We look forward to welcoming students back to school tomorrow (Y7 and Y11) and Thursday (Y8, Y9 and Y10).

Year 7 students should go to the hall when they arrive on Wednesday morning. I am very much looking forward to welcoming them to our wonderful school. Year 11 students should go to their tutor rooms and will spend this first lesson with their tutors. Please see the list below for tutor rooms:

7 Kinder – Sci2                   11 Kinder – MFL1 (was MFL2)

7 LoseHill – Sci5                 11 LoseHill – ICT2

7 MamTor – Sci1               11 MamTor – ICT1

7 WinHill – Sci3

On Thursday morning, all students should go to their tutor rooms for their first lesson of PSHE. This will be taught by tutors every Thursday morning. Here are the remaining tutor rooms:

8 Kinder – Eng1                 9 Kinder – Maths3                           10 Kinder – MFL2 (was MFL3)

8 LoseHIll – Eng4               9 LoseHill – Maths2                         10 LoseHill - Geog

8 MamTor – Eng2             9 MamTor – Maths1                       10 MamTor - Textiles

8 WinHill – Eng3                9 WInHill – Maths4                          10 WinHill – Food Tech

As we start the new term, I would like to take the opportunity to reiterate to you all how critical attendance is to your young person’s success at school. We thank you in advance for your support and cooperation in ensuring that your young person attends school every day, unless they are too unwell to do so.

We have a strict policy on mobile phone usage in school: phones should be switched off and kept in bags at all times whilst in the school building. Anyone using a phone without permission should hand it over to staff and it will be kept at reception for the remainder of the day and collected at the end of the day. Parents will be notified. Thank you again for your support in this matter.

The weather forecast for the rest of the week looks good, with warm temperatures. Students should remember to bring water bottles to school with them – these can be refilled from the water fountains during break and lunchtime. Students may prefer to wear shorts or skirts to school in the warmer weather. As part of our School Uniform Policy, students may wear plain navy blue or black knee length tailored shorts. 

If your young person has PE on their timetable on their first day back, they should bring their PE kit to school with them. They may also wish to bring a sun hat and sun screen during warmer weather.

Parents and Carers of Year 7 students should have received a letter by post with information about ParentPay. We would ask you to action this as soon as possible – thank you.

At the start of term, all students will be given a copy of our Student Handbook, which contains lots of useful information for students and parents and carers. Timetables can be copied into the handbook and students should have this with them in school each day.

We look forward to a successful academic year with all our students.

Thank you for reading our communication. Here are some helpful email addresses, should you need to contact us: attendance@hopevalley.chorustrust.org to report a child’s absence enquiries@hopevalley.chorustrust.org for general enquiries pastoral@hopevalley.chorustrust.org for any issue with a child’s wellbeing principal@hopevalley.chorustrust.org to contact the Principal safeguarding@hopevalley.chorustrust.org to report safeguarding concerns. If a child or any young person is in imminent danger, then please report this to the police. Kind regards Gaynor Jones, Principal Hope Valley College T: 01433 620555