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Seaford College: Welcome to Year 9
I am delighted to be writing to you in anticipation of you joining Seaford’s Year 9 community this coming September. It is a very special place
and I believe you will find us to be a very close, warm and welcoming community.
It is my wholehearted belief that we create a range of opportunities across all aspects of the curriculum in Year 9 including academic, sporting, performing arts, outdoor education and pastoral. Your task, as students, is to make the most of every opportunity, and to ‘have a go’ at trying something new. You never know – there may just be something on offer at Seaford which you have never experienced before and which might be the beginning of something truly wonderful and life-defining!
We are very proud of our pastoral care and we take time to get to know every student. Our tutors, led by the Head of Year 9, see students twice daily, and act as a champion for their tutees within the school. This family-like structure means that our tutors develop an interest in all that their tutees undertake, whether academic, sporting or elsewhere in school life. In addition, our pastoral support centre, No. 46, provides an additional layer of specialist pastoral care and is available at any time for any student. Sometimes, just being listened to at the right moment can make all the difference!
Our school motto is ‘Ad Alta’ meaning ‘Reach for the Heights’. Over the next
five years, you can look forward to embarking upon a fantastic journey. We will continually support and encourage you to achieve your ‘personal bests’ in and outside of the classroom. I hope that ‘Ad Alta’ will come to mean something truly special to you during your time at Seaford. We look forward to welcoming you into Year 9 this September.
George Vernon
Director - Head of Middle School
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