Freddie's Focus
For Parents & Carers
- Issue 159
- April 24, 2026
Freddie's Focus
For Parents & Carers
- Issue 159
- April 24, 2026
Message from the Headteacher
Dear Parents & Carers,
Welcome back to school as we begin the summer term. I hope you and your families have had a restful and enjoyable break and that your children are returning refreshed and ready for the opportunities ahead.
The summer term is always a busy and important time in the school year, with many opportunities for progress, achievement, and celebration across all year groups. We encourage all students to approach the weeks ahead with a positive attitude, determination, and a commitment to doing their very best.
I would like to offer a special mention to our Year 11 students as they begin their examination period. This is a significant milestone, and we wish them every success. They have worked hard to reach this point, and we are confident they will approach their exams with focus and resilience.
As a school community, we look forward to a positive and productive term. Thank you, as always, for your continued support in helping your children succeed.
Mr Davies
Message from the Headteacher
Dear Parents & Carers,
Welcome back to school as we begin the summer term. I hope you and your families have had a restful and enjoyable break and that your children are returning refreshed and ready for the opportunities ahead.
The summer term is always a busy and important time in the school year, with many opportunities for progress, achievement, and celebration across all year groups. We encourage all students to approach the weeks ahead with a positive attitude, determination, and a commitment to doing their very best.
I would like to offer a special mention to our Year 11 students as they begin their examination period. This is a significant milestone, and we wish them every success. They have worked hard to reach this point, and we are confident they will approach their exams with focus and resilience.
As a school community, we look forward to a positive and productive term. Thank you, as always, for your continued support in helping your children succeed.
Mr Davies
Things to celebrate
- Over the Easter holiday, we ran our annual Spain/Disney trip. Our students were a credit to us and a wonderful time was had by all.
- Our Easter football tournament ran over the holiday. This is an excellent community event and many of our students get involved.
- On Tuesday this week, a group of our Year 8 students went to Quarry Bank Mill on a History trip. This was an excellent opportunity to explore some of our local history.
- On Wednesday a group of our Year 9 students attended a careers event at Stockport County, looking at different job roles and talking about each of the departments including Sports, Media, Commercial, and Finance.
- On Friday all of our Year 7 students took part in the National Careers Challenge event.
- Sporting Success this week
We are delighted to celebrate another fantastic week of sporting success and commitment from our students, both in competition and through leadership and community support
Well done to all students involved – your achievements, leadership, and dedication make the school community incredibly proud.
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 delighted to celebrate another fantastic week of sporting success and commitment from our students, both in competition and through leadership and community support
Well done to all students involved – your achievements, leadership, and dedication make the school community incredibly proud.
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
Information for parents of SEND students
An email has been sent out this week to all parents which contains details of events to support children with SEND and that are being organised by Wigan LA. We have also sent out, via email, this month’s MHST newsletter.
Embrace offer a range of on-line courses to support parents. Details of these can be found here:
https://www.embracewiganandleigh.org.uk/behaviour-support-workshops/?cn-reloaded=1
The following link provides a useful gateway to all services that support children in the Wigan area. This page is regularly updated so it is worthwhile frequently checking-in for current information and updates.
https://padlet.com/WiganCAMHS/wigan-mhst-info-board-nu69chp8ifamla8q
We can also recommend this website as a source of useful information for the parents of neurodiverse children and teens.
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.
We want there to be no learning time lost!
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’
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 we set six specific types of homework to broaden, consolidate and enhance learning. Below are the types of homework that your child can expect:
We strongly encourage all of our KS4 students to access the self-directed study hub.
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.