HGS News Archive

Year 12 end of term letter to parents.

Winning numbers so far this term...

 
13th April - Number 06

20th April - Number 14

27th April - Number 26 - Not Allocated

4th May - Number 37 - Not Allocated 

11th May - Number 03

Good luck!

The 49 club is run by the Friends of HGS. You can join the 49 club by enquiring via the Business Office at school, who will give you all the details. Ring Mrs Illingworth on 01924 418311 for more details and an application form.  Essentially you pay a pound a week (in quarterly instalments by standing order) and you “own” a number between 1 and 49. If your number comes up in the Saturday National Lottery lotto draw as the bonus ball, then you win half the prize fund. The rest of the monies go to a fund to be spent by the Friends in support of the school.

We have a few opportunities to join our outstanding team. For details of current vacancies and to download further information please click here.

The insurance has now been renewed for the year 1st April 2013 to 31st March 2014. To see a copy of the full document please look in the HGS policies section for parents. 

Ofsted recently launched a web page called Data Dashboard, which shows a limited amount of performance data in a simple layout. There are very many different indicators of school performance and this tool shows just a very small number of particular measures. The Chief Inspector hopes to encourage parents to look at the dashboard to gather information about how well schools are doing in comparison with each other.

Unfortunately the dashboard, when first launched, had a serious flaw in the software that led to some very misleading information being displayed. I, and some others, contacted Ofsted right away to query the information, and today they have amended it. So, if anyone answered the call to look at the data dashboard when it was first launched, I would urge them to look again now because the information shown looks quite different, especially in the area of the quintiles for comparison with similar schools. I would also, incidentally, urge anyone interested in comparing schools' relative performances to consider a much wider range of information and other factors.

Note that the similar schools comparison pitches the school in question against just 59 others whose students have similar key stage two scores on entry to year 7.

You can view the dashboard by clicking here.

As part of our continuing programme of support for exam preparation, we are pleased to inform you that once again revision sessions will be running during the Easter holidays. In the past these masterclasses have been very popular and well attended.

 Students in years 7 - 11 were given their report grades, this year including the new “Learning Indicators” which replace the effort grades used previously. To recognise the top performers in each year group in terms of their learning indicator grades, the students were invited to a breakfast reception with some of the school’s senior staff. Click here for full article and photographs.