Examination Guidance

Essential advice for Candidates 2025/2026 Examination period

Examinations FAQs

Parents/carers can access their child’s exam timetable through the ‘My Child at School online portal’. Students can access their exam timetable through the student portal. This will appear after the entries deadline in February, and you will be prompted to check.

Please make sure your child can access their timetables.  Any problems accessing please contact us.

All mock timetables will be emailed out.

All examination periods, including mocks, will appear on the Academy Calendar.  You will receive your own individual candidate timetable for external examinations.  Once you have received your individual candidate timetable, please check your timetable carefully and report any concerns to the Examinations Officer.

  • Morning exams start at 9am prompt
  • Afternoon exams start at 1:30pm prompt
  • Exam Line up will be 15 minutes before this time.

Your equipment in a clear pencil case:

  • 2 black pens
  • HB pencil
  • Ruler
  • Rubber
  • Sharpener
  • Highlighter
  • A calculator if required but no lids
  • A maths set (protractor, compass etc) if required but they must be placed in the clear pencil case
  • You may bring a bottle of water in a clear bottle with no label
  • NO – Mobile phones, Watches, MP3/4 Players
  • NO – Potential technological/ Web enables sources of information
  • NO – Food, unless you are diabetic in which case please speak to the Examinations Office before your exams about this
  • NO – Notes
  • There must be nothing in your blazer pockets
  • You will also need to ensure that your hands and arms are free from any notes or writing.
  • If at all possible you should attend the examination
  • If you are unable to due to serious illness you must inform the Academy Attendance Office in the usual way, but also informing them that you are due to sit an exam
  • If you are absent due to serious illness you must provide a doctor’s letter, which needs to be given to the Examinations Office within 5 days of the exam missed. The exam board will request this.

Do not panic. Morning exams begin at 9.00am and afternoon exams at 1.30pm. If you are going to be late, you must contact the academy and advise why you are delayed and what time you will arrive. You may then still be able to sit the exam.

No. All students must sit the full duration of the exam.

RESULTS DAY 2026

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External Examinations

Contingency Day

The contingency day for summer 2026 is Wednesday 24th June. The designation of a ‘contingency day’ within the common examination timetable is in the event of national or significant local disruption to examinations in the United Kingdom. It is part of the awarding bodies’ standard contingency planning for examinations. Centres must therefore remind candidates that they must remain available until Wednesday 24th June 2026, should an awarding body need to invoke its contingency plan.

Please can all students/ parents/ carers make a note of the contingency exam date in the event that an awarding body needs to invoke its contingency plan.

Result days –  2026 Examinations 

Level 3 – A Levels / BTEC / LIBF: Results will be available for collection on Thursday 13th August from 8.00am-11.00am in the Main Hall

Level 2 – GCSE / BTEC Techs: Results will be available for collection from 9.00am-12.00pm on Thursday 20th August from the Main Hall.

Staff will be available to deal with any specific exam / careers related guidance you may require. 

Post Results Service Information – More information for 2026 to follow

Certificates

Certificates are received in school during November and leavers will be invited in to collect them once ready. Those that stay on in the sixth form will be issued out during form time during this period.

JCQ regulations state that certificates should be kept for 12 months. If they remain uncollected they must be disposed of securely.

If someone other than the student is to collect the certificates, the student must advise the exam officer by letter or by their own email and the person collecting must bring photo ID with them.

Certificates are important documents. Most educational institutions and potential employers will ask to see your original certificates. If you lose or fail to collect your Certificates, you will need to obtain duplicates from the relevant Awarding Body. The Awarding Bodies no longer replicate certificates unless you can prove they were destroyed by theft, fire or flood; they will only issue a Statement of Achievement. This currently costs in the region of £48.00 per ‘Statement of Achievement’.