Month: October 2024
Year 8 Tutor Reviews – Tuesday 26th November 2024. School closes 2.05 pm on this day.
29 Oct 2024
Good morning,
A reminder that PVA Year 8 Tutor Reviews will take place week commencing Monday 25th November 2024. There will be an early finish for all students at 2.05 pm on Tuesday 26th November to accommodate these review meetings.
These meetings add to our partnership work with parents in helping to secure outstanding results for students. During the review week all parents and students should attend a 20 minute face to face meeting.
Review meetings are an opportunity for parents to come into the academy to meet with their child’s tutor to discuss their pastoral development and set agreed targets for the year ahead. Later in the year there will also be a subject based parents’ evening where parents will have the opportunity to speak to their child’s subject teachers about their progress in their subjects,
Year 8 Review Meetings – Week commencing: Monday 25th November 2024
Review meetings are an opportunity for parents to come into the academy to meet with their child’s tutor to discuss their pastoral development and set agreed targets for the year ahead. Later in the year there will also be a subject based parents’ evening where parents will have the opportunity to speak to their child’s subject teachers about their progress in their subjects.
When will the review meetings take place?
School will finish at the end of period 4 (2.10pm) for all year groups on Tuesday 26th November 2024. This is done to provide an opportunity for parents to meet their child’s form tutor for around twenty minutes.
How to book a review meeting with your child’s tutor
Your child will be responsible for making the appointment with their tutor for you. We are aware that not everyone can attend at this time of the day or on that day, please indicate the time that you wish to attend and ask your child to tell their form tutor who will confirm. A message confirming the date and time will be sent to you via Class Charts.
Where will the meeting take place?
Meetings usually take place in the dining room if they are taking place on the day that we close early. Please arrange to meet your child at school and they can bring you to the dining room via main reception. If the meeting is taking place at another time, please come to reception and your child’s tutor will meet you there.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact your child’s form tutor.
Learning Maths at Disneyland
25 Oct 2024
Sunday 17th November – Wednesday 20th November 2024
A large group of Year 9 and 10 students are attending a Mathematics Study Experience at a residential education programme based at Disneyland Paris, a world-class entertainment and leisure destination. The Resort is part of the massive Disney empire and leads the way in combining technology with live entertainment. The study experience includes one Mathematics seminar, an interactive workshop, and several specialist assignments, including rollercoaster design, and financial planning. Students will be treated as though they are Disney professionals as they are guided and inspired to work as a team throughout. Students will also have one full day to explore the Resort’s two theme parks, Disneyland Park and Walt Disney Studios Park, allowing students the opportunity to have fun and experience, first-hand, the application of Mathematics in real-life environments.
The seminars and workshops will cover the following topics;
Maths Essentials – rollercoaster design, creating and interpreting data, standard units of measure.
Investigative Maths – geometry, trigonometry, speed distance time
Theme Park Finance – financial planning, interpretation of graphs and diagrams, economies of scale
Emotional health, child development and parent wellbeing
17 Oct 2024
Nottingham City Council have teamed up with the Solihull Approach to provide free access to many online courses and resources for parents/carers, grandparents and teenagers to better understand child development, feelings and behaviours and how to manage these in order to raise emotionally aware, sociable and confident children. For more information, please visit www.inourplace.co.uk/nottingham/.
Bonfire Night – Fire Safety
17 Oct 2024
Ada Lovelace Day – Nottingham 8th October 2024
10 Oct 2024
15 Park Vale students took part in the Ada Lovelace day celebrations held at MediCity Nottingham where, for a day, they took part in hands on activities, run by inspiring female scientists who are based at MediCity and work in the local STEM industry.
‘An event celebrating and celebrating women and girls in STEM in honour of local Nottinghamshire legend Ada Lovelace‘
Who was Ada Lovelace: Ada was the 19th century mathematician who is considered the founder of computer science.
Between 1842 and 1843, Ada worked with Charles Babbage to translate an article on the calculating engine, supplementing it with an elaborate set of notes, simply called Notes (later published in Taylor’s scientific memoirs). These Notes contain what many consider to be the first computer program with the first algorithm intended to be processed by a machine.
Lovelace’s Notes included a ground-breaking description of the possibilities of programming the machine to go beyond number-crunching to “computing,” including speculating on its future ability to create graphics and complex music.
She was the daughter of romantic poet Lord Byron.
Year 7 Tutor Reviews – Monday 13th January 2025. School closes 2.10 pm on this day.
2 Oct 2024
Good morning,
A reminder that PVA Year 7 Tutor Reviews will take place week commencing Monday 13th January 2025. There will be an early finish for all students at 2.10 pm on Monday 13th January to accommodate these review meetings.
These meetings add to our partnership work with parents in helping to secure outstanding results for students. During the review week all parents and students should attend a 20 minute face to face meeting.
Review meetings are an opportunity for parents to come into the academy to meet with their child’s tutor to discuss their pastoral development and set agreed targets for the year ahead. Later in the year there will also be a subject based parents’ evening where parents will have the opportunity to speak to their child’s subject teachers about their progress in their subjects,
Year 7 Review Meetings – Week commencing: Monday 13th January 2025
Review meetings are an opportunity for parents to come into the academy to meet with their child’s tutor to discuss their pastoral development and set agreed targets for the year ahead. Later in the year there will also be a subject based parents’ evening where parents will have the opportunity to speak to their child’s subject teachers about their progress in their subjects.
When will the review meetings take place?
School will finish at the end of period 4 (2.10pm) for all year groups on Monday 13th January 2025. This is done to provide an opportunity for parents to meet their child’s form tutor for around twenty minutes.
How to book a review meeting with your child’s tutor
Your child will be responsible for making the appointment with their tutor for you. We are aware that not everyone can attend at this time of the day or on that day, please indicate the time that you wish to attend and ask your child to tell their form tutor who will confirm. A message confirming the date and time will be sent to you via Class Charts.
Where will the meeting take place?
Meetings usually take place in the dining room if they are taking place on the day that we close early. Please arrange to meet your child at school and they can bring you to the dining room via main reception. If the meeting is taking place at another time, please come to reception and your child’s tutor will meet you there.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact your child’s form tutor.