At Northampton Academy, we work hard to provide a caring and secure bridge between Year 6 and 7, making the transition from Primary to Secondary a positive and fulfilling experience. At Northampton Academy, your child will have every opportunity to reach aspirational goals and targets in a secure and caring environment that pays close attention to social and emotional needs and development. Year 7 is both a fun and challenging year where students will develop key life skills in a community that maintains high expectations of behaviour and conduct and continually drives our core values of Respect, Determination, Ambition, Tolerance and Integrity.
Transition can be a time of many changes, including:
• A new and bigger school-working environment
• Changes in teachers
• New friendship groups
• Being around older students
• Movement around the school
• New subject areas
In Year 7, we have minimised these changes by focusing on making sure that our students feel safe and confident in their first year. Students have expressed that they feel comfortable and happy in their learning environment, enabling them to progress and improve achievement.
It is vital that each child knows who to turn to if they need someone to talk to. To this end, students will be assigned a tutor, who will be your first point of contact. Your child will also have a non-teaching Learning Manager that is solely dedicated to the year group. The Learning Manager is a hugely supportive and influential staff member, an ever visible, caring, and supportive addition that you and your child will quickly become extremely familiar with.
We look forward to working in partnership with you and your child here at the Academy.
If you have any further queries, please email:
Richard Windsor – Director of Key Stage 3: r.windsor@northampton-academy.org
Rob Hart - Deputy Director of Key Stage 3 & 4: r.hart@northampton-academy.org