Hinchingbrooke Transition Newsletter V2

Hinchingbrooke Transition Newsletter 2017/2018

Contact details for the Year 7 Team Upcoming Events
Telephone direct dial: 01480 420522
Email: [email protected] 3rd, 4th and 5th July 2018
Taster Days
Welcome to the start of your journey with Hinchingbrooke, we
acknowledge that this is as much a transition for you as 5th July 2018
parents/carers as it is your children. Parent Information Evening

One of the greatest strengths of the transition process lies in the 4th September 2018
communication that takes place between primary, secondary and of First day of school
course yourselves, the parents/carers.
Term Dates
Please feel free to contact us at any time after getting your offer
letter in March with any information that you feel we should be Autumn Term opens
aware of about your child e.g. SEN or pastoral issues. Tuesday 4 September 2018
(Years 7 & 12 only)
We have 10 form groups in each year group with 2 in each of our 5 Half Term Monday 22 October - Friday
houses. 26 October 2018 (inclusive)
Cromwell, Montagu, Pepys, Vesey and Wylton. Staff Training Day
Friday 7 December 2018
Students are allocated to forms as an equal mix of boy/girl and primary Autumn Term closes
schools. Wednesday 19 December 2018
We do not follow the tradition of houses within families. Staff Training Day Wednesday
Students follow the pastoral programme as form groups, but are no 2 January 2019
longer taught as forms in order to allow us to offer a greater variety of
subjects. Spring Term opens
Thursday 3 January 2019
Half Term Monday 18 February –
Friday 22 February 2019

Summer Term opens
Monday 29 April 2019
May Day Holiday Monday 6 May 2019
Half Term Monday 27 May – Friday
31 May 2019
Staff Training Day Friday
14 June 2019
Summer Term closes
Friday 19 July 2019

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More Important News In the Community

KEY TRANSITION DATES AND TIMETABLE OF EVENTS Mr Dan Milner
Head of Year 7
31st October 2017 - preference forms submitted to LEA by and Transition Manager
parent/carers Extension 5818
Email [email protected]
1st March 2018 - offer letters/emails sent out by LEA
Mrs Esther Ormston
You will need to contact Hinchingbrooke within 15 days of receipt of this Student Support Officer for Year 7
letter to confirm acceptance of your child’s place (either by telephone or
email), you will receive a confirmation email/call in return. and CP officer
Extension 5826
Lower School - Telephone 01480 420522 or email Email [email protected]
[email protected]

If you no longer require your place, please can we ask that you complete
the slip on the bottom of the letter and return to admissions at CCC to
release the place for another student.

Admissions Team,
OCT1221, The Octagon, Castle Hill, Cambridge. CB3 0AP

Telephone 0345 045 1370
Email [email protected]

You will be sent admission paperwork to complete and return to
Hinchingbrooke as final confirmation of acceptance of your child’s place,
this needs to be done asap please, as this information is required before
your child attends any of the open days with us.

March – June 2018 - Transition meetings with Year 6 class teachers and
talks to Year 6 students by Mrs Ormston, Mrs Nairne-Clarke and Mr
Milner

End of June – Information packs posted home (Handbook, Taster day
information and also your child’s form group).

Mrs Nicola Darbyshire
Lower School Administrator

Extension 5766
Email [email protected]

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More Important News Mrs Jill Nairne-Clark
SEN Transition Coordinator
26th/27th June 2018 - Pre-taster day visits for smaller primaries/out of
catchment pupils and for those students with additional transition Extension 5762
needs. Invitation letters will be sent out for these, as this is by invitation Email [email protected]
only
Mr Simon Parker
3rd, 4th and 5th July 2018 - Taster Days for students. On the 3rd Medical Need Coordinator
students will either travel via bus to and from their primary or walk.
Timings of the school day are 9.30 until 2.30 pm (for any out of Extension 5762
catchment students parent are required to drop them off in the bus Email [email protected]
bays). On the 4th and 5th students will make their way to and from
school in the method that they will be using in September – please note Follow us on Twitter
bus passes are not required for this the drivers will be made aware of the @Hbk_School
arrangement. Timings of the school day are 8.45 am until 3.30 pm

5th July 2018 - Parent Information Evening

Summer 2018 – Students who require a bus pass for September will be
posted one from Education Transport

Education Transport Team,
Box no. SH1013, Shire Hall, Cambridge. CB3 0AP

Telephone 0345 045 5208
Email [email protected]

4th September 2018 – First day of school at Hinchingbrooke for Year 7
and 12 only, on this day students will be registered for their Biometric
accounts and have their school photograph taken. Please send students
in with either cash or packed lunch for the first day or so. They will also
receive their student planner and time tables, and will find out which
MFL they are studying

During the first week of school you will receive an activation code from
our communications team to register for Parent Mail, you will then be
able to purchase a locker and pay for this via +Pay.

If you do not have a Parent Mail account a locker letter will be sent
home with your child, and payment can be made by cheque or card over
the phone

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Q. If my child is not well enough to come to Q. How is homework set? Q. My child is having issues
school what do I do? with another student in school
A. We have a 24-hour absence line if you ring A. Homework is set on who do I inform?
the school number and follow the options, line via Doddle, students
dial 2 then dial 1 and leave a voice mail are registered within the A. In the first instance contact
first few weeks of the form tutor
Q. When will I be starting, parents are
registered for Parent given the opportunity to
Mail? sign up as well at a later
date so that they can
view the homework set

A. You will be sent an Q and A’s Q. When will my child
activation code within receive their locker?
the first week of Teachers
starting. Students are A. Lockers are allocated
still registered with Q. When will I find by the 2nd week, as
their primary school up out what language payments are made via
until the Summer my child will be Parent Mail +Pay and
studying? accounts are not
Q. What activated before
equipment will my A. In September
child need for the students will receive Q. What does my child do if they
first day? a copy of their time feel unwell during the school day?
table with their
A. A bag, pencil language allocation A. We have a school nurse based
case -containing in Nunnery Court (by
maths equipment, Hinchingbrooke House), if she
reading book feels that the student is too ill to
money for lunch or remain in school she will contact
packed lunch and a parent/carers to arrange for them
water bottle to be collected

PE kit is not
needed

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