Year 7 – Welcome to St Matthews

Activities to do today…

• Photograph taken• Fingerprints scanned for dinner• Uniform and equipment check • Rules and regulations of the school• Dinner time procedures• School quiz

Map of the school

Uniform and equipment check

• This will take place every morning in VT time.

• You need to have full uniform and all your equipment every day.

• FULL EQUIPMENT –• PEN• PENCIL• RULER• JOURNAL• PE KIT (on the days you have PE)

Each morning every pupil is checked to make sure you have everything you need to see you through the school day including full school uniform and equipment for lessons:

During the school day girls are expected to wear;·Green blazer·Green jumper·White shirt·House Tie·Green skirt or black trousers·White/black ankle socks or tights in cold weather·Black low heeled leather shoesYou are not allowed to wear pumps or trainers unless you are in a PE lesson

During the school day boys are expected to wear;·Green blazer·Green jumper·White shirt·House Tie·Black trousers·Dark socks·Black leather shoesAgain - you are not allowed to wear pumps or trainers unless you are in a PE lesson

Uniform and equipment check

Acceptable Unacceptable

Trainers of any type

Plain blackleather shoes

Boots of any type

Footwear

Other important rules…

• Mobile phones and i-pods/MP3 players are not to be seen during lesson time.

• If they are seen they will be confiscated until a parent or guardian can come into school to collect them.

• You are permitted to use them during break and lunchtime if you wish

If you are wearing make-up you will be given wet wipes and asked to remove it, the same goes for

nail varnish

No chewing gum or fizzy drinks

No jewellery other than a pair of plain

gold/silver stud earrings

Attendance

• Your attendance at St. Matthews is extremely important. If your attendance is good, you will achieve well, so your attendance needs to be as high as possible – 100% is your target!

• If your attendance drops below 92%, your parents will be asked to attend a meeting at school to discuss this. You will also not be allowed to attend school reward trips.

• If your attendance drops below 85% you will become a ‘persistent absentee’, and your parents may face further sanctions to improve your attendance.

Attendance Percentages…Days Absent % Attendance Days Absent % Attendance

1 Day 99.50% 16 Days 91.70%

2 Days 99.00% 17 Days 91.20%

3 Days 98.50% 18 Days 90.70%

4 Days 97.90% 19 Days 90.20%

5 Days 97.40% 20 Days 89.60%

6 Days 96.90% 21 Days 89.10%

7 Days 96.40% 22 Days 88.60%

8 Days 95.90% 23 Days 88.10%9 Days 95.30% 24 Days 87.60%

10 Days 94.80% 25 Days 87.00%

11 Days 94.30% 26 Days 86.50%

12 Days 93.80% 27 Days 86.00%

13 Days 93.30% 28 Days 85.50%

14 Days 92.70% 29 Days 85.00%

15 Days 92.20% 30 Days 84.50%

Dinnertime Procedures• Year 10 and Year 11 enter dinner

first. This is their privilege as the senior year groups. Year 11s only are allowed to sit on the blue dinner benches

• Year 9, 8 and 7 are allowed in when all of year 10 and 11 have been in

• The time they enter is different on each day to make it fair for each year group. The rota is shown to the right

• For the first week or so Year 7 will enter early to get used to the dinnertime system

First Second Third

Mon 9 8 7

Tue 8 7 9

Weds 7 9 8

Thurs 9 8 7

Fri 8 7 9

Getting into dinner on time

• You may be held back from entering the dining hall with the rest of your year group for the following reasons…

–Incorrect uniform–Poor behaviour in the dinner queue–Poor behaviour in lessons

So, what do you know?

• You have been on a tour of the school, and have heard lots about St. Matthews today.

• How much can you remember?

• To see how much you’ve taken in, here’s a quick quiz you can do as a group

Question 1

Where in the school is the RE department?

Question 2

Where in school is the English department?

Question 3

Name the 5 pieces of equipment every pupil needs to bring

to school

Question 4

What are the names of the 6 houses, and who are the house leaders?

Question 5

What do you need to wear for correct

uniform?

Question 6

When are you allowed to use a mobile phone in

school?

Question 7

What happens when you use your mobile phone incorrectly?

Question 8

What is the name of the Headmaster?

Question 9

Who is your pastoral manager?

Question 10

What time does school usually start and

finish?

Answers…• 1 – 3rd floor• 2 – ground floor of the O.L.C.• 3 – A pen, a pencil, a ruler, your journal, P.E.

kit • 4 – Clitherow – Mr Brookes, Fisher – Mr

Walker, Howard – Mrs Drinkwater, More – Mrs Callison, Rigby – Mr Brooks, Ward – Mr Green

• 5 – BLACK SHOES, tie, blazer, white shirt, black trousers/skirt, jumper

Answers…

• 6 – Break time and Dinner time ONLY• 7 – Phone is confiscated, handed in at student

services. It can then only be collected by a parent/carer

• 8 – Mr Hogan• 9 – Clitherow and Ward – Mr Devine, Rigby and More – Miss Matthews, Fisher and Howard – Mrs Fallon 10 – School starts at 8.30 am and finishes at 3.05 pm