End of term message from Mrs Sharma  18/07/2024

Dear Families,

As the year draws to a close, we are busy preparing for the new academic year. I’d like to draw your attention to some reminders and upcoming changes that I have shared with students in assemblies this half term.

The school site will be open to all students from 7:45am every morning.  This ensure that students at school site will be supervised and have safe, warm spaces to use, especially during the dark winter morning.  A reminder that all tutors will be in tutor bases from 8:15am every day, for a prompt start of registration at 8:30am.

It was interesting to ask students to remind me of the current mobile phone policy.  Each year group knew the policy is to switch the phone off and keep it safely in the bag. A reminder that any phones seen, heard or used from 8:25am (when the first bell goes) till the end of day 2:30pm will be confiscated.  I’d urge parents to support this by not contacting their child on their mobiles during school time.  Please call student services or school reception and all important messages will be communicated.  We all want our students to be safe and when at school, be free from the distractions of the phones.  Thank you for your support in the matter.

To be the best version of ourselves, we are reviewing our Behaviour policy and it is being consulted with student movement as well as staff.  I will direct you to the new policy in September.  Thank you for your patience with this.

Plans for the final week of this term:  We plan to enjoy the Sports Day, out in the fields, on Friday 19 July.  Weather looks supportive for the events – fingers crossed.  Please ensure that students have a bottle of water, hat or sunscreen as they will be outside most of the day.  The awards celebration will take place on the last day of the term, Tuesday 23 July.  The school will end at 1:20pm.  We have confirmed with the buses as well as the train times to ensure all children can return home safely.

Every summer we say goodbyes to a few colleagues and welcome new faces to our community.  We welcome Mr. Wickham our new SENDCo, who joined us on July 1^st.  We look forward to welcoming Mr. Ainslie in our Maths team and Mr. Drummond in English Department, in September.  Delighted to share that we a fully staffed for September 2024.

Mr. Kimber and Ms. La are moving to new schools in September.  Mrs. Dewar and Mrs. Wilson will be leaving the Bourne.  They go with our best wishes in future roles.

Miss. Chappell, currently Leader of Year for Yr7 is moving on to pursue her interests outside of the realms of secondary education.

And finally, we bid farewell to Mrs. Hardwick, Deputy Head teacher, who leaves us to start a new adventure, in education, in a new setting.

All colleagues will be missed by students and staff alike.  We wish them every success in their future endeavours.

Just a reminder of dates for the new term –
Monday 2 September – Inset Day – school closed for students
Tuesday 3 September – Year 7 only
Wednesday 4 September – whole school returns
Friday 4 October – Inset Day – school closed for students
Half term – Monday 28 October to Friday 1 November
Friday 20 December – last day of term

Thank you for your continued support.  If you have any comments/queries you’d like to share, please email office@bourne.org.uk ; I would be happy to meet/chat with you.

I hope you will enjoy reading the upcoming newsletter! Our students did us proud this year and it is a celebration of some of their achievements.

May I wish you all a great summer ahead, both safe and warm and we look forward to starting afresh in September.

Kind regards

Mrs Sharma