2A group, Freddoes group, Achievement Schemes, etc; 8. To implement suitable KS4 and KS5 curriculum that meet national requirements and offer the potential to maximise outcomes; 9. Hold KS4 Micro Conference for other schools and a NQT Micro Conference for other schools.

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