Year 7

The Year 7 day will run as follows:

8.25: Lesson 1

9.15: Lesson 2

10.05: Break

10.25: Form time

10.45: Lesson 3

11.35: Lesson 4

12.25: Lunch

1.05: Lesson 5

1.55 Lesson 6

2.45 Dismissal

ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE

Year 7 must enter school through the new Sixth form entrance to the left of the main tower as you approach it. Students must wash their hands on entry and exit in the washrooms in the Sixth Form Centre. They are the only year group using this entrance. Please arrange to drop off and collect your child on our surrounding roads to avoid a large gathering immediately outside the school gate.

Classrooms

Year 7 lessons will take place in the new Sixth Form centre. The map on this page shows you where the classrooms are situated. They will stay in the same room for almost all of their lessons, unless they are specialist rooms, for example Design Technology, where they need specialist space to access the curriculum. These rooms will be wiped down between groups as different year groups will be using them.

The Year 7 Office is on the ground floor in the new Sixth Form Centre, readily accessible to students. Mrs. Wild, Mrs. Jenkins and our Learning Mentor Mrs. Harron will be based in this office.

Break and Lunch

Year 7 will have break and lunch in the Sixth Form Centre, and the space outside the Sixth Form Centre, where there will be table tennis tables and outside seating. A new servery has been installed in the Sixth Form Centre.

Lanyards

Each student will be issued with a lanyard and ID card. Each year group will have a different coloured lanyard to make it easy to identify that students are in the right zone of the school. The ID card will make the lunch queue quicker whilst we avoid fingerprint technology. Students who lose or break their cards will be charged a replacement fee.

toilets

Year 7 have dedicated toilet facilities in their bubble. There is also a newly installed drinking fountain.

PE Kit

Students must come to school in their PE kit on days that they have PE lessons as there will be no changing facilities available.

Lesson 7

As we have staggered the school day, lesson 7 is now a 'normal' lesson for some year groups. We will restart our Head's Challenge Lesson 7 programme as soon as we possibly can. We know students (and staff) really enjoy it, but we have to prioritise safely opening the school to all year groups before we can get back to this.

Lockers

Year 7 lockers are in their form rooms, where almost all of their lessons will take place.

Assemblies

We will not be able to run assemblies with the whole year group in one room. We will have a combination of recorded and 'live' assemblies using technology.

Supporting you and your family

We know the last few months have been challenging. Please look at the tabs above for more detail about how we will keep students safe at school, some student wellbeing resources, and a range of FAQs.