Over one hundred Year 7 pupils at Futures Community College hosted a tea party for their primary school teachers on Thursday 30th September 2009. Nearly 40 teachers from nine schools around South East Essex attended the party, to be reunited with their ex-pupils and meet with the teaching team at Futures.
The tea party is an annual event held within the first few weeks of the start of the school year for Year 7 students, and is one of the many ways in which Futures make the introduction to secondary education more welcoming. Year 7 students write their own invitations to the primary school teachers, and serve them tea and cakes on the day, whilst Year 11 students from the college ‘meet and greet’ the primary school teachers.
Mrs S Overall, Lead LSA at Hamstel Junior School summed up the primary school teachers’ feelings by saying “It is lovely to receive an invitation to attend the tea party from the pupils themselves, and great to see how well they are doing at Futures. The school has really turned around, all students are very polite and well turned out,” Ms S O’Shea, Year 6 teacher from Thorpedene Primary School added “It is a really good idea to hold the tea party, and gives us an opportunity to see how the students’ are settling into secondary education”
133 students joined Futures at the start of the 2009 academic year. The college, which is undergoing extensive renovation and building works will continue to take new admissions throughout the renovation and works. Parents and students are invited to meet the staff and tour the facilities at the school’s Open Evening between 6 and 8pm on Thursday 8th October."
The tea party is an annual event held within the first few weeks of the start of the school year for Year 7 students, and is one of the many ways in which Futures make the introduction to secondary education more welcoming. Year 7 students write their own invitations to the primary school teachers, and serve them tea and cakes on the day, whilst Year 11 students from the college ‘meet and greet’ the primary school teachers.
Mrs S Overall, Lead LSA at Hamstel Junior School summed up the primary school teachers’ feelings by saying “It is lovely to receive an invitation to attend the tea party from the pupils themselves, and great to see how well they are doing at Futures. The school has really turned around, all students are very polite and well turned out,” Ms S O’Shea, Year 6 teacher from Thorpedene Primary School added “It is a really good idea to hold the tea party, and gives us an opportunity to see how the students’ are settling into secondary education”
133 students joined Futures at the start of the 2009 academic year. The college, which is undergoing extensive renovation and building works will continue to take new admissions throughout the renovation and works. Parents and students are invited to meet the staff and tour the facilities at the school’s Open Evening between 6 and 8pm on Thursday 8th October."
