Principal: Miss S Asquith BA Hons, MA, NPQH
Aldwych Drive, Ashton, Preston PR2 1SL Tel: 01772 513002
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Web: www.ashtoncsc.lancs.sch.uk E-mail: reception@ashtoncsc.com
19th September 2016 Dear Parent/Carer I am delighted to welcome you to the start of another academic year. We have once again seen students returning looking very smart in full school uniform; thank you for the part you have played in ensuring this. I would like to remind you that students are not allowed to wear facial piercings, makeup or jewellery, except for one plain stud in each ear. Extreme hair styles and unnatural colours are also not permitted. May I also take this opportunity of reminding you that students are expected to attend school for 190 days per year, which is the legal number of openings any school must have. There is a wealth of research that links good attainment with good attendance and sanctioning absence of any kind jeopardises this. As a result, I must impress on you that school can no longer authorise leave in term time. On behalf of the staff and Governors I would like to offer our congratulations to all our students who have recently left school; we wish them every success in their future. Many results for Year 11 exceeded the targets we set for them and we are extremely proud of their achievements. The results of all our students are testimony to the hard work of the students themselves, the staff and you, the parents, who together have put an incredible amount of hard work and effort into the outcomes that were achieved. We have made further changes to the school curriculum this year, which should help improve learning even further. Completion of homework is one area that we worked hard to improve last year and the impact on student progress of completing homework has been significant. Consequently, we plan to build on the solid foundations that were laid last year, with increased use of Show My Homework and even closer monitoring of the quality of work that students produce. Homework is given as a means to extend and enhance learning and is not given simply for the sake of it. With this in mind, students who fail to complete three pieces of homework will be issued with a detention to be held for 60 minutes from 3.00 pm on a Friday. A further three homeworks missed will result in a further detention and so on. Students who are required to attend detention will be notified by their class teacher and we expect that students will let parents/carers know. We will follow this up with a back-up text on a Thursday afternoon to ensure you are notified. We sincerely hope that the need for these detentions is a rare one, but your support in reinforcing the need to complete homework on time is appreciated. We have also revised the way we manage behaviour in school. I am determined that Ashton will be a school that offers outstanding opportunities for all our students and fundamental to this is good behaviour. Lowlevel disruption to lessons will not be tolerated. In order to support students and ensure a high quality of education we have made a number of changes, which are designed to minimise the amount of low-level disruption, as follows: Consequences of Behaviour This behaviour management system is based on the principle that no student has the right to disrupt the learning of other students and the teacher must be allowed to teach and deal effectively with low level disruption in the classroom. As indicated in its name, each student must face the consequences of his/her actions but will be given several chances to choose to moderate his/her behaviour. Â