It's odd socks day on Monday.
Anti-bullying assemblies all week.
Anti-bullying focus in tutor time.
Anti-bullying karaoke on Friday.
Booking is now available for the Year 11 parents evening please log onto MCAS or call the school office to book an appointment.
As part of our drive for improvement, Chaucer School is taking part in the Behaviour Hubs programme, a Department for Education-funded programme to improve all aspects of behaviour in schools. We have been paired with an exemplary lead school who will guide us through a year of support in which we will further develop new behaviour cultures to make sure that all pupils can learn in a calm, safe and supportive environment.
As part of this programme of support, we will be gathering the views of pupils and staff, to understand how they perceive behaviour in school. This will help us to identify areas for improvement. This survey will take place in school time and should last no more than ten minutes.
Your child will receive an invitation next week to complete the survey via their school email address, using Microsoft Forms. Students will be identifiable by year group, but not by name, as we may share the collated responses with our lead school and the DFE as part of the programme. If you do not wish your child to take part in this survey, please let us know by the end of this school week (Friday the 10th of November) so that we can ensure your child does not receive the email to participate.
Tapton School Academy Trust - Online Safety Newsletter for November 2023.
The School Photography Company's photographer will be in school on Monday 6th November taking photos for all students in Years 7, 9 & 11
By now, your child will have been set up with a Seneca Premium account. Seneca Premium has been set up to give your child access to over 1300 online courses.
Seneca can be accessed via a computer, tablet, or Phone.
Find out more about Seneca:
Seneca Parents Platform
More information can also be found at the links below.
Seneca Website: https://senecalearning.com/en-GB/
Due to worsening weather conditions school will close at 13:55pm If your child needs to stay in school until 3pm please contact the school office
Young people are experiencing a unique set of pressures for a generation growing up, living through a pandemic and cost of living crisis against the backdrop of global instability, combined with other factors such as academic pressure, all of which is taking a toll on their mental health.
YoungMinds is urging the Government to prioritise young people’s mental health, including providing early support in communities, increasing help in schools and reducing waiting times.
Laura Bunt, Chief Executive at YoungMinds, said: “We want to thank Chaucer School for their support for #HelloYellow. By wearing yellow, they’ve shown young people’s mental health matters. This comes at a time when the young generation are facing a unique set of pressures, with more young people than ever before needing support for their mental health and many facing long waits for help.
We have just been informed that Ofsted will inspecting Chaucer School on Wednesday 11th and Thursday 12th October 2023, and they would like to know what you think about the school. Your views about the school are important.
If you are a registered parent or carer of a student at Chaucer, you can share your views by completing Ofsted's online survey, Ofsted Parent View, at: https://parentview.ofsted.gov.uk
Ofsted Parent View asks for your opinion on some aspects of the 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 Chaucer 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.
Please complete the online survey as soon as possible, preferably by 11am on the first day of the inspection, as this will give the inspection team more time to consider your views. However, we will consider all online responses that are completed during the inspection, although the free-text box facility will not be available after noon on the final on-site day of the inspection.
At Love Parson Cross, we've done some work to try and pull together as many local community groups which meet in local church buildings together into one place; the leaflet below is the result. Most of the groups are either free or a small charge; all are open to people of all faiths and none, most just happen to meet in a local church building.
A reminder to all parents and students. Chaucer School is closed Monday 2nd October 2023 due to a staff training day.
Chaucer warmly invites all parents / carers of children in primary schools to our annual open evening.
Monday 2nd October 2023. 4pm - 7pm.
MCAS has recently updated if you are experiencing any issues, please ensure you are using the latest version of the app. Further information on setting up MCAS can be found at https://www.chaucer.sheffield.sch.uk/mcas if you need to reset your password at any time please visit https://www.mychildatschool.com/MCAS/MCSForgottenLogin
Full Chaucer school uniform is expected to be worn by all students. Our school tie is now being expected to be worn from 25th September to avoid a reflection sanction.
Grassroots trial: evaluation of an anti-conflict intervention
Information for Parents/Carers
The project will involve Year 7-9 pupils (and a small number of Year 10 pupils) in around 100 schools, starting in September 2023 and continuing until Summer 2024.
Dear Parents and Carers,
You may have seen recent media coverage regarding Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete (RAAC) and its use in educational settings. RAAC is a lightweight form of concrete; because it is weaker than regular concrete, concerns have been raised about its long-term durability. Department for Education (DfE) has recently changed its guidance to education settings on the management of RAAC to take a more precautionary approach and as a result areas in affected spaces will be vacated.
We wanted to inform you that we are not affected by this decision as we do not have RAAC in any of our buildings, and therefore they will continue to function as normal. We understand that parents may want to understand more about the support to educational settings to manage RAAC safely. You can read more through the article published by the DfE on the Education Hub.
I hope that this offers reassurance.
Yours sincerely,
Joanna Crewe
Headteacher
Chaucer School
We hope you all have had a great summer. We look forward to welcoming ALL students at 8.30am on Tuesday 5th of September ready to start the new school year, with some new faces, lots of new activities, and opportunities all day to learn and succeed.
Students and staff at Tapton School Academy Trust celebrate GCSE success.
Students at Bradfield, Chaucer, Forge Valley and Tapton secondary schools received their GCSE grades today and celebrated their results alongside friends and teachers.
Please see the link below to our newly launched end of term Newsletter!
We will be introducing a House system which will impact all students and staff at Chaucer school. The letter and the leaflet below will outline some of the changes and how they will affect you and your child.
Please see the guide below for help on setting up parental controls and adjusting privacy settings to provide your
Child with a safer online environment.
In many schools, work experience relies on young people arranging their work experience placement with family or friends. But what about those with no suitable connections?
Work experience has been shown to increase future earnings and reduce the risk of being NEET (not in education or employment), so students without connections miss out on the actual experience as well as the longer-term benefits. We’re trying to help raise our students’ aspirations and confidence and improve their future chances by sourcing some placements in Sheffield.
Can you help? If you can’t host placements yourself, do you know anyone that can? Could you share this with your network (please!)?
If you can help, please email sbrown@chaucer.sheffield.sch.uk
We have been participating in the Autism in Schools Project for the past 20 months. This has enabled us to access support from the Sheffield parent / carer forum and access to an intervention for students entitled ‘Understanding Myself’ led by KIDS. As a school we have also had access to a range of training materials to develop and embed our practice at Chaucer.
In the spring of 2022 we agreed to contribute to a training video which included how we support students with ASD, both diagnosed and those awaiting assessment. This video is now being shared city wide to support training of school staff to develop skills and expertise to ensure young people across the city access the right support. A trailer has now been released that can be shared publicly.
We are really proud of the fact that Chaucer’s good practice has been recognised, and you can have a brief look at our contribution in the video below.
Mrs Tolley
Year 11 2023 Exams results day will take place on Thursday 24th August.
Students can come to collect results in person at any time between 09:30am 11:30am on the day.
Please see the letter below for more information for collection options.
Please see information from the Department for Education about new T Level qualifications and why they may be a great choice for your child after their GCSEs. T Levels are at the forefront of technical education – and are a key pillar on the ladder of opportunity for young people, a framework which outlines how a skills system operates to support people from all backgrounds to reach to the top rung: well-paid, secure and sustainable employment.
On Wednesday 12th July 2023 we will be holding our whole school sports day. Students will be taking part in a range of sports activities including Athletics, Football, Dodgeball, Basketball and Table Tennis.
Students will be expected to attend school in full PE uniform please see https://www.chaucer.sheffield.sch.uk/uniform for information about acceptable PE Uniform.
Access to drinks and food will be available at normal break and lunch times. However, we would encourage all students to bring a water bottle with them.
If the weather does not permit the activities to take place on the planned date we will update as soon as possible, with further information.
We’ve been trying in school this year to make rewards as visible as possible for yourselves and for students. Reward boards have gone up in classrooms this week as a prompt for all to be recognised in the classroom for showing the school values of respect, responsibility and kindness.
Please see the letter below for more information.
Mr Hammonds is reading for our next episode of the Chaucer Book Podcast He's chosen a fantastic extract from 'My Brilliant Friend', sit back and enjoy!
Sheffield City Council has a website with information about support and services for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities aged 0–25 years. This is known as the 'Local offer'. It is part of a website call the Sheffield Directory, which also covers services for adults, children and families.
