Freddie's Focus
For Parents & Carers
- Issue 75
- February 9, 2024
Freddie's Focus
For Parents & Carers
- Issue 75
- February 9, 2024
Things to celebrate
- Rehearsals are continuing for our upcoming and highly anticipated school production of ‘The Addams Family’. Tickets are selling fast! Click on the image above to book your tickets today!
- On Thursday 8th February, we hosted our ‘Journey to GCSE’ event for parents and carers of all Year 10 students. We would like to thank all parents and carers who attended for their support with this event.
- This week we celebrated our ‘Freddie’s Focus on the Stars’. Please ask your child if they were given a shout out from one of their teachers.
- Next week Form Tutors will be choosing four students from their Form who have demonstrated one or more of our FLHS character strengths. The four students from each form will receive a BEST Award certificate and five reward points. See our character strengths below:
- 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
Here at Freddie’s, we focus on six types of homework to help our students broaden, consolidate and extend their learning. Below is an explanation of why we try to set ‘Practise it’ homework or encourage our students to self-direct their study time at home:
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
Thank you to all Year 10 Parents who attended our GCSE event last night. Hopefully the evening was informative and helped you to think about the crucial months ahead as your child prepares for their GCSEs.
All parents should have received my letter about our plans to celebrate the school’s 60th Birthday. If not, a copy can be found here. We hope as many students (and staff!) as possible are able to take part in what will be a very special and memorable day for all. Over the coming days we will also be sharing via social media some of our memories from the 50th Birthday celebrations in 2014.
Finally I’d like to thank all the students who took part in our student council meetings last week. The students involved were very keen to tell us their views about the new school – their feedback was overwhelmingly positive with some really useful suggestions on how to improve. It was very reassuring to hear from the students about how they felt about the new school – it is more spacious, less crowded and as a result, feels much safer. They are also pleased with the significant improvements to our classroom facilities, the ease of supervision of students around the site and the significant improvements to the canteen facilities and toilets.
Thank you for your continued support.