End of Term & New Year Changes

Dear Parent/Carer,

Before the end of this term, your child will receive a new timetable for the Spring Term. The new timetable will show that in some subject areas, there may be a change of teacher or change of room from January 2019. Whilst I understand this may be unsettling, this is a necessary change for the college and in the longer term will have positive benefits.

The reasons for the making the change mid-year are:-

  • We started the Autumn Term with a number of unfilled vacancies in some subject areas. This meant that we needed to rely on temporary supply staff for the teaching of some groups. Your child may have experienced some inconsistency in staffing in some areas because of this. We hope by making these changes that this will no longer be the case.
  • You will also be aware of the current financial challenges schools and colleges are facing. We are not exempt from this and also face these challenges. Covering our timetable from our permanent teaching staff rather than paying the high cost of supply teaching will enable us to reinvest in staff development that will have a positive impact on the experience your child has.

We are committed to ensuring that students get the best possible experience at the college. We know that where students have stable and consistent teaching, they make the most progress and have worked hard to put this in place from January 2019.

As this is an unplanned change to the school year and in order to support and ensure our staff are ready for the changes, we will be undertaking some additional staff training. We will be closing the college at 1pm on Thursday 20thDecember for this to happen.This will give staff the opportunity to plan and prepare for new or different teaching groups upon our return in January.

Other important information:-

Please note also that our Year 9 Parents Evening will now take place on Thursday 28thFebruary. This is a change to the published date.

Thank you in advance for your support with these changes.

Kind regards

Mrs C Aitcheson

Principal

This page was last updated: 12th December 2018