June 6th 2025

Dear Parents and students

Thank you for your support this week getting the students back into school punctually each day following the holiday. We have also sent 2395 Excellent Effort Points since Monday. Your support is essential and very much appreciated.   

Public Examinations are well underway and students are acquitting themselves well. Years 10 & 12 students will also sit Walking Talking Mock (teachers help) and then Pre-public (teachers do not help) Examinations this term to give them a flavour of next school year, and we will provide more details to them in the coming days. 

Sixth Form Induction for current Year 11 students will take place from Monday, June 23rd – Wednesday, June 25th.

This half-term, we will be continuing to ensure students access as many extra-curricular opportunities as possible, and we look forward to welcoming parents to Sports’ Day on Thursday, June 26th. It was so lovely to see so many of you there last year, so please do join us if you can! 

We ended last half-term by sending 855 letters of commendation to parents to recognise students’ submission of personal best class and homework assignments, which are in addition to 441 attendance commendations awarded for 98%+  attendance commendations we also sent. We look forward to recognising high levels of student achievement and attendance at the end of this half-term. 

This week, students have attended an Intergenerational Coffee Morning in Saltwood, carried out cleaning and gardening at Saltwood Church, coached primary school students in separate reading, golf and football events and attended the Normandy Association’s commemoration service to mark the D Day landings.

Last evening, our Mr Haisell attended Folkestone and Hythe District Council’s Volunteering Awards Presentation Evening, where Brockhill was recognised for Excellence in Volunteering and presented with an Award by Councillor Blakemore.

I am grateful to you for your continued support of our approach and determination around mobile phones. The amount of time young people spend on and their dependency on their phones present well-known risks. For the moment, our arrangements and practices represent no change. Where mobile phones are not turned off in bags during lessons, they can distract from teaching and learning of whole classes. We cannot let that happen, and where students do not follow our simple and clear requirements, we will only return mobile phones to parents.  Where students do not meet our clear expectations in respect of uniform, we may send students home and / or confiscate items, then requesting parents attend school by appointment to pick them up.  

We wish all our students and their families a peaceful weekend.   

Yours Sincerely,  

Charles Joseph 

Principal