Year 6 into Year 7 Transition

Please complete our admissions process via the Uplands Academy admissions hub

Dear parents, carers and students,

We are delighted to welcome you to our school and look forward to working with you to support the education, personal development and wellbeing of your children, as they progress towards young adulthood.

Making the move from primary to secondary school is an exciting and significant milestone in any child’s education, and can invoke a mixture of emotions for students and their families.

We understand that preparing for this period of transition can feel daunting and we want to reassure you that we will be working alongside you to aid a smooth, positive start to life at Uplands Academy, enabling our new Year 7 students to make the best progress possible within our highly aspirational, ambitious, challenging and supportive environment.

Our structured transition programme is in place to support the needs of our students and their families. The programme provides you with the opportunity to familiarise yourselves with our expectations and procedures, and enables us to better understand our new students’ individual needs. We hope the information on this page will help to support you with this.

Please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions or concerns at year7admissions@uplands-academy.org, where our Head of Year 7 and Assistant Head of Year 7 will endeavor to help you. Our Admissions Coordinator, Mrs Johnson, can be emailed at admissions@uplands-academy.org and our SENCO, Mrs Tolland, can be reached at send@uplands-academy.org

Travel information for Uplands Academy can be found below.

Transport

Monkhouse Schoolwear Specialists, our official school uniform provider based in Tunbridge Wells, has made sure their website is full of useful information to help you get ahead and buy your brand-new uniform. They also have a dedicated New Starter Hub as they know that starting a new school is an exciting experience and that trying on a new uniform is the start of this journey. Click here for more information.

When ordering name labels from Stikins, please use our reference number: 36350. Follow the link below to their website.

Name Labels For Clothes. Stick On School Name Labels & Tags: Stikins ®

All lockers in the academy are managed by an external company - Secure Locker Rentals. To rent a locker for your child, please visit their website and select Uplands Academy as the location. Please see the flyers below for further information and if you have any questions, please contact Secure Locker Rentals directly.

If your child has a health/medical issue that the school needs to be aware of or needs to carry or have medication kept at school, please email: office@uplands-academy.org stating your child’s full name and their date of birth.