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‘By working together, we enable everyone to experience success, and fulfil their potential within a caring and effective learning environment’.

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Our Aims

‘By working together, we enable everyone to experience success, and fulfil their potential within a caring and effective learning environment’.

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Our Aims

‘By working together, we enable everyone to experience success, and fulfil their potential within a caring and effective learning environment’.

We aim to:

  • Enable all students to fulfil their potential by providing a wide range of academic, vocational, aesthetic and sporting opportunities, recognising the importance of non timetabled activities in this respect
  • Provide enjoyable and motivating learning experiences
  • Ensure that students experience fairness in their treatment as an example of how they should behave towards others
  • Develop and accredit personal and social skills
  • Provide a caring and disciplined environment
  • Contribute towards the national need for a well-trained work force in a world of rapidly changing technologies
  • Enable success in public examinations
  • Ensure that all students leave with evidence of their skills and achievements
  • Recognise that education is a continuing process and ensure that students leave with skills which will enable them to achieve future progression

We believe in treating each student as a unique and valued individual. The curriculum is designed to give students choice and to nurture their talents and abilities, whatever they might be. Outside the classroom, a wide range of extracurricular activities give students even more opportunities to enjoy their school life and develop as confident, talented and creative young people.

Our ethos of “Belonging, Engaging, Succeeding Together” flows through everything we do within school and in the local and wider community. This is recognised by Ofsted, who designate our school as Good, and by Her Majesty The Queen, who honoured our Nowt2Do extracurricular project as recipient of The Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service 2013.

How Yondr Works

Frequently Asked Questions

We want our students to be engaged in their learning. A child at high school should not really have a reason to contact a parent during the day; however, if there is a genuine reason e.g. they have forgotten their packed lunch, a phone call can be made home from the school office. If a parent needs to contact their child in an emergency, they should contact the school office. If you need to contact your child during the school day, contact the main office on 01942 883796.

In case of a school emergency, we direct our students to safety first, following our school emergency procedures.

 

Students are in possession of their phone - in their Yondr pouch - for the entire school day. We will advise students to store the pouch safely in their school bag or blazer pockets.

If a student damages their Pouch or is caught on their phone, we will confiscate the phone and issue a sanction which is likely to be a suspension.

Note: Damage consists of any signs that the physical integrity of the pouch has been compromised, whether intentional or unintentional, as determined by the school or Yondr staff.

Damaged pouches will be charged to parents at a cost of £20.

They will be searched and wanded with a handheld scanner by a member of SLT. If they are found to have their phone on their person they will be expected to place it in their pouch. Refusal will be met with suspension.

If a student forgets their Pouch, their phone will be confiscated.

As per our previous mobile phone policy;

  • Confiscated phones will be taken to reception where the phone will be secured in the school safe.
  • Parents will be alerted to the phone confiscation via the school office.

Parents will have the option to collect the phone at the end of the day. If parents do not collect the phone, the phone will remain in school until the end of the week or until the student has their pouch.

In Yondr’s experience, this almost never happens. All students funnel past the unlocking stations at the exits, they want their phones back and don’t forget to unlock their pouches. If they do arrive home with a phone in a pouch, they can either come back to school to unlock it, or have a phone free evening!

The unlocking process is quick and takes under a second per student. 

As a privilege, Year 11 will be able to unlock their phones as they go off site at lunchtime; however, they will be expected to put their phones back into their pouches when they return to school for period 5.

Yes. There is an adapted version of the pouch which uses a Velcro fastener instead of a magnetic lock. This means the student still follows the policy, but the adapted pouch gives them easy access to their phone when required. If the student abuses this, they will face a sanction. We are already aware of these students.

Your Office 365 account username is your school network account username followed by @flhs.wigan.sch.uk 
The password is the same password that you use in school to access computers.