Pinner High School Parent feedback a credit to education a breath of fresh air fantastic new school opportunities, buzzing, inclusive we are really pleased with our choice keep up the good work x mind-expanding intellectually challenging horizon broadening innovative, informative, inclusive watch your child blossom loved every minute fantastic staff
Pinner High School String of Awards EQualities Award, Teaching Award Certificate of Excellence, Investors in People Health and Wellbeing, Healthy Schools, Outstanding in every category by staff, students and parents, Parliamentary Review 2017 showcasing best practice in education nationwide
Pinner High School Fun Extremely high expectations Celebrated success Embraced opportunities
Pinner High School Inspection Judgements school continues to excel model for an outstanding school a very special place active learning with pupil enjoyment clearly evident much to celebrate Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding. Students are proud to belong to the school.
Myself: kindness, compassion, integrity, balance, respect, trust My school: creativity, enthusiasm, resilience, flexibility, dedication, perseverance My community: responsibility, collaboration, open-mindedness, confidence, adaptability, courage
Pinner High School Pinner High School is a learning based community with high aspirations for all. We provide a first rate personal, inclusive education, through a tried and tested curriculum carefully supported by individual pastoral care. Students have the opportunity to excel in and out of the classroom, on the sports field, on the stage, in the community, enjoying a wealth of enrichment opportunities. The school brings life to the motto Inspiring Learning. A great deal of this comes with the exceptional every day experiences students expect with our first class staff. It also demonstrates the responsibility our young people will have as Pinner High School students to make a commitment to inspire others. We will equip our students with an understanding of themselves, an appreciation of the world around them and a desire to innovate and solve problems as active contributors to society.
Pinner High School Inspiring Learning: English Drama Maths Art Science Design Technology PE Computer Science History Chinese Geography Spanish Philosophy, Religion, Ethics Music
Pinner High School Personal Pastoral Care Caring, everyone is known: 180 maximum per year group 3 Houses for competitions, leadership roles, awards, positive self-esteem Named by the students: Ali House, Bannister House, Malala House.
Pinner High School Enrichment: Head s Challenge Monday and Thursday clubs: reading, environmental, netball, golf, cross-country, basketball, football, rugby, gymnastics, Spanish films, Portugese, art, Chinese music, dance, politics, creative writing, karaoke, current affairs, guitar, choir, drama, band, world challenge (fundraising for the Costa Rica trip) film, fashion, chess and coding.
Pinner High School Q?rius: Tuesday Programme of speakers, including a Criminal Barrister, Corporate Lawyer, KPMG accountant, Fashion Merchandiser, Singer/actress House Events: Wednesday Tug of War, Spelling Bee, Dodgeball, Debating, Dragon s Den, Photography
Pinner High School Inspiring Learning outside the classroom Year 7: HOAC, Science Museum, Globe, British Library, Activities Week. Ski trip to Austria (February 2018) Spain (Easter 2018) China (Easter 2019) Costa Rica World Challenge (Summer 2019)
Pinner High School 8.25 Registration 8.35 Lesson 1 9.25 Lesson 2 10.15 Break 10.35 Lesson 3 12.55 Lunch 8 Lesson 5b 1.55-2.05 Registration/Assembly 2.05 Lesson 6 2.55 Lesson 7* (Monday-Thursday only) 11.25 Lesson 4 12.15 Lunch 7 Lesson 5a 3.45 End of School Day 6x 50 minute lessons
Pastoral Reminders Punctuality: School starts at 8.25am-please ensure your child is in school on time. Homework: Homework is recorded on Show My Homework. Login details for this were shared last week. If you are having problems accessing this site please do speak with your form tutor. Each piece of Homework should take approximately 30 minutes. Please provide a quiet space for your children to complete their homework where they will not be distracted. Lunch- please ensure you top up your child s Parent Pay account. If your child needs a non-urgent medical appointment, please make these outside of the school day. We do not authorise holiday requests. Any known absences should be discussed with the Head of Year in advance.
Dates for your diary 22/9 HOAC Trip 28/9 Coffee & Chat Session with Mr Woolf @ 2.30pm 29/9 Individual and Whole School Photographs 10/10 Road Safety Presentation during Period 7 19/10 Coffee & Chat with Mr Woolf @ 9am 20/10 INSET DAY (school closed) 23/10-27/10 Half Term holiday 16/11 Science Museum trip 14/11 and 22/11 Year 7 Parents Evening (X and Y respectively) 20/12 End of Term- 12 midday Check the Events tab at the bottom of the school website
Team-building activities for students with students in their form groups. Students who participate in the day will complete their Head s Challenge: Outdoor Activity Challenge. All activities will be led by qualified instructors at HOAC. Students who can swim 10 metres will be able to take part in the water activities. Please indicate this on your form. Students should get to school as normal on the morning of the trip. We aim to arrive back at school by 15:45. Kit list: Students should wear old clothes that can get dirty. Students must bring a spare change of clothes (including shoes) and a towel. Packed lunch Sun hat/cream and a raincoat Please return any outstanding forms ASAP.
What will my child study in English?
How will my child be assessed in English? Alternating Reading and Writing assessments Speaking and Listening assessments every term One piece of homework every week Classwork CURRENT WORKING LEVEL
What can I do to help my child with English? 1. Ask your child questions about English learning and homework 2. Create opportunities for developing enjoyable reading at home 3. Create opportunities for developing enjoyable writing at home 4. Share and discuss everyday literature and culture together
Maths Curriculum Map Autumn 1 Autumn 2 Winter 1 Winter 2 Summer 1 Summer 2 Year 7 Place Value and ordering numbers Understanding and solving problems involving subtraction and addition Multiplying and dividing numbers including decimals and fractions Christmas Project- Money sense Handling Data Handling Data project Preassessment Post assessment Preassessment Post assessment Preassessment Post assessment Preassessment Post assessment Preassessment Post assessment End of year exam
Structure of Maths learning Homework once a week 3 maths lessons 1 problem solving lesson
What can I do to help my child? Pearson Key Stage 3 maths Collins Maths frame working pupil book Hodder- Mastering maths All on the school website- School lifecurriculum
Year 7 Science Halfterm Topics 1 Lab safety and induction Organisms 1 Energy 1 2 Matter 1 Earth 1 Test 1 3 Waves 1 Forces 1 4 Reactions 1 Test 2 5 Electromagnets 1 Ecosystems 1 Ecopatch project 6 Genes 1 Test 3 Practical project End of year test Assessments: 1. Grade-descriptionsupported assessments at the end of each topic. These will give the students formative feedback and a grade. End-of-term formal summative tests.
Year 7 Home Learning Grid Autumn 1 Choose one home learning activities each week. You can choose which ones to do and in which order you do them. Parents please sign and date when your child has completed a task. Lab Safety Literacy (wb 11.09.17) Write/draw a comic strip of an accident that happened in the lab and how it was dealt with by the students and teacher. It can be as funny as your like! Extension: What do we do to prevent these accidents from happening? Parent/Carer signature Build a model bone joint. Cells (wb 18.09.17) Build a 3D cell of your choice. Remember to label and annotate the organelles. Add a label indicating how big your cell is in real life. Extension What is the function of your cell? Is it animal, plant, bacteria or fungi? Which tissue/organ/organ system does it belong to? Can you calculate the magnification of your cell verses the real cell? Parent/Carer signature Organs and organ systems (wb 25.09.17) Draw and annotate an organ or an organ system. In your annotations explain how the tissues are specialized to enable the organ to do its job. Extension: Can you do an organ system? E.g circulatory system or digestive system? Parent/Carer signature Energy poster Make a junk model of a hinge or ball and socket joint from some cardboard, plastic bags and elastic bands. Label and annotate all the different parts. Parent/Carer signature Linked with classroom lesson 3.1.2 Energy resources: We use many different fuel sources for electricity, transport, and heating. Find out more about how we use different fuel sources. Produce a poster or leaflet explaining what happens in your home, at a power generator or in a method of transport. Parent/Carer signature
Historical research: Energy Research one of the first scientists to produce electricity (write it out in your own words). Where & when were they from? What did they discover? Why did they work on it? What was their main challenge? How did they overcome it? Extension: Write a list of questions we can ask you in class about your scientist. You could even be in character! Food and energy Do an activity for a set amount of time e.g. cycling, running, swimming, dancing etc. Then find a food item that is the equivalent of the amount of energy you ve used. Take a selfie doing the activity and then with your food item! 11-14 year olds use (boys) 9,290kJ - (girls) 7,720kJ per day functioning normally (average). Add on your sports activities and calculate how much energy you use per week. Extension: Does that equate to the number of snacks you are having? Do you need to change anything to balance it? Free Choice Choose to do a task that is related to something that you have been learning about in school. Write a short description or draw a picture of what you did and why. You can choose this option only twice! Activity: Parent/Carer signature Activity: Parent/Carer signature Parent/Carer signature Parent/Carer signature
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