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5 days ago · Welcome. I am delighted to welcome you to Highgate Wood School, a successful and thriving community comprehensive school, catering for over 1500 students with a wide range of talents, aptitudes and enthusiasms. I am extremely proud of the fantastic pastoral care and strong educational provision we provide, allowing all our students to flourish ...
Mar 18, 2022 · I have a child at Highgate Wood. My other child is at a private school so I have nothing to compare HGW to in terms of other state secondaries. It's a large, mixed comprehensive school, as is Fortismere.
The school prospectus for admission to Highgate Wood School in September 2024 is now available. Why attend Highgate Wood School? At Highgate Wood School the education of every young person is held to be of equal value.
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Highgate Wood Secondary School continues to be a good school.
Pupils at Highgate Wood feel safe and well cared for. The school has a strong sense of community among pupils and staff. Leaders have high expectations for all pupils in the school. They ensure that pupils of all ages can study a broad range of subjects. Pupils enjoy school and behave well in lessons. They are committed learners who want to achieve...
Leaders and staff have high ambitions for all pupils. They have spent time making learning more relevant to pupils in the school. In English, for example, pupils study poetry and texts from a rich variety of authors. In history, KS3 pupils learn about how people lived in the Islamic and African worlds during the middle ages. Leaders are proud of th...
The arrangements for safeguarding are effective. The school has clear procedures for reporting concerns and staff know how to use them. All staff receive regular safeguarding training. Leaders are reflective and review their practice to strengthen safeguarding arrangements as necessary. The school carries out thorough checks when recruiting new sta...
Teachers do not always ensure that pupils embed key knowledge in their long-term memory. Pupils struggle to retrieve the prior knowledge and do not always use subject vocabulary accurately. Leaders should ensure that pupils can recall key knowledge with fluency. At the end of social times, some pupils can be slow to follow instructions about moving...
You can use Ofsted Parent View to give Ofsted your opinion on your child’s school, or to find out what other parents and carers think. We use information from Ofsted Parent View when deciding which schools to inspect, when to inspect them and as part of their inspection. The Department for Education has further guidance on how to complain about a s...
You can search for published performance information about the school. In the report, ‘disadvantaged pupils’ refers to those pupils who attract government pupil premium funding: pupils claiming free school meals at any point in the last six years and pupils in care or who left care through adoption or another formal route.
The school uses one registered alternative provider. The Maya Angelou Centre is a new resource base located at the school.
This is the first routine inspection the school received since the COVID-19 pandemic began. Inspectors discussed the impact of the pandemic with school leaders and have taken that into account in their evaluation. Inspectors met with the headteacher, two deputy headteachers and other senior leaders. Inspectors met with six members of the local gove...
Students at Highgate Wood Secondary School enjoy a good quality of education because the good teaching they receive secures equally effective learning and progress.
Highgate Wood School is a very successful, mixed comprehensive school, catering for over 1400 students of all abilities and backgrounds aged from eleven to eighteen years old. Our school mission statement is based upon three fundamental commitments, that we as a school:
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Highgate Wood Secondary School, London. A state school for boys and girls aged from 11 to 18. Local authority: Haringey.
