A member of the Transition Team will visit all primary schools between April-June to meet with both students and the Year 6 class teacher.  Please rest assured that even if your child is the only student coming from their primary school, we will make a visit.  The aims of this visit are to speak with the students to answer any questions and alleviate any worries about the transition to Year 7.  The class teacher is encouraged to share any relevant information with the Transition Team including information about academic progress, SEND needs, extra-curricular interests and relevant social groupings.  All of this information is used to create the Year 7 tutor groups, organise sporting academies and inform lesson groupings.  We take students from over 60 primaries and try to carefully construct our tutor groups to support the transition of every student.  Where possible, we try to ensure each student has some friendly faces in each tutor group.  However, it is important to remember that the tutor group is only together for 25 minutes each day.  Therefore, there are lots of other lessons throughout the week containing different groups of students and a chance to connect with a variety of their peers.

All students who have a confirmed place will be contacted by the College in the last week of June to be notified of their Year 7 tutor group.  We then have a
‘Meet The Tutor’ Parents evening where we go through relevant information with parents and you can get to know the pastoral team. 
This will take place on

Monday, 30 June 2025
from 5.30pm - 7.30pm

There will then be a Year 6 Transition Day where all students join us for the day to get to know their tutors, their peers and the College campus.
This will take place on

Thursday, 3 July 2025
from 8.40am - 3.00pm

We look forward to meeting our new students!

Please click here to view the Year 6 - 7 Transition Key Dates document.