Open Evening
Our open evening for Year 6 students and their parents will take place on Thursday 9th October from 6pm to 8pm. You can find out more in this letter.
Mutual Respect - Compassion - Discipline - High Expectations & Aspirations - Hard Work
School Notices
Social Media
Our new Facebook and Instagram pages are now live. You can access and follow them using the links.
Achieve Excellence Programme
Our Achieve excellence programme aims to support students and their parents/carers with their learning journey through school. We have recently held our 'Meet the form tutor evening' and a 'Year 10 Parental Seminar' as part of the programme. You can download the handout and the PowerPoint from the Meet the Form Tutor evening, a copy of the handout from the Year 10 Parent Seminar as well as this guidebook with suggestions of how you can support your child.
Exam Results and Certificates
Here is an update about how we store your exam results and certificates:
- Results will be kept for the year they are taken plus 6 years, this means that we will only hold results for students up to the age of 25.
- Certificates will be held for 12 months. (From the January following the summer exams).
- Certificates cannot be issued during exam periods.
- Results after the age of 25 can be obtained from the relevant Exam Boards and Certificates after 12 months can also be obtained from the Boards at a cost to the student.
Start for Life
Family Hubs are centres which, have been developed to support families with children and young people aged 0-19 years to receive early help / support to overcome a range of difficulties and build stronger relationships with their communities. You can find out more about these here.
PTA Events and Meetings
Our PTA provide a variety of events throughout the year to raise money to support our students. You can find out more about their events and the upcoming meetings here.
Newsletters
Our latest secondary school newsletter has been published with a roundup of all the activities and experiences that our students have taken part in during the final term of the year.
Bounce Forward Course
This free online course is working with the Karry Kane foundation to raise mental health resilience in young people. You can find out more about the course
here and can register for a place starting in June or September
here.
Parenting Programme
Barking and Dagenham's Family Hub have shared details of their Parenting Programmes 2025. You can find out more from this flyer and can see their timetable here. If you wish to sign up for these programmes, please use this link.
Tapestry
We use Tapestry, a secure learning journal, to record our reception students learning and progress. Parents of reception students can find out more about using Tapestry using these guides: -
- Guide for Parents
- Information Sheet 1
- Information Sheet 2
- Android Mobile User Guide
- iOS Mobile User Guide
- Web Browser User Guide
Money, Debt and Tenancy Advice for Families
Debt Free Advice, Citizen’s Advice and Homes and Money Hub will have caseworkers available for drop in sessions to help with issues including (but not limited to):
- Priority Arrears (Council Tax, Rent, Utilities)
- Non-Priority Debts (Credit Cards, Loans etc)
- Consumer rights
- Support with Benefits/Grants
For more information, please see click here.
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