Key diary dates

Joining a new secondary school with many more students, classrooms and students than at primary level can be nerve wracking for our new Year 7 cohort. So, we go to considerable lengths to ensure new students feel as welcome as possible and hold several events to encourage new friendships:

1. Form allocation – wherever possible, we try to ensure students are put into forms with those who live near so that transport to/from school is with the students they spend the most time with. Student can ask for their friends to be in the same form as them

2. Senior Leaders visiting primary schools – during May and June, every primary school will be visited by a member of SLT to personally meet and chat with all the students coming from there to Leigh Academy. It is a chance for the primary school staff to share information and for the students to ask any questions.

3. Parent Information Events - on Tuesday 2nd July at 4.30pm and 6pm, we will be holding information sessions for parents to attend to learn more about our academy and meet senior leader and teachers.

4. Transition day on Thursday 4th July – this day is a mix of fun activities as well as structured formal lessons to give our new cohort the sense of the step up in education from primary to secondary. Students meet and spend the whole day with their form tutor and the students which they will be with for years 7-9.

4. First day on Monday 2nd September – only Year 7 and Year 12 are in school on this day so there is plenty of opportunity to familiarise themselves with the layout of the school whilst it is fairly empty. All the firsts can be achieved (first arrival, first meal, first break, first departure) in relative peace and quiet!