LANGLEY SCHOOL A SPECIALIST COLLEGE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS,

LANGUAGES AND TRAINING

Tel: 0121 706 9771 WEBSITE: www.langley-sec.solihull.sch.uk

Friday 7 September 2012 Langley School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and

expects all its staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Dear Parents and Care Givers

Welcome

Welcome to everyone for whom this is the first week of a new academic year,

whether existing students and staff, or those who join Langley this September. We

hope that you have enjoyed a relaxing summer and now look forward to a new

academic year and the ‘fresh start’ that offers us all.

We are delighted to welcome some new members of staff to Langley this autumn:

Mr N Cox has joined us as Teacher of PE, Mr G Dawes, [known to some as a former

Teaching Assistant at Langley], returns following teacher training and experience

gained elsewhere, to a new post of Literacy Intervention Teacher.

Ms J Macdonald will be providing maternity cover support, mainly in the Science

Faculty and Miss J Franklin will be providing maternity cover support mainly in the

Humanities Faculty, whilst maternity cover in the PE Department is provided by

Mrs R Prichard, who started teaching at Langley last term. We are sure you will

wish to add your congratulations to Ms Bains, Mrs Johnson and Mrs Boyle and their

families on the safe arrival of their baby boys last term. We are also very pleased

to welcome back both Mr A Bullock [cover for Mr Hill during his continued ill

health] and Mrs D Parker in PE [part-time PE support]. We wish all our new staff a

warm welcome and hope they will have happy and successful careers at Langley.

Last but certainly not least, we send our congratulations to the former Miss Isaac

[MFL Department] who returned to school as Mrs Davie following her wedding

during the summer!

GCSE examination results 2012

Our preliminary assessment of our GCSE examination results this summer looks very

good – perhaps our best ever – however, rather than provide incorrect information

at this early stage, we aim to have confirmed results for you in next week’s

newsletter.

Congratulations to our students, who worked so hard and achieved some

personally rewarding and often outstanding results, to all the staff who taught,

supported, coaxed and cajoled them and to parents and care givers for their

patience, love and encouragement!

Uniform & Equipment

Thank you for your sustained support in helping us to maintain our high

expectations regarding uniform.

As a reminder, please ensure that:

• All students wear black leather shoes – not canvas or ‘trainer’ styles

• Girls’ skirts are a suitable length, ie no shorter than just above the knee

[and not made of stretch lycra]

• Only the school grey v-neck jumper is worn

• Blazers have a Langley School badge

Any students not meeting our standards will be asked to rectify the situation

immediately. If there are exceptional circumstances please provide a letter to the

form tutor. Thank you for your continued support, which is much appreciated.

Attendance / Requests for Leave of Absence

Please be aware that, in line with Government legislation, only where there are

exceptional circumstances will requests for Leave of Absence be authorised. We

will continue to use the Local Authority calculation guidelines to determine

whether a request meets the criteria for these circumstances. Requests for

holidays will no longer be automatically considered as exceptional circumstances.

Mr Evans, Deputy Headteacher

Calling All Ex-Langley Students reading English at University!

If you are currently reading English at University, having taken ‘A’ Level English

Language or Literature, we would love you to come in and share your experiences

with our current Year 10 and Year 11 students on Friday 14th September. We have

students who would like to follow in your footsteps and begin an English ‘A’ Level

at college. Please telephone the main office or email Miss Hobbs at

s206shobbs@langley-sec.solihull.sch.uk Thank you in anticipation.

Year 7 Parents – Email Addresses / Updates for Year 8-11 Parents

As existing parents will be aware, we like to share our Newsletter via email

wherever possible. If you have not provided the school with your email address

please do so now and support us in our drive for economy and sustainability. The

newsletter is emailed each Friday morning.

Termly Headteacher Newsletter “Head’s Lines”

Thank you for your feedback on my initial end of term newsletter in July. Judging

by your responses, this type of communication would be appreciated and

enjoyed by many parents and care givers; I shall therefore be delighted to provide

another newsletter before Christmas. Thank you.

Yours sincerely

Mr P Talbot

Headteacher