St Richard Gwyn Catholic High School

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St Richard Gwyn Catholic High School is an 11-18 mixed Catholic comprehensive school serving the population of Flintshire in North Wales. It was founded in 1954 to serve the Catholic population of Flintshire. It is one of three Catholic secondary schools in the Catholic Diocese of Wrexham, the others being St Joseph's Catholic and Anglican High School, Wrexham and Blessed Edward Jones RC High School, Rhyl.
It is a mixed school, currently serving close to 1000 pupils (including a mixed sixth form of over 120). It draws its pupils and students from the Roman Catholic parishes of Flint, Holywell, Queensferry, Mold, Saltney, Buckley, Connah's Quay, Hawarden, and Pantasaph.
St Richard Gwyn Catholic High School believes that good attendance at school is vital for a successful education and an important preparation for life after school. We, therefore, take steps to encourage all students to attend regularly and rigorously pursue unsatisfactory attendance.
The school has a legal obligation to monitor attendance and to report any unauthorized absence. We endeavor to work closely with parents to improve attendance and also to liaise with the inclusion welfare service to access additional support as required.
Authorized absences will include illness and approved educational activities. Exceptional circumstances such as bereavement, will also normally be authorized. Students must bring a note of explanation from a parent when they return to school after being absent. Should it be necessary to make a medical appointment during school hours advance notice in writing is needed? We cannot allow pupils to leave school without this permission.
The Welsh Government has published a program of study for each National Curriculum subject (known as ‘Orders’, revised in 2008). The Orders share a common format to help schools plan across the curriculum. Each Order has a Focus Statement which encapsulates what each pupil should be taught at a particular Key Stage.
Thus the knowledge, skills, and understanding that pupils should be taught are set out in a series of columns. Some subjects are provided with context/opportunity statements that indicate contexts for the development of knowledge, understanding, and skills or opportunities that can be provided throughout the program of study. In addition, all subjects in the National Curriculum have Common Requirements. These include a statement of Access for all pupils, including those with special educational needs (SEN) and those who are gifted or talented.
The other Common Requirements emphasize the importance of providing opportunities, where appropriate, in all National Curriculum subjects for pupils to develop and apply Common Requirements related to communication, mathematical, information technology, problem solving and creative skills and to the Welsh Dimension and personal and social education. Individual departments’ policies and schemes of work highlight how the National Curriculum Orders are being met and how the Common Requirements are being developed.

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