At New Rickstones Academy we care for each individual student, helping them to achieve their potential in all areas of academy life.  We want them to feel happy and secure in an ordered, caring and safe environment that encourages and celebrates success.  

How we group our students:

Each year group from Year 7 to 11 is divided into form groups, containing boys and girls of all social and ability levels and from various partner primary schools. At the end of Year 6 all parents are offered a meeting with a senior member of staff from the academy to discuss their child's experience from the primary school activities they do both in and out of school, personal information and friendship groups to enable the academy to settle the children as quickly as possible into their new life at New Rickstones Academy. 

In Year 7, where possible, new students are placed with other students from their primary schools to give them confident while they make new friends. New students in other years are placed in form groups as best they can be taking into some consideration their needs. 

The Form Tutor will get to know their students closely and will move through the academy with the students, know each student as an individual, be the first point of contact for referral or praise, monitor progress inside and outside the classroom, including homework, deliver the tutorial programme.

The Heads of Year and the Head of Sixth Form have responsibility for overseeing the monitoring of academic progress of all students within their year groups. Each  has specific responsibilities for their year groups, which will also including monitoring attendance, lateness, and the welfare of each student as well as overseeing the tutorial programme for their year group.

There is a member of the SLT allocated to have overall responsibility for the students at the Academy.