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RVHS Parent Bulletin Aspiration Respect Endeavour Week ending: Friday 9th March 2018 “Our vision is to be the school of choice for our local community, developing successful young people with high aspirations, who show respect for all and endeavour to become the very best that they can be.”
Message from the Head of School. It has been wonderful to settle back into normal school life this week without further disruption from the ‘Beast from the East’. Thank you to all the Year 11 parents who attended the parents’ evening last night. I trust that you found it useful and gained sufficient information to help you support your child during these crucial final months leading up to their GCSEs. Please note the message below from Mr Tony Barritt, our Chair of Governors, informing you that there is a slight delay on our conversion to Academy status and us joining the Chelmsford Learning Partnership (CLP). This has been postponed to the 1st June 2018. This is for reasons beyond our control and we remain totally committed to the partnership. The final PPEs start next week for the year groups 11, 12 and 13. Please ensure that your child is revising in preparation for these exams. All individual timetables have been shared with the students and the generic timetable is included in this bulletin. These exams will provide the students with a clear assessment of where they are in each subject studied and clear areas to focus on for the final weeks before the real exams. Classroom teaching is now centred on exam practice and many students have taken part in ‘walking talking mocks’. These are invaluable in supporting students to ‘close the gap’ in their learning. Please see the section on PPE and Exam support later in the bulletin. The school is operating a very comprehensive intervention programme across all exam subjects, any concerns should be addressed to the subject teacher or Head of Faculty. Our outstanding Art faculty led by Mr Tisdale has supported Claudia Ferreira to become Loughton’s Young Artist of the Year 2018. This is an amazing achievement and we are all very proud of her. See article later in the bulletin. Our 6th Form is over-subscribed for next academic year and our Year 11 into Year 12 interviews are currently ongoing. Our post 16 provision will continue to improve and progress, given that so many of our highly aspirational students want to stay with us. Many have expressed a keen interest in the study of Further Mathematics and are very excited about the prospect of the brand new facilities that we will have in September. The new block will have state of the art classrooms, a study centre with IT access and a new library / lecture space. We have been talking to the Year 11 students about the reformed A Levels and how important a strong profile of GCSEs will be for them in the future, especially if they wish to apply for university. Please do read the linked article.
https://university.which.co.uk/advice/gcse-choices-university/how-important-are-my-gcse-grades
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