Welcome to our new students who have been offered a place into Year 7 at North Leamington School in September. Relevant letters will be sent out week commencing 16^th April.

Dates for the Diary

• Primary School Visits and Additional Visits to NLS – May and June
• Out of Area Primary School Visit to NLS (invitation only) – Wednesday 13^TH June 2-3pm
• Transition Day – current Year 6 students Wednesday 27th June 8.30 – 3pm
• Transition Evening – for  parents of Year 6 students joining us Thursday 28^th 6.30-8pm
• Coffee Morning – current Year 6 parents Tuesday 19^th June (exams finished) 9-10am
• Exploration Day – Saturday 14th July 10.00 am – 12 noon – for children accompanied by parents/carers.
• ‘Get to Know NLS’ Day – 30^th August 10.00am – 3.00pm – for children only

North Leamington School draws from a wide area, featuring several main feeder schools including: Telford, Milverton, Cubbington, Lillington and Brookhurst; along with many other schools from a wider area: Kenilworth, Warwick and Rugby.

We recognise that the transition to a secondary school is a very exciting time, but in some cases, also an anxious time. As a result we have developed strategies to support this:

• The Transition Team visits all partner primary schools to meet prospective North Leamington students in their own environment and to enable direct communication with Year 6 teachers. Information gathered during these visits enables us to ensure that students are well placed in Teaching Groups and are provided with relevant and personalised support, before, during and after they begin at North Leamington School.
• Our new Transition Leaders from our current Year 7 cohort accompany us on visits back to their previous Primary schools. This strategy has proved very successful in helping the new students feel at ease and they have felt more able to ask any questions they may have during these visits.
• The Transition Leaders then support our new students at transition events and also in the first few months of Secondary School.
• In addition to this we also support all students through a Transition Day and Parents’ Evening, which incorporates meeting College Leaders, VT Tutor and teaching group, in addition to experiencing for the first time, how the school day operates at North Leamington.
• For students with additional needs, or for those feeling particularly anxious, we offer additional small group visits just before the Transition Day.
• For parents we offer coffee mornings to enable you to meet other parents and ask any questions you may have.
• Following Transition Day we offer additional events such as Exploration Day, which is a Treasure Hunt around the school; a ‘Get to Know NLS day’, where all students are invited to spend the day during the holidays experiencing a range of activities, but more importantly, start to make new friends at their new school.
  
  

We work closely with our main feeder schools to ensure that there is continuity in the Curriculum between Years 6 and 7, and many of our departments are holding transition events for students as young as Year 2, so they can experience what North Leamington School has to offer them in our state of the art facilities.

Parents/Carers of North Leamington students are invited to attend a Parents’ Evening in September to meet their child’s Tutor, the Transition Team and the School’s Leadership Team, and have any queries answered.

If you have any questions about transition please email transition@northleamington.co.uk.