Freddie's Focus
For Parents & Carers
- Issue 133
- September 12, 2025
Freddie's Focus
For Parents & Carers
- Issue 133
- September 12, 2025
Message from the Headteacher
Dear Parents & Carers,
There is a really positive buzz around our school community at present, our students are making such a positive start to the new academic year, and it is a pleasure to see. I hope this year brings them all great success.
As you will be aware, we use our social media channels to share student success and recently we have had the pleasure of celebrating the achievement of a number of our current students who are excelling in a variety of different sports or within the Arts. Their success has not come easy and is a result of their dedication, resilience and hard work. If your child is involved in an activity outside of school and you would like us to celebrate your child’s success, please do not hesitate to contact us. We will always actively try to promote and develop a culture of achievement here at Freddie’s. Soon we will be launching Freddie’s Focus on the Stars for 2025-26. For our new parents, this is when teachers nominate the students who have excelled in their respective subjects over a two-week cycle. It is a great achievement to be recognised on Freddie’s Focus. I am particularly looking forward to receiving the first set of nominations from staff for the Headteacher’s awards. Your children may already have achieved a BEST ticket in one of their lessons and received achievement points on Satchel One.
In all of these ways, we try to recognise and celebrate the efforts of as many of our students as we possibly can. In doing so, we want all students to understand and recognise the value of hard work, dedication and resilience. Whilst we are lucky to have a number of very talented students here at Freddie’s, it’s important for all our students to recognise that hard–work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.
Thank-you for your continued support.
Mr Davies
Message from the Headteacher
Dear Parents & Carers,
There is a really positive buzz around our school community at present, our students are making such a positive start to the new academic year, and it is a pleasure to see. I hope this year brings them all great success.
As you will be aware, we use our social media channels to share student success and recently we have had the pleasure of celebrating the achievement of a number of our current students who are excelling in a variety of different sports or within the Arts. Their success has not come easy and is a result of their dedication, resilience and hard work. If your child is involved in an activity outside of school and you would like us to celebrate your child’s success, please do not hesitate to contact us. We will always actively try to promote and develop a culture of achievement here at Freddie’s. Soon we will be launching Freddie’s Focus on the Stars for 2025-26. For our new parents, this is when teachers nominate the students who have excelled in their respective subjects over a two-week cycle. It is a great achievement to be recognised on Freddie’s Focus. I am particularly looking forward to receiving the first set of nominations from staff for the Headteacher’s awards. Your children may already have achieved a BEST ticket in one of their lessons and received achievement points on Satchel One.
In all of these ways, we try to recognise and celebrate the efforts of as many of our students as we possibly can. In doing so, we want all students to understand and recognise the value of hard work, dedication and resilience. Whilst we are lucky to have a number of very talented students here at Freddie’s, it’s important for all our students to recognise that hard–work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.
Thank-you for your continued support.
Mr Davies
Message from the Headteacher
Dear Parents & Carers,
There is a really positive buzz around our school community at present, our students are making such a positive start to the new academic year, and it is a pleasure to see. I hope this year brings them all great success.
As you will be aware, we use our social media channels to share student success and recently we have had the pleasure of celebrating the achievement of a number of our current students who are excelling in a variety of different sports or within the Arts. Their success has not come easy and is a result of their dedication, resilience and hard work. If your child is involved in an activity outside of school and you would like us to celebrate your child’s success, please do not hesitate to contact us. We will always actively try to promote and develop a culture of achievement here at Freddie’s. Soon we will be launching Freddie’s Focus on the Stars for 2025-26. For our new parents, this is when teachers nominate the students who have excelled in their respective subjects over a two-week cycle. It is a great achievement to be recognised on Freddie’s Focus. I am particularly looking forward to receiving the first set of nominations from staff for the Headteacher’s awards. Your children may already have achieved a BEST ticket in one of their lessons and received achievement points on Satchel One.
In all of these ways, we try to recognise and celebrate the efforts of as many of our students as we possibly can. In doing so, we want all students to understand and recognise the value of hard work, dedication and resilience. Whilst we are lucky to have a number of very talented students here at Freddie’s, it’s important for all our students to recognise that hard–work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.
Thank-you for your continued support.
Mr Davies
Things to celebrate
- We have seen another superb week at Freddie’s with students from older year groups supporting our new Year 7s.
- Rehearsals for our school show ‘Oliver’ are underway.
- There are a vast amount of extra-curricular activities on offer to your children here at Freddie’s. Please encourage them to get involved.
- Sporting Success this week
We are always excited to learn of any sporting successes outside of school so we can celebrate the student’s achievements. Please email Mr Gregory with any information so we can share with everyone on Freddie’s Focus – gregoryi@flhs.wigan.sch.uk
Sporting Success this week
We are always excited to learn of any sporting successes outside of school so we can celebrate the student’s achievements. Please email Mr Gregory with any information so we can share with everyone on Freddie’s Focus – gregoryi@flhs.wigan.sch.uk
Key Events
We will be holding the following events for parents and carers during this term:
Further information about these events will be communicated to parents and carers in due course.
What we do at Freddie's and why we do it
At Freddie’s we want our students to develop as excellent learners who ultimately achieve the very best from their time at school. Below are the FLHS BEST Standards.
These standards are displayed in all classrooms and referred to as a constant reminder of the positive learning habits that we want all students to display.
‘Habits accelerate learning’
At Freddie’s, celebration, praise and reward are at the heart of all that we do. We want all of our students to strive for excellence.
Year 7 to Year 10
100 HoY Mug/Earphones/Water Bottle/Skip the queue pass
175 MTA Power Bank/Skip the queue pass/Calculator/£5 Amazon voucher
250 MTA £10 Amazon voucher/Skip the queue pass
350 PDA £15 Amazon voucher/Skip the queue pass
Year 11
100 HoY £5 Amazon voucher/£5 off Prom
150 MTA £10 Amazon voucher/£10 off Prom
200 PDA £15 Amazon voucher/£15 off Prom
Homework and Independent Learning
At Freddie’s, there are six types of homework set in order to embed key knowledge and ensure that your child is equipped with independent learning skills. Below are the types of homework that we set:
Applications that we use for learning
The following applications are used by our students during their time at FLHS to aid their learning. You can learn more about them below.
Microsoft Office
Did you know that your child can access Microsoft Office at home for free? As a student at Fred Longworth High School, your child is allowed to download a fully working free copy of Microsoft Office 365 to use on their computer, smartphone and tablet whilst they are a student at our school. Click on the button below to learn more.
Satchel:One
Satchel:One is the school online learning platform for students and is the parental portal for all information related to your child’s overall progress within school. You can keep track of your child’s homework using Satchel:One. It is advisable to remind your child to get into the habit of checking their homework on Satchel:One regularly. Relying upon notifications is not the right approach and we advise students to turn off notifications so that they are not disturbed by them.
GCSEPod
GCSEPod is an online study platform and is the perfect resource to help your child learn, retain and recall all the information they need to achieve their GCSE goals. GCSEPod provides 3-5 minute bursts of audio-visual, teacher written learning which can help to reinforce and consolidate key GCSE topics covered in lessons. Experts read and explain everything clearly including all the right facts, quotes, keywords, dates and diagrams on screen. GCSEPod is only available to students in Year 10 and Year 11.
Homework Club
Please remind your child that homework club is available to all students Monday to Thursday where they can complete work in a quiet environment with staff on hand to support them, and computers for online quizzes and research.
Attendance
We want to do all we can to support your child to be in school every day and ask that you support this important message from home, encouraging your child to avoid missing curriculum content through absence. Here is a breakdown of the absences for the following attendance percentages:
Thank you for your continued support with attendance.
Please encourage your child to be in school every day.
Can we please remind all our parents and carers to use the correct channels of communication should they wish to raise a concern or question. Your continued support is invaluable to us.
Belonging, Engaging, Succeeding Together.
Can we please remind all our parents and carers to use the correct channels of communication should they wish to raise a concern or question. Your continued support is invaluable to us.