The East Manchester Academy Family Transition Essential Guide The East Manchester Welcome to our Essential Guide to Academy The East Manchester Academy We will equip all students with the skills, abilities, attributes and qualifications to pursue a fulfilling career, contribute 4 positively to their communities and be active, global citizens. We are a vibrant and diverse school community with a talented cadre of staff who are passionate Our Values about ensuring equality of opportunity and excellence for our students. We endeavour to At The East Manchester Academy we will ensure make our students feel a strong sense of belonging that our students REACH for their goals in and a true sense of pride in their community. We learning and life through the values of: have a clear passion for our local community and are proud of the rich and varied history of Manchester. The East Manchester Academy We show respect for all other people will equip all students with the skills, abilities, Respect and recognise our common humanity. attributes and qualifications to pursue a fulfilling career, contribute positively to their communities and be active, global citizens. In setting out this Equality We ensure all members of our vision we will achieve the mission of the Education community are treated equitably. and Leadership Trust – ‘to educate, inspire and empower young people to be the next generation Ambition We expect the best from ourselves. We have of leaders’. ambition and will not let ourselves be limited. Care We show empathy and Your child’s future starts here kindness to others. We are prepared to work Hard work hard to achieve our dreams. More than a Form Tutor Every student at The East Manchester Academy is placed into a form group with a form 5 tutor. Form groups are also organised into the academy’s four house teams of Gaskell, Lowry, Pankhurst and Turing. Students are organised into houses through family links so that brothers, sisters and other relatives can be together. These house teams help to contribute to a sense of belonging as well as healthy competition and rivalry. These staff are the first point of contact for our Director students and their families. Each tutor will be pivotal of Year: to your success as a student - monitoring, guiding Miss and supporting them in both academic and Carr-Brown pastoral areas. They will: • Monitor and track student’s academic progress. • Provide wrap around care, guidance and Student Year 7 Student Assistant Intervention and support. Services Leader: • Signpost students towards opportunities both Director of Year: Behaviour Miss Burrows TBC Mentor within the academy and externally that will TBC enrich them as individuals as well as build their Team future by significantly enhancing their personal development and CV profile. 7G1 • Be your first point of contact if you have any 7T1 7L1 7P1 Mr Johnston questions, worries or concerns. Miss Williams Mr Hill Miss Evans 7G2 7T2 7L2 7P2 Miss Reeve Mr Wigg Miss Campbell Mr McNally Mr Ahmed visit us at > www.theeastmanchesteracademy.co.uk The East Manchester The East Manchester Academy Academy Day Students should arrive to the academy no later than 08.15 each day. The close of day is at 15.30 on Monday and Tuesday and 14.30 on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. 6 Timings Session Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday 07.30 - 08.30 Academy opens to students Breakfast available in the Bistro 08.30 - 08.45 Welcome To Form Year 7 Assembly & Assembly Students should go to form first before being escorted to assembly by their Form Tutor. 08.45 - 09.45 Period 1 09.45 - 10.45 Period 2 10.45 - 11.00 Break Breaktime snacks available in the Bistro 11.00 - 12.00 Period 3 12.00 - 12.30 Period 4 & Lunch Lunch Period 4 Period Lunch 13.00 - 13.30 4 Lunch 13.30 - 14.30 Period 5 14.30 - 15.30 Monday and Tuesday have Period 6 Period 6 Close of day Close of day Close of day a different structure to Students attend clubs, Students attend clubs, Students attend clubs, Wednesday, Thursday and ‘Recall’ or make their way ‘Recall’ or make their way ‘Recall’ or make their way Friday. home. home. home. 15.30 - 16.00 Monday and Tuesday have Close of day Close of day Please note - bells will go at the start and end of each session. a different structure to Students attend clubs, Students attend clubs, There will be 3 minutes of transition music following the bell. Wednesday, Thursday and ‘Recall’ or make their way ‘Recall’ or make their way Students needs to make sure that they arrive to their next activity before the music Friday. home. home. stops. PE Curriculum science We are extremely proud of the broad and balanced history 7 curriculum we offer to all of our students. All students in Year 7, 8 and 9 study English, maths, science, history, geography, RE, Spanish, technology, art, performing arts, music, computer science, PE and PSHE. More information on our curriculum content can be found on the individual subject pages - www.theeastmanchesteracademy.co.uk/curriculum These are really useful if you want to track what your child is doing term by term. English Re maths music Performing arts visit us at > www.theeastmanchesteracademy.co.uk The East Manchester Attendance & 98% Academy Punctuality Every student at The East Manchester Academy matters. The most important factor contributing to 8 success at TEMA is at least 98% attendance. The link between attendance and attainment is firmly established. Those students who attend more achieve greater qualifications and are more able to 100 - 98% access higher education, employment or training. Excellent The academy operates a twin track approach around challenging and supporting families with attendance below 98%. This includes Below TEMA’s Early Help as well as penalty notice fines and expected attendance 97 - 95% prosecution. Cause for Punctuality is just as important as attendance. concern Students will receive a 30 minute no notice 94 - 91% detention or ‘Recall’ the same day if they arrive Serious late. Students who arrive after 09.30 will receive a 1 cause for hour no notice detention or ‘Recall’ the same day. concern 91% A separate leaflet is enclosed and more detailed advice, guidance and support can be found on the academy website - www.theeastmanchesteracademy.co.uk/parents/attendance Cooperating for Learning And For Life During the Spring and Summer Term of 2019 we consulted 9 with staff, students and families about a fresh approach to what most schools and academies call ‘Behaviour for Learning’. The new approach is called, ‘Cooperating for learning and for life’. The key question for our students in this approach is: Would this be acceptable in life or the workplace? If the answer is no… then it is not acceptable at The East Manchester Academy. The policy operates with the expectation of full cooperation through a sense of personal responsibility to graduate and achieve The East Manchester Academy vision. However, there are informal and formal consequences including no notice ‘Recalls’ or detentions. If your child receives A more detailed family guide to one of these you will receive a text the same day Cooperating for Learning and for Life is and a letter in the post. available on the academy website - www.theeastmanchesteracademy.co.uk/parents/cooperating-for-learning-for-life visit us at > www.theeastmanchesteracademy.co.uk The East Manchester Our TEMA Ten Academy At The East Manchester we reward and recognise excellence. Classroom teachers allocate TEMA Ten if every 10 one of the TEMA Ten criteria is met during a lesson: 1 We are respectful. All subsequent rewards are based on the number of TEMA Ten points We follow instructions, first time. 2 accumulated in a given time frame. Students 3 We take pride in our presentation. are in complete control of how 4 We walk quickly and quietly to lesson. much reward and recognition they receive. 5 We are silent during the starter. 6 We have the equipment we need. 7 We ask and answer excellent questions. 8 We value feedback. 9 We complete each activity to the best of our ability. 10 We stand behind our chairs, silently, ready to be dismissed. How will my child be safe at The East Manchester Academy? ‘Thoughts and Worries’ is an anonymous and confidential 11 service which allows students, families and members of the useful links public to voice any concerns they may have about issues like Childline bullying, drugs, anti-social behaviour, weapons and hate 0800 1111 • www.childline.org.uk crime at our school or in our local community. CEOP (Child Exploitation and Online Protection) www.ceop.police.uk Substance misuse support Our aim is to enable us all to work together to make our ParentPay www.talktofrank.com learning community a safer place. Online payments for school lunches, trips and The Shop Thinkuknow The link is to the left hand side of our website homepage www.thinkuknow.co.uk between the ParentPay and the CEOP links. Thoughts and Worries Worried about a student/family Samaritans from TEMA or something in the 116 123 • www.samaritans.org.uk local community? Have your say Sexual health 0161 237 3001 • www.brook.org.uk Report Online Abuse Report online abuse to CEOP Young suicide (Child Exploitation and Online 0800 068 4141 • wwwpapyrus-uk.org Protection command) Domestic abuse 0808 2000 247 or 0161 636 7525 Report Hate Crime www.refuge.org.uk or www.endthefear.co.uk Report hate crime to the police via the True Vision website The East Manchester Academy 0161 230 8039 • www.theeastmanchesteracademy.co.uk visit us at > www.theeastmanchesteracademy.co.uk The East Manchester • Progress, safety, health and wellbeing of all students at Student The East Manchester Academy.