Freddie's Focus
For Parents & Carers
- Issue 74
- February 2, 2024
Freddie's Focus
For Parents & Carers
- Issue 74
- February 2, 2024
Things to celebrate
- This week, our Y9 students have been involved in Options Assemblies where they have been hearing about the wide range of GCSE courses available to them. This is to inform their options choices in the coming weeks.
- On Friday, a group of our Year 10 GCSE students attended a performance at The Edge in Wigan as part of their GCSE Drama course.
- Rehearsals are continuing for our upcoming and highly anticipated school production of ‘The Addams Family’. Tickets are selling fast!
- Sporting Success this week
Sporting Success this week
How we learn
Parents and carers can support their children at home to retrieve material learned in class so that it has more chance of sticking. Encouraging children to create their own mini quizzes based on their learning is a great way of doing this. It is even better if you then become the quiz master and test them on the questions they have created.
The video below shows a short clip which explains how learning happens:
Homework and Self-directed study
Below are some of our study skills strategies which we encourage students to use as a method of helping them to retain information in the long-term memory. Actively doing something with the information that they have been taught is a really useful way of learning and remembering:
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
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.
Homework Club
Please remind your child that homework club is available to all students Monday-Thursday in the Library (apart from Monday week B) where support and IT equipment is is available.
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.
Message from the Headteacher
We continue to have a focus in school on encouraging positive manners from our students. At a time when young people are often demonised in the press and social media, the many nominations I have received this week for my Headteacher’s award present a very different picture. One teacher has even nominated their for a whole class for the award – commenting on their impeccable manners, hard work and commitment to their studies. Parents will be familiar with our STEPS posters in each classroom (see below). We will continue to re-enforce this message with students and as the old adage says –‘manners cost nothing’.
