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Streetly is really bubbling away on our SPaG Hotti programme! The emphasis on accurate use of spelling, punctuation and grammar, in a growing number of GCSE examinations in all subjects, means our students have to develop and use these skills to reach their best grades.
Alongside our drive to encourage daily independent reading, we now teach a focus of SPaG in English and all teachers, in every subject, are monitoring this use. This half term they are also serving up a regular plate of SPag Hotti, reminding students to use it accurately in their lessons.
Last half term we explicitly taught accurate use of apostrophes and capital letters. This now becomes 'zero tolerance' and your child may be asked to rewrite some or even all of their work if there are multiple errors.
Please support your child by checking their homework in ALL subjects for the accurate use of apostrophes and capital letters. To help you do this, the presentations used it class can be found by clicking here for apostrophes, and here for capital letters. Anything you can do to help your child to become great readers and writers will make them more successful.
DID YOU KNOW.......
Reading is the single most important thing your child can do to be successful. It is so important that at Streetly we expect ALL students to read for at least 15 minutes every night and at KS4 and 5 this should be considerably more.
Students should read a wide range of texts - but they should always develop their vocabulary and be a little challenging.
By clicking here, you will find a presentation which will give you some surprising facts about how far reading really can affect the lives of your child.
Take a few minutes to look at it and please encourage your child to read.
(Please note that the presentations are interactive, therefore they will open in Power Point.)
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Congratulations to the following musicians for passing their individual instrumental grade examinations:
