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Welcome to Longhill - A Specialist Technology College |
 Mr Haydn Stride, Headteacher All within our school share our vision: "Determined to be the best we can." We are proud of our achievements and the success of our young people.
Every young person who enters our school is valued and encouraged to become an empathetic contributor to their community and wider society. We value all members of our community and are committed to working productively to build relationships with each and every individual, family and organisation within and around Longhill; that will enable us to be the best we can.
''Longhill High School is a good school with outstanding Leadership of Learning and Teaching''. (Ofsted September 2010).
We share a determination to inspire each of our young people be the best we can.
‘’Students’ achievement is good and their questionnaires confirm that they enjoy
school. They engage well in their lessons and relationships are harmonious and
supportive. They feel safe in and around the school’’. (Ofsted September 2010)
‘’The governing body is influential in supporting the strategic direction of the school and holding the leaders to account’’. (Ofsted September 2010)
Our Vision:
We are Longhill, a learning community: students, staff, and families; together and individually.
Longhill’s commitment to you:
As part of the Longhill community you should feel
• Respected and valued as an individual
• Able to challenge yourself and others in a safe and supportive fashion
• Safe and cared for
• Enabled to learn new things
• Your achievements and successes are recognised and celebrated
• That others have high expectations of you and will support you to be the best you can
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Longhill School Craft Fair/Farmers Markets |
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The Longhill School Craft Fair/Farmers Markets scheduled for 17 December and 28 January have been cancelled with a view to a relaunch in February. |
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Dear Parents/Carers
Our new year is now firmly underway with the school community back and working hard.
Our support of our Year 11 and Year 10 students has moved provision towards a much more flexible approach.
As a result of higher levels of quality assured assessments the school is more able to provide an individualised approach towards student’s study. We have focused areas of study and created additional curriculum time for students who need this support in different subjects.
This more flexible and individualised approach is having a very positive impact upon progress.
Building capacity through additional staffing, modifying teaching groups and sets, increasing assessment of progress and ensuring the reduction of shared classes at KS3 resulted recently in a new timetable being issued.
These strategies to increase the quality of our provision and support progress has had a positive impact upon the school and our ethos of developing independent learning skills.
I believe we will make significant progress this year towards our targets in September 2012 at GCSE.
Our commitment towards the well being and achievement of our young people is shared and their response as always is a very positive one.
Your support of the school is a key element and as ever an exceptionally positive contribution towards our shared goals.
We are delaying our Year 9 Options process as we await central Government announcements regarding the curriculum. We will be able to announce how this will effect the KS4 curriculum offer shortly. Please keep an eye on the website where the new dates will be provided.
The school is reaching further back to identify students who need additional focus and support for their studies in Year 10. We intend to have a focused evening on 2nd February where we hope to meet with the students and their families to identify strategies to support their progress at this early stage in KS4.
Looking towards September 2012 the school is considering a greater focus at KS3 towards Literacy and Numeracy development. I would be grateful to hear any views from parents regarding these two specific areas.
As outlined at the start of the year my expectations towards the setting and assessment of homework is for this to be more effective, supported through our new systems of monitoring. Home study is a key element to develop independent learning skills and again I thank your for your support in this area. If you still have issues regarding the setting of homework please contact the mentor or subject teachers directly.
Last term was a very challenging one for the school but I am confident that 2012 will be our best yet. Thank you for your confidence and continued support.
Yours sincerely
Mr Haydn Stride
Headteacher |
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