Choosing House Life the right subjects for GCSE MONEY AND HOUSE BANK Your son/daughter will make initial GCSE choices in WeFebruary are cashless. money for tuck orbeevents can be added to the school bill or money can be so that Any next year’s timetable can blocked transferred to the House account. Please ask your and staffing planned. They will confirm their choices at Houseparent for the House Bank details. the end of this term. There is the opportunity to add NEWSPAPERS MAGAZINES any supportingAND comments on both initial and final Newspapers and magazines delivered regularly—they are for everyone to enjoy. Please do not option-choice forms if you feelare particularly strongly remove them from the main foyer or Common Room or cut bits out of them! about the choices that have been made. Once the final options form is submitted, the allocation of options
OCCASIONAL BOARDING will be made based on the information supplied on • the If you are a day pupil and you need to stay overnight, your parents/guardian should ask us if it is form. ok to do so at least 24hrs in advance. have been made, theduvet Collegeor reserves • Once You choices need to bring your own sleeping bag, pillows and sheets. the right to withdraw any courses for which there is • If you are a day pupil and there are some spare beds in the house then you may find that you are insufficient demand. lucky enough to keep the same bed each time you stay. However, day pupils are not entitled to their own bed and you may have to use any bed which is available. We try to accommodate all subject choices within • the You should not leave your bedding on the prescribed framework. However, subjects are bed on nights when you are not staying as the bed may be needed by someone else. sometimes oversubscribed and availability of staffing prevents additional classes. If this is the case, we will PHONES contact you to discuss alternatives. On the following pages, you will find more information Mobiles about subject, as well as from You are each generally allowed tosome haveuseful your advice mobile phone with you in school, (3rd Form only after the the Head of Careers and Higher Education, Sharon Autumn half term), but it must be on ’silent’ during the school day. If it does ring, your mobile will be Allmark. These help you up the confiscated for will a period of when time.weighing Sometimes you will be allowed to use your phone to record prep or various factors involved in making the most use during lessons, but only if the teacher says you can. appropriate choices. Phones can be kept on a student’s person during the day but should be invisible unless in the boarding houses or the Sixth Form Centre where they can be used; this also includes not listening to music anywhere other than those locations. This would apply for the duration of each week Monday to Friday, regardless of the time of day. Stephen Badger Deputy Head (Teaching & exempt Learning)from this; students could use phones in all areas of the campus at any The weekends would be time, although phones must not be used at a meal table. Phones can be accessed during offsite trips (e.g. on a bus during an away sports fixture during the week). Students can still use phones in a lesson when researching something that the teacher has asked them to. 02 18
