News

Monday 19th May 2025

Dear Parents, Carers and Students,

Welcome to our newsletter for the fifth week of the Summer Term 2025 and the last week of our Lampton academic year - all students in years 7 -12 will be promoted to their new groups when we return after the half-term break. Your child/children will be issued with their new timetable later this week so that they can be prepared fully for the new school year.  It’s Week A, so whole school assemblies are taking place; these are being led by Ms Leregle (Assistant Headteacher) and focus on the theme of self-discovery.

Last Tuesday we welcomed year 10 and their families for a successful celebration evening and this week on Tuesday and Wednesday we will be welcoming our new cohort of year 7 and their families at their ‘getting to know you’ interviews. This year we will be sharing our new policy on smartphones with families. This is very simple - smartphones will not be permitted in school at all for this year group. Over the coming weeks we will be writing to all families in every year group to reinforce the school’s rules about smartphones. Our recommendation is clear, students do not need a smartphone in school at all. Our policy of ‘hear it, see it, lose it’ will remain in force with devices returned once the student has served community service from 3.10 - 3.40pm. Failure to attend will result in the device being kept until the end of the next working day, so on a Friday this would include keeping the device over the weekend. This is compliant with government guidance: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/65cf5f2a4239310011b7b916/Mobile_phones_in_schools_guidance.pdf

Smartwatches are also not permitted in school and the same confiscation principles apply. Thank you for your support with this important matter.

The remaining key dates of the half-term are below:

Friday 23rd May	School ends at 3:10pm for the half-term break
Monday 2nd June	INSET Day - school site closed to students
Tuesday 3rd June	School starts for the new academic year at 8:40am

With best wishes for the week ahead and the half-term break.

Stephen Davis

Headteacher

 

Autism Support Group

Hounslow have an Autism support group for parents which meet on the 2^nd Wednesday of every month via Zoom.  Each month they have a professional leading a discussion on a related topic and parents have the opportunity to ask questions and meet other parents,

The next sessions is due to take place on Wednesday 10^th June and Claire Wraight will be talking about the Neuro-affirmative approach.

Email Sally March sally.march@blueyonder.co.uk with the subject “Autism Support Group” if you would like to attend. She will add you to the mailing list and send you the zoom link for the next session.

 

How can you find out if something is age appropriate for your young person?

Common Sense Media https://www.commonsensemedia.org/ is a website and is also available as an app. It allows the user to search movies, tv shows, books, games, podcasts and apps to find out if they are age appropriate for your young person. 

It can be used to suggest what is suitable for young people of a certain age and it can also be used to search specific products to see their suitability for your young person.