Welcome Letter To Parents
Dear Parents
My Colleagues and I offer you and your child a very warm welcome to the Sir John Colfox School.
We will all work together with you to ensure a really happy and successful education which will lead through to adulthood.
We are very pleased that because of additional government funding as a specialist school, we are able to offer unusually generous opportunities for learning languages, for travel and for lending an international dimension to our curriculum.
Our students will achieve things that they have never before thought possible. They will learn a wide range of exciting subjects, gain a large number of skills and subsequently look back on a fine record of personal development.
They will have fine memories of musical events, and sporting achievements, drama experiences, and public speaking, foreign exchanges and a wide range of cultural visits both in this country and abroad.
Very importantly, they will carry with them the highest level of qualification which they can achieve.
We all look forward to sharing with you and with them this very exciting stage in their lives.
We want for our children
We want for all our children a happy and constructive educational experience which leads to a National Record of Achievement at age 16 which gives evidence of at least the following for each individual:
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A Minimum of at least five GCSE's |
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A qualification in information technology and Communications technology |
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Accredited confidence in three modern foreign languages |
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A visit abroad |
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Self confidence, physical challenge and physical well being |
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Performing, presenting or competing before an audience |
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Citizenship, responsibility and community service |
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Ability to make informed choices for sixth form and career |
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Trident certification for work experience, community service and personal challenge |
Kay Taylor Head
The aims of the Sir John Colfox School are:
To provide for students...
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the opportunity and expectation which encourage them to achieve the highest quality and excellence in everything they do and to invest in their own learning. |
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a welcoming and caring environment in which they all find happiness and enjoyment and which encourages confidence and self esteem, independence of thought and self-discipline. |
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opportunities to develop positive and stable relationships together with tolerance and respect for others. |
To enable students...
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to develop lively, enquiring minds and through their learning to equip themselves with the skills, knowledge and attitudes necessary for life in a rapidly changing world. |
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to develop moral, spiritual, ethical and social values and to appreciate human achievement. |
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to face the future with confidence as they continue in further education, enter the world of work and take on the responsibility of citizenship. | |