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Dear Parents and Carers,

I am writing to inform you about the Year 8 Options – Parent Information Evening. This online event will be taking place on Wednesday 8th February at 6.00pm until 6:45pm. It will be an opportunity to deepen your understanding about the ‘Options’ process at All Saints’ so that you can support your child in their future decision making.

The Options evening will run as a Microsoft Live Teams event and this is a wonderful opportunity for all parents and carers to participate as you can discover the information from the comfort of your own homes. Historically, the Year 8 Options Evening has been very well attended by parents and carers; I am really hoping that we will have our best attendance yet, given the home accessibility of this event. Details regarding how to access this event are at the end of the letter.

On Wednesday 8th February, Year 8 students will have the opportunity to speak to a representative from each curriculum area about the different GCSE courses; instead of their usual Period 4 and 5 classes on this particular day, teachers will present on each GCSE Option subject and provide an opportunity for questions and answers from the students. Students will be tasked with taking notes on key pieces of information so that they can discuss with their parents and carers after their school day has finished. Students will receive their options booklet and their options application form on this day so please ask your child to present it when they get home so you can look through it together.

Furthermore, for those students who are absent on Wednesday 8th February, there will be a series of videos about each GCSE option choice from Wednesday 8th February on the All Saints’ Catholic Voluntary Academy website: https://www.allsaints.notts.sch.uk/teaching-and-learning/options-information.

The school will be using the Microsoft Live Teams function for the event; we are hoping that all technical issues have been resolved in advance, but we ask for your patience in the event that we do experience some technical issues. I look forward to speaking to you on 8th February.

Yours faithfully,
Mrs L Johnson
Deputy Head Teacher

How to access the Microsoft Teams Event:

Click on the link below and you may be given the following options:

teams.microsoft.com

1. You can Download the Windows app from here, or watch it on the web instead.
2. If you already had the Teams app, you can launch it from here.
3. On some devices, it may require you to go to the App store and download the Microsoft Teams app or go to Google and download Microsoft Teams first before the link appears valid.
4. Your children will already have been using Microsoft Teams to access their online lessons and therefore it is highly likely that the Microsoft Teams app exists on the device used to access lessons.
5. If you have any issues accessing the link having tried the options above, please contact marsden.a@allsaints.notts.sch.uk or emson.m@allsaints.notts.sch.uk.

Dear Parent/Carer,

The Year 7 and Year 8 Student Progress Reports are available for you to access on Go 4 Schools. Please login to the Go 4 Schools parent portal website, scroll down to the Progress and Reports section and click on View report to see your child’s latest report. From there you can choose to view the report as a pdf which will allow you to print the report, if required. Please note; Progress Reports are not available on the Go 4 Schools Mobile App, Year 7 Target Grades are provisional and may be subject to change.

On Go 4 Schools, parents will see the Achieved Grade which represents the overall grade the child has actually achieved in their summative assessments. This information is quantitative and will mean that parents can celebrate student performance based on assessments to date, or, intervene and support their child when performance in assessment is a cause for concern. The Achieved Grades shown on the Go 4 Schools website are live and may change as additional summative assessments are added throughout the year.

If your child does not have an achieved grade, it may be because they were absent for their assessments and the subsequent additional session/s. Students need to be present on the day of their assessments (or subsequent sessions) in order to complete the assessments and be graded; All Saints’ places great importance on having good attendance as it facilitates continuity in learning and assessment in learning.

If you have not logged into the Go 4 Schools parent site previously, please follow the instructions which can be found under Parents on our school website.

Dear Parent/Carer,

The Year 9 and Year 10 student progress information is available for you to view live on Go 4 Schools. Please login to the Go 4 Schools parent portal website or mobile app to see your child’s academic achievements based on their summative assessments to date. Please be aware, this notification does not relate to the full Progress Report which will be available for Year 10 in May and for Year 9 in June.

On Go 4 Schools, parents will see the Achieved Grade which represents the overall grade the child has actually achieved in their summative assessments. This information is quantitative and will mean that parents can celebrate student performance based on assessments to date, or, intervene and support their child when performance in assessment is a cause for concern. The Achieved Grades shown on the Go 4 Schools website are live and may change as additional summative assessments are added throughout the year.

If your child does not have an achieved grade, it may be because they were absent for their assessments and the subsequent additional session/s. Students need to be present on the day of their assessments (or subsequent sessions) in order to complete the assessments and be graded; All Saints’ places great importance on having good attendance as it facilitates continuity in learning and assessment in learning.

If you have not logged into the Go 4 Schools parent site previously, please follow the instructions which can be found under Parents on our school website.

Dear Parents and Carers

The Year 8 Parents’ Evening will take place on Wednesday 1^st February from 16.30pm until 19.45pm; this will be conducted via video appointments. It is a wonderful opportunity to speak to your child’s teachers about the progress your child is making.

You will be able to book appointments from 21^st January 2023.

 We are using a piece of software provided through School Cloud and you can access the booking system through the following link: https://allsaintsmansfield.schoolcloud.co.uk/

Using the School Cloud Website

Parents and Carers, with School Cloud access, are those individuals who will have listed as Priority One and Two contacts on the admission form at the beginning of the academic year. It will be parents and carers who have parental responsibility and that includes those with a court order in place.

It is important that both first and surname, and your child’s name and date of birth is inputted in the same way that it is on the school system. If you are struggling to login, it may be because you are not listed as a Priority One or Two contact, do not have parental responsibility including a court order, or because there is spelling or numerical error on our system. In any of these cases, please contact, Mrs Scott with the nature of the problem: scott.l@allsaints.notts.sch.uk. By having both Priority One and Two contacts, it means that parents/ carers, who may live separately, can both be involved in finding out about their child’s progress.

At login, you will be asked for an email address; this is not authenticated with the email address that you listed on your child’s admission form at the start of the year; it is merely for School Cloud to send a confirmation email to you when you have successfully booked and saved your appointments.

The instructions at the end of the letter outline how to access the website in order to book appointments. Then, on the evening of your appointments, you will simply need to login using the same link and follow the onscreen instructions to begin the appointments you have booked.

There will be a button stating: ‘Join Video Appointments’ which you should press.

There is nothing to install as the video appointments run through the School Cloud website and it is compatible with the following web browsers:

• iPhone/iPad:Safari
• Android:Chrome or Firefox
• Windows:Chrome, Firefox, or Edge (latest version only)
• Mac:Safari, Chrome, or Firefox

The minimum requirement for this software to work is an audio connection.

The appointments will be four minutes long. There will be a countdown. The appointment cannot be extended; when the countdown gets to zero, the software automatically stops the call. The appointment begins at the allotted time of booking; therefore, if you are late, you can join within the remaining time of the six minutes, however, the appointment cannot be extended. If the appointment is missed, there is no way to rearrange this.

You will see a schedule for the timing of the appointments along with the teacher’s name and there will be a large square which states Start Appointment; in order to begin the appointment, you have to press this. The video appointment will begin when the teacher also presses this.

Once a call has finished, the schedule will update and then the next call will need to be initiated. There is no need to sign in or out.

Then at the end of all scheduled appointments, a confirmation button indicating that the appointments have finished will show and prompt you to sign out.

Further Guides can be found at School Cloud- link below

https://support.parentseveningsystem.co.uk/category/458-parents-evenings

Whilst we are hopeful that all technical elements have been considered, there may be some technical issues. We ask you for your patience during this time. Any queries regarding using the software should be directed to our ICT Support Office: marsden.a@allsaints.notts.sch.uk

Yours Faithfully

Mrs L Johnson
Deputy Head Teacher

Dear Parent/ Carer,

On Tuesday 10^th January 2023, the school will host the Year 11 Progress Evening from 16:00 pm until 19:15 pm.  In recent years, the school has hosted Progress Evenings on the online platform School Cloud, however, given the importance of this final GCSE examination year, the school has decided to welcome parents onto site for face to face progress meetings and therefore, for Year 11’s Progress Evening, we will not be using the online platform.

On Tuesday 13^th December, your child will receive an appointment booking page which they will take to each of their lessons and book appointments on your behalf. If your child is absent or you are concerned that appointments may not be made on your behalf, please contact your child’s Year Progress Leader, Ms J Webley (Webley.j@allsaints.notts.sch.uk) and she will liaise with the relevant subject staff.

Given the interruption to exams in recent years, and the fact that this year’s cohort will have fewer exam adaptions than previous years, we want to ensure that parents and students are fully informed about the level of work and the routines required over the coming months in order for our Year 11 students to perform to the best of their ability in the summer examination series.

We look forward to welcoming all of our Year 11 parents back into school for this important event.

Kind Regards,

Mrs L Johnson
Deputy Head Teacher.

The November resit results day is 12th January and Year 11 can collect their GCSE certificates on this day from 4pm – 6pm in the meeting room behind reception.

All Saints’ Academy, Mansfield, part of Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Multi Academy Trust, has successfully secured Government funding to build a carbon-neutral block of classrooms and SEND unit.
With support from Ben Bradley, MP and our dedicated Trust Estates team, the academy is one of 239 schools to benefit from the Government’s School Rebuilding Programme – a 10-year initiative to carry out major rebuilding and refurbishment projects at schools and sixth-form colleges across England.
The new block will incorporate 16 classrooms and will ensure that students at All Saints’ benefit from a modern teaching environment as well as provide a major step forward toward the Trust’s ambition of becoming operationally carbon neutral.
Carlo Cuomo, Headteacher at All Saints’, welcomed the news.
He said: “We are delighted that our academy has been selected to benefit from the Government’s School Rebuilding Programme. All Saints’ prides itself on high standards and aims to provide an excellent experience for its students and staff. This investment will provide fantastic learning spaces for future generations, and it is something our staff, students and the local community deserve.”
James McGeachie, CEO of Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Multi Academy Trust, said this was amazing news for All Saints’.
He said: “This is a fantastic outcome for our academy and the future of our young people in Mansfield. Building a net carbon-neutral facility is important to our Trust and we are delighted that we will be able to provide state-of-the-art facilities to support the delivery of an outstanding Catholic education for all. Special thanks to our Estates team, academy staff and Ben Bradley who have worked so hard to make this project a reality.”