2. Pastoral Information
• Primary vs Secondary
• Year 7 Team
• Transition
• Resilience & Grit
• Bawdsey Manor Trip
• Information about tomorrow
• Information about the start of term.
3. Primary School Secondary School
Environment
Typically smaller.
Fewer specialist areas (e.g. ICT,PE and
hall).
Typically larger.
Numerous specialist areas (e.g. gym,
studio, labs, art room, photo lab etc).
Staff
Typically one class teacher who teaches
the majority of subjects.
Most staff, including the Head, are likely
to know students by name.
Several subject teachers, as well as
form tutor.
Staff not involved directly with
student are unlikely to know them by
name.
Personal
organisation
Equipment for most lessons is provided
and kept in the room.
Timetable shows the sequence of the
day; failure to use or understand it is of
little consequence.
Students are expected to bring their
own equipment and to remember
which day they need to bring it.
Students need to use the timetable
to know where he/she should be,
which lesson it is and what
equipment is required.
Differences between primary and secondary school
4. Primary School Secondary School
Other students Year 6 are the oldest.
All students are children.
We have EYFS, Y1 & Y2 (Y3)
Y7 -13
5yrs – 18yrs
Student movement Lessons take place in one
room.
Students move to different
locations usually
accompanied by an adult.
Students move to different
rooms for different lessons.
Students move around the
site independently taking
responsibility to arrive at the
right place at the right time.
Curriculum Subject based but divisions
less evident.
Homework set by one
teacher, often on an
occasional, informal basis.
Subject based, emphasised
by movement to different
rooms and teaching by
different teachers.
Homework set by different
teachers on a regular, more
formal basis.
6. Our Vision for Year 7
Positive Transition to Secondary and Wellbeing
•Students will be encouraged to participate in all areas of school life and have the
provisions that enable them to be safe, happy, healthy and successful, not only
for today, but for the future.
•We will ensure every Year 7 student makes a successful and positive transition
(both socially, mentally and academically) to Simon Balle and are on the right
pathway to achieve their next steps to success.
•Year 7 students will develop independence and character skills, taking on
leadership roles and working with different people.
•We will establish good working relationships with you as parents, with regular
contact and enrichment events throughout the year.
7.
8. Pastoral and Academic Structure
Is you question / success / problem
pastoral or academic?
Pastoral Academic
Form Tutor Subject
teacher
First point of contact First point of contact
Head of Year
9. Success at Simon Balle
We will work together to ensure
your children do their best We want all the students to enjoy school
Encourage them to join clubs and participate in
as many activities as possible Use the lines of communication and feel free to
talk to us at the end of this evening
10. Effective Transition
Relationship with curriculum
What skills does the child currently have and what additional skills will be necessary
to deal with differences in the curriculum, teaching methods and increased
expectations of personal organisation of learning?
Relationship with others
What skills does the child currently have and what additional skills will be necessary
to form new relationships with staff and peers and deal with increased expectations
of abilities to learn and socialise in group settings?
Relationship with self
Does the child have the dispositions and attitudes that are
likely to contribute to better coping with the transition?
What are their feelings about their perceptions of their own
ability to cope with change?
11. The transition…
We want to create a platform for students to develop
all relationships during Y7
We provide 2 days off timetable at the start of the
year that helps them make any adjustments.
Activities include:
Form tutor time
E-Safety talks
Equality and Equity session
Protective behaviours workshop
Formal expectations assembly from the Head
Photos
Tour
Baseline tests in M&E
12. Meeting new friends
E-Safety / Equity & Equality
Protective Behaviours
Adjusting to Secondary
Showing resilience
Baseline Test
September
13. Routines
• It is crucial that students adopt positive routines from their
first day.
• Students are far more likely to be successful if they feel in
control of their learning; routines are an essential element
of this.
• We expect all students to be appropriately dressed, in
school, punctual, fully-equipped and ready to learn from
day one.
• Support from school and home should be available to
enable students to achieve this.
14. Organisation – how you can help
• Encourage students to refer to Go4schools each
evening and to meet all homework deadlines
• Encourage students to refer to their timetable each
evening to ensure that they have packed all that they need
• Check that they are fully-equipped each evening
• Ensure that they are dressed neatly, leave for school on time
and with a good breakfast inside them
• Gaming, sleep and social media!
15. How do we nurture resilience?
What is “Grit”?
“Grit” is having the passion and perseverance to
achieve especially long-term goals.
Achievement = Talent x Effort
•Roger Black – Intrinsic Motivation
•Will Smith – Attitude
16. Culture of Grit
• Deep practice involves failure.
• Deep practice is frustrating.
• Students often think that talent is all that
matters.
• When practice is frustrating – praise effort!
• We embed culture that failure is on the path
to success – we celebrate ’stuckness’
19. Simon Balle All-through SchoolSimon Balle All-through School
Tuesday 25th September – Friday 28Tuesday 25th September – Friday 28thth
SeptemberSeptember
We will be taking the whole year group at onceWe will be taking the whole year group at once
We strong recommend students attend as this isWe strong recommend students attend as this is
crucial to their transition.crucial to their transition.
22. Uniform
Uniform on sale in school on:
•17th
July Stevensons uniform sale 3pm-8pm
In the canteen area
23. Next term...
• Year 7 begin school on September 5th
• Year 7 will be off timetable for the first two days and will begin lessons fully
on Wednesday 7th
• Students will be completing a variety of activities – both formal and informal
• Please send a cheque (made payable to Simon Balle School) to be paid in for
use on a smart card if you want your child to have a school dinners or set up
a Parentpay account
• The deadline for paying the deposit for Bawdsey Manor has passed, so if you
have not yet done this it needs to be done ASAP
• If you are requesting a locker for your child then this money needs to be
paid as they are on a first come first served basis
• Thursday 13th
September 6:30pm – Trip Information Evening
• Thursday 4th
October 6:30pm – Academic Information Evening
• Tuesday 2nd
April 5-8pm – Parent Consultation Evening
24. Technology
Apple iPad 32GB with a case
You have received ‘One person, one device’ scheme breakage
information in transition books.
Two payment options (Covers cost of case, accidental breakage). It does
not cover Theft or loss
It will have installed on it a particular App called MIRAKI that monitors
what they do on it. It also ensures they can access WiFi and have internet
security.
We strongly believe that using technology purposefully develops students
into the citizens of tomorrow therefore value technology skills like we do
handwriting and presentation
Any questions please contact: edutech@simonballe.herts.sch.uk
finance@simonballe.herts.sch.uk
27. At Simon BalleAt Simon Balle
Year 7 parental questionnaire
97.55% agreed the school makes sure students are well
behaved
Ofsted May 2018
-Pupils’ behaviour is exemplary. Relationships between
teachers and pupils are very strong.
-Pupils feel safe in school. They are very well cared for by
staff. Pupils are taught to appreciate people’s
differences. Equal opportunities underpin the school’s
moral purpose.
28. Think like a student...
Teacher
• Grades
• Fulfilling
objectives
• Course content
Student
•Interest
•Fun
•Ease
•Success
VS
A curriculum with elements of interest, ease,
success and fun will be a compromise for most
students.
29. Behaviour for Learning
Reciprocal influence of these factors
on learning behaviour.
Process supported
by ethos and within
a context.
30. Relationship with self Relationship with others Relationship with curriculum
• Reluctance to try
new things
• Frustration with
lack of immediate
success.
• Blaming behaviour
• Lying
• Non- compliance
with authority
• Cynical, sarcastic,
hypercritical
• Don’t care
• Accuse you of being
unfair when you are
not
• Not interested in you
and ignore you.
• Personal criticism of
your teaching.
• Continue to do
something when
asked not to.
• Class out of control
• Off task
• Bored
• Hates the subject
• Taps the desk, low level
behaviour.
• Do not understand the
work – too hard.
• Too easy
31. Dealing with behaviourDealing with behaviour
• What happened?
• Informing parents
• Logging incidents
Some easy rules
-No trainers – letter lasts 3 days and then a doctors note is required.
-No extreme hairs cuts, no shapes, natural hair colour only.
-1 pair of studs in ear only.
-No rings, bracelets etc.
-No mobiles seen in school
32. Bullying Summarised!Bullying Summarised!
• 5 Stages
• Level of supervision and sanction increases
• Seniority of staff involvement according to the
stage.
Recent Year 7 parental survey - Does the school
deal effectively with bullying – 81% agree or
strongly agree. 19% did not know as had no
experience.
35. AttendanceAttendance
• What does an attendance rate of 90% look
like?
• If you have a 90% attendance record, it means
that you are absent from lessons for the
equivalent of one half-day every week.
A 90% attendance rate means that you have missed the equivalent
of four whole weeks of lessons in the school year.
If your attendance rate is at 90% throughout KS3 and KS4 (5 years) you
have missed the equivalent of about one half of a school year
36. Statistics…Statistics…
• 1 in 5 pupils miss 19 days a year- these pupils
will drop at least ONE GCSE GRADE.
• 1-4 GCSE grades can increase your wages by
17%.
• If you improve your attendance by 1% you
could see a 5- 6% improvement in your
attainment.
37. Attendance
Our attendance average – 96.5%
Our system for poor attendance and lates:
-Student seen
-Letters home
-Detentions
-Parents invited in.
38. LatesLates
• 5 minutes late each day = 3 days lost
• 10 minutes late each day = 6 days lost
• 15 minutes late each day = 9 days lost
• 20 minutes late each day = 12 days lost
• 30 minutes late each day = 18 days lost
*(Figures below are calculated over a school
year)
