About our Quick Links

The quick links on the home page enable our parents/carers and students to quickly connect to our electronic means of communication. We will be providing detailed information to parents/carers at the forthcoming Information Evenings in the Autumn Term.

Over the past year we have been working with the Local Authority (Cheshire West and Chester) and our other partners to better communicate with you about what's happening in school.

You can inform the school of your preferred method of communication by indicating this on the data collection form in your September Pack. You can also email us to sign-up to receive general communications, such as the newsletter, by email.

Parents who do not have computer and internet access at home may be eligible for support. Please phone the Local Authority on 0333 200 1004 for more advice. For your children, if you send a note in to their Learning Mentor (form tutor) we can provide a Priority Pass for ICT use in school.

School Email

All students have a school email account. The information is stored, checked and monitored in school and as such is a much safer than publicly available email systems such as MSN or Yahoo mail. Students are not able to access these public email systems from within school. To login to school email, use your normal school username and password.

The LEAP - Virtual Learning Environment (VLE)

Following a successful pilot phase within school, we will be rolling-out use of The Leap during 2010/11. Students will be able to access lesson resources and revision materials, as well as contribute to discussions, web pages and surveys on The Leap. The platform also allows teachers to set and mark tasks electronically. Parents/carers can support their children by taking an interest in what tasks have been set and their deadlines for completion.

The Leap supplements our existing facilities for remote access to the school network. Students can use Ranger Outpost software to connect to their files in school. Click here to download and run the Ranger Outpost software.* (If your download is blocked, try clicking here to download a zip file containing the installation programme.)

* This software will only run on PCs running Windows. After installation you will see a Ranger Outpost icon on your desktop. Double-click and enter your school login details.

Parent Portal

A second successful pilot project was recently completed and we intend to roll-out access to the Parent Portal during the Autumn Term 2010. The Parent Portal gives parents/carers live access to the school's data system with records of their children's attendance, assessment (grades) and behaviour incidents. During the year we will be making improvements both to the 'look' of this system and to the information that is available, following the useful feedback we received from parents on the pilot, to whom we extend our sincere thanks.