NEWSLETTER Friday 11th October Dear parents and carers, Thank you to all parents who attended the Year 9 and 10 Information Evening this week. The evening covered a variety of items through presentations from members of the senior leadership team, including information about the curriculum, safeguarding, homework and revision. Mr Rice showed parents our online revision and learning support platforms, in particular introducing parents to GCSE Pod and Seneca Learning. These two platforms will be shown to all students over the coming weeks but are excellent support for revision, which we do expect all students in Years 9 and 10 to be doing on a regular basis now students are preparing for GCSEs. Mr Rice, Vice Principal, showed parents the curve of forgetting and spoke about the importance of repetition in overcoming this curve. Students in Year 9 and Year 10 have to recall GCSE information across three years in total and will need to work hard to overcome this forgetting curve by revising and revisiting work every day. Mr Rice highlighted the need to spend three hours an evening on both homework and revising content at this point in a student’s education. The forgetting curve shows that if we return to new information and repeat the learning we will remember more each time we do this. It takes at least 4 repeats before we have strong recall of this new information This week has, as always, been a rich and busy time for us all here. In addition to our information evening, the Isle of Wight Literary Festival has been a highlight for us, with students from across Year 8, Year 10 and 11 all involved in workshops and talks. A reminder that I hold my parent forums twice weekly on a Tuesday afternoon from 1pm – 2.30pm and from 3.30pm – 5.30pm to enable parents to get to know me and discuss the work of the school with me directly. Many thanks, as always, for your continuing support of the academy. Rachel Kitley Click the arrows or swipe to turn pages
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