We understand that you may have certain questions relating to the teaching groups that your child has been placed into at the start of year 7. We hope to outline the rationale for the current groupings here…

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we have housed certain year groups into ‘bubble corridors’. Students will remain in their mentor groups, for the first part of the year – the aim is to reduce the risk of the virus spreading.

Students will be taught in mentor groups for all of their lessons, apart from technology and PE.

As there is limited data sent from primary schools to secondary schools this year, we do not have enough information to place students into sets for setted subjects e.g. maths and science. We will be carrying out baseline assessments over the course of this half term, to allow us the chance to get to know your child a bit more. Once this has taken place, we will then be in a position to create new groups for these subjects to allow us greater flexibility within the curriculum.

These are very challenging times for everyone, we hope that consistency of groups will allow students to feel safe and secure at the beginning of the secondary phase of their education.