Year 6 Transition

Key dates

• 5 Jul 2023
  New Y7 Induction day
  
• 5 Jul 2023
  New Y7 Parents' Information Evening
  
• 11 Jul 2023
  Camden Moving on to Secondary School event
  

Adding dates to your calendar

Individual dates
Click the relevant icon to add individual diary dates to your calendar.
In Outlook you will need to click the 'Save' button.

Subscribe to the whole calendar
Please find below instructions on how to configure some of the most popular calendar programmes to automatically display dates from the public address of the school calendar feed, which is:
Feed address: webcal://aclandburghley.greenhousecms.co.uk/ical.ics

• Outlook: Scroll down to the 'Subscribe to a calendar' section, & use the feed address above
• iPhone: click this link and follow the on-screen instructions
• Gmail / Android: follow these instructions, using the feed address above

Transition Booklet 2022Y7 Tutor Group Confirmation Letter and Summer School.pdf

Y7 admissions for September

Are you planning on buying a laptop for your child over the summer?

Do you know what you are looking for? 

The PDF below will give you some guidance on the specification we are suggesting you focus on. If you have questions please do get in touch with us.

• Student device for personal use of cloud services tech specification

What to expect from your subjects

Y6 to Y7 transition film

Our departments and faculties have produced a lovely video to give new Y7 students some insight into what they will learn in a number of subjects when they join us.

 

Be Awesome, Go Big

A programme of activities to help our future students make the transition from Y6 into Y7.

We would have loved to have seen you all come into our school on 1 July to explore and have a taste of what life at Acland Burghley is like. As we are unable to do this at the moment, we would like to take you through big ideas and challenges to get you prepared for secondary school life. These sessions are based on 2 great books. It is not necessary to have copies or read them, but we strongly suggest that you add them to your reading list. The books are:

You Are Awesome by Matthew Syed
ISBN-13: 9781526361332
Children's book of the year 2019, Sunday Times number one bestseller

Go Big by Matthew Burton
ISBN-13: 9781526362360
"If you have kids transitioning from primary to secondary school, this book is for you (well, for your kids!) … Helpful, funny and encouraging." Sarah Turner, AKA The Unmumsy Mum

Before we start the programme

Make sure that you have opened the workbook to the right page for each chapter. We recommend doing one session per week, but if you want more things to do whilst at home, go to the last page where there is a grid of activities you could be doing.

• Be Awesome Go Big Transition workbook

The sessions

Click on each of the titles and it will take to the PowerPoint for that session.

Session 1: Being Awesome

Session 2: Unlocking your mind

Session 3: Dare to take risks

Session 4: Making the change

Session 5: Lost but not lost

Session 6: Bouncebackability

Session 7: What is normal anyway

Session 8: Friendships and fallouts

Session 9: Living well

We hope that not only do you enjoy these activities but you learn a bit more about yourself and build the skills necessary to have a seamless transition into Y7.

Remember to send us some pictures of you taking part in some of the challenges by emailing transition@aclandburghley.camden.sch.uk.

We hope that you enjoy it.

Annie Parkin
Director of Learning – Key Stage 3
aparkin@aclandburghley.camden.sch.uk

 

If you have any questions at all, please do not hesitate to contact us. There is a dedicated transition email address: transition@aclandburghley.camden.sch.uk

For the full admissions process, please see Join Acland Burghley.