News

Monday 08th June 2026

Dear Parents, Carers and Students,

Welcome to our newsletter for the eight week of the summer term 2026 and the second week of our academic year 2026-27. All year groups have been promoted and have commenced their new timetables.

My thanks to those of you who completed our annual Edurio survey before the half-term break. Once the results have been analysed I will feedback headlines through this newsletter. We had an increased response this year from parents and from students which is fantastic and provides powerful feedback for us as a school community.

The public examinations continue for students who were in years 13 and 11. A reminder that study leave now applies to both cohorts, whereby students need only attend when they have an examination taking place. 

Over the half-term break we were pleased to hear from the Department for Education that we have been successful in our latest capital bid from the Condition Improvement Fund. On this occasion we have been awarded the full cost of replacement of fire doors in the main building. This success builds on our previous awards for replacing the fire and electrical infrastructure across the whole school site, the replacement of a number of flat roofs and the heating and boiler replacement currently taking place in the main building. In total over the last four years we have received investment of over 5 million pounds in the replacement of key infrastructure in the school. This investment greatly supports the learning experience of our students to ensure that our facilities are modern and fit for purpose.

As we begin the new academic year a focus for tutor periods, lessons and assemblies will be our learning routines and expectations. Please ask your child/children about this so that you can support them in their learning. 

With the weather becoming warmer should it become necessary to modify school uniform expectations, you will be contacted via text message and students via Google Classroom. Until that point, normal uniform expectations will apply.

Please see below the dates of key events happening in school this half-term:

Monday 15th June	Year 11 leavers’ assembly
Tuesday 16th June	Year 10 celebration evening
Tuesday 23rd June	Year 13 celebration evening
Tuesday 30th June	Year 11 prom
Thursday 2nd July	Creative & performing arts showcase
Tuesday 7th July	Primary transfer day and evening
Wednesday 15th July	Sponsored walk
Friday 17th July	Last day of term. School finishes at 12.30

With best wishes for the half-term and week ahead,

Stephen Davis

Headteacher

 

A message from Cucina, our catering provider

IFG, Cucina’s parent company, proudly serves over 800,000 students nutritious meals each day. Our award-winning teams are dedicated to serving vibrant, appetising food, freshly prepared on-site using quality ingredients. To enable us to continue doing this, our meal tariff will be increasing by 2.7% and Free School Meal Allowance to £2.85 from September 2026. The great news is that we have frozen all fruit, yoghurt and salad dish prices. Below, we have outlined some of the cost pressures which have driven this increase. 

Food Inflation: We buy British and support our local economy where possible, but due to global unrest, we have seen food inflation of 3.7% with predictions of food inflation to reach 9% by the of the year. The increase is not only in the cost of delivering to our sites but also in the products we purchase. We have robustly negotiated and mitigated with our suppliers, ensuring we maintain quality; however, increases have persisted across all products and ingredients we buy.

Employee Funding & Retention: In April, the Government increased the minimum wage by 4.1%, a positive move which will ease cost pressures for many of our colleagues. Alongside this, to retain and attract a high standard of leadership, we have increased wages for supervisory and managerial roles. Despite these positive advancements, the combination of these factors has led to significant ongoing cost demands across our industry, many of which we have absorbed. 

We continue to seek ways of mitigating the costs associated with these challenges; however, we refuse to compromise on ingredients or service standards. We remain proud to serve a home-cooked main meal and dessert, as well as other options. We truly believe we offer students innovative dishes which rival the high street, whilst providing families with great value for money.

Through partnering with schools, we continue to see more students enjoying our services. Whilst this is great news and tells us our menus are popular with students, we are always looking to encourage more young people to dine with us. If you have any feedback, we would love to hear from you.

We hope you understand our position and that your family can continue to enjoy our services. We remain open and honest about our challenges and will continue to seek your input. Should you wish to discuss this update, or anything else relating to your catering service, please get in touch with Henry Lane, Chief Administrative Officer: hlane@lampton.org.uk.

 

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