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Welcome to your new school Welcome to Robert Smyth Academy What’s inside Robert Smyth Academy Year 7 03 What’s inside Welcome to your new school 05 Our values 06 The Academy day 09 Equipment & expectations 10 ParentPay Mobile phones School meals Free School Meals Uniform 12 Tutor group 14 Extra curricular activities 2020-21 16 Attendance & punctuality 18 FAQs 19 Key members of staff 20 What next? 22 Site map 23 robertsmyth.tgacademy.org.uk The achievements of students reflect the high quality of teaching and personalised support offered by our teaching team and members of staff. These key features have led to another year of significant success both in and beyond the classroom. Dan Cleary Principal @RSAPrincipal @RSAPerfArts @Robertsmyth_PE @rsa_business @rsa_english @RSA_Art_Dep robertsmythacademy Welcome to your new school Robert Smyth Academy Year 7 05 Welcome to your new school It is my pleasure to welcome you following apology for them. We do not allow the use of your successful application. Robert Smyth mobile phone devices on site for any reason, Academy was founded in 1607 as the Market we expect students to be on time, we expect Harborough Grammar School and has served students to greet adults and other students the community of Market Harborough and with respect, we expect students to have their surrounding villages for over 400 years. We planner with them at all times and we will look forward to welcoming your child into an expect hard work in every part of their school environment in which students are prepared, experience. Your child has the right to learn in kind and hard working. a positive, warm and structured environment without disruption. We expect all students to be able to learn and make progress through a broad and rich Today, your son or daughter takes their next curriculum. The achievements of students step toward joining Robert Smyth Academy. reflect the high quality of teaching and They will benefit from the advantage of joining personalised support offered by our teaching a setting that offers the potential to develop team and members of staff. These key features friendships and relationships from the age of have led to another year of significant success 11 through to 19 years of age. Every child who both in and beyond the classroom including embarks on this journey will benefit from both our best ever result. This is exciting as we the security and a support network to promote already know that our forthcoming year group their well-being and enable them to become has the potential to reset all records for successful learners. performance because we have met and heard from so many talented young people who join Ultimately, my job is to ensure that your child our new Year 7 cohort. is happy, safe and known at school. These building blocks will allow them to achieve The strength of our partnership with parents everything that they aspire to be and to do. is paramount and it is important to state that My aspirations for all children who join us are we expect parents and carers to support us limitless and this is an exciting moment as we so that we can work together in partnership plan for a purposeful start in the new term.. to give your children the best opportunities, experiences and outcomes as possible. We Dan Cleary have high expectations and we make no Principal robertsmyth.tgacademy.org.uk Our values It is vitally important that all students understand three basic, daily expectations of their approach to Academy life. We believe that all students, irrespective of background, require structure to achieve their best. At the core of these three expectations is a belief that discipline provides freedom. Be prepared Be kind Work hard All students are expected to be All students are expected to be kind All students are expected to work immaculately dressed, on time and ready and show compassion toward one hard. We encourage students to take to learn carrying their planner with another. We embrace traditional responsibility for their performance them everyday. These routines apply like values and expect students to say and reject excuses or quick fixes. We clockwork and allow students to make the “Please” and “Thank you” as well believe that all students will exceed most of the curriculum by being in as to hold doors for one another expectations through a commitment to a state of preparation. Every student is around the Academy site. We discipline in their concentration, thought expected to demonstrate this mindset encourage students to express and work. We know that learning is a so that no time is wasted and they are gratitude to their peers and other change to long term memory and that able to learn and make exceptional members of the community and for learning to take place there must be progress across the curriculum. The to pick each other up when they focus, repetition, checking and retrieval. expectation for students to be punctual, face times of difficulty. We explicitly We expect all students to demonstrate organised and well presented is a reinforce the importance of kindness a strong work ethic that will enable consistent feature of Academy life and and ensure that students know that them to be empowered with significant there are no exceptions. how they treat others really matters. advantages in knowledge acquisition. Our school values Robert Smyth Academy Year 7 07 Our Academy The college system is an important part of the character and ethos of our Academy. All students who join the Academy are placed in one of four colleges, each with a historical connection to the Academy and the town. You will join one of these colleges (or ‘house groups’) when you join in the Autumn: Bragg College This college is named in celebration of Sir William Henry Bragg, eminent physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1915 and a former student of the original Market Harborough County Grammar School. Hammond College Francis Hammond was Headmaster of the Market Harborough County Grammar School when it moved to our site on Burnmill Road in 1909. Our renowned arboretum is also named ‘The Hammond Arboretum’ in recognition of his contribution to the creation of this valuable resource. Logan College Logan college is named in celebration of the lives and work of local sisters Isobel and Nora Logan,who were both heavily involved in women’s rights and suffrage in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Moseley College Mr and Mrs Moseley had a long association with the Market Harborough County Grammar School. Mr Moseley was chair of governors for several years and Mrs Moseley was a district councillor in the 1950s and an enthusiastic supporter of the school, often attending award ceremonies to give out prizes. Our assemblies, competitions, celebrations and charity events all foster a pride in belonging to a college. Students are encouraged to participate fully in events and activities. robertsmyth.tgacademy.org.uk Students can arrive at school on foot, by bicycle, car or on the school bus. The Academy day Robert Smyth Academy Year 7 09 The Academy day Before we get to the structure, it is important to note that we expect students to travel to their lessons with pace and purpose. All students are expected to have their planners with them at all times. Our school day is organised into one • Not having bells leads to a more • your nearest school hour lessons as follows: pleasant environment And, in addition: • Years 7 and 8 have their lunch earlier • the nearest Leicestershire school than everyone else. We don’t want The school day a lunch time bell to go while other (Further details can be found on students are in lessons. Leicestershire County Council’s website Years 7 to 13 • Students will be expected to get to www.leicestershire.gov.uk regarding PSHE 08:45 lessons on time and if they are late, qualification guidelines) teachers will challenge them and Period 1 09:10 If you are not eligible for this then make a record on the register. parents will need to pay if they wish Period 2 10:10 • Parents should note that students their child to have a place on a bus. who are shouting or making loud We currently provide a school bus from 11:10 Break noises in the corridors will be Great Glen via Fleckney, Kibworth and Period 3 11:30 subject to the behaviour policy as an Gartree and Desborough via Rushton example of disruption. and Rothwell. Information and an Lunch – Years 7 & 8 12:30 application for a place on the bus can be Student entrance and Reception found within this pack. Please complete Period 4 – Years 9 to 13 12.30 Students have a dedicated entrance this and return it to the school office. Period 4 – Years 7 and 8 13:15 to the school, which should be used by all students on arrival in Lunch – Years 9 & 13 13:30 the morning and at the end of the school day to exit the building. Period 5 14:15 Parents and visitors to the school End of school day 15:15 should enter via the Main School reception. If you need to pick your child up for any reason during the Period 6 lessons will be scheduled in day, please go to reception where some subjects at A Level from Tuesday your child will be brought down to Thursday from 15.15 to 16.15. to you. If you need to drop off anything for your child, please also do this at the Main Reception.