Welcome to our Year 7 Evening

Our EthosWe think and act positively

We all create a great place to learn

We respect one another in everything we do

We strive to improve

We work well together

We celebrate our successes

We are proud to be a part of KES

Curriculum

• 6 lessons of 50 minutes a day, 30 lessons a

week

• 5 Maths, 5 English, 4 Science

• 3 French, 2 History, 1 Geography, 1 RE

• 3 PE

• 1 Art, 1 Music, 1 Drama

• 1 Food/Textiles, 1 DT, 1 IT

Learn Together, Achieve Together

Times of the day

• 8.35am Students must be in school

• 8.40am Start of school warning bell

• 8.45am Start of Lesson 1

• 9.35am Start of Lesson 2

• 10.25am Start of Seminar Time

• 10.50am Start of break

• 11.05am End of break warning bell

• 11.10am Start of Lesson 3

• 12 Noon Lunch

• 12.30pm Start of Lesson 4

• 1.20pm Start of Lesson 5

• 2.10pm Start of Lesson 6

• 3pm End of school for most students, extra-curricular activities, twilight lessons

Learn Together, Achieve Together

Seminar time 10.25am-10.50am:

Organised for Success

• Monday: Notices/Routines

• Tuesday: Assembly

• Wednesday/Thursday: Form time activity

• Friday: Diploma

PHSE: Internet safety next half term

Tutor groups change after half term

Learn Together, Achieve Together

KES Diploma – What have you done today to

make you feel proud?

What will you do this year to make you feel proud?

Amazing people do amazing things

Use time effectively

• Do homework from 3.20pm-5.30pm

• Don’t ork late at night• Do a bit of weekend homework on Saturday

morning and a bit on Sunday morning

• Don’t lea e it till Sunday night

Learn Together, Achieve Together

Looking beyond Year 7

• GCSE options are selected in the spring term

of Year 8. Most students will do English

Language and English Literature, Maths,

Science, History or Geography, a language and

other options as well

• Our GCSE studies begin in Year 9

• GCSE results at the end of Year 11 will be in

numbers rather than letters

Welcome to Year 7

Mrs StonachHead of Year 7

An Excellent Start – well done!

O Best attendance in the school – currently

sitting at 97.6%

O Most number of vivos in school

O A very successful sporting year so far….O Very well behaved

Sporting success so far

Opportunities coming up…..

Christmas Market Trip

to PARIS – FINAL CALL

Please see the MFL

department for

more info…..

Achievements this half term

jamesclear.com/marginal-gains

In 2010, Dave

Brailsford faced a

tough job

No British cyclist had ever

won the Tour de France, but

as the new General Manager

and Performance Director for

Team Sky (Great Britain’s professional cycling team),

Brailsford was asked to

change that.

His approach was simple.

Brailsford believed in a concept that

he referred to as the “aggregation of marginal gains.” He explained it

as “the 1 percent margin for improvement in everything you do.”

His belief was that if you

improved every area related

to cycling by just 1 percent,

then those small gains would

add up to remarkable

improvement.

They started by optimising

the things you might expect:

the nutrition of riders, their

weekly training program, the

ergonomics of the bike seat,

and the weight of the tyres.

But Brailsford and his team

didn’t stop there.

They searched for 1 percent

improvements in tiny areas that were

overlooked by almost everyone else:

discovering the pillow that offered the

best sleep and taking it with them to

hotels, testing for the most effective

type of massage gel, and teaching

riders the best way to wash their

hands to avoid infection.

They searched for 1 percent

improvements everywhere.

Brailsford believed that if

they could successfully

execute this strategy, then

Team Sky would be in a

position to win the Tour de

France in five years’ time.

He was wrong.

They won it in

three years.

It’s so easy to overestimate the importance of one

defining moment and

underestimate the value of

making better decisions on

a daily basis.

Almost every habit that you

have — good or bad — is

the result of many small

decisions over time.

And yet, how easily we

forget this when we want to

make a change.

So often we convince

ourselves that change is only

meaningful if there is some

large, visible outcome

associated with it.

Whether it is losing weight,

building a business, travelling

the world or any other goal, we

often put pressure on

ourselves to make some earth-

shattering improvement that

everyone will talk about.

Meanwhile, improving by

just 1 percent isn’t notable (and sometimes it isn’t even

noticeable). But it can be

just as meaningful,

especially in the long run.

In the beginning, there is

basically no difference

between making a choice

that is 1 percent better or 1

percent worse. (In other

words, it won’t impact you very much today.)

But as time goes on, these

small improvements or

declines compound and you

suddenly find a very big gap

between people who make

slightly better decisions on

a daily basis and those who

don’t.

This is why small choices don’t make much of a difference at

the time, but add up over the

long-term.

The Bottom Line

“Success is a few simple disciplines, practiced every

day; while failure is simply a

few errors in judgment,

repeated every day.”—Jim Rohn

Conducts above/below (EP) analysis (including

disadvantaged); maintains tracker

Praise/concern contact with parents; completes

contact log

Arranges monitoring reports for below EP

students who are not in a subject specific group

Tutors monitor the reports, check books, challenges students;

(Assertive Mentoring)

Meets monthly with AP and other SLs to report progress, agree actions and consider

group moves

Chairs monthly Year Standards meeting to monitor progress made by tutors with target

students and agree actions & cohorts for next round

Contacts parents of target students prior to parents evening and encourages them to attend;

completes contact log

Standards

Leaders - Cycle

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