Tutor time plays a vital role in supporting students’ personal development, wellbeing and academic success. It provides a consistent daily structure, strengthens relationships between students and staff, and ensures every student starts the day focused, supported and ready to learn.

Students have tutor time twice each day. The first session takes place each morning for ten minutes, where tutors check uniform and equipment and share daily notices. This helps reinforce high expectations, readiness for learning and clear communication across the school community.

The second tutor session takes place after students’ first two lessons and lasts for twenty-five minutes. During this time, students take part in our Read to Succeed programme. Read to Succeed is a structured reading programme designed to improve literacy, vocabulary, comprehension and a love of reading. Students engage with a range of high-quality texts, develop reading stamina and practise key reading skills that support learning across all subjects. Strong literacy underpins success in every area of the curriculum, and this programme ensures reading is prioritised for all students.

The Read to Succeed programme runs four times per week. On the fifth day, students attend a whole-school or year-group assembly. Assemblies are an important part of school life and provide opportunities to reinforce expectations, celebrate achievements and explore key themes. These include personal responsibility, respect, resilience, equality and diversity, as well as the British Values of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty, and mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs.

Together, tutor time, Read to Succeed and assemblies help to develop confident, reflective and well-rounded young people, ensuring students feel supported, informed and inspired throughout their school day.