The curriculum at Prince Henry’s is designed to achieve our vision of becoming an exceptional school with a culture of respect, where we can all flourish and achieve. You can find details of the curriculum here.

Our In Classroom rules are clear and simple: 

At all times 

• Do as you are told by staff first time, every time. 
• Arrive on time - to school (on site by 8:25am) and lessons (arriving before the register is taken) fully equipped and ready to achieve your best. 
• Wear your school uniform correctly and with pride. 

In lessons    

1. Be Respectful - Follow teacher expectations at the start of a lesson and stand in silence at the end of each lesson. 
2. Be Ambitious - Do your work well without distracting others. 
3. Be Resilient – Do your work to the best of your ability. 
4. Be Kind - Put your hand up and wait for permission to speak. Listen carefully when the teacher or another student is speaking. 

Around School rules can be seen in section 1.5.

Rights Respecting School: Our Classroom Charter

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child is an international statement of the civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights of children all over the world. It is made up of 54 'articles' or promises. It was adopted on 20th November 1989.

Prince Henry's has achieved Level 1 of UNICEF's Rights Respecting Schools Award, which recognises schools that place the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child at the heart of everything they do.

In order to guarantee the Rights of the Child in our school, students and staff have agreed a Classroom Charter, which sets out what we will aim to do. This is because we all have to remember that rights and responsibilities go hand in hand.

Article 19: Every child must be protected from all forms of violence, abuse, neglect and bad treatment.

 

Articles 28 & 28: Every child has the right to an education. Education must develop every child's personality, talents and abilities to the full.

 

Equipment

Pencil case - Black or blue pen ONLY for written work, green pen for DIRT activities

Pencil - for any drawings, tables, graphs etc

Ruler -  for underlining 

Rubber, calculator, pencil sharpener, glue stick

Presentation

• Full date underlined with a ruler;
• Title underlined with a ruler;
• Class work or Home Learning to be written in top left hand corner of page;
• All questions should be numbered in the margin;
• The writing should start at the left hand margin and continue the full length of the line;
• All lines and both sides of a page must be used;
• If a mistake is made, ONE line should be drawn through the error with a ruler;
• Use capital letters appropriately;
• Underline the last piece of work with a ruler;
• No doodling, scribbling or graffiti.

See a visual here.

 Joined up writing is NOT compulsory. It should merely be legible.

Staff will give you feedback frequently. This is most commonly verbal or written feedback. This will help you to understand where you are making progress. Throughout the year you will receive a number of 'Progress Reports' at appropriate points in time (see Key Dates leaflet). Progress Reports use grades to inform you of your progress and your attitude to learning. Information about these can be found here.

Making Feedback Matter

Giving you feedback to help you improve

All of your teachers will mark your work regularly, and give you feedback to help  you make the best possible progress.

To support your own learning, make sure that you follow the steps below:

Proofread your own work

Make sure that you proofread your work (see below for guidance) to check for basic spelling, punctuation and grammar errors. You will be given time in lessons to do this.

Steps for proofreading

1. Check that you have used paragraphs to structure your work.
2. Check that after each full stop there is a capital letter, and that there are capital letter in every name of a person or place.
3. Check that you have used commas correctly.
4. Check that when I is used in a sentence, it is never i - always capital I.
5. Check apostrophes for contractions and check apostrophes for possession (Do not - don't; the car's tyres - belonging to the car). 
6. Check that each sentence ends with a full stop, and that you have used simple, compound and complex sentences, and other varieties, to add depth to writing and guide the reader.
7. Use apps on your iPad to check spelling, especially homophones (where/we're, their/there, etc.) and add wider vocabulary.
8. Check that you have used a range of punctuation ( ) ; : ? ! .

Respond to any feedback from your teachers

Your teachers will often give you verbal or written feedback in your lessons. This will usually be subject specific, but teachers will also check for any spelling, punctuation and grammar errors as well. Make sure you are listening to this, using their guidance to help you improve and recording as necessary.

At least once per half term, your teacher will mark some of your work in greater detail and give you STAR feedback:

Strengths – areas where you have done well in this task

Target - something to improve on or develop in your next piece of work

Adjustment task – an improvement to this piece of work which would help to meet your target or

Response task – an activity to help you improve the skills or knowledge that will enable you to meet your target.

Make sure you read or listen to your teacher's advice carefully and complete your adjustment or response task to the best of your ability. You will be given plenty of time to do this within lesson or as home learning.  Remember your target for next time so that you can do even better in your next piece of work.

Home Learning is an essential part of work for your learning at PHGS. All Home Learning will be set electronically on Arbor by your teachers. 

The amount set by each subject is different, and the amount of Home Learning will increase year on year. The sections below show you which days your teachers will usually set your Home Learning each fortnight (this may change sometimes due to exam revision, teacher absence, training days or similar.) This is sorted by year group and class code.

Expectations on students to 'keep up' with their learning

On occasion, you may miss a timetabled lesson due to illness, an extra-curricular activity or for another reason. When this occurs, you may well miss work that is vital to your understanding of a particular topic.

To ensure your absence from a lesson does not hinder your progress, there is an expectation for you to take responsibility to keep up with your learning, ensuring there are no gaps in your work.

• Ahead of your next lesson in the subject you missed, as a classmate for details of the work you need to catch up but, if you don't understand, see your class teacher.
• You can ask the teacher in advance if your absence is planned, eg: for a sorting fixture.
• There is an expectation that you will be fully caught up within a reasonable period of time. This will be determined by your teacher and will take into account the number of lessons missed and the nature of the work missed.
• Home Learning is set on Arbor so, regardless of whether you were in the lesson, you will still be expected to do your best to complete it.
• School sanctions will be applied in the usual way if these expectations are not met.

At Prince Henry's, all students have access to an iPad. This enhances the student experience. However, there are protocols that must be followed to ensure these devices are used sensibly. 

Summary of the PHGS computer access policy

1. All computer activity should be purposeful and used for educational benefit.

2. You must only access the computers with your login ID and you must keep your password secret.

Your password:

• Must include three random, unrelated words (e.g. penciltrainfish but NOT twothreefour).
• Must be at least 12 characters long.
• May include a mixture of uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers, and special characters (e.g. PencilTrainFish37).
• Must not be identical or substantially similar to any previous passwords.
• Must be committed to memory and not written down,

3. You are responsible for any actions carried out or any files held on your account. Staff may monitor your activities or access files/emails.

4. All internet use should be study related. Inappropriate sexist, racist, pornographic, indecent, violent or abusive images, text, sound or games files are forbidden.

5. Appropriate and responsible use of email is essential. All communication should be polite, use appropriate language and content and should not reveal any details.

6. You must not bring the school into disrepute through your use of the Internet/ email.

7. No payment or activities involving purchasing or financial gain may be carried out over the Internet.

8. No student may obtain access to any part of the computer system to which they have not specifically been given permission.

9. Activity that threatens the integrity of the school ICT systems is forbidden.

10. Hardware must not be damaged or rearranged.

11. No software must be installed.

12. The school will not be liable under any circumstances for any injury, distress, loss or damage to students or parents, which may arise directly or indirectly from the use of Internet facilities or the use of email.

13. Any files saved on the school system must relate to schoolwork.

14. No food or drink in the IT rooms.

15. Student access to any IT room is only permitted under the constant supervision of a Teacher.

16. No use of any social media sites or groups, these are only to be used with teacher permission and supervision.

iPad Protocols

• Students' iPads should only be out in lessons/form period and for home learning and extended learning in the Library during break, lunch and after school.
• There will be an expectation that iPads should be out on desks, ready to use when the teacher instructs them to do so.
• Staff will clearly distinguish between work that involves the iPad and work that does not.
• Students should only use the photo/recording apps in school when instructed to do so by a member of staff. The student iPads can, and will, be checked at any point for inappropriate photos/videos. Students must never record other students or staff without permission.
• Images and recordings must only be used for work purposes and must only be saved in an appropriate school location.
• No non-work related communication should take place between students whilst the students are on site. Facebook, Twitter, iMessage, Instagram, Snapchat etc. will be blocked in school but this also includes inappropriate activity between student email accounts.
• If another student damages your iPad within a lesson in school, you must report it immediately to your class teacher and as soon as possible to IT services. Failure to report the incident will mean that the school cannot effectively establish how the damage took place.
• Students using VPN apps to bypass the school filters & safeguarding will receive a serious sanction.
• School iPads must remain in the school case at all times both in school and at home.
• The protective case must not be damaged or defaced. If it is damaged or defaced, you will be asked to replace it with a new one.

iPad Related Sanctions

Consistent Application of Sanctions

Any student using their IPad to significantly negatively affect the harmony of the school community will receive at least a period of time in the reflection room and could jeopardise their place in the school community.

Any student carrying out the following actions will receive the sanction shown below as a minimum:

• Uploading content to the internet inappropriately - suspension.
• Found with inappropriate content on their Pad - suspension.
• Using, sharing or manipulating media to cause offence or distress - suspension
• Using Airdrop (used to connect devices to share files) inappropriately - time in the reflection room.
• Using a VPN - time in the reflection room.
• Found playing games on their iPad in school - time in the reflection room.
• A student taking pictures/ recordings of staff or students - detention.
• Using your iPad in any way other than that permitted by the iPad Protocols - detention.

Any student using a VPN app will, as a minimum, serve time in the reflection room.

All sanctions apply at all times in school. This includes break, lunch and after school in the library.

If a student forgets their iPad, brings it with no charge or forgets to hand the iPad back at the end of the day the sanctions will be applied in the same way as they would if they forgot their planner.

Year Managers will issue and monitor the sanctions for the offences listed below:

• If a student forgets their iPad, they should go to their Year Manager.
• If a student brings their iPad with no charge, they should go to the IT office where it can be placed on charge. IT technicians will issue an incident on Arbor, if this happens.
• If a student forgets their iPad, brings it with no charge or forgets to hand the iPad back at the end of the day, sanctions will be applied. The Year Manager will follow this up during the next school day.

At Prince Henry's, we offer a range of opportunities to students that support their development 'beyond the taught curriculum'. These opportunities are shown here.