Front Page News

Dear Parent/Carer 

Year 8 Consultation Evening – Wednesday 24th November 2021 – 4.00pm-6:30pm

On Wednesday 24th November 2021 at 4pm you and your child are invited to our Year 8 Consultation Evening where all subject teachers will be available to meet with you. You will be able to find out how your child is progressing with regards to their current levels of attainment and what will need to be done in order to maximise their potential for achieving success in the future. We would appreciate your support and attendance for the evening as it will give you the opportunity to ask any questions you may have with regards to your child’s progress.Please confirm your attendance using the attached link below: 

https://forms.gle/WDGmdaXR2s7vd8mCA 

On arrival you will need to sign in at reception and you should then proceed directly to the classrooms of the subjects studied to meet with your child’s teachers.  There is no individual subject appointment system and you can arrive at a time to suit you between 4.00 pm to 6.00pm.  Prefects will be outside classrooms to organise a reservation list and help to ensure focussed timings of appointments, so that the evening will finish at approximately 6.30pm.

If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Yours sincerely 

Mr J Stainton

Achievement Team Leader

Mr D Ellerby 

Assistant Principal for Learning and Progress

PDY 

1st November 2021

Dear Family

We hope this letter finds you well and full of enthusiasm for the final 6 months of your educational journey with us here at The St Lawrence Academy. The reason for this letter is to invite you to,  “An Evening of Ingredients” on Monday 6th December – 4:30pm – 6:30pm.

This evening has been hugely successful in the past, and is an opportunity for Year 11 students to receive their academy exam results, and for their families to speak to staff and receive all the information you will need in order to prepare for your final months at the academy. 

At 4:30pm all students will receive the exam results which they have achieved in their
Year 11 academy exams.

Following this, the East Wing, West Wing and Central Atrium will be used in order for you to walk around during the evening and speak to a whole host of people including; 

• Careers & Aspirations
• Effective Revision
• Exam Day Ready 
• Academic Apps (how to use them)
• Life Central
• WellBeing
• Attendance
• Managing Device Time
• Parental Feedback
• Further Education Colleges
• University Representatives
• Apprenticeship Providers
• Local Businesses
• Scunthorpe United Futsal
• All Subjects
• Help and Guidance offered around

We want you to come and work with us to understand everything that is happening, where you can get help and guidance from, and have an opportunity to ask any questions you may have. Throughout the evening our Year 9’s will be serving food and drinks to you all and allowing you to move around entirely at your own pace.

In addition to this we would like you to tell us where we can do better and where you think we could improve. This can be done during the evening with questionnaires and discussions with the Senior Leadership Team. We value this tremendously.

Dates for your diary moving forwards are,

• Monday 6th December 2021 – “An Evening of Ingredients”
• Thursday 10th March 2021 – “Final Parents/Consultation Evening”

We hope that everyone can attend this evening and all those attending will be entered into a prize draw.  In order for us to understand the numbers joining us that night so we can plan ahead with regards to food and hospitality. Please confirm your attendance on the attached google form.

We are going to spend time reminding the students about the importance of attending this event .  We are passionate about success and above all providing help, so help us by sending your confirmation that you will be attending as soon as possible.

Mr Dan Ellerby [email protected]                         Miss Sally Walker [email protected]

Deputy Headteacher for Learning & Progress           Year 11 Achievement Team Leader

It has been a long half term but congratulations to everybody for getting through to the end.

The break presents a chance to relax, recharge and come back fired up ready for the next half term.

It is also a great time to reflect on what we have achieved and what we could have done better.

On the COVID front, I am really pleased that we end the half term with much lower infection rates than a few weeks ago.

We will be looking for improved attendance figures as a result.

Another change we have seen recently is in the temperature.

The lower rates have meant, quite rightly, students have been putting on coats and extra layers to keep warm and dry travelling to and from the Academy.

But nothing has changed in terms of the uniform policy in school. Coats should be left in the cloakroom or put in a bag and carried around.

We do not want to see hoodies and jumpers under blazers.

Congratulations to those in Year 9 who took part in the mini marathon as part of our enrichment programme.

It was a really colourful event – which can be seen on the PE department’s Instagram – and nice to celebrate something different.

Well done to students from the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award scheme who ran it.

We will come back to a pretty much normal calendar of events.

We have reports coming out, exams, results of exams, parents’ evenings for Years 8 and 11, rewards trips for all year groups, our community café, Christmas jumper day and the return of sessions at St Lawrence Church.

In other words, it is going to be busy. Could I encourage parents / carers and students to look at the Academy’s calendar and put events in the diary.

We all need to ensure we are prepared in advance and know what’s coming.

Another event will be Remembrance Day. We will have our usual wonderful programme of activities to remember those people who served us. Now it is our turn to serve them.

Enjoy your break. For students and staff, it is richly deserved.

14th October 2021

Dear Parents/Carers

We would like to bring to your attention the joint letter recently issued by the  Secretaries of State for Education and for Health and Social Care to parents of secondary school and college students in England on Covid-19 testing and vaccines.  Please follow the link to view the full letter. 

We would like to add our thanks too to you, our parents and carers during this difficult time and we would also like to concur to ask for your continued support to make sure your children are able to stay in face to face learning by encouraging them to : 

• test themselves for COVID-19 twice a week, and more frequently if they are specifically asked to do so. This way, we can find individuals who have the virus but are not showing symptoms, and stop them from passing it on to others.
• if your child has symptoms or has a positive LFT test they must book a PCR test and isolate until the results are received and notify us of the results. 
• come forward for the COVID-19 vaccine. This is one of the best things young people can do to protect themselves and those around them.

We thank those of you who have already submitted vaccination forms, and we were as disappointed as you that our vaccination programme was delayed.  If , however, you have not yet handed your vaccination form in and would still like to do so, you can still hand this in. 

Please be aware these vaccination forms are different to the Flu vaccination forms which have also just been issued electronically. 

If you require further testing kits, these can be collected from our academy reception, or you can contact us by telephone or email to request that your child brings some home, or they can collect some from student services.  

With many thanks for your continued supportYours sincerely

Phill Dalowsky
Head of School

14th October 2021

We would like to thank you for attending our recent Open Evening with your child. We had a fantastic turn out and enjoyed speaking to so many of you. We enjoyed sharing the evening with you and your families showcasing our academy and we hope you enjoyed what you saw too and that we were able to answer all of your questions.

As your deadline approaches for submitting your application for your child’s secondary school, if you have any unanswered questions please do not hesitate to contact us and we hope to see you and your child in September 2022.

With many thanks for your support

Phill Dalowsky
Head of School

Our Academy’s not on its own when it comes to having a clear vision and values – so does the Trust supporting us.

The St Lawrence Academies Trust is spearheaded by a familiar face to parents and reassuring presence, my predecessor Mike Adnitt.

Established over the summer, it has just launched its website which can be accessed here or from Mr Adnitt’s introduction on the home page of this site.

On the website, you can meet the Trust’s team and read about its vision and core values of community, integrity, aspiration, and hope.

From an Academy perspective, we are delighted to be the Trust’s originating school and looking forward to playing a supportive role in its growth.

We will be stronger together.

Next week, we will be holding our leadership assemblies where we will reward those students who applied for the various roles.

The assemblies are looked forward to by staff and students alike.

I would also like to highlight a ‘first’ for the Academy.

One of our students will design the Bishop of Lincoln’s Christmas card, the first time we have been chosen by the diocese to do so.

Students will be using tutor time, after school and art classes to create their ideas. Three will win vouchers and the Bishop will chose the winner from that shortlist.

Two weeks ago, I mentioned the first rewards trip to the cinema on 18^th November for Years 7 and 8. Those who have made an outstanding commitment and produced great work will be going.

We have extended the rewards scheme further to include Years 9, 10 and 11. The benchmark for enjoying a similar morning at the pictures will be explained to those year groups next week.

Finally, I would just like to offer an extended thank you to those families who came to our Year 6 Open Evening.

More than 200 gave us their details and we have had some brilliant feedback on what we could offer their children in 2022.

We are, just like our Trust, looking forward.

You are invited to collect your certificates from the Academy on Monday 8 November 2021 from 4:00pm to 5:00pm. If you are unable to collect them in person then someone can collect them for you if they bring a letter, signed by you, authorising them to do so, along this some identification.

I am so proud to lead this Academy; what it stands for and what it does.

Diversity Month, which began on Monday and runs through to half term (22nd), is a terrific example.

A host of events and activities are taking place to celebrate the Academy’s diversity and details can be found at Diversity Month 

We are here to serve the needs of our local, diverse community. We believe we must celebrate what makes us different and find joy in our uniqueness.

Another example of supporting our community comes tonight when we host a settling in evening for Year 7 between 5pm and 6pm.

Parents / carers can drop in on an informal basis, meet their child’s tutor and discuss how they are settling in, finding friends and finding their way around the Academy.

A focus of the next few weeks, quite rightly, will be on our Year 11s.

The group continue to make us very proud. They have always had a fabulous work ethic and are one of the best sets of role models we have had.

Given all that has happened, they have been patiently waiting for details about next summer’s exams. We have had that in the last day or so.

The Department for Education has said Year 11 will receive grades based on a midway point from the last three years of exams.

There will be options in terms of the questions they answer and there will be advance notice, with us by 7th February, on exam subjects.

Consultation is underway and will end on 13th October on what the plan will be if next summer’s exams are cancelled like the last two years.

Given this, we have decided to start collecting evidence that could be used for teacher-assessed grades in 2022 if, and it’s a big if, the exams are scrapped.

We will have Academy exams for Year 11 from Monday, 8th November, the second week back after half term.

A timetable for those exams will be handed out before that break.

The first reports for Year 11 will be distributed on 1st November, a week before the exams start.

We want students to look at what is in those reports and really invest time and effort in the following two weeks.

Those exams could be vital for their grades next summer.

Be organised, study and revise – that investment in time could be really worthwhile.

It is an important month coming up for our Year 11s. We wish them well.