NORTHOLT HIGH SCHOOL
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ONWARDS AND
UPWARDS
In July of this year we were delighted to welcome a
team of Ofsted inspectors into the school.
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e had been looking
forward to being
inspected and
the whole school
community was more than ready to
show how much progress we had
made since the last visit in 2013. The
inspection team was very thorough
and we were delighted that the report
confirmed what we already knew to
be the case: That we have a vibrant,
hard working school community which
has succeeded in raising standards in
all areas, with both the ambition and
capacity to go further.
One of our key objectives is to
secure the best possible academic
outcomes for every student and we
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know this is dependent on continued
excellent teaching. The inspectors
confirmed that our ‘leaders’ relentless
focus on improving the quality of
teaching across the school’ has ensured
that teaching is consistently good.
They were impressed, too, with
the very good behaviour of students
around the school site and described
the relationships within the school
community as ‘very positive’ and
‘harmonious’. Our core values include
respect, endeavour and kindness
towards others, so we were especially
pleased that the inspectors saw lots
of evidence of these values in action
during the two-day inspection.
Northolt High School has gone from
strength to strength in a short space
of time and we are determined that it
will continue to do so. Our GCSE and
post-16 results are improving every year
and this summer’s results are our best
ever in recent years. Being ‘good’ is an
important step towards being judged
‘outstanding’ by Ofsted, which we will
work hard to make sure is the case when
it visits us again in three years’ time.
We have exciting plans to extend
our extra-curricular activities to include
more visits abroad and job-shadowing
opportunities. But there is more to
come, because new school buildings
are to be in place, at the latest, by the
beginning of the academic year 2018.
The new buildings will be designed
to reflect the 21st Century world we
are actively preparing our students
for. Our large site means that we will
be able to use the existing buildings
at one end of the site while the other
end is rebuilt. We will be sharing
architectural plans with the local
community shortly so we can get a
wide range of views.
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