Dear Parent/Carer,
START OF TERM ARRANGEMENTS: NEW YEAR 7
I am writing to you with an update of our start to the new school year for our Year 7 students. We also use our website home page to provide updates for parents, so please check this regularly. You will also find an electronic copy of the information in this letter there.
Start of the New School Term
Year 7 students will begin the new school term on Tuesday 5 September. You can find the full return to school programme at the end of this letter.
Students need to arrive at the front of the school building for 8:25am, at the latest, where staff will direct them to assemble in their form groups. Please do not come onto the school site with your child, they need to be sent into school from the front gate. Staff will be on hand to support, supervise and direct students.
The school day will end at 2:40pm. Once again, cars are not allowed on the school site and children must be collected from the school gates on Newton Road. Please do not come onto the school site.
We have endeavoured, where possible, to keep students in groupings with some other students from their primary school for tutor time. Students will be grouped by mixed ability in some subjects and in sets by ability in others. We will be using internal assessment data, as well as Cognitive Ability Test (CAT) data, to review setting throughout the academic year.
Resources
A reminder that resources are available on the school website to support transition. You can locate these by visiting www.jesmondparkacademy.org.uk and navigating the top menu bar to ‘About the Academy/Transition’ to take you to our transition homepage. Updates and additions will continue to be made, so please do check the website regularly for the latest information.
Uniform
In terms of school uniform, the school badge outer ring colour for Year 7 in September will be PINK. This will stay with students as they progress through the school. Our uniform supplier is Michael Sehgal & Sons Ltd. There is information on the school website about the purchase of school uniform from our supplier. You can access this through the following website menu route ‘About the Academy/School Information/School Uniform’.
Included in the uniform booklet there is information about approved styles of school shoe. We have produced a brochure containing examples of suitable school shoes using Wynsors shoes. You can find this in the uniform area of our website. You are welcome to buy school shoes from any retailer, providing that the shoes purchased match the requirements in our uniform brochure and our approved styles.
The School Day
The start of the school day is 8:30am and students need to be on site by 8:25am at the latest. The end of the school day for Year 7 is 2.40pm. You can find a detailed plan of the school day on our website in ‘About the Academy/School Information/The School Day’. You can also access the latest packed edition of our school magazine, ‘Parklife’, from the home page of our website.
Further information will follow soon relating to the transition days on 12, 13 and 14 of July. We are looking forward to welcoming you all to Jesmond Park Academy in September. In the meantime, I wish you and your family an enjoyable summer holiday season.
Yours faithfully,
Steve Campbell
Principal