Welcoming New Students and Teachers to Your School

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Existing students develop skills which enable them to understand and communicate with all newcomers to their school in a helpful, unprejudiced and welcoming manner. Worksheets focus on accepting new students, staff, parents and the public. (Updated from: Welcoming Newcomers)

Topics include: First impressions; Shy - Why?; New school blues; Accepting differences such as dialects, accents and appearance; Supporting a positive work ethic; Examining reasons for bad behaviour; Attitudes to mature students and supply teachers; Choosing new teachers?; Empathy with new students; Can I sit here?; Making friends; Portraying the school in a positive light; Welcoming parents, the public and job applicants to school.

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Size: 65 Pages
ISBN: 978 1 86025 235 8
Code: WNST
Popularity rank: 273

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Contents List

LESSONS

KEY STAGE 3

7 FIRST IMPRESSIONS Students design a reception area to encourage awareness of the school as a potentially welcoming place.
9 SHY - WHY? Students write a diary to develop empathy with new students.
11 SWOT OR NOT? This page examines the pressures on new students to avoid seeming conscientious, using poster work.
13 WHY I DO IT Students consider the reasons given for bad behaviour towards a new teacher, and why they should behave well.
15 BEING NEW Students consider their attitudes towards new adults in school by writing an advice sheet.
17 MAKING FRIENDS Students are encouraged to empathise with newcomers and evaluate strategies for making friends.
19 THE WAY TO TALK Students evaluate accents and dialects in order to understand prejudices about a newcomer's speech.
21 STARTING AGAIN An illustration forms the basis for considering problems faced by non-teaching staff starting work in a school.
23 CAN I SIT HERE? A narrative is used to encourage empathy with students joining the group.
25 ON THE PANEL Students devise questions for teaching job applicants to examine what they look for in a new teacher.
27 WELCOME TO... Students plan a welcome reception to examine what would make new members of staff feel welcome.
29 THIS IS OUR SCHOOL Students are asked to think positively but objectively about their school, and to consider how it would seem to new staff.
31 YOU'RE NEW, AREN'T YOU? Students investigate behaviour towards new teachers, and script a conversation with parents about a letter from school.
33 ARE YOU A PROPER TEACHER? Students consider their attitudes towards student teachers, by writing a student teacher's diary.
35 TIME FOR A CHANGE Students examine reasons for changing school, in order to encourage empathy with newcomers.

KEY STAGE 4

37 FITTING IN Students rank illustrated teenagers and suggest 'makeovers', to examine the role of appearance in social acceptance.
39 CHANGE OF ATTITUDE Students explore prejudices towards newcomers who are noticeably 'different'.
41 BRIGHT SPARK! Students look at pressures on newcomers to avoid seeming conscientious; they then design a work routine leaflet.
43 THE IN-CROWD Students consider and comment on how people behave on entering a new group.
45 ACTING UP Students consider how and why they 'act up' with a new teacher, and list the consequences.
47 WHO'S NEW? Students consider behaviour towards new non-teaching staff by evaluating a caretaker's resignation letter.
49 JOIN THE CREW Students consider one means of making all staff - especially newcomers - feel that they are a valued part of the school.
51 THAT POSH PERSON Students examine how the class element of speech influences social acceptance, and write to a newspaper about their views.
53 A NEW START Students are encouraged to empathise with a mature newly trained teacher.
55 NEW SCHOOL BLUES Students are encouraged to empathise with newcomers joining the group, and are asked to write a letter as if from a new student.
57 THE TOUR Students are encouraged to empathise with teaching job applicants, and develop an objective view of the school.
59 RECEPTION DUTY Students examine what is involved in welcoming the public to the school, and write an advice sheet for reception duty.
61 THE NEW TEACHER Students devise an action plan to help new teachers reach maximum efficiency as soon as possible.
63 FINDING OUT THE FACTS Students devise a questionnaire to gauge how welcoming the school is to parents.
65 WHY ARE YOU TAKING US? Students examine attitudes to supply teachers, and write a letter to a supply teaching agency.