Younger Students: Forms 1 - 5

The Academy seeks to broaden the horizons of all its students. From the moment a child enters the Academy the Houses offer pastoral care and support which helps confidence to grow. This creates the platform on which academic success can be built. A full programme of co-curricular activities provides opportunity for all students to extend themselves and refine their aspirations.

In their first year students will establish themselves, make friends and learn their way around the many features of a large school; the Houses ensure that each child feels cared for and known, and House tutors have a responsibility in this and all succeeding years to monitor progress and development. The Guidance Team assist in this process.

The Academy has its own year group labelling: the national curriculum Year 7 is known as Form 1, Year 8 as Form 2 and so on to Year 11, or Form 5, and then the Sixth Form.

The eight Houses are named after Ross Fleet trawlers, and each represents a vertical slice of the Academy.