"A happy, harmonious and successful educational community where students, irrespective of their background, ability or creed, are valued and nurtured.”  Ofsted April 2009

The Elmgreen School is one of a number of innovative schools who are implementing vertical tutoring (VT). VT means that your child will be in a tutor group with children from other year groups. We feel that this system is reflective of a family unit where older siblings support younger and that this in turn reflects our unique status as a Parent Promoted School. Schools who have successfully adopted this system have enjoyed better ‘inter-year’ relationships, enhanced school/ family partnership, a reduction in bullying and an increase in leadership skills amongst older students.

Your child’s vertical tutor group will be a smaller part of one of four larger communities of children called ‘colleges’. These colleges, each eventually made up of students from across years 7-13, will be led by a College Leadership Team whose members bring a range of skills and experiences to their work. This College Leadership Team will remain responsible for your child (and any siblings) from the day they arrive until the day they graduate. We feel that this will result in families building longstanding relationships of trust and stability with college staff. It is also our intention that these smaller communities of students will ease the transition from primary to secondary school, and ensure that your child settles quickly amongst students who already know the school well.

College staff are responsible for the attendance, attitude to learning and, most importantly, the academic progress of students in their care.

Each college has its own distinctive identity, but all colleges are bound together under The Elmgreen Way, our code of conduct.

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