Telephone number for reporting pupil absences is: 0845 3570159 or text to: 076248 12166

Welcome to Linslade Middle School

As the new Head of Linslade I am proud to be leading such a well regarded and successful school into the next stage of its development.

I have a strong philosophy that says that children learn best, and make most progress, when they have great opportunities to develop confidence and self esteem, when they are secure in the school environment and, crucially, when there are the highest expectations of what they can achieve.

We run an extensive after school activities programme, including after school care. We make a significant commitment to sporting activities with a strong fixture list, running teams at all ages and levels, and providing five periods per week of timetabled sport. We provide high quality music experiences and opportunities for pupils and run a number of drama productions.

We have a very strong pastoral system, based on tutors and year heads, to ensure that concerns can be heard quickly. We teach many subjects in ability sets to ensure the best level of expectation can be achieved, and have small classes in areas including English, Maths, French and Science.

The school is well resourced; we are obtaining our own mini buses to maximise the out of the classroom opportunities for children; we have two ICT suites, plus laptops and excellent Art and DT facilities. Our Performing Arts Studio, hall and new, extended, Dining Hall provide spaces, along with our extensive playgrounds and fields, for non academic subjects and classrooms are well equipped, all having interactive equipment.

Appearance, behaviour and good manners are important to us all, and we work hard to reinforce the importance of such life long values, using rewards to recognise good progress and achievement in these, and all other, aspects of school life.

Where spaces exist, we will take children into any year group, but the main point of entry is into Year 5 – a number of children also join us from in and out of County schools in Year 7. Please do come and visit our Open Day on November 6^th from 9.30-12.00; even better, make an appointment to look around the school when it is in normal working mode.

Peter Bird