INSET Half Days
The Heights Academy will have an extra 3 days of staff training in academic year 2026/2027 making our total staff training day capacity 8 days.
The additional 3 days will be taken as 6 half days, in the afternoon, and school will be shut to pupils on those afternoons.
The 6 half day training afternoons will be:
Autumn Term:
Tuesday 22nd September 2026
Wednesday 25th November 2026
Spring Term:
Thursday 4th February 2027
Thursday 16th March 2027
Summer Term:
Wednesday 19th May 2027
Thursday 1st July 2027
On those 6 days and on those days only, we will change the school day, so that there will still be two sessions, but they will be:
| Children arrive at the normal time, whether on transport or by parents. | ||
| First session | Start 08:45am | End 10:55am |
| Second session | Start 11:10am | End 12:05pm |
| Lunch break as normal | ||
| Children to be collected, or transport leaves school at 1.00pm on these days. | ||
Transport will run as normal on all days on the journey to school, or if you bring your child to school, they should arrive at the normal start of the day.
We have planned with transport on each of the 6 days in question for children to be collected at the end of lunch and brought home to you. If you normally collect your child from school, please collect them at the end of lunch break (times detailed above).
This is an important change and step forward for us all, an opportunity for us to professionally develop staff colleagues, which will benefit your children over time. We firmly believe this way forward is in the best interests of your children and young people. If we are going to continue improving, so that our pupils have the very best experiences, we must make these significant changes to the amount of training that our staff receive, and we will do our utmost to ensure that it is a successful