📅 Wednesday 16 October, 2.55pm - we close for the half-term break. Thursday 17 and Friday 18 October are INSET (staff training) days. [See all our term dates and holidays here]. 

📅 Monday 28 October, 8:20am - we reopen after the half-term break. 

Your child's next Progress Evening where you can meet your child's teachers: Thursday 6 March, 4-7pm

Your child's next report will be sent: Wednesday 22 January

Year 7 Heads of Year: Mrs S Fitzgerald and Mrs E McClean - manc-y7@coopacademies.co.uk

As an academy, we are keen to ensure that we can support all our students with their learning needs in the best way possible. As part of this process, all students sat an Access Reading Test (ART) this half term.

This online reading assessment allows us to see how well our students perform in four key areas (Literal comprehension, inference, analysis and vocabulary). It also gives staff a reading age for your child which, again, will help teachers to support them effectively in the classroom.

• Literal comprehension. Marked out of 20.
  This means understanding a text, including facts, ideas, vocabulary, events, and stated information. It involves getting specific answers to questions or information gathering for questions that start with “what, where, when, who,” etc. For example: Who took Sam's pen?
• Inference - Marked out of 16.
  Inferential comprehension refers to the child's ability to understand meaning that is not explicitly stated or explained in the text they have read. 
• Analysis - Marked out of 9.
  This means how well the child is able to break down the text into parts to better understand it.
• Vocabulary - Marked out of 15.
  This is how many words the child knows. 
• Reading Age - 
  Shown as a year and month figure (For example: 11.07 would mean a reading age of  11 years and 7 months)

Teachers will be using this data to ensure your child is receiving the right support to enable them to make progress in lessons. All staff use Reading for Meaning strategies in class which help students develop key reading skills as the first level of intervention. If your child has been identified as having a reading age significantly below their chronological age then we will be looking at different interventions to support them (both in and out of the classroom). This could include: form time reading interventions or small group work. 

As parents / carers there are some simple steps you can take at home to help your child’s reading.

1. Encourage your child to read - all our students have access to the library and to ebooks on the e-platform app.

2. Ask them questions about what they are reading in school. (Students in Year 7-10 have a form time reading book)

3. Get them to read to you - this could be from the book they are reading or when helping out with tasks around the house (for example: recipes, shopping lists or instructions) 

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact either myself or the Academic Head of Year.

Kind regards
Angela O’Connor, 
Assistant Vice Principal (Reading and Personal Development)

📅 Wednesday 16 October, 2.55pm - we close for the half-term break. Thursday 17 and Friday 18 October are INSET (staff training) days. [See all our term dates and holidays here]. 

📅 Monday 28 October, 8:20am - we reopen after the half-term break. 

Your child's next Progress Evening where you can meet your child's teachers: Thursday 26 June, 4-7pm

Your child's next report will be sent: Wednesday 22 January

Year 8 Heads of Year: Ms M Bretherton and Miss S Saeed-  manc-y8@coopacademies.co.uk 

📅 Wednesday 16 October, 2.55pm - we close for the half-term break. Thursday 17 and Friday 18 October are INSET (staff training) days. [See all our term dates and holidays here]. 

📅 Monday 28 October, 8:20am - we reopen after the half-term break. 

Your child's next Progress Evening where you can meet your child's teachers: Thursday 23 January, 4-7pm

Your child's next report will be sent: Wednesday 22 January

Year 9 Heads of Year: Miss J Roberts and Mr C Baltazar  - manc-y9@coopacademies.co.uk

📅 Wednesday 16 October, 2.55pm - we close for the half-term break. Thursday 17 and Friday 18 October are INSET (staff training) days. [See all our term dates and holidays here]. 

📅 Monday 28 October, 8:20am - we reopen after the half-term break. 

Your child's next Progress Evening where you can meet your child's teachers: Thursday 24 April 4-7pm

Your child's next report will be sent: Wednesday 27 November

Year 10 Heads of Year: Mr A Poole and Miss M Rehman - manc-y10@coopacademies.co.uk 

💡 Last week we hosted a 'How To Revise' evening for Year 11 families. A big thanks to all those who attended - we hope you found it useful. Here is a copy of the slides we used and here is a list of useful websites for each subject. 

📅 Wednesday 16 October, 2.55pm - we close for the half-term break. Thursday 17 and Friday 18 October are INSET (staff training) days. [See all our term dates and holidays here]. 

📅 Monday 28 October, 8:20am - we reopen after the half-term break. This is also the start of Year 11's mock exams. The mock timetable is now available on the exams page. 

Your child's next Progress Evening where you can meet your child's teachers: Thursday 12 December, 4-7pm

Your child's next report will be sent: Wednesday 4 December

Year 11 Heads of Year: Mr K Hughes and Ms P Jackson- manc-y11@coopacademies.co.uk