Dear Parents/Carers

Welcome to our last newsletter of June. This week

has been tremendously busy with the visit of Chris

Russell (HMI), Simon Hughes (HMI), Susan

Jackson and Vic Chaffey, who are all Ofsted

inspectors. Our guests have been here

conducting our fourth monitoring visit and offering

us further advice and guidance on our journey out

of Special Measures. Our full report following this

visit will be available in early July. At this stage, I

can tell you that all of us in school are very

encouraged by our direction of travel.

Many thanks this week to Mr Harriss for his

leadership of our American Football tournament,

where we have hosted other Island schools and a

school from Winchester. A great time was had by

all.

A real highlight in the last few days has been the

arrival of three teachers from Bangladesh on a

reciprocal visit following Mrs Bushell’s trip there

before Easter. Their time at Carisbrooke College

started with them meeting an Ofsted Inspection

team at 8.15am on Wednesday morning! We will

be looking to develop our curriculum in the future

to reflect our growing international links, including

the Kusasa Project in South Africa.

Monday and Tuesday next week see the

continuation of our Year 10 trial exams. Please

support your child by making sure that they revise

thoroughly for these important events. On

Thursday and Friday of next week we look

forward to welcoming our new Year 7 students for

two transition days and we hope to see as many

of their parents as possible on Thursday evening

for a presentation in school.

For those of you that have not already done so,

please try to follow us on Twitter. We are

increasingly using this social medium for

important announcements and a display of

photographs, as well as the latest videos from

CCTV, our own TV station.

I will finish this week by saying well done to all of

our award winners listed opposite.

Have a great weekend. Peter Shaw

Headteacher

Newsletter

27 June 2014 - Issue 36

Students

Friedrich Hueppe for his consistent hard work and application Shae Brett for handing in exceptional coursework and on time.

George Ridgway for engagement and impeccable

manners Hayden Shears for consistent hard work and

determination Ollie McArthur for being top batsman

Jake Cass for being top bowler Bradley Dyer, Daisy Hynes, Elissa Warren,

Annie Weber, Mackenzie Ryall, James Kissick,

Bradley Filipe, Ben Bell, Chloe Crates, Olivia Daniels, Maddie Tyrell, Jordan Simpkins, Lee

Urry, Cejan Fox, Erin Edkins for excellent hard work towards understanding scientific concepts at

GCSE grade C level!!

Jack Simmonds for a very enthusiastic start to the Spanish GCSE

Jack Dyer for a fantastic positive start to his Catering GCSE course

Amanda Peters for her work on Costa logo Callum Lawrence for fantastic effort in geography

every week

Noah El Alami, Finley Potter, Jared Newman, Mark Taylor and Sofie Ager for all having made

absolutely outstanding contributions to Science. Mark Taylor for an amazing settlement game for

homework in Geography

Matthew Yasunaga-Bale for excelling in his Fast forward session

Staff Peter Schlachter for his leadership of our UKMT

Maths Challenge

Lauren Fry for her leadership of our Global Rockers Shaun Harriss and Joe Plumb for their support of

our Global Rockers Ben Sampler for his leadership of the Carisbrooke

College Jazz Band Alistair Bridle for his actions to help an injured

student

HEADTEACHER AWARDS

Website: www.carisbrooke.iow.sch.uk Twitter: @CarisbrookeColl

A colleague’s role within our non-negotiables

A student’s role within our non-negotiables

Will start and end lessons on time and not accept poor punctuality from students.

Will be punctual and will not attempt to leave lessons early. Students who are not punctual to lessons will be detained after school on a Friday evening.

Will follow our agreed staff dress code and insist that students follow our agreed uniform code.

Will follow our agreed student dress code. In some circumstances, a limited time period to get this right may be given. Students persistently out of uniform will be isolated from lessons.

Will not use a mobile phone, headphones or other electronic devices in a lesson and not allow students to do so.

Will not use a mobile phone, headphones or other electronic devices in a lesson. These items will be confiscated.

Will act and speak professionally towards students and colleagues and insist that students do the same.

Will not be verbally or physically abusive to staff and students. When necessary, fixed term exclusions and parental meetings will be used to support this.

Have a right to be able to teach the lesson they have planned and insist that students let them do so.

Will not persistently disrupt a well-planned lesson. Students who spoil the learning of others will be removed from lessons.

Non-negotiables

What is good attendance?

The improving attendance of students at Carisbrooke College has been highlighted in our last two Ofsted monitoring visits. Whilst this is a cause for celebration, there is still room for improvement. There is no doubt that good attendance at school impacts positively on levels of student achievement. The table below gives you an indication of how academic performance can suffer if attendance levels drop.

The following graph shows the attendance of Carisbrooke College students as at the end of May 2014. It is interesting to note that even an attendance record of 90% is the equivalent of half a day absent from school every week.

As you can see above, our attendance profile is an encouraging one for the majority of our students, with

these figures not specifically showing nearly 10% of our school population with an attendance profile of

100%. We will continue to seek to improve our overall figures still further in future years. There are clear

links between academic success and school attendance and our attendance team would like to thank all of

our parents who continue to support us on this crucial matter.

Over 95%

Your child has a good chance of achieving their potential – best chance of success

Good attendance

90 to 94.9%

Your child will find it harder to achieve their potential – risk of underachievement

Room for improvement

85 to 89.9%

Your child will find it difficult to keep on track – serious risk of underachievement

Cause for concern

Under 85%

Your child will find it very difficult to achieve their potential – extreme risk of underachievement

Serious cause for concern

7 .5 7 .1

2 2 .7

6 2 .7

0 .0

1 0 .0

2 0 .0

3 0 .0

4 0 .0

5 0 .0

6 0 .0

7 0 .0

U n d e r 8 5 % 8 5 to 8 9 .9 % 9 0 to 9 4 .9 % O ve r 9 5 %

Percentage of students

P e r c e n ta g e A tte n d a n c e

A t t e n d a n c e a t S u m m e r Te r m 1 2 0 1 4

DATES FOR YOUR DIARY

Thursday 3rd July Information Evening for parents of

new Year 7 students

9th—11th July Science Blast

Wednesday 23rd July Last day of term

SCHOOL TRANSPORT FROM SEPTEMBER 2014 Free Transport – New Applicants Only If you have applied and your child is eligible for free home to school transport, please contact the Transport Team on 823780 after 11th August 2014 to find out which service your child has been allocated to. Spare Seats If you would like a spare seat for your child on a council contracted service from September 2014, you will need to apply from 1st July 2014. Please note: those who currently hold (or have previously held) a spare seat or those on a waiting list will need to reapply from 1st July 2014. Applications can be made online: http://www.iwight.com/Council/OtherServices/School-Transport/Tasks or by telephoning the council's contact centre on 823780. Please be aware that any applications received before 1st July 2014 will be automatically rejected. As always, spare seats will be allocated on a first come first served basis. There will not be any preference given to those that have previously had seats or those who may have siblings travelling on a particular service. You will be informed by email (please check your spam/junk mail folder) or by letter whether or not a spare seat can be allocated around mid-late August.

Visitors to Carisbrooke College this week…. Following Mrs Bushell’s visit to Bangladesh in February as part of the British Council’s Connecting Classrooms programme, Carisbrooke College has hosted visitors from three schools in Dhaka this week. In partnership with Medina College and Ryde Academy the week has involved visits to each of the schools focussing on the project’s themes of Leadership, Climate Change and Empowering Women. Four students from each of the schools have also been involved in visiting our local heritage with trips to Osborne House and Carisbrooke Castle and they have given presentations at the formal Project Event held at Carisbrooke today (Friday). Well done to Isaac Rice, Kate Hollis, Jahima Khatun and Finn Ratsey-Woodroffe. for being such excellent ambassadors for the school. Planning is now underway to apply for further funding to enable students to visit our partnership schools in Bangladesh in the future.

Carisbrooke College support at Primary School Sports Day by Miss Dewey On Tuesday and Thursday this week, a large number of Gifted and Talented students in PE (37) took part in the running of Nine Acres Primary School sports days. On Tuesday Years 8 and 10 worked extremely well together for the first time and did a brilliant job in setting up sports events for Years 3,4,5 and 6. On Thursday it was the turn of Year 7 and 9 to help run the sports day for reception, Year 1 and Year 2. Both days were a huge success and as I walked around taking pictures, members of the school and parents complimented our students saying they were all doing a fantastic job. A grandparent of a child at Nine Acres popped into our reception after the event to say how wonderful the Carisbrooke students were who had helped at the Sports Day

today. All students were a fantastic credit, not just to Carisbrooke College, but to themselves. It was great to witness our students using their own initiative to help make the running of the day as smooth as possible and working with other students in different year groups.

Important message to parents Over the next few days we will be having a trial run through of our ‘lock down’ procedure. This is the action that we will take if something happens which means that we need to keep all students in the classroom. Staff and students will be fully briefed about this so will know what to do and that it is a practice. We want you to be aware so that when students talk about their day at school you are not alarmed by it. The practice will take place between lessons and will not take any more than fifteen minutes out of lesson time.

Vivo points Next week there will be lots of opportunities for students to earn bonus Vivo points. A group of students have been working closely with us to develop this idea. They can then be used to buy products from the Vivo shop or they can be used to buy ice-cream from the ice-cream man who will be on site towards the end of term. Tutors will give students details of how they can get these points and how they can use them to buy their ice-cream.

Please find below information from the Isle of Wight Council Isle of Wight Council Home to School Transport Consultation On Tuesday 10 June 2014, the Isle of Wight Council’s Executive agreed that a consultation should be carried out on possible changes to the council’s Home to School Transport Policy. The council is reviewing its transport policy following the opening of the Island Free School in September 2014 and the removal of priority areas for Island secondary schools. In addition, the council is facing huge financial challenges given the reduction in government funding and must consider the discretionary services it provides and look at alternative ways of delivering services. It is also good practice to review the Home to School Transport arrangements regularly to ensure that they provide the most cost effective service. Any changes will take effect from September 2015. The Council has a statutory duty to provide the following services which will continue to be provided after September 2015.

As well as statutory transport, the Isle of Wight Council also provides discretionary transport. This is the area that is being consulted on. It is proposed that under the new policy, the council removes the discretionary transport and only provides the statutory level of home to school transport. Under the proposals, those pupils currently entitled to services under discretionary provision would continue to receive the same service until the end of their current phase of schooling, providing there are no change of circumstance (for example change of address or school). If circumstances do change then the new policy will apply.

Category Statutory Entitlement

Pupils up to the age of 8 (year 3) Free transport to the nearest qualifying school1 if it is more than 2 miles walking distance from home.

Pupils between the ages of 8 and 16 (years 4 to 11)

Free transport to the nearest qualifying school if it is more than 3 miles walking distance from home.

Pupils from low income families aged between 8 and 11 (years 4 to 6)

Free transport to the nearest qualifying school if it is more than 2 miles walking distance from home.

Pupils from low income families aged between 11 and 16 (years 7 to 11)

Free transport to one of the three nearest qualifying schools if it is between 2 and 6 miles away. Or the nearest school preferred by reason of a parent / carer’s religion or belief that is more than 2 miles by the shortest available walking route and not more than 15 miles away.

Pupils with Special Educational Needs or disability or mobility problems

Free transport to the nearest qualifying school, where the pupil lives within the statutory walking distance from school and where due to their special needs or disability they are unable to walk in reasonable safety even when accompanied.

Pupils living within the statutory walking distance but who are unable to walk in safety to school because of the nature of the route

Free transport to the nearest qualifying school, where the pupil lives within the statutory walking distance from school and where, due to the nature of the route, they are unable to walk in reasonable safety even when accompanied.

Carisbrooke College now has its own AED (Automated External Defibrillator), this was kindly donated by the Ambulance service. 20

staff have now had sufficient training and are certified to use this. A list will be put up by the Defibrillator.

LOCATION OF DEFIBRILLATOR IS AT MAIN RECEPTION, this is so it is accessible at all times during the College day.

For Colleagues who work at VI Campus this also has a defibrillator and

this is also located at reception.

Continued from the previous page…. The three main areas of transitional arrangements are shown below: 1. Post 16 transport The Isle of Wight Council currently provides subsidised transport to Post 16 students – a service currently used by just over 800 families. In the 2013/2014, the service cost the council £230,000. The current cost of providing the service is £549.10 per year per pupil, with the student contributing £153.45 per year and the remaining £395.65 being met by the Isle of Wight Council. Administering this service requires approving entitlement and the processing of payments made by parents, ending this service would lead to some efficiency savings although it would not lead to a reduction in posts. The council will work with local transport operators to develop alternative options for Post 16 travel should subsidised provision be removed. The recommendation is that this discretionary provision be removed to generate savings for the council. 2. Alternative school clause The existing policy includes the clause that a pupil is entitled to receive free home to education transport to an alternative school (chosen by parental preference) that is also more than three miles from their home address, provided that the alternative school is not more than 3 miles from their priority area school. Following the recent decision by the council to end the use of priority areas, in advance of the opening of the Free School and Studio School, this clause automatically becomes obsolete. Examples of how school transport is currently provided with the clause. A pupil living over three miles from Carisbrooke College and Medina College and in Carisbrooke’s priority area might also receive transport to Medina (because the schools are just over two miles apart). Students living in Ventnor currently receive transport to Medina College but because Christ the King College and Carisbrooke College are less than two miles from away from Medina College they can receive transport to them. Under the proposals, pupils will only receive free transport to their nearest school (if over two miles from the home for primary and over three miles for secondary). The recommendation is that this provision be removed as priority areas will no longer applicable and the introduction of two new schools into the education system 3. Transitional transport arrangements There are some longstanding transitional transport arrangements in place following the school reorganisation that allow children in Chale to be transported to either Niton Primary or Brighstone CE Primary School. Currently children there are able to attend either of the named schools with a free home to school transport service. The option of both schools as a destination is the discretionary element. The council is proposing that transport is provided to the child’s nearest school in line with the rest of the Island, which over time would create a more efficient arrangement. The recommendation is that this transitional arrangement be removed to bring Chale pupils in line with the rest of the Island.