Congratulations to Will and Rachel for passing their GTP courses with flying colours. Wow!
It continues to be a very busy time. A huge thank you to everyone for your continued hard work, patience and support for each other.
Information for the coming week or so:
- 30th June (Thurs) - all instrumental lessons continue. Years 8 and 9 are out, but they have been and will be told again that they have to come in for lessons and rehearsals.
- Friday - Wind Band morning with some of our primary school musicians
- Concert on 5th July at Broxbourne. A detailed schedule will be published tomorrow morning.
- Exam prep. If you have a student who is not fully prepared, parents must know about it.
- Barbara is in for much of this week with exam rehearsals.
- Rock School exams on Tuesday this week.
- I appreciate that there is quite a bit of disruption to lessons at present. I copied everyone into an email sent yesterday to parents that reminded them that they have the responsibility to let us know about trips and events. I continue to work to ensure we do have details, but the responsibility is with the students and parents. We have too many emails coming in providing too late notice, so I am clamping down! I am also trying to clamp down on the students that have to be continually fetched for lessons. You have the timetables, and SIMS is not really different, so come and get a student from one of our lessons to fetch someone. The inset in September will look at timetabling as one of the topics.
- Talking of timetabling, do think about which students in Years 10 and 11 can be taught after school next year and start to chat to them about it please.
- Lists for next year (students) will be issued next week at the latest. There will be many changes and more direct line management - more details to follow.
Below is a slide show that you will be interested in. At the recent FMS conference, Mark Phillips - HMI for music at Ofsted - spoke about the new inspection framework. At the heart of it is what goes on in the classroom - the quality of teaching. Instrumental teachers will be inspected just as class teachers are. The huge leap forward we have made this year in the quality of our teaching, will continue next year - common planning, regular meetings to share ideas and best practice, talk of nothing but the learning and the progress students are making! Have a look.
Finally, I will leave you with Jack. What a boy!
