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WINGS NEWSLETTER Vol 14, Term Four, Week Three, 01 November 2019 Dear Parents and Friends of Sunderland A change of writer for the newsletter this week as Mr Villars is away from Sunderland until the end of next week. He is currently in Busan in South Korea and will be in Seoul for the weekend attending some educational fairs, meeting some agents and hopefully catching up with some of the parents of our international students who are based there.
This week the focus for most Sunderland students has been on examinations. Our senior students have now completed the third week of the Cambridge examination period, with two more to go we are now over halfway through the examinations for 2019 and some students are starting to have their final papers. I have been very impressed with the level of focus and commitment of the senior students with tutorials well attended, extra questions being asked of staff and students using all the time available to them. With hard work comes good rewards so I do look forward to seeing what should be an excellent set of results when they come out in January next year. The A-Level students will have their marks posted online on the evening of the ninth of January and the IGCSE group on the sixteenth of January. Students will be given login details for the results website before they leave for the school holidays so they can access their results online.
Our Year Five to Ten students have completed their final internal school examinations this week and will now be looking forward to getting their results back over the course of next week. The week of getting papers back and reviewing the answers, seeing what was done well and not done well is one of the more important learning periods of the year. If this process is done well, mistakes should not be seen as a negative but more a learning opportunity and to improve understanding for the following year. Staff will also be starting the report writing process and next steps for students will be in this document that students will be given at the end of Term Four. A focus on those next steps in 2020 here at Sunderland will continue the learning journey of students towards reaching their potential.