Letters

Dear Parent/Carer,

We have welcomed students back to school this week and I am pleased to report that they have made a positive start. Following Mr Hayward’s communication to you earlier in the week, you should also know your child’s Tutor so that you can contact them directly should you need to do so. They will also be introducing themselves to you over the coming weeks.

Here is some information which we hope is useful for you to know.

Upcoming dates:

Week	Forthcoming Events
1	21 September 23 September	Family Learning (Preparing students to succeed- Year 11 & Year 13 families) All day – HPV Immunisations
2	27 September 29 September	9.15am-11am Open Morning 9.15am-11am Open Morning 5.30pm – 7.30pm Open Evening for the new Year 6 students
1	3 October	Year 11 Pre-Public Exams Week (PPEs)
2	15 October	6.00pm UCAS Deadline for Medicine, Dentistry, Oxford and Cambridge applications
1	20 October 21 October	3.30pm – 6.30 pm All Year Groups to Meet the Tutor (Remote) End of Term

 

Parent Pay

If your son or daughter hasn’t received their ParentPay login details in their tutor group this week please email finance@falmouthschool.net and we can send them to you an electronic version.

Lessons and class groups

Students have all been given a printed copy of their timetables. We have moved to 5 lessons in each day, which are set up as double lessons in students’ timetables. This is to offer the school flexibility should we need to deal with a Covid outbreak, we will review this again when we set up the timetable for the academic year 2023-24, which seems a long way off at the moment! The groups for students have been changed for all Year 7, 8 and 9 students. They will be taught in sets for maths from Year 7 and science from Year 9. Design Technology and IT lessons are in smaller groups than in previous years, to ensure good access to specialist equipment. Other subjects will be taught in new parallel groups with a range of students in every class.

Google Classroom

We are very excited to be introducing ‘Google classroom’ to our school. Behind the scenes our teachers are in the process of creating a Google classroom for every group they teach. This will include useful resources for students to access from home, content to support additional learning and will in time be where most teachers set homework. The administration for this will take a couple of weeks, so please bear with us.

 

 

Once each google classroom is set up students will be given class codes to access these classrooms. They will use the same password to access learning in school or from home. Your child’s tutor will supervise them signing up to each ‘virtual’ classroom using our computer suites in school. We hope this will help to eliminate any issues. Once each student has successfully signed up to their google classrooms we will notify you. You will then be able to view these with your child and access their learning together. We will run events to inform parents of further details about this system once we have the students all enrolled successfully.

Breaktimes

Year 7 students have been given the exclusive use of the lower tennis courts at breaktimes to give them space and time to settle in. Please could you help us by reminding them that this is where they need to go if the weather is fine, other year groups are asked to keep away from this area.

Chickenpox

Some students in our school have weakened immune systems, either as a condition or as a result of treatment for other illnesses. Although chickenpox may be considered mild, it could be very serious if one of this group contracted the disease. Please can you let us know if your child is returning to school following illnesses like chickenpox so that we can make appropriate arrangements to keep all of our students safe.

Key Contacts in School

Member of Staff	Area of Responsibility	Contact Details
Mr Sheer	Learning Lead: Years 7& 8	asheer@falmouthschool.net
Mrs Fox	Learning Lead: 9&10	eroberts@falmouthschool.net
Miss Miller	Learning Lead: Year 11	lmiller@falmouthschool.net
Mr Fewster	Sixth Form	sfewster@falmouthschool.net

 

Welfare and Safeguarding

Member of Staff	Area of Responsibility	Contact Details
Mrs Holland	Years 7, 8 & 9	rholland@falmouthschool.net
Mrs Macrae	Years 10 & 11	mmacrae@falmouthschool.net
Mrs Hartley	Year 12	ahartley@falmouthschool.net

 

Leadership Team

Member of Staff	Area of Responsibility	Contact Details
Mrs de Sousa	Headteacher	bdesousa@falmouthschool.net
Mr George	Deputy Headteacher: Quality of Education	ageorge@falmouthschool.net
Mrs Benney	Assistant Headteacher: Teaching, Learning & Sixth Form	cbenney@falmouthschool.net
Mr Mitchell	Assistant Headteacher: Data, Assessment, Pupil Premium, National Tutoring Programme	amitchell@falmouthschool.net
Mrs Penrose	Assistant Headteacher: Mathematics	rpenrose@falmouthschool.net
Mr Cilia	Restorative Practice Lead	rcilia@falmouthschool.net
Mr Lumbers	Attendance, Careers and Personal Development Lead	blumbers@falmouthschool.net
Mr Hayward	Behaviour & Attitudes	Ahayward@falmouthschool.net
Mrs Brooker	SENCO	cbrooker@falmouthschool.net

 

 

Parents Evenings

Year 11                 03.11.22

Year 7                    24.11.22

Year 9                    26.01.23

Year 8                    09.03.23

Year 10                 27.04.23

 

And finally…We held a whole school on-line assembly this morning to remember and to celebrate the life of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and respectfully observed a period of reflection during Tutor time.

 

We all wish you a very restful and lovely weekend. Autumn is in the air and we hope to enjoy the September sunshine.

 

Yours Sincerely,

Brenda de Sousa

Headteacher