Welcome to our September 2026 Year 7 Parents
Today is National Offer Day, when families across England find out which secondary school their child has been offered for September
If your child has been offered a place at Bluecoat Aspley, we are delighted to welcome you to our school community.
What parents should do now
- Read your offer carefully from your local authority and note any deadlines for responding.
- Accept the offered place by the stated deadline to secure your child’s secondary school place for September. Accepting does not affect your right to join waiting lists or appeal.
- Look out for further information from us, including transition arrangements, induction days and key dates, which will be shared in the coming weeks.
If you have not been offered your first‑choice school, please be reassured that:
- You should still accept the place offered to ensure your child has a school place.
- You may remain on waiting lists and have the right to appeal if you wish.
We know this is an important and sometimes emotional moment for families. If your child has been offered a place with us, we look forward to supporting them as they prepare for the exciting transition to secondary school.
For admissions‑specific questions, please contact your local authority admissions team. For general information about our school, feel free to explore our website.
We believe strongly that every child is unique and that they are valued by God. It is this belief which only serves to strengthen further our desire that they are made to feel welcome and part of our Bluecoat ‘family’ from the outset. Due to its popularity, the academy has approximately 75 feeder schools in any one year group which can make our ideal model of several years of school partnership very difficult beyond the schools closest to our site. However, no matter where your son / daughter joins us from, you can rest assured that we will do our best to fully support their move. As part of this, our process will typically include:
1) A ‘Family Transition Meeting’ for all parents. Dates for this will be shared shortly.
- Begin to get to know your family and child
- Give you some introductory information
- Gather important confidential information about your child to support their welfare whilst at the Academy
- Identify any additional transition support that your child may need
- Enable parents and children to ask questions and discuss any matter of concern
A separate letter will be forwarded with a specific date and time for each family to attend
2) An ‘Induction Evening’ – Monday 6th July
3) Two days of transition in July. Students will come to visit the academy and experience two days of lessons in the academy in order to begin to familiarise themselves with the site, key staff and those students in their tutor group. The transition days are Tuesday 7th and Wednesday 8th July 2026.
4) An extended opening to the year. Our Year 7 students begin the year before the rest of the school. We use these days in order to help prepare them fully for the move in a quieter environment with fewer children on site so that they feel fully confident in their surroundings. They will learn a lot about routines and expectations that will set them up to flourish across the next 5 or 7 years at Bluecoat Aspley Academy.
UNIFORM SIZING EVENT
There will be a uniform sizing event on Thursday 18th June 2026 3:00pm – 5:00pm for the new Year 7 intake for September 2026. This is by appointment only and communication on how to book appointments will be sent out.
Uniform is available from Just School Wear.
5) All parents and students are invited to our ‘Welcome Party’. This is a very relaxed evening where parents and students sit with others in their tutor groups so that parents meet their tutors, their new friends and the parents of those friends. This is such a popular event as it allows people, many of whom come from primaries as the only child from that school, to cement new friendships – and for parents to know who they are talking about when they go home! Date for September 2026 Intake to be confirmed
6) An ‘Activity Day’ gives children the opportunity to come off of the main timetable as a year group and play team building games as a family. Dates for September 2026 Intake to be confirmed
7) Our ‘Believe Day’ also gives students the chance to reflect on the three elements of the academy’s mission statement ‘believe; in yourself, in others, in God.’ The day is split around these themes. Dates for September 2026 Intake to be confirmed
8) A ‘Meet the Tutor Evening’ also allows parents the chance to visit again and keep up to date with how their child has settled in classes. In addition, the academy also offers additional sessions for parents to attend including things like: support with literacy, keeping your child safe on-line, understanding our reporting system, developing numeracy and others.
This will be confirmed in the new Academic Year
9) Our Founders Day Service is a very special event in the academy calendar and is the chance to share in the proud history of Bluecoat which has been established in Nottingham for more than 300 years. At this event all students are presented with a ‘Braithwaite Bible’ and they are then officially welcomed in to the academy for their five-year journey at Aspley and two further years with our Sixth Form provision.
Dates for September 2026 Intake to be confirmed
Further support for the process:
10) It is also worth noting again that our students have a designated year leader. The Year Leader role at Bluecoat Aspley is a non-teaching post, which means that any pastoral matters can be dealt with promptly. This is especially important in the transition process, where the Year Leader plays an important part in ensuring that all students have best possible transition from their primary school, and that they quickly feel a part of the Bluecoat family.
11) There is also the provision of a Christian Youth Worker whose full-time role is to support the well-being of students and provide mentoring support where required.
12) Our students are also our biggest asset. Our Student Leaders help shadow the new students on their induction days and again for the first week of school to ensure that their experience is a smooth as possible and that they are well cared for. Our students really value and care about one another.