TUTORIAL GROUPS

School Organisation

Students are organised into three years  7, 8, and 9. Each student is allocated to a Tutorial Group. The first 20 minutes of each day with the exception of Assembly Day, are spent with the Tutor.    

Tutors:

• support  and monitor each students learning, effort and behaviour

• register the students in the morning

• give them relevant information

• hold devotions

• handle any difficulties which individual students may have.

• contact parents

Tutors usually stay with their Tutor group for three years. They develop a close relationship with the students in their group as well as with their parents and guardians.

Tutors are the first point of contact between parents/guardians and the school.

There are 12 Tutor Groups in Year 9 and 16 groups in each of Years 7 and 8  with approximately 24 students (boys and girls) of mixed ability in each group.

All students are allocated to one of 4 Houses (Jupiter, Mercury, Saturn, Neptune).  Each of the 4 Houses has a Head of House who is responsible for House activities.

Some subjects are taught in Mixed Ability groups ( Music, Art, Home Economics, Drama, Information and Communication Technology and P.E.)

In other subjects students are placed in Sets or Bands according to performance.

Placements are monitored twice yearly.