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Welcome to our Year 7 students

Welcome to our new Year 7 students and families for September 2025

We are delighted to be fully subscribed with an increased number of first preferences for September 2025.

It is an exciting time to join Haileybury Turnford:

• We have been successful with our bid to the Department for Education for fully funded new state-of-the-art buildings to re-build our school.
• We have a new building with 12 classrooms, 3 science laboratories, and a large library which opened 3 years ago.
• We were awarded with a Certificate of Excellence in 2024 for Secondary School of the Year – Making a Difference in the Pearson National Teaching Awards.
• We received HFL Education’s Wellbeing Quality Mark for the work with our students in 2024.
• Exam results for our Year 11 students were the best ever in 2023 and the best ever for sixth formers in 2024.
• Our Principal, Mr Newman, was awarded a Silver Award for Headteacher of the Year in a Secondary School in the Pearson National Teaching Awards, and many other members of staff were also successfully nominated and recognised in the 2023 awards.
• We won an Outstanding Governor Award in the Hertfordshire Governance Awards in 2023.
• We were awarded with two National School Attendance Awards for Autumn Term 2023/24 for our attendance being in the top 25% of Secondary Schools in England.
• One of our English teachers was awarded with a Certificate of Excellence for Outstanding New Teacher of the Year and one of our Design & Technology teachers was awarded with a Highly Commended certificate for Teacher of the Year in a Secondary School, in the Pearson National Teaching Awards in 2022.
• Our Safeguarding and Pastoral Team was awarded with a Certificate of Excellence in the Pearson National Teaching Awards in 2022 for the Unsung Heroes Award.
• We were nominated for Secondary School of the Year 2021 in the Pearson National Teaching Awards and one of our science teachers won a Silver Award for Outstanding New Teacher of the Year.

We look forward to working closely with students and families throughout Year 7.

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