By giving our pupils far too much control, it allows them to be rude and disrepectful when challenged.

Many in my dept find that students are arriving as and when they like to lessons and that their attitude towards learning and revision has deteriorated massively, despite still having upcoming exams in our subject!

When threatened with lates, ambers and reds, we have been told by students that they don't get sanctions any more.

This coupled with the fact that they aren't being made to complete revision in lessons where their exams have finished have led to us feeling like we are almost babysitting students and no worthwhile learning is happening.

We agree with another post that a bank of revision materials could have been shared that students are required to complete in lessons where their exams are finished.

We also understand that sanctions are difficult when students have exams, however these should not be stopped completely!

The majority of students did not enjoy being their form tutor period 5 on the last day. They found it very boring. For some staff form time can be very challenging in terms of behavior. Some staff will be put on supervision so that basically means they don't have to do anything. Attendance will be very low anyway.

We have been told that the trust have said we aren't allowed half day finishes anymore however this is not the case in other trust schools in Manchester?

It would only take a quick email when their timetables are being written to let the teacher know. This has happened to me 6 times already this academic year, as well as other staff across the school.

Similarly there doesn't appear to be thought put into where students are being placed other than looking at class sizes and putting them into a smaller one, leading to students being placed into a class that is not appropriate for their ability.

Pupils are confused about how to access assessments. Staff are confused as instructions are not clear then get changed last second.

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This will have a knock on effect in Y11 and is also demoralising for staff who are contacting large numbers of students every fortnight.

There is also no QA of homework across subjects, so students are saying that there is no homework set by some teachers, or that they are allowed to complete it in class. Without consistency, this system will not work, so perhaps another homework launch is required to re-state the expectations around this.

To have to use teacher's break or lunch time to wait outside the pastoral office to be let inside is a waste of free time. Especially if there is no one in the office to be let in. The place phones are stored needs to be more accessible to teaching staff. This would encourage more staff to take action on pupils using phones in atrium etc, if the process afterwards was more accessible.