Pocklington School Newsletter Summer 2020 | Page 6

Academic Roundup
Transitions Hub
While the format of our teaching may have been
different this term, our focus on ensuring each
pupil does their best has not diminished.
Teachers and pupils (and parents!) have risen to
the challenge of learning from home, making
use of a range of new tools and platforms to
ensure that pupils’ subject knowledge and skills
have continued to develop.
Two pupil questionnaires have helped us to
monitor our provision and to ensure it is meeting
the needs of all our pupils. We have been
delighted by pupils’ positive feedback, and have
used their responses to tailor our teaching
approaches. Our second questionnaire,
completed just after half term, showed great
consistency with the first, demonstrating our
pupils’ resilience and enthusiasm in remaining
focused and positive over an extended period of
time.
It has been great to welcome many of our Fourth
Year and Lower Sixth pupils back into school in
the last two weeks of term, and we look forward
to welcoming all of our pupils back into school
as soon as possible. Nevertheless, both pupils
and teachers have noticed many innovations
from our term of online learning that they hope
to see remain part of our academic provision.
We are looking forward to exploring how we can
take the very best of all our learning this term
with us into the future.
This term we have been delighted to share a brand new hub of
transition materials, designed for Fifth Year and Upper Sixth
pupils. This wide-ranging selection of resources aims to:
· Help Fifth Year pupils to bridge the gap between their
current studies and those which they will begin in
September.
· Help Upper Sixth pupils to bridge the gap between their
current studies and the next steps that they will take,
whether towards university, apprenticeships, further study or
employment.
Teachers have also supported Fifth Year pupils with regular
online sessions to discuss ideas and monitor progress and
everyone has enjoyed the chance to get a ‘head start’ ready for
September.
We have also shared the Transition Hub with the wider
community and directly with secondary schools in the area,
which has been very well received.
All the transition materials remain available and can be
accessed here:
https://pocklington.fireflycloud.net/transition-pages
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