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FARLINGAYE HIGH SCHOOL

MATHS, COMPUTING & ARTS SPECIALIST SCHOOL

WOODBRIDGE

HEADTEACHER’S REPORT TO GOVERNORS

February 2013 - May 2013

No on Roll 1840 Main School 1433 Sixth Form 407 Eligible for Free School Meals 139 Ever 6 Free School Meals approx. 285 Staff - full-time Head + 108 - part-time 19 (FTE 9.72 individuals) Head + FTE 118.72

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HEADTEACHER’S REPORT TO GOVERNORS

A Monitoring, Progress and Outcomes A1 Support for Exam Groups and Year Groups We have continued to offer a huge amount of support for the exam groups. Year 11 had a revision session in February. All students were given a detailed revision pack to support them. This has been followed up by the residentials. We have again been to Hallowtrees Scout Camp and have taken 6 groups in total, four groups before Easter and two after. This year we took 4 for overnight trips and did 2 one day trips – for those who already have an A* in Maths and for the weakest students who do less of the ‘academic revision’ subjects. In all we have taken about 260 students, which shows a pleasing take-up of 88%. Students stay overnight and the staff come and go from school to run a 90 minute or 2 hour session in their subject area. I stay there the bulk of the time with Mrs Newrick and various staff join us in the evenings and overnight. These have again proved invaluable in helping the students to work harder and to improve their motivation as their exams approach although they do cause some disruption in Year 11 classes back at school. I am hoping the two shorter ones have helped with this. The feedback was, as always, incredibly positive. I would like to record my thanks to Mrs Newton for her administrative help and to all the staff who are willing to come out and support them, particularly those who come outside the school day. We are very lucky to have staff who are willing to give up this time and very few schools offer a similar opportunity to their students. I am also extremely grateful to the number of staff who are offering revision clubs at lunchtime and after school to support students in Years 9, 11, 12 and 13. There is also a tremendous amount of individual support given. Several staff have been in during the holidays and at weekends to support the students. Our A2A group (students who are achieving at C to E level) had additional support in registration time sessions on numeracy and literacy. Mrs Laird has organised this group and we have particularly targeted students who might not achieve a C in both English Language and Maths. I’ve also run my “Freddo Challenge” for an able group of students. We have this year continued to pay for one to one support in Maths and English. The 4 staff running this have targeted our C/D borderline students, meeting them once a week. It has been very well received but we will only know the final impact when we see the results in August. Pupil Premium money has paid for the 1 to 1 tuition for all the 61 Pupil Premium students in Year 11. Exam preparation time will continue through the exam period. For all students we are running sessions on the morning of exams, or the afternoon before, wherever possible, to do final revision, as well as teaching all subjects right up to the exams. I ran an evening session for parents of Year 11 students on revision skills. Year 10 had a session on May 1st with ‘Maximise’ on study and revision skills, paid for by Leading Edge. About 20 Year 7 students are about to start on an achievement programme to help them focus on their work and commitment. The Year 8 achievement scheme

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finished in March. My thanks to Mr Harris and Mr Wakeley and their year and tutor teams for all their hard work on this. Many thanks to Mrs Laird for all her hard work on all aspects of mentoring. About 48 Year 11 students were mentored by staff during the past year, in addition to those supported by the Pastoral team. In addition to the staff mentoring, the COMPACT mentors continue to support the Year 11. These local business and community professionals regularly meet their mentees to discuss the reality of trying to gain academic success in 2013. The 25 mentors have supported the students through the year, challenging, supporting and striving to raise the students’ aspirations. The students in the lower school continue to benefit from the support of their peers through the very successful buddy mentoring programme, the more specialist On-Track mentors and the Aunts and Uncles. The e-mentoring programme is still running which has allowed students who find face to face conversations difficult to still access mentoring support. This is only available to a few students, but some make regular use of the anonymous contact it allows. A2 Update on Progress We have received the following year 11 results: Geography module: 68% A* to C and 30% A*/A compared to 55% A* to C and 17% A*/A this time last year. Sociology module: 74% A* to C and 26% A*/A compared to 65% A* to C and 27% A*/A this time last year. Maths final exams: 70% A* to C and 27% A*/A compared to predictions of 71% A* to C and 25% A*/A this time last year. (Almost all students on A-U are taking the linear exam this summer; A* and A students are taking statistics). Physics module: 99% A* to C and 69.8% A*/A compared to 98.4% A* to C and 72.6% A*/A this time last year. Chemistry module: 100% A* to C and 67.7% A*/A compared to 98.4% A* to C and 79% A*/A this time last year. Biology module: 98.9% A* to C and 67.4% A*/A compared to 98.4% A* to C and 63.9% A*/A this time last year. Please see the following charts that forecast our attainment.

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Year 11 - Report 3 2013

Year 11 – Report 3 2012

Performance Indicator

Published Target

All ‐ Report Grades

All ‐ 2011 GCSE Results

Boys ‐ Report Grades

Boys ‐ 2011 GCSE results

Girls ‐ Report Grades

Girls ‐ 2011 GCSE Results

LAC ‐ Report Grades

LAC ‐ 2011 GCSE Results

FSM ‐ Report Grades

FSM ‐ 2011 GCSE Results

Ethnic Minorities ‐ Report Grades

Ethnic Minorities ‐ 2011 GCSE Results

With Statement ‐Report Grades

With Statement ‐ 2011 GCSE Results

SEN School Action ‐ Report Grades

SEN School Action ‐ 2011 GCSE Results

SEN School Action+ ‐ Report Grades

SEN School Action+ ‐ 2011 GCSE Results

Forces Family ‐ Report Grades

Forces Family ‐ 2011 GCSE Results

5A*‐C (EM) 65% 65.7% 62.7% 63.0% 62.0% 68.9% 63.7% 0.0% 0% 52.9% 39.0% 79.9% 76.9% 28.6% 17.0% 23.1% 17.2% 33.3% 6.7% 50.0% 50.0%5A*‐C 74.1% 76.8% 68.2% 73.0% 80.7% 81.3% 0.0% 50% 58.8% 50.0% 86.6% 76.9% 42.9% 17.0% 30.8% 39.3% 44.4% 13.3% 64.3% 100.0%3+ Levels of progress in English

80% 84.1% 77.9% 80.6% 76.9% 88.0% 79.2% 0.0% 100% 63.2% 66.7% 69.2% 92.3% 71.4% 33.3% 62.5% 62.1% 100.0% 20.0% 76.9% 100.0%

4+ Levels of progress in English

34.7% 33.6% 31.9% 32.5% 37.6% 35.0% 0.0% 0% 21.1% 17.7% 15.3% 53.8% 42.9% 0.0% 16.7% 3.6% 28.6% 0.0% 23.1% 50.0%

3+ Levels of progress in Maths

80% 79.8% 67.7% 80.7% 62.5% 78.8% 65.3% 0.0% 100% 63.2% 47.1% 92.3% 92.3% 57.1% 25.0% 45.8% 24.1% 57.1% 13.3% 84.6% 0.0%

4+ Levels of progress in Maths

53.8% 30.6% 55.9% 31.3% 51.5% 29.7% 0.0% 0% 36.8% 14.5% 53.8% 69.2% 42.9% 0.0% 25.0% 3.6% 28.6% 6.7% 38.5% 0.0%

No of Students

287 287 153 163 134 124 0 2 17 17 15 13 7 5 26 24 9 15 14 2

Performance Indicator 

Published Target  All  Boys  Girls  LAC  FSM  Ethnic 

Minorities  Forces  With Statement 

SEN School Action 

SEN School Action+ 

Pupil Premium 

5A*‐C (EM)  65%  65.3%  63.3%  67.4%  33.3%  33.3%  100.0%  90.9%  12.5%  23.5%  12.5%  45.8% 5A*‐C     78.5%  74.2%  83.0%  66.7%  57.1%  100.0%  100.0%  50.0%  35.3%  25.0%  69.5% 

3+ Levels of progress in English  80%  77.5%  72.2%  82.9%  100.0%  61.9%  100.0%  90.9%  50.0%  64.7%  50.0%  70.7% 

4+ Levels of progress in English     35.9%  25.7%  46.4%  66.7%  23.8%  0.0%  72.7%  25.0%  8.8%  0.0%  36.2% 

3+ Levels of progress in Maths  80%  80.8%  80.3%  81.4%  66.7%  61.9%  100.0%  90.9%  37.5%  38.2%  41.7%  64.4% 

4+ Levels of progress in Maths     47.7%  47.6%  47.9%  0.0%  19.1%  100.0%  45.5%  12.5%  20.6%  16.7%  27.1% 

No of Students     288  147  141  3  21  2  11  8  34  8  59  

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Year 11 Report 3 2013

Year 11 Final Results 2012

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Year 11 Final Results 2011

Year 11 Report 3 2013

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Year 13 Report 3 2013

  Year 13 Report 3 2012

A3 Year Trails We continue with the Year Trail process as our main way of evaluating the quality of teaching and learning. Last term we trailed Year 12/13 and you will soon receive a copy of the report which was very positive overall. Thank you to Ms Tyndale-Hardy and Mrs Stoker for organising the trail. The Year 9 trail starts straight after half-term. A4 School Self Evaluation

• Post-16 reviews of subjects through the views of students have taken place in March/April.

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• All staff will, as always, be formally observed this year by their Head of Faculty and SLT link person, plus many informal observations.

• All Heads of Faculty complete a termly report for you. • All reports for Years 11 and 13 have been carefully analysed for outcomes

and to offer further support. • Mr Moran organises the data tracking so that twice a year Head of Year and

Heads of Faculty are tracking the progress of their students and we are monitoring the progress of the more vulnerable groups.

• All staff self-evaluate a Sixth Form lesson. • Year Trails – as above.

A5 Borderline GCSE Students This year I have completed a grid on all the borderline GCSE students after each of their reports. Mr Read, the Head of Year, Mrs Newrick and I then discuss this. It has given us clear information on who needs the most support and helped to direct different strategies to where they would have the most benefit. A6 Ofsted As governors are fully aware, we had a two day Ofsted inspection on April 25th and April 26th. I am hoping that by the governors meeting we will have received the final report. Thank you to all the governors for their support during the inspection. I especially want to thank you for your very kind gesture in buying cakes for all the staff – it was hugely appreciated. B Events B1 Concerts and Plays “Les Misérables” We had five wonderful performances of our highly professional production of “Les Misérables” in February. It really was superb and many visitors consider it to be the best show we have ever done. I’m really grateful to all the staff who put so much time into producing such an outstanding show, especially Mr Picton, Ms Tyndale-Hardy, Ms Lansdowne-Phillips, Miss Baldwin and Ms Martino and all the other staff who helped. There were some excellent individual performances, the student band was outstanding and the students had great fun. Music Concerts We had two outstanding choral concerts with the primary schools last term. This is a regular feature in March with over 230 students on both nights aged 6 to 18! This year it had an “Optimism” theme with all the students and staff dressed appropriately for their musical numbers! It was fantastic and thoroughly enjoyable and ranged from hugely moving songs to those that made you laugh out loud. My thanks go to all our music staff and those in the primary schools. Particular thanks go to Mrs Phillips, who organised and co-ordinated the whole event, which takes some considerable doing! We held it again in the Sports Hall (many thanks to the AV and Caretaking teams and Mandy Rozier, who all worked incredibly hard to do this).

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Thanks as well to the PE staff who were so accommodating about losing the Sports Hall for days. B2 Gym and Dance Evening This was held on Tuesday 23rd April and was a lovely evening of dance from all our year groups and gym performances. It was great to see the range of talent and skill from year 7 to year 13. My thanks to Miss Alexander for all her hard work to co-ordinate it and to the dance and PE team for all their support. B3 School Experience Morning On Tuesday, 12th March, 30 parents visited us for a morning and had a very enjoyable time visiting an assembly, 3 lessons and speed dating our students! We finished with an impromptu performance by two performers from ‘Les Misérables’! The feedback was hugely positive with parents really valuing this opportunity. B4 FHSF Activities Our next event is our May Ball, on May 18th, which this year has a “Black and White” theme! As always, the committee have been working really hard to organise it and it should prove to be a great evening. I would really appreciate governors’ support in attending this if you possibly can please. In the Autumn term we will be holding a Craft Fayre and Quiz Night. C Competitions C1 Young Enterprise The Young Enterprise Scheme involves students setting up and running a business with the support of a Link Teacher and a Business Adviser from the local community. The students attend after school meetings and spend time outside of school organising their products and services. The benefits are numerous but include learning how a real business functions, the importance of good communication and organisation and working as part of a team. This year’s company consists of 12 Year 12 students who trade under the name of Signature. Their first venture was a Photo Shop where they set up a photo booth on our non-uniform fancy dress day and also a Christmas themed day. Very professional photos were produced and turned into posters. Providing the same service for the school’s production of ‘Les Misérables’ was also a great success. The poster idea really caught on and a good level of sales was made. A second innovative idea took advantage of some superb ICT skills of Tom Barton the ICT Director. It involved a tourist website about Woodbridge called ‘Welcome to Woodbridge’ and an app was also designed for mobile phones. The group prepared a Company Report which gained them entry to the area competition. At the competition they gave a very stylish presentation and hosted a trade stand with great accomplishment, impressing many of the people who visited their stand. They came away with the ‘Skills and Understanding’ award. Well done to the students who formed the company ‘Signature’.

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Many thanks to Mrs Burton who has put a significant amount of time in to support them, as has our business link, Cumaraswamy Shancar from BT. C2 Mock Trial Competition We were once more allowed to enter two teams in the Suffolk heat this year from Year 9. They did brilliantly and came 1st and 2nd. We had a lovely evening for parents, where they watched the two teams playing against each other prior to the event. Farlingaye purple team now compete at Chelmsford on May 11th in the regional final. C3 Maths Competitions (Mr Graham Tait) Students have continued to actively participate in regional and national maths competitions and again they continue to both perform and represent the school brilliantly. The over 90 students in Years 9, 10 and 11 participated in the Intermediate Challenge in February again producing results to be proud. A fantastic 59% of participants received a certificate with many just narrowly missing out. In year 11, Sarah Plummer, Dafydd Harston, Alex Collins and Katie Macfarlane all gained gold. Will Crookall, Patrick Green and Megan Taylor were the gold certificate winners from Year 10 with Will gaining the highest mark in the school. Year 9 students sit this competition for the first time and are faced with a real challenge and so 1 gold, 4 silver and 2 bronze certificates are all the more impressive. Sam Hopgood was the year 9 gold certificate winner. Overall 8 gold, 18 silver and 25 bronze certificates is a fantastic haul from this year’s competition. Sarah Plummer, Will Crookall and Sam Hopgood all qualified for a subsequent round of competition called the Grey or Pink Kangaroo Competition. This is a similar format but held throughout Europe on the same day. The name comes from the competition originally being started in Australia. Both Sarah and Will scored exceptionally well and received a certificate of merit for coming in the top 25% - the first students we have had who have achieved this in the Kangaroo competitions. The Senior Challenge results were excellent with 70 year 12 and 13 students taking part in November achieving a superb haul of 5 gold, and a record 9 silver and 23 bronze certificates. Gold certificates were awarded to James Parsons, Joe Grimwood, Jack Seccombe and Sam Bryanton in year 13, and Pradeep Ravichandran in year 12. James was the highest scoring student and amazingly has achieved a gold certificate in every maths challenge he has taken at Farlingaye with Joe and Sam having missed out on gold on only one occasion. Additionally, James and Joe both scored highly enough to qualify for a follow on competition undertaken by students throughout Europe on the same day but elected to upgrade and try the Maths Olympiad competition – an incredibly tough undertaking testing every aspect of their ability to find solutions to problems and then explain them in a logical manner. Students also took part in team competitions. Another fantastic performance at Framlingham College in the regional junior team challenge saw James Ling and Lotte Tyndale-Hardy (both year 9) and Alice Brown and Alex Cooke (both year 8) finish in the top 10 for the third year running. There are over 20 schools, state and

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independent, which take part each year all bringing some of their strongest mathematicians, so it is wonderful to see our most gifted and talented performing so well at these high levels. In the Year 10 Team Challenge, Piia Gubbins, Will Crookall, Teague Hipkiss and Patrick Green competed against fourteen other schools in the local area and performed extremely well in a very challenging competition and came 5th overall which was fantastic. C4 Please see Library Competitions under E4 C5 Dora Love Prize 14 students from year 9 won the first Dora Love Prize, which was awarded at a special evening during Holocaust Memorial Week at the University of Essex. They won with their project “More Than Just a Number”. The students held assemblies with every year group, sold wristbands with a number referring to a Holocaust victim who could be researched on the school intranet and asked students to make a pledge on specially designed postcards. Thank you to Miss Snoxell and Miss Law for all their support with the project. C6 Social Science Challenge A group of 5 year 13 students took part in the Social Science Challenge at Essex University. The gifted and talented students involved study social science courses such as Critical Thinking and Sociology and they were competing against schools from across Suffolk and Essex. Congratulations to Beth Blackmore, Charles Cowles, Roland Mortimer, Harry O’Riordan and Emma MacNicol as they won the first prize of £150. Thank you to Mr Saunders for his support and arranging for the students to enter the competition. D Whole School Developments D1 Sixth Form Open Evening and Sixth Form Applications A successful evening was held in January and about 305 students have applied to our Sixth Form (113 are external and 192 are from Farlingaye – a slight increase from last year.) We have just held interviews in the last three weeks for all those who applied. Thanks to all the staff who give up three evenings to do this and particular thanks to Mrs Hearnden, Mrs Matheson and Mr Piddington for all their organisation of this. D2 Year 7 Applications We received a lot of applications and we are currently at 290 (with a current waiting list of 22) – our PAN is 290. We have undertaken much of the process ourselves this year and huge thanks go to Mrs Norris for all she has done. Mr Piddington is now attending all our appeals.

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D3 School Development Plan Having discussed the best timing of the School Development Plan at the last meeting, I’ve decided I’d like to go back to running it from April to April. We should have a clear idea of a budget at that time. I am, therefore, working on the one for May 2013 now, using the same format we used last year and will have this ready to chat through with governors. I have done a very simple tick approach to review the current one. (Please note the pre-meeting discussion of the draft plan was cancelled due to Ofsted so we will need to discuss it in more depth at the governors’ meeting.) E Curriculum Developments E1

• The Year 9 Diploma continues to be well organised by Miss Mawson. • We continued with last year’s change to our options system. My thanks to

Mrs Newrick who did a lot of work on this. Half the year group will do an additional 2 periods a fortnight of English and Maths. The other half are doing a GCSE in a range of courses in these 2 lessons. Everyone has 4 lessons of Maths, 4 lessons of English and 6 of Science throughout years 10 and 11. In the fast track groups we are trying to keep them as small as possible. We have put triple science back into the pool system.

• We have introduced A level Spanish at KS5. At KS4 we have had to make some changes. The Otley college courses are now not all valid for the school’s results and were also having a negative impact on our curriculum planning. We have instead introduced Child Care in school and Btec Art this year.

E2 iPad Project (Mr C Moran) We are now starting a different phase of our iPad trial. That is using them as a class set within a faculty. We decided to start with the science faculty as they had a number of staff who had experience using them and many more who were keen to try using them in their teaching. We have purchased a lockable charging cabinet and the faculty will start using them during the remainder of this term. There have, however, been some technical issues around software management which have not yet been resolved. It is important that the iPads are kept in good condition and the correct apps are installed with no unauthorised downloads. It is much more complicated to manage a class set than to ask students to manage their own especially when restrictions within school make some downloads and upgrades impossible. I am sure, however, that the science team will find ways of using the class set effectively. When issues have been resolved we will consider the purchase of further class sets for other faculties. Alongside this we are still looking at one to one solutions as I am convinced that this gives the best educational benefits. I aim to put a proposal together during the next few weeks.

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E3 Gifted and Talented Development (Miss C Pestell) The monitoring of our most able gifted and talented students has continued, making effective use of SIMS to track their progress and add to a database of information that monitors all the initiatives that these students are involved in. The faculty link teachers continue to offer a range of activities to support and challenge our most able students, all of which is co-ordinated and documented. Opportunities for summer schools and links with local universities are currently being explored to further the opportunities offered to these students, as well as a mentoring programme within school specifically for the most able. Staff CPD has been offered over the last term to communicate key ideas and current thinking on challenging the most able students. In the coming term we plan to host a twilight session for Excellence East, an organisation that brings together teachers with an interest in gifted and talented provision to share ideas and good practice. E4 Library Activities (Ms E Bate) The Library Poster competition. This was won jointly by Laura Bailey 9G and Hannah Coles 7N. Both won book tokens. Highly commended were Natasha Owen 7S and Chelsea Scott 10G. Congratulations to all the winners as we had some excellent entries to judge. Book Mastermind competition. Our autumn term winner, Thalia Sivaraj 8F, attended the area final at Ipswich Academy in February where she performed very well but was not successful in taking part in the final. However, she was invited to attend with a friend, and they enjoyed the competition and meeting author Anthony McGowan. World Book Day 7 March. All students were given a World Book Day Book Token by their English teacher and there was a DEAR event (Drop Everything And Read) on the day. Carnegie Group. The group continued to meet weekly and 6 members (from years 8-11) went to Northgate High School, on 13 March, to represent the group and the school at the annual Battle of the Books competition. There was a very high level of critical discussion and we all enjoyed the morning. The group has started to shadow the Carnegie Medal (the shortlist of 8 titles was announced in March). Library Catalogue. Additional work has been done to get the library catalogue available from home via the SLG. Now all students can search for materials, including 10,000 web pages suitable for secondary age students, from home. An interesting feature of the catalogue is “Meet the author”. Author, Katie Jackson, will visit school on Tuesday 30 April to talk to the Carnegie group and other students in the library at lunchtime. We are particularly glad to have Katie visit as she was formerly a student at Farlingaye. The Annual Short Story Competition will be held in the Summer term. F Teaching and Learning F1 Teaching and Learning Group (Mr A Goduti) Over the course of summer term, the Teaching and Learning Group will begin to bring together their conclusions on the subject of ‘challenge in lessons’. Although it is likely that lots of the work will take place in the latter half of this term due to exam

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group commitment, I am sure that the findings will be valuable for staff, culminating in a CPD session next academic year. The three strands of research are diverse and our work on these is still in its early stages, however, will provide a useful insight into what challenges students and the perceptions that underpin this:

1. Researched Lesson Study (RLS)

2. Researching literature

3. Student perceptions In addition to this, we have also recently purchased the IRIS system to support the creative use of lesson recording and reflection. IRIS technology allows individuals to record themselves teaching using the most up to date and exciting technology. Teachers are able to record themselves, bookmark parts of their lesson and choose to upload to a shared view for other users or to keep it completely to themselves! We have also decided to appoint a co-ordinator to lead the development and use of this over the next academic year – this is currently being advertised. F2 Staff Development (Mr A Goduti) The recent ‘Faculty Development Day’ provided the opportunity for subject areas to design and develop their own PD days. This has become a regular feature over the last few years with feedback being very positive from the sessions. Development opportunities ranged from subject specific training in DT and to a focus on examination skills in RE through to a combination of ipad and revision strategies in Science. The in-house programme continues to complement the PD days addressing requests from staff, performance management needs and the school development plan. In addition to this, the programme aims to ensure that CPD is exciting and delivered by the excellent staff here at Farlingaye. The final 14 sessions look really valuable for staff – these range from ‘Photoshop’ to ‘Independent Learning for Students’. The summer term may also bring a continued approach to Masters Level study for teachers who wish to do this. Whilst there are a few changes occurring with regards to our provider at Belstead House, we are working with SARU to plan an appropriate and effective offer for teachers. Opportunities to moderate and mark for exam boards are also often taken up by teachers in the summer term providing an excellent insight into marking and developing knowledge for individuals. The Leading Edge team and work of the Teaching School continue to provide further opportunities for CPD too. F3 Teaching School Developments (Mr A Goduti) With the third cohort of Teaching Schools being designated last month, Barrow Primary School became another Teaching School alongside the already existing Farlingaye and Kesgrave Alliance in Suffolk. As we come to the final term of our

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second year as a Teaching School, we continue to work extremely well with our partner, Kesgrave, and developments continue to be very positive. A number of exciting developments continue to be led by our project leads. Some of these are listed below:

• Teaching and Learning Network – The regional network that has been established by Rebecca Jermy (Farlingaye) and Tim Legg (Kesgrave) reaches the end of its first full year with a networking / celebration event. With Dr Chris Tomlinson as the keynote speaker, senior leadership teams from around the region have been invited to spend an afternoon together, sharing good practice and ideas.

• Teaching and Learning Conference – having contributed to the conference last year, this event continues to development into a really effective day for teachers locally, with all of the sessions being delivered by teachers from our Teaching School Alliance. Last year it was very successful and with Ian Gilbert as Keynote speaker this year, I am sure it will be excellent.

• Schools Direct – this has been a developmental process for all involved. Complicated by the different routes individuals can take, Kerensa Carrick (Farlingaye) and Stuart Widd (Kesgrave) have worked with both the Suffolk Consortium (SNITT) and UEA to establish the programme and as a result, our first Schools Direct trainees will train with us from September 2013. Both schools have been heavily involved in interviewing prospective trainees for the region. To raise the profile and clarity for possible trainees locally, the Teaching School will be hosting an information session next in April as well as a taster day in the summer term.

• Primary CPD – our Teaching Schools Primary link is in the process of drafting future possible plans for next academic year; working with Primary Headteachers to identify CPD needs to complement these from this year. We also recently supported the local Primary SCITT trainees and hosted them for a day, focusing upon transition and Years 7 and 8.

• Leadership development – we have now begun to support the delivery of the NPQML and NPQSL with ARU as a partner school. At present this involves leading as tutors on their face-to-face days and provides real input into the new courses for regional leaders. We hope to continue doing this, ensuring that we can continue to contribute to content and delivery style.

• SLEs – A large proportion of our cohort 2 SLEs have now been re-designated to Barrow Teaching School. We continue to deploy our existing cohort 1 SLEs and 2 from cohort 2 and hope to put together a brochure to send out locally to support the marketing of these individuals.

• ITP – We are also looking at running an Improving Teachers Programme (National College) at Farlingaye in the summer term for Alliance Schools; each will be given 3 funded places.

G Sports and PE (Miss K Alexander) This year we entered a combined year 7 and 8 team into the Ipswich and South Suffolk Sports Hall Athletics Championships. Sports Hall Athletics is seen as an excellent stepping stone to full athletics and is well established nationally. Events include shot put, standing long jump, standing triple jump and the vertical jump along with various running events including relays. The Farlingaye boys and girls won the

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Ipswich and South Suffolk event and went on to represent the area in the County Final. It was an incredibly close competition and a very loud one with all those excitable 11-13 year olds! Both Farlingaye teams won and as a result went on to represent Suffolk in the East of England Regional Finals which were held in Hertfordshire towards the end of April. At this level the year groups were separated and we took a year 7 team and a year 8 team for both boys and girls. The students had a fantastic day and were all given a T shirt to wear and keep, we came up against some very strong opposition particularly from Essex and Bedfordshire. Both boys’ teams finished a credible 6th with both girls’ teams one place ahead in 5th. The event is definitely something we intend to enter again next year. The Football season results are still yet to be finalised in some year groups due to the difficult weather conditions over the winter. The year 7 team were semi-finalists in the South Suffolk Cup and the year 8 team did exceptionally well to get to the last 32 in the National Cup. The year 9 team finished as runners up in the South Suffolk League and were semi-finalists in the Suffolk Cup. The year 10 team are still waiting to play their semi-final in the Suffolk Cup and the 6th form team have got to the Suffolk County Cup Final and should be playing that match very soon. In Rugby the 6th form team finished very strongly and won the Suffolk 10s tournament. Both the year 8 and 9 team and a combined year 10/11 team did very well to finish as runners up in the County Cup. Mr Haughan entered a Farlingaye team into the British Schools karting competition and the students were very enthusiastic about entering this competition and representing the school. In a local semi-final the A team came first and the B team narrowly missed out on second place. The A team then went on to the Regional Final where the competition was of a very high standard and they did very well to finish 12th. Lots of our students are being trained as leaders and officials at the moment in order that they can officiate at primary school festivals and go on to gain official governing body qualifications. Some students have completed a course on umpiring high 5 netball and others have completed a full day course on tennis umpiring. This week we also have 6 students who will be trained in Gymnastics judging and they will spend the afternoon judging the primary school competition at Pipers Vale Gymnastics Centre. It’s really pleasing to see how many students are attending these courses and we always receive excellent feedback from the course assessors. H Specialist Area Developments H1 Leading Edge (Miss R Jermy) We have continued to focus on our projects with enthusiasm over the past term. We are now working on our fifth literacy focus and have shared sophisticated vocabulary with students through the words of the week. To highlight the value of reading, we celebrated World Book Day by hosting another DEAR event and provided all members of staff with novel extracts relevant to their subject area. We also want to raise the profile of reading through a regular book recommendation from students and staff in The Forum, and by having a book box of reading materials for each Faculty. Having attended a course about promoting literacy across the

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curriculum, run by Geoff Barton, we received many useful ideas which were shared with middle leaders and SLT; furthermore, we also compiled a booklet for staff that detailed what Ofsted would be looking for in a lesson regarding literacy, and list of practical strategies that staff could employ in lessons. Our literacy links are currently undertaking evaluations of how literacy features in their faculty areas, and are soon to be conducting interviews with students. We are also going to be undertaking book monitoring to evaluate whether the literacy marking policy is proving effective. Finally, members of the team supported the Easter school run by Cathy Laird which focused on improving the skills of students working at level three in English. The course for new and aspiring middle leaders has now come to an end. Feedback has been extremely positive with participants enjoying the group discussion and listening to experienced members of staff and their experiences. Our bespoke CPD for second and third year teachers is also well underway. Staff from Farlingaye and Kesgrave have attended two sessions to date. The first, run by Sue and Angelo, was a great success and focused upon ‘withitness’ and subject knowledge. The second meeting developed the work on ‘withitness’ further and included staff evaluating other teachers’ skills in this area, and reflecting upon their own practice too. In preparation for the final meeting, staff will be asked to observe another member of staff in school, and will complete our final meeting by sharing examples of good practice in the classroom. Year 9 Thinking Skills Day was a success with students attending an inspirational talk from David Hodgson, ‘The Buzz Man’, and four interactive sessions focused on developing thinking and learning skills. Students were excellently behaved throughout the day, and were very positive about the activities they had undertaken, the skills they had developed, and the opportunity to work within their form groups once again. We have continued to provide support for our partnership schools when requested, and continued to promote the partnership as a whole. We are not able to fund staff from our partnership schools to attend the Achievement School, but will advertising this opportunity. Although we have decided not to run our annual BSA conference this year, we are considering the possibility of running a conference for teaching staff focusing on strategies that contribute to successful learning. Discussions regarding this are currently underway. Finally, with forthcoming changes to the Leading Edge team, we are looking at the continuation of projects next year and how this will be successfully undertaken so that plans are in place by the end of the year. I Matters Related to Buildings and Health & Safety (Mrs M Rozier) I1 Building Work This term the drawings for the science rooms and the toilets are being completed ready for tender. Following this exercise the decision over which rooms will be refurbished will be made. The pigeon netting over the sixth form entrance has been completed and all remaining dirt cleaned from that area. A new path has been created from SEN to the 6th form which will stop pedestrians having to walk around the cars.

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The potholes at the front of the school have been repaired, and the road markings redone, with a drop off zone created at the front of the school and two disabled parking spaces marked out nearer to the school entrance. The permissive path has also been repaired as this had been wearing away by the entrance gate. The last tranche of work has been carried out on the fire alarm so this now meets the required standard in all areas of the school. The dedicated gas main for the school is being laid in the Easter holidays which will mean that the boilers can be switched over from oil to gas. The delay has been due to contractors being changed and a licence being sought for closing the A12 whilst connections are made. Another leak developed under the floor in the main corridor outside Sue’s office, this has now been found and repaired by Inviron. The carpets have been cleaned by Shirley Shelley and also the mould on the windows in the art rooms has been removed. The town planner Michaelle Coupe visited site to look at the proposal for erecting floodlights on the netball courts and replacing the surface. A report from the ‘batlady’ has been sent through and a proposal for the community use. The town council meet on the 25th April to consider the plans. I2 Health & Safety A Health and Safety visit from Safety Boss took place in February to look at the fire evacuation chair, recommendation that the chair be moved from Creative Arts and moved to the first floor of the maths block. This will be carried out in the summer term. All lifts to have signs on them advising that they cannot be used in the event of a fire. Two further risk assessments carried out for the site staff, use of the Kubota vehicle around site and carrying out welding in the caretaker’s cabin. Richard Canham has taken a course in welding and is already using this to repair classroom tables. There are no incidents to report regarding asbestos. The two school performances went off very well recently. One accident to report involved one of the pupils from Woodbridge Primary School fell through a gap in the railings on the stage. This was adjusted and the stage checked for any further issues. Staff have been reminded that any structures must be checked before they are used by anyone. The sports hall was very cold for the Choral Concert; unfortunately space heaters could not be used in the area because of the demand for electricity by the stage equipment. The gas filled radiators were not very efficient or safe in a large audience left unattended, so the air temperature was very cold. The accident book is available for inspection. J Safeguarding (Mr J Tunaley)

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This report covers the period from February 2013 to April 2013 The school’s Senior Designated Professional is John Tunaley, with Louise Newrick, Hilary Magnall and Paul Macdonald the alternate designated members of staff. Policies The FHS Safeguarding Policy is due to be updated in September 2013. Training Feb 2013 15 Staff Group 2 Safeguard Training delivered by JT Feb 2013 Hilary Magnall Essex LAC Paperwork Training Essex Feb 2013 Hilary Magnall SSCB Safeguard Conference SSCB Mar 2013 John Tunaley SSCB Mental Health Support SSCB Apr 2013 Louise Newrick Training 4 Trainers SSCB Child protection register Two of our 3 students on Tier 4 CP have been stepped down to Tier 3 CIN due to developments in their situations. Below is a breakdown of the number of CIN/CP students in each year group.

Year Group CIN CP 7 3 0 8 0 0 9 0 0 10 2 1 11 2 0 12 0 0 13 0 0 Total 7 1

Referrals to CYP (Children and Young People) One multi agency referral was made. Five CAF referrals were also completed. 20 TAC (team around the child) and 7 CIN (child in need) meetings have been attended – significant time and support has been given by the Heads of Year to deal with this very important and significant meeting load. Two child protection conferences have been attended. Three core group meetings have been attended, and detailed reports have been created for CYPS in relation to these meetings. Day to day activity and monitoring

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There are currently 145 students on the FHS secure list. All students on the secure list are monitored to varying degrees and the input of the Year Coordinators is invaluable in helping to achieve this. The safeguarding Officer, Hilary Magnall, has continued to make excellent progress with the role and has now attended core group and case conference meetings. She now completes the majority of the meetings that take place with outside agencies. Students on FHS secure list are represented as follows:

Year Group Students 7 20 8 17 9 27 10 39 11 30 12 11 13 1 Total 145

Safeguarding meetings Safeguarding meetings are held every half-term. These meetings were held on 5th February and 26th March 2013. Meetings are multi-agency and representatives from external agencies were invited to attend – EWO, Advisory Teacher, Police, Educational Psychologist, Connexions, Advisor for Children in Care and the School Nurse. It has been really pleasing to have representatives from the Coastal Integrated team who have been able to offer support. Also in attendance are our year coordinators, the upper and lower school coordinators, behaviour support assistant and attendance and workplace learning coordinator. The number of students for discussion has been reduced to allow us to focus on the most concerning cases. This approach is reflected in the table below. We will be looking to have the meetings in the morning next year to support those colleagues that could not do afternoons. Students discussed at safeguarding meetings are represented below: Date Y7 Y8 Y9 Y10 Y11 Total 5th Feb Discussed 4 3 4 8 5 63 26th Mar Discussed 3 3 3 9 6 34 Looked After Children There have also been 14 PEP/LAC reviews attended. We currently have 14 Looked After Children. Planned Developments

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The 157 Self-Assessment Tool was completed during this reports period and was very positive. One area for development was that of developing how safeguarding is developed in our schemes of work. I also feel that there is continuing need to focus on E-Safety and developing parents understanding of how best to support their young people on the net. This is to be developed with the support of Emma Bond. K Trips K1 Recent Trips • The German Exchange - 30 Farlingaye students and 16 Woodbridge School

students took part this year and went to Germany for an excellent week in mid- April. Many thanks to Mr Craig who accompanied the students, as well as Mr Vick, an ex-member of staff.

• The French Exchange – Farlingaye enjoyed another successful exchange with

the Institution Saint Alyre in Clermont – Ferrand in the Auvergne. As in previous years, we organised the visit in conjunction with Woodbridge School and 17 Farlingaye students were involved in the exchange and Sixth Form study visit. The French students visited Woodbridge from March 8th – 18th and our students returned to France from April 14th until April 22nd with Mrs Rudge (Co-ordinator for French) accompanying the students. The students enjoyed both time in school and excursions to local museums and places of interest. Many thanks to Mrs Rudge for her hard work on this.

• 29 students from Years 12 and 13 with 4 members of staff went on a Humanities trip to Italy for 6 days in February. They visited Florence, Lucca, Pisa, Sienna and Rome. Thanks to Miss Snoxell, Mrs Newrick, Miss Mawson and Mr Barwick for all their hard work. Students had a brilliant time.

• There were six Year 11 residential trips led by myself and Mrs Newrick.

• Miss Gilbert is again discussing the viability of a trip to Madagascar. I think we are extremely lucky to have so many staff willing to organise trips abroad as it is a huge responsibility. K2 Duke of Edinburgh Award (Mr C Shaw) It has been a busy time for DofE at Farlingaye with training weekends, practice and qualifying weekends completed in recent weeks. Bronze We have 57 students about to go on their practice expedition weekend along the Suffolk Coast. Half of the group will be starting from Snape Maltings and walking to Shingle Street, with camping overnight at Old Rookery House, near Woodbridge Rugby Club. The other half will make the reverse journey. Practice expedition (Suffolk Coastal area): 27th-28th April 2013 Qualifying expedition (Suffolk Coastal area): 15th-16th June 2013

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There are nine groups in total who have all been busy route planning and creating menus for their weekend adventure. Silver The Silver qualifying expedition was planned for the start of the Easter holiday from 31st March - 1st April, visiting the Peak District. Unfortunately, the prolonged winter conditions and persistent snow in the area meant we had to cancel that trip. However, we were able at short notice to book the 21 students into a campsite at Thetford Forest. Routes were re-planned for the new area and the expedition went ahead, not quite as originally planned. The students did a fantastic job and all passed their expedition section assessment. They were quite glad of the relative flatness of the Suffolk countryside and lack of snow, although it was still a cold Easter under canvas. Gold During the Easter break, 19 students travelled by minibus to the Lake District. Once there, we put them through a night navigation exercise and an acclimatisation and training day to familiarise themselves with the type of terrain they would be walking in. The expedition then ran over the next four days and three nights, with students completely self-sufficient for the duration of the walk. Leaders camped nearby each night to keep a watchful eye on the groups. They are continuing to make good progress with the other 4 sections of the award, as well as planning qualifying expedition to the Fort William area of the Scottish Highlands. Practice expedition (Lake District): 10th-15th April 2013 Qualifying expedition (Fort William, Scotland): 13th-19th July 2013 I am hugely grateful to Mr Shaw for all he is doing to co-ordinate our Duke of Edinburgh work and to liaise with our provider, Go Explore.

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K3 Other Trips and Activities that have taken place February 6 Year 9 Parents Evening February 7 A2 Evening Recital at St Mary’s Church February 7 Intermediate Maths Challenge February 8 Year 9 Thinking Skills Day February 9-10 Gold Duke of Edinburgh training weekend February 14 AS Evening Recital at St Mary’s Church February 13-14 Year 11 Revision Mornings February 17-23 Sixth Form Humanities trip to Italy February 27-Mar 2 Whole school musical production of Les Misérables March 6 Year 9 Options Evening March 6 Maths Risk Roadshow March 7 A level Psychology trip to London March 8–18 French Exchange students come to Farlingaye March 10 Year 9 Mock Trial Competition March 12 School Experience Morning March 14 Sixth Form Art/Photography trip to galleries March 18–28 Year 11 Residentials March 21 Progress Evening – Years 9-13 March 25-26 Choral concert with primaries March 28 AS Sociology Conference March 29- Apr 1 Silver Duke of Edinburgh Qualifying Expedition April 10-15 Gold Duke of Edinburgh Qualifying Expedition April 14- 22 French exchange students visit France April 16-18 Year 11 Residentials April 16-23 German exchange students visit Germany April 19 Year 10 History trip to London April 23 Gym and Dance Show April 24-26 AS Geography Fieldwork visits to Flatford Mill April 25 Junior Maths Challenge April 27-28 Bronze Duke of Edinburgh Practice Expedition May 1 Year 10 Maximise Day May 2 Year 8 Parents Evening May 8 Year 7 Parents Evening K4 Forthcoming Trips and Activities May 11 Mock Trial Competition – Chelmsford May 13 External exams begin May 17 Readathon May 18 Royal College of Music String Event May 18 FHSF May Ball June 6 G&T ‘Challenge Day’ June 7 Year 7 Day trip to Boulogne June 10 Year 9 internal exams all week June 13 GCSE Art Exhibition June 15-16 Duke of Edinburgh Bronze qualifier expedition June 20 AS/A2 Art Exhibition June 20 UCAS Evening

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June 20 Year 10 Business Marketing Conference June 21 A Level Psychology Trip June 25 Year 4 Marvellous Maths June 26 Enterprise day (Provisional) June 27 Year 13 Prom June 27 Sports Day July 1 Year 11 Prom July 1 Year 6 Maths Quiz July 2 Year 7 Maths Quiz July 2-4 Lower School Production July 3 New Intake Day July 5 Year 5 ICT Day July 8 New Intake Evening July 8 Year 9 Diploma Celebration July 9 Summer concert July 10 Sports Award Presentation July 11 Attendance celebration July 12 Commendation celebration July 13-19 Duke of Edinburgh Gold qualifier expedition July 15-18 Activities Week July 19 Celebration Assemblies August 15 A/AS Results Day August 22 GCSE Results Day L Development Areas

L1 Key issues from last report 1. To review Year 10 curriculum and pool system and consider general curriculum

changes; Achieved. 2. To hold a revision morning for Year 11; Achieved and went well. 3. To hold the Year 11 Study Residentials; Ongoing and going well. 4. To review the existing School Improvement Plan and produce a new one for May

2013; Ongoing. 5. To appoint new staff as and when needed; Ongoing. 6. To continue to work with borderline GCSE students and underachieving able

students to ensure they achieve their potential and particularly focus on the borderline Maths, English and Science group; Ongoing.

7. To implement changes in one curriculum area; Ongoing and should conclude in April.

8. To continue with our other strategies to support students, e.g. COMPACT scheme, One to One tuition, Mentoring, A2A group, Freddoes group, Achievement Schemes, etc. Achieved.

9. To prepare the school for an Ofsted visit; Achieved. 10. To consider implementing “Go 4 Schools” to support staff assessment and help

our monitoring and report systems. Ongoing discussions. L2 Key issues for the next few months 1. To be fully staffed for September 2013; 2. To hold a successful Activities Week;

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3. To hold successful interviews with Year 6 and a Year 6 Day and Evening for New Parents;

4. To review all Pupil Premium finances and allocations; 5. To successfully help students go through their exams and achieve the best they

are capable of; 6. To consider the focus of our next Focus Fortnight linked to student well-being and

begin to plan for the timetable; 7. To produce new School Development Plan; 8. To carry out a review of our behaviour and reward policy and procedures.