The Achieve Team
Knowing our students well is something we all pride ourselves on at Dinnington High School. By getting to know each child as a whole person, we can support them to achieve their best and to become a well-rounded individual.
We are frequently complimented on our warm and welcoming culture across our school. This is important to us as we uphold our core values: The Dinnington Way: kindness, respect and excellence.
Meet the Team
| Senior Lead | Mr S Grenham, Assistant Principal |
| Head of Achieve | Mrs J Perkins |
| Year 7 Leader | Miss J Smith |
| Year 7 Leader | Mr R Gardner |
| Year 8 Leader | Miss S McMillan |
| Year 8 Leader | Mr S Hunter |
| Year 9 Leader | Mr S Rhodes |
| Year 9 Leader | Miss R Neal/ Miss E Mennell |
| Year 10 Leader | Mrs K Shay |
| Year 10 Leader | Mr R Williams |
| Year 11 Leader | Mrs C Paling |
| Year 11 Leader | Mr S Ebbs |
| Sixth Form Year Leader | Mrs H Rhodes |
| Sixth Form Year Leader | Mrs J Fisher |
Our Year Leader team is well supported by:
- our Reflection Room staff for students who receive C3s in lessons
- our Achieve Support Practitioner who oversees our Integrated Learning Zone and works with a range of students providing support and mentoring
- our Learning and Behaviour Mentor who works with a different group of students.
All staff are trained on Restorative Practice – this is a relationship based approach that seeks to understand why a student has misbehaved and work with the student to prevent negative behaviour patterns repeating. Sometimes, it indicates an unmet need or a social and emotional issue, which is why Achieve and Engage work closely together.
We do also use sanctions such as removal from lesson, late and site defiance detentions, after-school catch up learning time, time in our Integrated Learning Zone, and suspensions. However, we think sanctions alone do not change behaviour which is why as part of Restorative Practice we try to help the students to reflect and put things right, we seek to uncover underlying issues and address them.
Very occasionally we use Permanent Exclusions as a very last resort.
Achieve Structure
Students are organised by year groups with a form tutor and two year leaders. Form tutors are parents’ first point of contact. We provide parents with an email address for their child’s tutor as they are often not available on the phone during the school day as they are teaching. You can leave a message for them with reception and they will seek to return your call within 48 hours.
We have two year leaders for each year group. One is a support member of staff whose sole responsibility is the year group, the other one is a teaching member of staff who also has teaching commitments. See the Who’s Who for each year group.
Form time and assembly are vital parts of our school day. They are important for ensuring we have an inclusive, family approach. They also provide opportunities to explore important issues, have special visitors, to celebrate special occasions and events, to have form reading time, and to have the weekly challenge of The Quiz.
Our Head of Achieve works closely with the Head of Engage to ensure we identify any undiagnosed SEND.
Rewarding
You can find out more information about the rewards we offer students by going to our rewards information page.
