Transition 2025

Key Term Dates 2025 - 2026

Please note we are trialling a two week half term during the Autumn Term as detailed below

• Autumn Term: Friday 5th September 2025 – Friday 19th December 2025 (Two Week Half term: 20th - 31st October)
• Spring Term: Monday 5th January 2026 – Friday 27th March 2026 (Half term: 16th - 20th February)
• Summer Term: Monday 13th April 2026 – Friday 24th July 2026 (Half term: 25th May - 31st May)

• Wednesday 3rd September, Thursday 4th September, Friday 13th February, Friday 13th March, 

• Thursday 25th September, Friday 20th December, Friday 24th July

Free School Meals

Please check the criteria below to see whether your child is eligible for Free School Meals. Even if your child does not want to take advantage of our lovely canteen, being registered for Free School Meals gives the school access to additional funding, some of which can be dedicated to supporting you with paying for school trips, events and uniform as examples. 

The application form can be found here along with further information regarding elegibility: https://apply.cloudforedu.org.uk/ofsm/hants 

Criteria: A child is eligible for free school meals if their parent or carer receives one or more of the following benefits:

• Income Support

• income-based Job Seekers' Allowance

• income-related Employment and Support Allowance

• support under Part VI of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999

• the guaranteed element of State Pension Credit

• Child Tax Credit, provided you are not also entitled to Working Tax Credit, and have an annual gross income, of no more than £16,190 as assessed by His Majesty's Revenue and Customs (Parents who are made redundant or start working less that 16 hours per week, may find their children are entitled to free meals for a limited period.)

• Working Tax Credit run-on - paid for 4 weeks after you stop qualifying for Working Tax Credit

• Universal Credit (before September 2026 provided you have an annual net earned income of no more than £7,400, as assessed by earnings from up to three of your most recent assessment periods, from September 2026 all pupils from families claiming universal credit)

No other benefits qualify for free school meals from Key Stage 2 (years 3, 4, 5, 6) or for the pupil premium for Reception Year and Key Stage 1 (years 1, 2).

The Romsey School PTA

Introduction

Welcome to The Romsey School, and for those of you with students higher up the school, welcome back to Year 7! Below is a bit of information about our PTA, the Romsey School Parent Teacher Association. It is very unusual for a Secondary School to have a PTA but we believe it is important in many ways to support our children, the teachers and parents and to have a bit of fun along the way!

Fundraising

Below is a summary of some of the things we do:

• We serve refreshments at school events, including at the annual school production, the Carol Service and the summer arts celebration evening.

• We hold events such as a family bingo evening and adult only quizzes throughout the school year.

• The Romsey School Lottery is another of our fundraisers. For one payment of £30 in September you will be allocated a number and one number will be drawn each month. Half the money is returned in prizes and half is used by the PTA for extras / subsidies for pupils. More details to follow!

• We support the second hand uniform sales within the school.

Benefits

All money raised is used within the school to benefit as many pupils as possible. We receive bids from Departments in the school and hold a meeting to discuss them. Last year we agreed to spend over £4,300 and this was spent within as many Departments as possible. 

This included:

• Provision of revision guides to support GCSE Sociology

• Breast and testicle self examination sets

• Supporting an author’s visit to the school

• Supporting the new GCSE photography course with camera equipment

• Supporting the essential maintenance of design and technology equipment.

• Purchasing of new microphones to support school events in the hall

We also approached local companies who were able to help with donation of gardening equipment for the school’s learning support team.

Please join us!

We would love for all our new parents to support the PTA if they are able to. We are very open to any ideas you may have and would welcome new members. Please follow us on Facebook to find out more about upcoming events. Find us at The Romsey School PTA. You can also contact us on pta@theromseyschool.org