Tapton School Academy Trust - Online Safety Newsletter for May.

Chaucer School will remain fully open to all students on the next strike days (Thursday 27th April and Tuesday 2nd May 2023) Please see the letter below for more information.

I’m pleased to share with you the results of the OFSTED monitoring visit which took place on the 2nd and 3rd of March 2023. This was the first visit following our Special Measures judgement last summer, and there were two possible outcomes from this visit – either we were or were not making progress towards the removal of special measures. I’m happy to say that inspectors agreed that we are making progress towards that goal, and they go into some detail in their letter about how we’ve done that so far.

Please see the links to the full letters below.

As we approach the Easter break, we wanted to inform you of some upcoming changes to the Year 7 timetable.

Please see the letter below for further information.

To celebrate the success of World Book Day, we are launching our own Chaucer Book Podcast! Each month, teachers will read extracts from their favourite books for you to enjoy. Mr Davis is kicking it off in style with a sci-fi novel! Grab a cuppa and enjoy! 

Due to predicted and current weather conditions, Chaucer School will be completely closed to all staff and students tomorrow Friday 10th March 2023.

Student can find access to Remote Learning via the website in the morning.

Keep safe and warm.

We have just been informed that OFSTED will inspect Chaucer School on Thursday 2nd and Friday 3rd March 2023. The lead inspector is Richard Jones, His Majesty’s Inspector.

We have been asked to share the following information with you:

We would like to know what you think about your child’s school. Your views about the school are important to us.

If you are a registered parent or carer of a pupil at the school (including pupils on sick leave or who are temporarily excluded), you can tell us your views about the school by completing Ofsted's online survey, Ofsted Parent View, at: www.parentview.ofsted.gov.uk.

Ofsted Parent View asks for your opinion on some aspects of your child's school, including the progress made by your child, the quality of teaching, how the school deals with bullying and poor behaviour. It also provides a free-text box for you to make additional comments, if you wish. The inspectors will use the online survey responses when inspecting your child's school.

To register your views, you will need to provide your email address, which will be held securely. It will not be used for any purpose other than providing access to the online survey. Neither schools nor Ofsted will have access to any email addresses.

Chaucer School will remain fully open to all students on the next strike day (Tuesday 28th February).
This is due to the low numbers of staff that we expect to be out of school. Please see the letter below for further information.

Students finish for the half-term holidays at the end of school today. We hope you all have a lovely week, and we look forward to welcoming all students back to school on Monday the 20th of February at 8.30am

Parents and carers have the opportunity to attend an Open Forum on OFSTED Developments on Monday the 27^th of February from 6-7pm at Chaucer School with the headteacher. A short presentation will be given on developments, actions and impact, before opening up to parent questions. Parents and carers also have the opportunity to get information about improvements to the school at each Parent's Evening, or through booking 1:1 appointments with the Headteacher as required using the enquiries@chaucer.sheffield.sch.uk address.

We have significant numbers of teachers who may take strike action and we will not know the number of staff in school until the morning of any strike day.
Having considered the potential impact on our learners, and with their health and safety paramount to our decisions, we have confirmed that school will be closed to the majority of students on the first strike day (Wednesday 1st February).

The school will also be open for all Year 11 students to attend in the morning to complete their BTEC Digital Information Technology exam. Please see the letter below for further information.

Please see the link below for full information regarding the NEU strike days

Dear Parent/Cares of Y8 & 9 the parents evening booking system has gone live please log onto MCAS or call the school office to book an appointment.

Friday 16th December 2022, all students will finish school at 12.20pm please read the full news article for more information.