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Highgate Wood Secondary School

Welcome to Highgate Wood School.

I am very proud to be the Headteacher at Highgate Wood School and to be given the privilege of leading this wonderful school community.

We have incredible students who are at the heart of the school, well guided and supported by my excellent staff. We are also well supported as a school by our parents/carers and also by a team of very committed governors.

Highgate Wood School is a very successful, mixed comprehensive school, catering for 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:-

1. Make a positive difference to our students
2.  Maintain the highest of expectations of our students and ourselves
3. Inspire self belief in our students

Our mission statement is not an aim or an aspiration… It is what we know we already do. It is an affirmation of our everyday practice and ethos, and what we believe makes us special as a school.
All of our students are encouraged to aim for excellence and to fulfil their individual potential – academically, socially and personally. We want them to become successful, confident and caring adults who will be able to play an active part in society where adaptability, enterprise, perseverance and consideration for others are increasingly important. Our strong commitment to equality of opportunity and equality of esteem is intended to ensure that all students, regardless of ability, aptitude or background, can fulfil their potential.
We expect our students to have high aspirations; their academic progress and examination success are ensured by top quality teaching, first rate facilities and challenging targets. Our school motto is Everyone Matters and this ensures that we take an approach that values every student as an individual, with a wide range of curricular and extra-curricular opportunities enabling talent and creativity to be identified and nurtured. Our established values of Courtesy, Consideration, Contribution and Cooperation (the 4Cs), together with our Growth Mindset focus on perseverance and hard work and our emphasis on honesty and respect underpin the school’s behaviour ethos. we take exceptional pride in the warm, caring and supportive relationships which exist between staff and students. We are also very proud of the involvement of all students in some form of community or charitable service.

In summary,
Attributes
Highgate Wood School will nurture and educate our students to be learners who are

• Happy and full of enjoyment
• Independent and autonomous
• Well-rounded and open minded
• Resourceful
• Reflective
• Engaged and passionate about learning
• Ambitious and competitive
• Solution focused
• Bold and risk takers

Growth Mindset
Our students will exhibit the behaviours and attitudes reflective of a Growth Mindset where they are

• Prepared to embrace challenge – pushing themselves beyond their comfort zone
• Strong believers in their ability to develop and improve their talent and abilities with application and hard work
• Appreciative of the benefits of hard work and effort
• Intrinsically motivated
• Are able to treat setbacks and disappointments as learning opportunities
• Inspired by the success of others rather than threatened by it
• Responsive to all useful feedback (positive or negative) rather than limited or discouraged by it
• Believers in the power of ‘yet’

Social Behaviour
Our students will relate well to one another and play an active role in developing a supportive and inclusive community in which all of our students

• Behave towards each other and all members of the community with good manners, courtesy and consideration
• Are proactively choosing to and making a positive contribution to the school community
• Understand the high expectations that we place on them and co-operate fully without needing to be asked
• Are kind and empathetic to others
• Who show respect and honesty
• Model excellent social skills

We are the local school of choice, consistently and increasingly oversubscribed for places each year and aim to serve our local community in having something to offer to every local child who wishes to attend.
I am sure your sons and daughters will enjoy being part of the Highgate Wood School community. They will be given every opportunity to gain academic success and personal fulfilment and to develop their talents and social skills in a friendly, supportive environment. Above all, we will ensure that they enjoy the Highgate Wood experience!

Patrick Cozier
Headteacher

Establishment Details

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