Activity
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What is it?
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When it happens
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| Shortlisting/priority listing |
- Review all applicants to attend ELA
- Prioritise/shortlist (if over-subscribed) applicants based on DALP criteria (sibling/feeder school etc.)
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End of autumn term |
| Transition booklet sent out to primaries for parents |
- Provides all relevant information and detail regarding the process and answers any questions they may have
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Spring term following allocation of secondary schools |
| Letter sent out to parents of students accepting places |
- Key dates and information included
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After the Easter holidays |
| Transfer booklets produced and distributed to primary students |
- Booklets sent to primaries at start of May with covering letter for teachers (reminding them of Mrs Baxter’s visit dates)
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- Sent to primaries before middle of May
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| Mrs Baxter visits primary schools |
- Mrs Baxter visits every primary from which ELA receives students.
- Mrs Baxter speaks with the students to explain what they are to expect from transfer days and their first days starting at the academy in the September.
- Mrs Baxter then meets with the class teacher to discuss each student – in turn this info is then used to inform tutor group/teaching group allocation
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Visits take place last week of May and first week of June |
| Mrs Baxter organises groupings |
- Using information given by primaries to organise mixed ability, mixed gender teaching groups
- Allocate students to tutor groups
- Siblings always placed in same house
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Organised and printed before July 1st |
| Transfer days |
- Students to experience two ELA academy days
- Attend vertical tutoring to meet their tutor group
- Attend variety of lessons across the academy
- Meet their teaching groups for September
- Opportunity to take home lots of information for parents
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Start of July |
| Parents’ Evening |
- An opportunity to meet with Heads of House and Senior Leadership Team
- Opportunity to look around the academy
- Enhanced learning faculty available
- Opportunity to meet older students
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Evening takes place on the evening of the second transfer day |
| Staggered return to academy |
- Year 7 and post 16 return to the academy one day ahead of other year groups
- Start of the new academy year
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| Additional testing as required to give ELA staff complete overview (dyslexia testing, reading tests etc.) |
Informs current working ability to allow for additional intervention from enhanced learning faculty if required |
First half term |
