--- title: "Training Day Reminder - 27th November" url: "https://josephleckieacademy.co.uk/blog/2026-11-11-08-00-training-day-reminder-27th-november" school: "Joseph Leckie Academy" --- 6th Form Parents Evening 25th November 2026 - Bookings now available via Arbor [Click here for more information](https://www.josephleckieacademy.co.uk/keyinformation/pce) # Training Day Reminder - 27th November 11 November 2026 [Letters](https://josephleckieacademy.co.uk/blog/category/letters) [![](https://files.schudio.com/joseph-leckie-academy/imagecache/720x720s/gallery/letters-home-banner-header/JLA_Letterhead_Header.png)](https://files.schudio.com/joseph-leckie-academy/images/gallery/letters-home-banner-header/JLA_Letterhead_Header.png) 11th November 2026 Dear Parent/Carer, Just a quick reminder that school will be closed to students on Friday 27th November, as we have a staff training day. Can I please use this opportunity to remind you of the importance of attendance to school. For so many students this has been a good year for attendance, but there are still too many students, especially those in Years 9 to 11, whose attendance has dropped and it is a known fact that nationally attendance in Year 7 and 8 drops off on the run up to the Christmas holidays, please try and support us in not letting this happen at Joseph Leckie. We want to see students every day and we know that this supports them with their success and outcomes. A plea from our reception team. With over 1500 students attending the school it is virtually impossible to reunite lost property with its rightful owner, especially when it is not named. Please write your child's name in their uniform, bags, and PE kits. We get so many bags containing lost property in reception we are running out of room. Any lost property that has not been claimed by Christmas will be washed and re-used in the school. A reminder to the parents of Year 11 and Year 13 students. The first series of mock exams will take place from Monday 7th December with exams in the Sports Hall and Gym from 14th to 18th December, please support your child to prepare well for these exams. There is strong evidence that says, children who do well in mock exams on the whole do better in the real exams. Thank you for your continued support. Yours faithfully ![](https://josephleckieacademy.co.uk/images/e18c2bad8a223faeb1bb81610a7e868e.png) Mr A McNaughton Principal [ Year 7 Road Safety Education Programme](https://josephleckieacademy.co.uk/blog/2026-10-16-15-00-year-7-road-safety-education-programme) ![Joseph Leckie Academy](https://josephleckieacademy.co.uk/images/logo/Joseph_Leckie_Academy-white.png) [josephleckieacademy](https://www.facebook.com/josephleckieacademy/?locale=en_GB) [jleckieacademy](https://x.com/jleckieacademy) [josephleckieacademy](https://www.instagram.com/josephleckieacademy/?hl=en) [joseph-leckie-academy](https://uk.linkedin.com/company/joseph-leckie-academy) [UC2I00g0snFR5Duc3VpAPAhw](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2I00g0snFR5Duc3VpAPAhw) © 2026 Joseph Leckie Academy. Proud member of [The Forge Brook Trust](https://forgebrook.co.uk/) School & Trust Websites by ![Schudio](https://the-forge-brook-trust-2.schudio.com/img/logo/light.png) ![Forge Brook Trust](https://josephleckieacademy.co.uk/images/forge-brook-logo-white.png) Albanian Arabic Armenian Azerbaijani Basque Belarusian Bengali Bulgarian Catalan Chinese (Simplified) Chinese (Traditional) Croatian Czech Danish Dutch English Estonian Finnish French Galician Georgian German Greek Gujarati Hebrew Hindi Hungarian Icelandic Indonesian Irish Italian Japanese Kannada Korean Latvian Lithuanian Malay Malayalam Marathi Nepali Norwegian Persian Polish Portuguese Punjabi Romanian Russian Serbian Slovak Slovenian Spanish Swahili Swedish Tamil Telugu Thai Turkish Ukrainian Urdu Vietnamese Welsh Yiddish