PRINCIPAL’S PARENT INFORMATION EVENING

4 February 2020

Agenda

Actions from last meeting Mr Owen

Astrea Sixth Form St Neots Update Mr Taylor

Behaviour Update Mrs Greaney

Trips and Visits Mr Owen

Key Stage 3 Assessment Mr Merson

Teaching and Learning Update Miss Gordon

Perimeter Fence Update Mr Walsh

The Value Partners

Responsibility and Leadership #4equity

Enjoyment and Innovation #go4it

Aspiration and Development #reach4thestars

Collaboration and Inclusion #all4one

Honesty and Integrity #4good

Since the last meeting

Received applications to the LECC and invited members to the most recent TMB before their formal appointments.

The perimeter fence is nearing completion and a third access point has been agreed to accommodate students coming from across Priory Park.

Improved communication channels to school with key staff email addresses added to the website.

We have moved period 5 detentions to the next day to allow more notice for parents and carers in order to make collection provision if required. This will be in place until the clocks change.

Astrea Sixth Form St Neots Update

Y13 mock results give an encouraging picture

Oxbridge and early entry success

Y12 making good progress with Unifrog and MOOCS

Y12 mock exams straight after Easter

Sixth form Personal development update

Year 11 Sixth Form applications underway. Deadline this Friday with interviews in March

Behaviour Update

Achievements Behaviour Incidents

Autumn 1 Autumn 2 Total Autumn 1 Autumn 2 Total

Year 7 3039 4234 7273 136 172 308

Year 8 1188 2210 3398 254 246 500

Year 9 2416 2385 4801 378 313 691

Year 10

1746 1872 3618 430 483 913

Year 11 970 1008 1978 690 465 1155

Total 9359 11709 21068 1889 1678 3567

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Behaviour points can be given for a range of reasons.

Homework behaviour points decreased dramatically in the upper year groups as theAutumn Term went on. As expected, Year 11 have found the new expectations harder tomeet as they have been at the school under a different system for the longest period oftime.

We are pleased that only a small number of students have been picked up for notmeeting our uniform policy or for forgetting part or all of their PE kit.

The C2 totals on the following slides show the number of students who have been placedin a detention in each year group and overall.

The final C3 column shows the numbers of students who were isolated during the schoolday at some point in the Autumn Term. Again, this figure reduced during the term as thenew system embedded.

Why are behaviour points given?

Breakdown of Behaviour Points

C2 Breaking Uniform

Policy

C2 Homework

C2 Persistent Behaviour

C2 Lack of PE Kit

C2 Tutor

Late x2Total C3

Year 7 14 117 150 27 0 308 40

Year 8 32 208 220 36 4 500 115

Year 9 28 264 351 43 5 691 173

Year 10 22 462 373 39 17 913 157

Year 11 70 552 421 53 59 1155 292

Total 166 1603 1515 198 85 3567 777

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Behaviour Points by subject

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The next two slide shows the breakdown of behaviour points and achievement pointsgiven out per subject.

As some subjects see students more often than others, particularly Maths, English andScience, it is expected that totals will be higher than in subjects that perhaps only seestudents once a week in lower school and then only teach one or two groups at GCSE. Tomake a fair comparison, the final three columns show firstly the percentage ofbehaviour/achievement points given out compared to other subjects, secondly thepercentage share of curriculum time that each subject has and finally the differencebetween these two figures.

A minus figure shows fewer behaviour/achievement points being given out compared toother subjects and a positive figure shows more. The variance is very small which showswe are achieving a good level of consistency across subjects.

Behaviour Points by subject

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C2 Breaking Uniform Policy

C2 Homework

C2 Persistent Behaviour

C2 Lack of PE Kit Total C2/C3

Total %Student

Periods %Differenc

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Art 0 50 59 0 109 3.5% 3.4% 0.1%

Business Studies 0 9 23 0 32 1.0% 2.2% -1.2%

Child Care 0 2 2 0 4 0.1% 0.3% -0.2%

Computing 0 38 70 0 108 3.5% 3.0% 0.5%

D&T 0 163 68 1 232 7.5% 4.3% 3.2%

Drama 0 10 21 0 31 1.0% 1.7% -0.7%

English 4 225 247 0 476 15.3% 15.4% -0.1%

Geography 1 130 65 0 196 6.3% 7.4% -1.1%

Geology 0 12 0 0 12 0.4% 0.4% 0.0%

History 1 72 31 0 104 3.4% 7.4% -4.0%

Mathematics 5 329 210 0 544 17.5% 13.5% 4.0%

Media Studies 0 15 0 0 15 0.5% 0.4% 0.1%

MFL 0 142 89 0 231 7.4% 8.6% -1.2%

Music 0 9 8 0 17 0.5% 2.6% -2.1%

Physical Education 87 10 47 185 329 10.6% 9.1% 1.5%

Religious Education 0 26 16 0 42 1.4% 2.8% -1.4%

Science 2 339 265 0 606 19.5% 17.2% 2.3%

Sociology 0 12 1 0 13 0.4% 0.3% 0.1%

Grand Total 100 1593 1222 186 3101

Achievement Points by subject

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Year 7 Year 8 Year 9 Year 10 Year 11 Total Achievements %

Student Periods

%Difference

Art 112 434 196 138 49 929 4.9% 3.4% 1.5%

Business Studies 17 15 32 0.2% 2.2% -2.0%

Child Care 40 3 43 0.2% 0.3% -0.1%

Computing 240 49 299 120 23 731 3.9% 3.0% 0.9%

D&T 543 308 548 181 32 1612 8.5% 4.3% 4.2%

Drama 268 118 0 386 2.0% 1.7% 0.3%

English 843 381 649 773 531 3177 16.8% 15.4% 1.4%

Geography 311 146 234 62 194 947 5.0% 7.4% -2.4%

Geology 66 59 125 0.7% 0.4% 0.3%

History 285 254 179 302 87 1107 5.8% 7.4% -1.6%

Mathematics 715 598 691 540 377 2921 15.4% 13.5% 1.9%

MFL 1227 1217 674 256 52 3426 18.1% 8.6% 9.5%

Music 987 47 81 15 5 1135 6.0% 2.6% 3.4%Physical Education 89 35 29 50 21 224 1.2% 9.1% -7.9%

Religious Education 147 35 7 5 0 194 1.0% 2.8% -1.8%

Science 408 359 517 455 186 1925 10.2% 17.2% -7.0%

Sociology 23 23 0.1% 0.3% -0.2%

Grand Total 6175 3981 4104 3020 1657 18937

Mobile phone confiscations

MONTH NUMBER OF CONFISCATIONS

SEPTEMBER 2018 8

OCTOBER 2018 8

NOVEMBER 2018 19

DECEMBER 2018 8

JANUARY 2019 22

FEBRUARY 2019 20

MARCH 2019 26

APRIL 2019 10

MAY 2019 15

JUNE 2019 146

JULY 2019 53

AUGUST 2019 Summer Holidays

SEPTEMBER 2019 19

OCTOBER 2019 16

NOVEMBER 2019 23

DECEMBER 2019 12

JANUARY 2020 (UP TO 14/1/20) 6

Trips and Visits

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Academic Year 2018/19Number of Trips - by year

Trips and Visits

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Academy Year 2018/19Number of Trips - by department

Trips and Visits

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Academic Year 2018/19Number of Trips - by month

Trips and Visits: next steps

1. Notification to all stakeholders of all future trips and visits opportunities. This has already been shared for planned trips and visits for this academic year. We are working on a brochure to be shared in September.

2. Greater consideration of the timing of trips and visits throughout the academic year.

3. A Year 7 trip experience for all students in the Autumn term as an introduction to Longsands.

4. A review of eligibility and attractiveness of current reward trips.

Key Stage 3 Assessment Assessing and monitoring progress in Years 7,8 and 9

Mid-year and end of year tests.

Results reported to parents February and July 2020.

NGRT - reading tests and CAT testing - providing national benchmarking across a range of skill areas

Tracking progress across different subjects.

SEND students: Identification of individual needs; closely matched interventions

Autumn Term Doddle Homework Analysis

Year 7 8 9 10 11 12 13Weekly 10.5 10.7 11.5 11.4 11.5 20.8 19.2Half termly 2.6 2.9 2.7

This table shows the average number of pieces of work recorded on Doddle per subject per week.

Teaching and Learning Update

Perimeter Fence UpdateCurrent Status: Perimeter Fence is approximately 60% completed.

Scheduled Completion by end of February.

Location of Third Access Gate.

Access Gates will not be in operation until the entire fence is completed.Access for Staff, Contractors, Visitors and Sixth Form Students will be by way of Access Card.Year 7 to Year 11 Students will not be issued access Cards.All three access gates will be open at the start and end of the school day. Access outside of these hours will be controlled by Academy reception.Full access details, including gate opening times, will be communicated to staff, students and parents in the coming weeks.

Car Parks.Kings Road Car Park will remain outside the perimeter fence.Longsands Road Car Park will be inside the perimeter fence, however the bus bays will remain outside the fence.

Stageworks & Apricot Nursery will control their own access.

Date of Next Meeting & Questions

Wednesday 29 April 2020, 6:30 pm