Foundation

Year 7 Foundation was created in 2001 to aid the transition from Primary to Secondary school. It is a cluster of subjects taught by the form tutor in a “home base” classroom. The subjects covered now include English, History, Geography, Religious Studies, Citizenship and ICT. All Foundation lessons are taught by a dedicated and highly skilled team of teachers. The main aim of Foundation is to develop the most effective practice for this age group. Underpinning all the work done in the department is an underlying focus on Literacy.

Over the years Foundation has proved to have many advantages for both staff and students. Included in these are that it enables greater understanding of a student’s abilities; it creates a more flexible learning environment and is we feel a more supportive start to Tong High School.

We aim to equip our students with skills that develop:

• Patience.
• General thinking skills.
• Taking part / Discussion skills.
• Read and obtain information.
• Be able to summarise.
• Presentation skills.
• Interpret information from different sources.
• Consideration of their audience.
• Review usefulness of evidence.
• Locate sources.
• Speaking and listening skills.