{"id":665,"date":"2019-01-18T18:00:52","date_gmt":"2019-01-18T18:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.darrickwood.co.uk\/?p=665"},"modified":"2019-01-18T18:00:52","modified_gmt":"2019-01-18T18:00:52","slug":"parent-bulletin-18-01-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.darrickwood.co.uk\/?p=665","title":{"rendered":"Parent Bulletin 18.01.19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>This week<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The big news of the week was of course that a team of Ofsted inspectors spent two days with us in lessons, around school, meeting with staff, pupils and governors. The outcome will be shared when the report is published in a few weeks.<\/li>\n<li>In assemblies this week we explored the theme of freedom from different perspectives. Pupils heard in particular about the freedom we enjoy here in the UK living in a democracy, compared with the experience of people living in some other countries where this is not the case.<\/li>\n<li>Year 11 parents&#8217; evening on Thursday was very well attended.\u00a0Thank you to the PSFA for supporting with refreshments. Moving the Year 11 evening to a new position in the School calendar, where it is now held after the mock examinations, seems to have been a popular decision designed to have maximum success in helping pupils prepare best for the examinations ahead.<\/li>\n<li>Year 13 returned to their lessons after their mock examinations. They will receive their mock results on Friday, 1st February.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Coming up<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Year 12 Parents&#8217; Evening is on Thursday, 31st January, 5.00pm &#8211; 8.00pm.<\/li>\n<li>The PSFA are arranging a Quiz Night at the School on Saturday, 2nd February at 7.30pm.<\/li>\n<li>There will be a Year 9 Science GCSE Options evening on Wednesday, 6th February. Please can parents of Year 9 pupils reply to the letter that was sent by email either by printing and returning the slip or by using the reply link.<\/li>\n<li>Thursday, 7th February is Alumni Day. Former students of Darrick Wood are invited to contact the School should they wish to come along.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Reminder<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>As the weather turns colder, please ensure pupils in Years 7-11 have the correct colour coat &#8211; plain dark brown. As we are all aware, other colours are not part of the Darrick Wood School uniform policy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week The big news of the week was of course that a team of Ofsted inspectors spent two days with us in lessons, around school, meeting with staff, pupils and governors. The outcome will be shared when the report is published in a few weeks. In assemblies this week we explored the theme of freedom from different perspectives. Pupils heard in particular about the freedom we enjoy here in the UK living in a democracy, compared with the experience&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/news.darrickwood.co.uk\/?p=665\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.darrickwood.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.darrickwood.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.darrickwood.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.darrickwood.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.darrickwood.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.darrickwood.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.darrickwood.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.darrickwood.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.darrickwood.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}