TERM 6 VALUE:

Truth

Dear Students, Parents and Carers,

We hope that our students enjoyed their Future Progression day. Our Year 12 students explored their next steps by building personalised timetables and attending sessions led by professionals, alumni and staff. They gained valued insight into university, apprenticeships and a wide range of careers pathways that link to local and regional skills priorities. This was a great day to help our students to prepare for their next steps and to be informed about what a future after St Brendan’s might look like.

To celebrate your first year at St Brendan’s we thought sharing a video of highlights would provide lovely memories of your first year at College. Keep an eye out on our socials to have a watch.

Just a reminder that your first day of Year 13 will begin on Monday 7^th of September.

All students are reminded to have completed their first 20 hours of real work experience (WEX Bronze Award) before return to year 13, so that your applications for next steps are full of rich experiences. This has to be opportunities other than your part time jobs - see the work experience menu with Careers team for opportunities and activities you can access.

Have a great summer and see you in September.

Kind regards

Marian Curran

Principal

With the welcome return of the sunshine and warmer weather, we would like to take this opportunity to remind students and families of the college’s expectations regarding smoking and vaping.

We strongly encourage all students to reflect on smoking or vaping as a habit and to consider their health and wellbeing. However, we also want to be absolutely clear about what is and is not permitted on site:

• Smoking is only permitted in the designated smoking area near the security gate.
• Vaping is permitted up the drive only, up to the zebra crossing leading to the main college site.
• Vaping or smoking is not permitted anywhere else on site or in any college buildings.

Any student found smoking or vaping outside of these agreed areas will receive an immediate two‑day suspension, in line with college behaviour expectations.

Thank you for supporting us in maintaining a safe, respectful and healthy environment for everyone.

The College takes the safety of students and staff very seriously. Students should not invite friends who do not attend St Brendan’s onto the site and must wear their student lanyard and ID at all times on campus. (Students should obtain a temporary student lanyard from the main reception if they do not have their ID card with them.) Our campus personal patrol the site and can be approached if any student is concerned about their own safety or the safety of others.

St Brendan's is a cashless campus so please make sure you have a card and/or contactless payment on your phone.

If you need to purchase print credit you can do this on the College “Store” which you can access on our website or by using this link St Brendan's Sixth Form College Store

When prompted to login, click on the “Sign in with Microsoft” option, where you can use your College email and password. Your print credit account will automatically update after payment has been approved.

A reminder to all students, parents and carers to please turn right only, when exiting the College between 15:50 – 16:20 at the end of the College day.