Freddie's Focus
For Parents & Carers
- Issue 134
- September 19, 2025
Freddie's Focus
For Parents & Carers
- Issue 134
- September 19, 2025
Message from the Headteacher
Dear Parents & Carers,
I’d like to thank all parents and carers for their support in making sure their child attends school regularly. Last week our overall attendance in school was 95.2% which is a very strong start to the year.
It is important to continue to re-iterate the importance of good attendance to school and the impact of poor attendance on students’ achievement. The table below outlines some of the outcomes of students who left Freddie’s last year.
As you can see there is a remarkable drop in achievement when attendance falls below 95%. Achievement deteriorates even further when attendance drops below 85%. The reality is, if students are not attending school regularly, they lose all continuity and become at risk of underachieving.
| Attendance Category | Number of students achieving five GCSEs 9-4, including English and Maths |
|---|---|
| >95% | 107 |
| 90-95% | 29 |
| 85-90% | 7 |
| 80-85% | 1 |
| 75-80% | 1 |
| <75% | 2 |
Thank-you for your continued support.
Mr Davies
Message from the Headteacher
Dear Parents & Carers,
I’d like to thank all parents and carers for their support in making sure their child attends school regularly. Last week our overall attendance in school was 95.2% which is a very strong start to the year.
It is important to continue to re-iterate the importance of good attendance to school and the impact of poor attendance on students’ achievement. The table below outlines some of the outcomes of students who left Freddie’s last year.
As you can see there is a remarkable drop in achievement when attendance falls below 95%. Achievement deteriorates even further when attendance drops below 85%. The reality is, if students are not attending school regularly, they lose all continuity and become at risk of underachieving.
| Attendance Category | Number of students achieving five GCSEs 9-4, including English and Maths |
|---|---|
| >95% | 107 |
| 90-95% | 29 |
| 85-90% | 7 |
| 80-85% | 1 |
| 75-80% | 1 |
| <75% | 2 |
Thank-you for your continued support.
Mr Davies
Message from the Headteacher
Dear Parents & Carers,
I’d like to thank all parents and carers for their support in making sure their child attends school regularly. Last week our overall attendance in school was 95.2% which is a very strong start to the year.
It is important to continue to re-iterate the importance of good attendance to school and the impact of poor attendance on students’ achievement. The table below outlines some of the outcomes of students who left Freddie’s last year.
As you can see there is a remarkable drop in achievement when attendance falls below 95%. Achievement deteriorates even further when attendance drops below 85%. The reality is, if students are not attending school regularly, they lose all continuity and become at risk of underachieving.
| Attendance Category | Number of students achieving five GCSEs 9-4, including English and Maths |
|---|---|
| >95% | 107 |
| 90-95% | 29 |
| 85-90% | 7 |
| 80-85% | 1 |
| 75-80% | 1 |
| <75% | 2 |
Thank-you for your continued support.
Mr Davies
Things to celebrate
- We are delighted with the number of our students who have volunteered to take part in this year’s Open Evening as guides or speakers. This indicates the pride that our students have in their school.
- There are a huge number of students who are involved in extra-curricular activities that are on offer to them. Please encourage your child to get involved.
- We had our planned fire drill on Monday morning, and the students were impeccable when evacuating the buildings and lining up at their fire assembly points. Well done to them all.
- 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:
We encourage all parents and carers to attend these events if they have a child in any of these year groups. 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
‘Habits accelerate learning’
In lessons and in assemblies here at Freddie’s, we use something called ‘SLANT’ as a way of ensuring that we get full attention from your child. We don’t want any students to miss out on instructions or key pieces of information. Establishing full attention and avoiding distractions are vital in supporting learning. Above is an image that we present in all classrooms so that we can explicitly share what each part of ‘SLANT’ means. We also regularly remind our students why SLANT matters and why it is there to support their learning and success at Freddie’s.
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
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:
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.