Newsletter - July 2023
Please see the link below to our newly launched end of term Newsletter!
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!