Year 6 into Year 7 - Transition to CCHS 2025
We would like to take this opportunity to welcome you and your child to Clacton County High School (CCHS). We look forward to working closely with you over the next few years.
We hope that all our new students had a fantastic Induction Day with us and that they now have a better understanding of school life at CCHS. We also hope that our new parents are also fully informed, having attended our Induction Evening. Below are a number of helpful links to various guides and information - please take time to study these.
If you have any questions or concerns, please email CCHS and a member of the Transition Team will respond: admin@cchs.school
Transition Project for Year 6 Students
Below is an activity that you can complete during the summer holiday before you join us in September.
• CCHS Transition Project 2025 - fill your holiday with amazing experiences
Helpful links..... click to access
• Joining Year 7 - Student Guide 2025
• Year 6 into Year 7 - Parents' Guide 2025
• 'I'm a New Student at CCHS' - Free Holiday Activity - Monday 21st July
• Need a little extra help with moving to secondary school?
• School Uniform - Sizing in school - Monday 28th July - 11.30am to 2.00pm
• Year 7 First Day Arrangements - Tuesday 2nd September
• Special Education Needs and Disabilities (SEND) arrangements for new Year 7 students
• CCHS Parent Information and Support
CCHS Free School Meals - Online Application; CCHS Arbor Portal - How to Guide; ArborPay - Cashless Catering - How to Guide; Instrumental Lessons at CCHS from Essex Music Services; Teaching & Learning @ CCHS; CCHS Policy Information; CCHS Young Carers Statement
NB. If your child received 'Free School Meals' at Primary School you must re-apply uisng our Online Application
(This is different to the Essex County Council FSM application, as we use an alternative provider)
• Student Code of Conduct Agreement
Useful Information
CCHS Term Dates 2025-2026
CCHS Uniform Requirements
Our uniform supplier details are:
Anglia Sports and Schoolwear Ltd
Website: www.yourschoolwear.co.uk
Email: sales@angliasportsandschoolwear.co.uk
Telephone: 01255 474550
Fax: 01255 474570
School Uniform - Sizing in School
Anglia Sports and Schoolwear are offering the opportunity to size up and/or purchase uniforms at Clacton County High School on Monday, 28th July between 11.30am – 2.00pm.
ENTER VIA THE MAIN SCHOOL DRIVE and follow the signs to the gym (entering through doors from the school field).
Please note that the Year 7 tie will have a green stripe for the 2025 intake.
PE polo shirts are navy blue - with or without the CCHS logo
(White polo shirts are not part of the CCHS PE kit)
- Click Here for full uniform information.
Year 7 First Day Arrangements
Tuesday 2nd September 2025
The first day at CCHS for our new year 7 students will serve as an additional induction to the school.
Year 7 will be the only year group present in school on this day.
The school gates are open from 8.15am
Students can arrive or leave by either of the school entrances
Students should arrive at school by 8.40am – meet on the outside basketball courts ready for a 8.45am start; exactly as on their Year 7 Induction Day. Staff will direct students to where they need to go.
Please remember that students need to bring a school bag containing: a reading book, a pencil case with a selection of pens and pencils, and a drinking bottle.
As we are a cashless school students will be provided with their cashless card on the first day that they need to take responsibility for. This card will work just like a bank card where students can tap and pay for food from the Clouds Restaurant.
Clouds Restaurant will be open to students on the first day and so if parents/carers have logged into their Arbor account and topped up the dinner account, students will be able to use this on the first day. Alternatively, students can bring in a packed lunch. If students are in receipt of Free School Meals (FSM), their cashless cards will have been preloaded for them and so they will also be able to purchase food from Clouds Restaurant from the first day.
We will take formal photographs on the first day.
School will finish at 3.10pm
Do you need a little extra help with moving to secondary school?
Here are two useful websites with some great advice for those starting secondary school this summer - just click on the links and explore:
• Ten Ways for Parents to help Children Cope with Change
• Travel Training - For students travelling to school by bus for the first time independently
• Young Minds - Find Your Feet - Transitioning to Secondary School
• BBC Bitesize - Starting secondary school
Special Education Needs and Disabilities (SEND) arrangements for new Year 7 students
CCHS liaises with all primary schools as part of the transition from year 6 to year 7. All information passed over will be recorded on a central data collection sheet. This will include SEND, medical, pastoral, and safeguarding information. Any student currently receiving SEND support and on the “SEND register” will automatically be highlighted for ongoing support.
This information will be shared with staff before students start at CCHS.However, on entry to CCHS, students will complete additional standardised testing to provide greater data on students' learning levels. For a number of students with additional needs, high-quality teaching and the universal support systems available at CCHS will be enough to meet individual needs. It may be that students, identified as needing additional support at primary school, no longer require it at CCHS.
If this is the case, parents will be contacted by a member of the inclusion team. For those students requiring additional support, due to a special educational need or disability, there will be an opportunity for ‘one plans’ to be updated with parents and students during the first term. Support plans will then be updated throughout the school year with opportunities for parents to meet with a member of the inclusion team and their child’s form tutor.
Frequently Asked Questions
• Why am I in a different form to my friends?
Form time only lasts for 15 minutes each morning. The rest of the day you will learn with different students in many of your lessons. When you join secondary school, it is an ideal time to enlarge your friendship group - you will make new friends very quickly.
• How are the form groups decided?
We have over 340 new Year 7 students to place into form groups. Year 7 is split, roughly in half, into two teaching bands - X-Band and Y-Band.
We have six form groups in X-Band and six form groups in Y-Band.
Students are assigned one of the twelve mixed ability form groups.
• How do I pay for a school dinner or school trip?
The school is cashless. All students have a ArborPay account where money for meals, drinks and school trips or events is added by parents and carers.
Students receive their own 'payment' card, linked to their account, and is scanned at the tills in the Clouds Restaurant to pay for any meals or refreshments.
• What are the rules on mobile phone?
You are welcome to come to and from school with your mobile phone. Once you are on the school site mobile phones are to be switched off and out of sight please. This applies throughout the whole day including social times. If they are seen or heard, the school will confiscate the phone for the day and a detention may be issued.
• How will I find my way around school?
You will have a tour of the school on your induction day in June. We’ll also remind you on your the first day in September. It won’t take long to work out where things are.
As a rule single-digit room numbers are on the ground floor and double-digit numbers are on the first floor; A-Block is different with all the rooms on the ground floor.
