Student Support
Year 7 Student buddies
Year 7 Form Tutors
Progress Manager – Year 7
Pastoral Manager, ALNCO
Head of Key Stage 3
Assistant Head – Wellbeing
Senior Leadership Team (SLT)
Year 7 Student Support
Head Teacher (Mrs J. Wilkie)
Senior Leadership Team (SLT)
Assistant Headteacher, Wellbeing (Mrs N. Griffiths)
Head of Key Stage 3 (Mrs T. Davies)
ALNCO – Ms Rudman/Mrs A. Williams – Pastoral Manager –Mrs A Ridout
Progress Manager –Year 7
Year 7 Form Tutors
Year 10 Buddies
Year 10 Buddies
You will be allocated a few buddies that will support your transition into Blackwood Comprehensive School. They will help answer any questions that you may have, support you and help you to orientate your way around the school and new classrooms.
Year 7 Form Tutors
You will be in one of seven different form groups when you start at Blackwood Comprehensive School. Each Form group is led by a Form Tutor and you will see your Form Tutor once a day for registration in the morning. Your Form Tutor is there to help you to settle into school, be the key contact for your parents or carers and will help you with any problems that you may have.
Progress Manager – Year 7
Your progress manager will lead your assemblies along with the Senior Leadership Team. They will also work with your Form Tutors on activities which you carry out in registration. It is the Progress Managers job to ensure that you work hard and succeed in your studies and if you are struggling they will help and support you to get you back on track.
Head of Key Stage 3, ALNCO and Pastoral Manager
The Head of Key Stage 3, ALNCO and Pastoral Manager will work very closely with your Progress Manager and will help you settle into Blackwood Comprehensive School and ensure that you succeed and do well. The Head of Key Stage 3 (Mrs Davies), as part of her role, will organise visits to come and see most of you in your Primary Schools, she will also organise the transition events and will work very closely with your Progress Manager to make sure you settle into School in September.
Assistant Head – Pastoral Lead
Mrs Griffiths is the Assistant Head teacher for Wellbeing. She works with all the Progress Managers, Head of Key Stage 3, ALNCO and Pastoral Manager to oversee the support for new students through the transition process.
Senior Leadership and Management Team – SLT
During the transition period members of the Senior Leadership and Management Team, in particular Mrs Griffiths, will be supporting you alongside your Buddies, Form Tutors, Year 7 Progress Manager, Head of Key Stage 3, ALNCO and Pastoral Manager.