Welcome back to a new academic year at Churchill! It has been great to see our staff and students as they have returned this week. Our new Year 7 and 12 students have settled really well, and our returning students have come back with a really positive attitude. It’s been a really calm start to the term – long may it continue!

Looking back over the summer, we have much to celebrate and be proud of. Our site team, IT network team, cleaners and a range of contractors have been hard at work upgrading and developing the Academy’s infrastructure.

The Sports Hall has been completely repainted and refurbished, including the changing rooms; our coach loop has been resurfaced; new site security features have been enabled; and every room in the Academy has been cleaned, refreshed, and prepared for the new term. Lots of work has also gone on behind the scenes in IT, improving WiFi, refreshing our systems, and making sure we are ready to go with the best possible hardware and software for our students.

We also celebrated some excellent exam results over the summer, with A-level and GCSE students reaping the rewards of their hard work and dedication with proud smiles – as you can see below. You can read more about the results days on the website: GCSE results and Sixth Form results.

As I write this blog, the summer holiday is already vanishing in the rear-view mirror as we are up and running for the new academic year. Over the next few weeks we have our parent information evenings for each year group as follows:

• Monday 9th September – Year 11
• Tuesday 10th September – Year 8
• Monday 16th September – Year 10
• Tuesday 17th September – Year 9
• Wednesday 18th September – Year 12
• Monday 23rd September – Year 7
• Tuesday 24th September – Year 13

The evenings will take place in the Academy Hall at 6:00pm. We also have our Presentation Evening next week, and we are looking forward to our Open Evening for future students on Wednesday 25th September. It’s going to be a busy term!