because most people don't like the change....or just wanna go along with other people who dont like it...
so like, my friend was making a fuss about it with everyone else while i was saying it was a good idea...and then later they told me that they thought it was a good idea too....xD so i think that we'll get used to is in a while...its just not a nice change....
cause we're all used to this system i mean next year is gonna be my last year and its going to be all screwed up so ... meh lol
I think this is because, mainly Year 9's and above, have been with their forms for their whole secondry school life and find them a very important place to let off steam or socialise with their possibly differently setted friends.
I can see where Vertical Tutoring would be a good area to expand and enhance the school by helping the younger years with homework, settling in or something older years may have experienced, but 'form time/registration' is an important time for students of the same age where they can talk and sort out difficulties.
Hi All
Great discussion here. I think that Marcus and Amber make good points here that the older year groups will feel most disrupted by this change. However, Gobby Allen (!) is right too and this is for only a small period of each day. The fear will be the loss of the current year and form group identity - this is natural but the House structure should add to peoples' feeling of identity within the whole school, not just within a year group. The other thing to bear in mind is the informtion that Mrs Savage gave to Year 10 in their assembly and to parents in the Information Evenings - this offers the current Year 10 (and the following years) opportunities that they would not have had otherwise, not just in terms of leadership roles (these will look good in future applications as well as improve people skills) but also in the time that form tutors have to provide quality Inforamtion, Advice and Guidance regarding academic progress and options for Post 16. Remember Marcus, there will be other Year 11 students in your tutror group still as well as sixth form students who should be able to provide guidance form their recent experiences.
Mr Bodey
The points made here are equally valid, but there is a small flaw in applying the 'you're only with your form for 20 minutes a day': I.e. if that is so, why is the system of new forms being implemented? A house system could still be maintained without resorting to re-arranging whole form groups; it disorientates pupils and the presence of older pupils in a form could intimidate the younger students.
Good contribution Georgia.
The 'only twenty minutes' is a reassurance that there is plenty of time that you still spend as a year group and with the friends you have made there. I agree there is a risk that it understates the powerful impact of the House system and particularly the twenty minutes form time each day. The increased information, guidance and advice from your form tutor in addition to the peer mentoring opportunities mean that the purpose and influence of these sessions is much clearer and sharper. A partial house system does not give the full benefits a fully integrated system will offer - and although it may seem disorientating at first, this will quickly seem much less of an issue and the positive opportunities on offer will become more clear. In terms of older students intimidating younger ones, everything we have seen in other schools with the Vertical Tutoring system (and many things we see within our school now) show this to be quite the reverse - contact between older and younger students reduces the sense of intimidation and achieves a much more cohesive and supportive school. Each school we have visited speaks of bullying reduced to near zero and a far more supportive student population since the change to Vertical Tutoring - where in fact the presence of older students is a support to younger students, not a concern.
In All Honesty Its 20 Minutes A Day, We Might Aswell Try It What Annoys Me Is That We Wernt Given Choice In It. I Agree With Some Off The Other Statements Here It Will Completely Mess Stuff Up Whether Just For A Short Time Or A While I Do not Know!
We Were Told In Year 7 That Are Form Teacher Was The one Teacher We Could Expect To Look Out For Us And That We Could Go To If We Had Problams, And Now That We Are Starting Gcse's This Is The Point We Are Going To Need Someone For Help. And Were Gona Have That Taken Away From us For The Sake Of A Review?
HI Lucas
I have covered the 'given a choice' element of things in detail elsewhere. Certainly the involvment students have had at Fulford has been large compared with other schools even if the initial choice to change was not shared with you.
Your form tutor next year will still be the one who stays with you and offers you support as you embark on your GCSEs. The difference next year will be that your tutor will be supporting just four Year 10 students, not twenty eight of you and this will lead to far greater knowledge of you as an individual - your aims, ambitions and progress. Its not about one review - its a year round support and structure.