New Year 7: September 2026

• Students will start at Beckfoot on Thursday 3 September 2026 at 8:30am – don’t be late. Please assemble at around 8:25am on the red tarmac area, where students started on their transition day in July. 
• Students can arrive from 8:00am using either the bus bay gate or the turning circle gate.
• Year 11 and Year 12 will also be in school. Year 8, 9, 10 and 13 will start on Friday 4 September 2026 at 8:30am.
• Please ensure all students are wearing all the correct uniform and have all the correct equipment in your bags. Please refer to our uniform and equipment page. 
• On their first day, students will start their day with an assembly in the main hall where they will receive:
  • their two-weekly timetable; and
  • their lanyards
• For this day, they will have a full drop-down day, participating in an Oracy workshop. Students will find which room they are in for the workshop during the morning assembly. Students are usually in tutor groups for ‘drop-down days’.
• There are no PE lessons on Thursday 3 September 2026, so students do not need their PE kit on their first day. PE lessons start for Year 7 students in X-band on Friday 4 September 2026 and Year 7 students in Y-band on Tuesday 8 September 2026. Students need to bring PE uniform in spare bag this day (do not wear PE kits to start the day – students get changed into their kit during their PE lessons). You can see whether students are in X-Band or Y-band via student timetables will be given out on the first day or you can view via Class Charts.
• School will finish at normal time at 3:00pm.
• There will be no after school clubs during the first week of school.

• Classcharts: Students received both their parents and student codes for Classcharts during transition evening, back in July. Class Charts is our Parental App that allows us to securely track and share details of your child(ren’s) achievement, behaviour, home learning and attendance throughout the school day thereby keeping you up to date of how they are doing in real-time. If you require access codes for Parents/Carers or Students, please email [email protected]. More information on Classcharts can be found on our Parental App webpage. 
• Two-week timetable: We also work on a two-week timetable (not one). To keep a track of what week students are on for their timetable, please see our Holiday Dates webpage.
• Food/Drink: Students can either bring a packed lunch or purchase food from the school canteen before school, break and lunch. Food is only allowed to be consume on non-carpeted areas, such as atrium, outside etc. It would be recommended to bring a water bottle to hydrate. There is also a water machines located in the atrium to top up if required. All menus for the school canteen can be found here School Meals and Free School Meals. 
• ParentPay: Students will receive their lanyards in their first assembly. Please ensure students’ lanyard cards have money on them if your child requires to purchase food from the school canteen. To put credit on student’s accounts, please log in to your ParentPay account. You will have received your account details on the transition evening or through the post. As we are now a cashless school, there are no other method to top up student’s accounts. You can monitor what students have purchased through your ParentPay account.
• Beckfoot University: Throughout Year 7, students will be taking part in their Beckfoot University project.
• Year 7 Handbook: You may have seen a copy of our handbook after our transition evening in July. It has useful information about what else you might need to know. To view it again, please click here.
• PLS: Here is a reminder of our PLS system, please allow students to familiarise themselves before they start school.
• Place2Be: We are lucky to have Place2Be in our school. It is a national charity supporting schools to improve the confidence and wellbeing of children and young people. Please see our letter providing more information here.
• Year 7 Parents/Carers Evening: information for this can be found here. Year 7’s Parents/Carers for this academic year is on Thursday 25 February 2027.

We are looking forward to welcoming back all our new Year 7’s and we hope they are as excited as we are!