Weekly Bulletin 10/10/2011

Hope you all had a wonderful weekend, despite the terrible rugby results. Well done to Wales though, a super effort. As I am half welsh, and the Boks bombed out, I plan on changing my allegiances and backing Andy's boys all the way to the final now!

• College Meeting: This was held on Wednesday 5/10. Thanks to all of you who attended and for all your helpful ideas and input. Minutes will follow this week.
• Year 7 Settling In Interviews: Thanks again for the time and effort you put into these meetings. Please follow up with any parents that you have not yet made contact with, as a matter of urgency, this week. If you need help contacting any parents, please let Lynne and I know. Please remember to make a brief note on Serco about your meeting, and alert us if there are any issues that we need to follow up on.
• Parent Mail: You will find a photocopied list in your register bags this week that will contain all the names of pupils whose parents we still don't have email contact details. Please can you hound them to provide you with a working email adress as soon as possible. There is a prize for the tutor group who gets theirs all in first.
• College Captains:  It gives me great pleasure to announce that our new Curie College captains for 2011/2012 are:

Senior College Captain: Kayleigh Trendall, C03, Year 11  

Assistant Senior College Captain: Sandra Dipate, C05, Year 1

Junior College Captain: Shannon Steepe, C11, Year 9

Assistant Junior College Captain: Jenny Milne, C12, Year 8

The Curie College team is very excited about these appointments and we are all looking forward to working closely with our captains throughout the course of the year. Our new Captains will be introducing themselves to the college at our next assembly

•  Student Update: I sent copies of this around last week and we discussed some of the pupils on it in our meeting. In conjuntion with the data I sent you today, I think it is a very useful tool not just for us, but also for use in mentoring meetings with pupils as well as in Parental meetings/ evenings.
• Uniform: Please remember to do a thorough check of uniform and equipment. Keep an eye out for very short skirts, they seem to be creeping in. If you feel unsure or uncomfortable about having this conversation with any of the girls just send them down to us in the office.
• Inter College Sports: Please register your group tomorrow morning and then bring them down to the lower gym.

Thanks and have a good week!

Weekly Bulletin 3/10/11

Hope you all had a wonderful weekend and enjoyed the beautiful sunshine...

1. College Meeting: this week on Wednesday 5/10. We will meet in C26 at 2.00pm. Please email me 'Any Other business' you would like to add to the agenda by tomorrow afternoon.
2. Year 7 Settling in Interviews: These will take place after our meeting on Wednesday. Please follow up with any parents that you have not had a response from tomorrow. If you need help contacting any parents, please let Lynne and I know.
3. Parent Mail: We need to make a big push on this between now and half term. Lynne has a list of names of names of all the pupils in each tutor group who still have not provided us with an email address. Parent mail is a wonderful tool in terms of keeping the lines of communication with home. We will provide you each with a list of these names on Wednesday, please can you follow up as many as you can.
4. College Captains: We have had quite a few pupils express interest in these posts, unfortunately (or fortunately?) mainly girls. Please do a final push with your gents tomorrow, anyone interested must see me or Lynne tomorrow. I will be announcing who has been appointed on Wednesday.
5. Assembly: There is assembly on Wednesday. Please remind your tuttees to come straight to the hall on Wednesday morning. It might be worth leaving a reminder on your door too. Please can you get your tutor groups to put their bags under their chairs and take off all coats/ scarves as soon as they come in, athough if this weather continues there may not be any of those around this week. They must have a cheney sweatshirt on.
6. Orange Report: I currently have 20 or so pupils on College Report mostly for punctuality. Please can you help out in terms of keeping an eye on these pupils and discussing how they are doing when you get a chance. If youy place a pupil on green report, please remember to make a pastoral note of this on Serco.
7. Student Update: I am very aware that as of yet I have not sent one of these out yet. I will try and have one ready for us to look at and discuss at our meeting. In future I plan to post these on the Serco bulletin on the Pastoral board. I will show where to find this if you have not seen it already.
8. Uniform: We are almost there and seem to winning the battle for the most part. Please remember to keep checking your tutor group for this, and for equipment, as often as you can. Also keep an eye out for over the top jewllery, especially earings.
9. Planners: Please make sure that you are checking and signing these, pupils should have with them everyday. If pupils have nothing in them. challenege them about it and have a discussion as to why. I was thinking that it might be useful to get your sixth formers to help you with this task.

Thanks for all your hard work last week, what with open evening and performance management, I know it was a tiring one. If you need any support with any of your tutees, please just shout. looking forward to seeing you all on Wednesday.