Helping my Child

The Key to Success at Ryedale

Advice to Students

Remember that your life at Ryedale is to prepare you for life beyond Ryedale!

Be organised:

• Pack your bags each night
• Have a routine for checking you have the correct equipment for each lesson
• Use your planner to record your homework carefully

Good behaviour and good behaviour for learning:

• Have a positive approach to school
• Be engaged in all lessons; hands up!
• Work well on your own, work well in groups
• Answer if you know, ask if you don’t
• Respond to feedback from your teachers
• Make every lesson count; be an active learner

Get involved in school life; play sport, play music, dance, sing, act and join clubs.

Our happiest students are often our busiest and most successful!

Advice to Parents

• Encourage punctuality and full attendance
• Are they getting enough sleep and having breakfast?
• Help them organise their equipment for the school day
• Encourage them to take a full part in school life
• Talk to them about their learning
• Look at their planners regularly to see what homework they have
• Look at their work in their exercise books and get them to explain it
• Help them to regularly revisit their learning
• Have they got a calm, quiet environment in which to work and learn?
• Is their phone, X-box or the TV a barrier to learning?
• Tell us early if there is a problem

Mr Gentry / Miss Hunter, September 2014