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WELCOME TO SEWELL PARK COLLEGE

NOTICE BOARD

GRAND OPENING
The official opening of Sewell Park College was held on Friday 1st May. For more information and photos from the event please click here.

ATTENTION ALL YEAR 11
The Year 11 Leavers Assembly will take place on Fri 26 June from 8.50am for a 9am start. Please click here to be redirected to all the information you will need about the event. Thank you.

PARENTS SIGN UP
We have begun a new scheme to allow Parents access to our School's information system, eportal. This will allow parents to get access to information on your child's attendance, behaviour records, rewards, timetables, electronic versions of your child's SARs and other reports. If you are interested in this scheme and would like to sign up for this access please email Mr. Woods at woods@sewellpark.com. You must remember to give your name and your child's name and home address when emailing.

WELCOME

Welcome to Sewell Park College and a new era in the life of our school.

I am delighted to welcome back students and parents from last year and students and parents new to the school.

It is great to see students in the new Sewell Park uniform looking smart and more mature and to hear their comments about how wearing the new uniform makes them feel more positive about being at school. Members of the public have been in touch with us to tell us how much smarter they think the uniform is. Thank you to parents for supporting us in making changes which we know will improve outcomes for our students.

The new buildings already provide a spectacular 21st century working environment for students in Science, Design and Dance and the new Mathematics and Modern Languages suites have been opened sucessfully. Finally, after 35 years, we are operating on one site.

We were pleased with our GCSE results last year which show a marked increase on the previous year and provide the foundation for even better results in 2009. Many students achieved 11+ good grades and we had some outstanding individual performances, the best ever. As ever the link between good attendance and attainment is marked and we seek the support of parents in ensuring students' attendance is excellent. It is also pleasing to see a large number of our Kett Sixth Form students heading off to university after achieving good A level grades.

This year more than ever our emphasis is on hard work and academic achievement. Homework is high on our agenda and we need parents to help establish a work pattern out of school so that all set work is done. We also hope parents will encourage students to attend additional sessions we will be running out of school hours, particularly in Y11, and that students and parents will make full use of our Virtual Learning Environment (VLE).

I look forward to an outstanding year.

Karen Topping, Headteacher

January 2009

PARENTS FORUM

There is only one more Parents' Forum meeting this year.

The last meeting of this academic year will be on Wednesday 15th July at 7pm.

The topic of this meeting will be "How can we improve communication with parents?"

Meetings are held in the school from 7pm and ALL PARENTS ARE WELCOME to discuss ANY issues or concerns regarding their child's work or learning with the Head and other members of the senior leadership team.

For more information or if you plan to attend please contact Mrs. VanDeventer at vandeventer@sewellpark.com so we can provide refreshments.

Click here for all the latest updates from the most recent Parents Forums.

TERM DATES

Spring Term 2009

Monday, January 5 to Friday, April 3, 2009

Half term: 14 February to 22 February, 2009

Summer Term 2009

Monday, April 20 to Friday, July 17, 2009

May Day: 4 May, 2009

Half term: 23 May to 31 May, 2009

The next teacher training day (students do not attend School on these days) will be July 20.

We will keep you updated on School closures or staff training days. April 20th is not a staff training day, as previously stated. Students are due in as normal on Monday April 20th. Thank you..

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PARK LIFE

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