Welcome to ourY8 Parents’ Information

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Building Schools for the

Future

General school information

http://www.lancaster.leicester.sch.uk

Who to contact – Pastoral Issues• Mr York

– KS3 Educational Achievement Coordinator

• Mr Danvers– Head of Year 8

• Ms. Tugby– Student Support Worker

Who to contact – Subject Issues

General Contacts• 0116 2703176

– School Phone number

• admin@lancaster.leicester.sch.uk– Admin e-mail address

• exams@lancaster.leicester.sch.uk– Exams e-mail address

• Text Alerts

Additional Information

Lunch-times• Split Junior / Senior• Catering• Free School Meals

Parents’ Open Forum• Wed 11th Oct• Wed 5th Dec• Tue 29th Jan• Thu 21st Mar

Trips, visits and

extra -curricular

events

Oct 17th Year 7 concertNov 13th Royal Armouries (Y8)Dec 11th & 12th Christmas Concert

17th -20th German Christmas Market (Y8)Jan 6th – 12th Residential Ski trip (All years)April w/b 23rd – Cross-Curricular day (Y7)May 17th Bradgate Park (Y7)June 6th Kenilworth Castle History trip (Y7)

14th Conkers (Y8)24th – 28th Osmington Bay residential

(Y7+8)27th Summer Concert

July 3rd or 4th Duxford (Y9) 5th Enrichment day / Sports Day10th Rewards trips

MondayLunch

Chess Y7 + Y8 M8 Mrs Coring

Monday After school

English catch-up KS3 E9 Ms Kendall

Monday After school

Shelter All years Mentors Mobile

Ms Rumble-Jacques

WednesdayLunch

Drama Y7 Music Mr Lubkowski

WednesdayAfter school

Cooking Y7 + 8 T5 Ms Rumble-Jacques

Thursday Lunch

Reading Y7 + Y8 E5 / E8 Ms Kendall

Thursday Lunch

Music Y7 Music Mr Lubkowski

ThursdayAfter school

School Choir All years Hall Mr Lubkowski

Friday Lunch

Reading Y9 E9 Ms Kendall

Mon-ThuAfter school

Homework All years Library Cover Supervisors

Tue – Fri8am – 8:30am

Breakfast All years T5 Mrs Coring

Clubs&

Activities

Sports Clubs and Practices

Start Date Activity Year Member of Staff Monday Football 8 Mr. Hodges / Mr. Singh Tuesday Basketball 8 Mr. Sandford Wednesday Tennis All Years Mr. Whitmore Wednesday Hockey KS3 Mr. Shipman Wednesday Boxing All Years Mr Pinder / Mr. Singh Thursday Rugby 8 Mr Marsden / Mr. Jones Friday Badminton All Years Mrs. Radford/ Mr Miles

Rewards and Sanctions

• Attendance– Trips

• VIVOs

• Sanctions– Detentions (Staff / lunch / after school)

Curriculum Information

Example Year 8 Timetable

SETTING

Most classes are set by ability.

Exception are English, PE and expressive arts rotation.

Maths set across whole year group.

Other subjects set across half year groups.

Y8 Homework

Please check planners regularly

National Curriculum

LevelsGood progress is moving up 2 levels from beginning of Year 7 to the end of Year 9

Levels are further broken down into sub-levels

4a – High Level 44b – Middle level 4

4c – Low Level 4

Y8 Report & Parents evenings

Autumn grade report Monday 3rd December

Spring grade report Monday 25th February

Parents evening Wednesday 27th February

Summer full profile report Wednesday 12th June

TEACHER ASSESSMENT SPRING TERMData collected: February 2013

NAME: Ben Backes FORM: 8AE

ATTENDANCE: 93.9%

SUBJECTTARGETLEVEL

WORKING AT LEVEL AUTUMN TERM

AUTUMNEFFORT GRADE

ENGLISH 5a 4b 3MATHEMATICS 5c 5c 2SCIENCE 5a 5c 2PHILOSOPHY & ETHICS 5b 4a 3ART & DESIGN 5a ZMUSIC 5a ZDRAMA 5a 5c 3GEOGRAPHY 5a 5c 2HISTORY 5b 5c 1DESIGN TECHNOLOGY 5a 4b 1FRENCH 4a 3b 2ICT 5c 4b 2PHYSICAL EDUCATION 6c 5c 1

TARGETLEVEL

‘WORKING AT’ LEVEL

EFFORT

5a 4b 3

1 Excellent approach towards class work and homework. 3Completes most work set, but with minimal effort and / or interest and/or organization.

2Generally good approach towards class work and homework.

4Major cause for concern with attitude and / or behaviour and / or completion of work.

The following key applies to effort grades:

Target Level Is a level that pupils should aim to reach by the end of year 9. It is based upon previous school assessments.

Working At Level

Is the current level that your son is working at.A = Unable to assess due to long term absence. Z = Not studied in enough depth to allow assessment at this stage.Levels 4 and below represent achievement below the nationally expected standard at the end of year 9.Levels 5 & 6 represent achievement at the nationally expected standard at the end of year 9.Levels 7 and above represent achievement above the nationally expected standard at the end of year 9.a (upper) pupil is working at the top third of the level. b (secure) pupil is working at the middle third of the level.c (basic) pupil is working at the lower third of the level.

Effort Score Reflects how hard the student is working. See effort key below:

Thank-you for coming

Questions – Curriculum - Mr Moore / General - Mr Kennedy

Any feedback or notes to pass on – place in box at back of Hall