Dear colleagues,

I am really looking forward to seeing the Humanutopia input on Tuesday. There is a video link below that gives an outline of what to expect. The aims of the session are:

• To provide an opportunity for all students to reflect on their past and consider why and who they have become today.

• To provide a warm and psychologically safe environment for young people to express themselves about the struggles and challenges they have faced.

• To encourage the students to work collaboratively in small groups in order to present a positive social experience with students outside their friendship circles.

• To challenge young people to ask if and how they can make positive changes to improve their lifechances.

• To inspire the students to aspire to a bigger and brighter future by encouraging them to consider and chase their dreams.

At assemblies, I have been pushing ourthe importance of our school vaules, purpose and rationale of uniform, mobile phone use and the rules around vaping. It would be really helpful if you could reinforce these in your classes. I have told young people to expect to be asked to:

• remove all outdoor jackets (not blazers)

• remove non-school uniform items (hoodies, branded sweatshirts)

• put away phones (a reminder then removed for period)

I have shared the rationale and consequences with pupils and their parents/carers. You can access the policies here. Feel free to show these to pupils again in form time. I hope that the rules are clear. Let's help eachother by reinforcing them.

It was great to meet with pupil councils last week. They were each a motivated and engaged group - we had some good discussion. Two things that would make a big difference to all yeargroups are:

• access to toilets all floors at appropriate times (now open).

• supervision of the queues at break and lunchtime.

If you have signed up and have time to help supervise at break and lunch, please do help with the hot food queues and the baked potato/panini queues. These are the lines where pupils skip most. The links to the pupil council notes are with the reps for feeding back at form. I will also make them available below.

Thanks for your help and support in the week to come.

Elaine