This page aims to help:

• Understand the school’s vision for learners of the future
• To identify the different kinds of learning
• To provide examples of useful activities to support learning at home
  

Every Child Matters Agenda

• Be healthy
• Stay safe
• Enjoy and achieve through learning
• Make a positive contribution to society
• Achieve economic well-being

• The agenda demands that all organisations that provide services to children work together in more integrated and effective ways.
• The need for change was made apparent in Lord Laming's report into the death of Victoria Climbié, the young girl who was horrifically abused and tortured, and eventually killed by her great aunt and the man with whom they lived. The report highlighted a need for improved integration and accountability across children's services.
• In 2003, the Government published a green paper called Every Child Matters alongside its formal response to Lord Laming's report. The green paper prompted an unprecedented debate about services for children, young people and families. There was a wide consultation withpeople working in children's services, and with parents, children and young people.
• Following the consultation, the Government published Every Child Matters: the Next Steps, and passed the Children Act 2004, providing the legislative spine for developing more effective and accessible services focused around the needs of children, young people and families.
  
• Keeping children safe from bullying, harassment and discrimination
• Encouraging children to develop healthy and active lifestyles
• Ensuring each pupil progresses as well as they possibly can
• Ensuring that pupils attend school regularly, giving them a strong voice in the life of the school and encouraging them to volunteer to help others
• Helping all to value education and to appreciate that it is the key to success in later life
  

What does this mean in schools?

The thinking behind Every Child Matters is not new for many schools. A combination of high expectations, innovative thinking and a broad view of supporting children and young people are common features of highly successful schools.

Personalised Learning

A personalised approach to supporting children’s learning means:
Tailoring learning to the needs, interests and aspirations of each individual
Tackling barriers to learning and allowing each child to achieve their potential

Sacred Heart’s Vision for Learners

In the future we want all learners:

• To persist and not give up easily having the ability to analyze difficulties and have a range of alternative strategies to solve problems
• To manage impulsivity – to think before they act
• To listen with understanding and empathy to other points of view, to paraphrase ideas and accurately express other person’s concepts emotions and problems
• To find humour in their learning and interactions with others, being able to laugh at situations and themselves, putting others and themselves at ease in learning situations
• To think interdependently realising that as a group they are more powerful and learning doesn’t always happen alone as no one person carries all the information that is sometimes needed to complete a task
• To respond with wonderment and awe and take a delight in their learning, to have an ‘I can do attitude’ but also feel and enjoy their learning, enjoying challenges put to them and want to continue to learn
• To take responsible risks and see learning as an adventure, exploring all avenues and openings and learn from their experiences whether successes or failures
  

Life in Year Seven

• TARGET SETTING
• COPING WITH MORE HOMEWORK
• CONTINUED HIGH EXPECTATIONS
• LEARNING TO BECOME INDEPENDENT
• FRIENDSHIPS
• GROWING UP
• NEW TECHNOLOGIES
• CHANGES IN GROUPINGS

Our Expectations

• 95+% Attendance
• 100% Punctuality
• Correct uniform
• Class and homework completed to the best of ability
• Deadlines met
• Positive attitude to adults and peers
• Contribution to school life
  

Communication – A Key to Success

• Central role of the form tutor as first port of call
• If there are problems tell us before they get out of hand
• Solutions will be jointly agreed – your support is crucial
• The website and VLE
  

Key Questions

• How do we encourage our daughter?
• How does my daughter actually learn?
• What is my daughter supposed to be learning?

Many different theories on preferred learning styles but the simplest:

• Visual – through pictures and sight
• Audio – hearing and sounds
• Kinesthetic – doing and hands on
  
• New programme being taught through PSHE
• Purpose to enable pupils to become better thinkers and learners
• It will give pupils a set of ‘tools’ to support their learning and development
• Pupils are known as learners
• Encourage use of these at home
  

Useful Websites

www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize
www.accelerated-learning-uk.co.uk/
www.dfes.gov.uk
http://www.parentcentre.gov.uk/
www.connexions.gov.uk/
www.bbc.co.uk/schools/revision/
www.curriculumonline.gov.uk/

"Getting involved only takes a few small steps but it could help your child make big leaps forward"