Cyfarthfa High School

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The school has a proud tradition built up over many years. We pride ourselves on being able to provide our students with an exciting and challenging curriculum offer, in preparation for life in the workplace. The learning environment of the school is one where pupils can be happy and safe, a place where they can enjoy their school days, hopefully making these formative years the best years of their lives.

We have a constant focus on high-quality teaching and learning and strive for continuous improvement in all we do. Our staff is extremely hard working and professional. The friendly and caring atmosphere of the school is regularly commented on by visitors. Our 2016 Estyn report states that “pupils’ performance in many indicators places the school in the upper half of the benchmarking group of similar schools. Pupils attend well and nearly all pupils are courteous and respectful around the school they are punctual and behave very well in lessons. Teachers plan a wide range of engaging activities that interest and motivate pupils and meet their needs well. The Senior Leadership Team provides the school with committed and purposeful leadership that has successfully created a cohesive school community with a shared sense of purpose and direction.”

Our mission statement is: “Achievement by Caring”. “The Finest Education TODAY for the People of TOMORROW”. Implicit in this is the school’s desire to raise achievement levels to enhance the ethos of the school to promote the virtues of truth, rigor, hard work, high expectations, and equity.

The published aims of the school include the following: –

• To provide every pupil with the opportunity to develop academically, personally, socially, physically, and intellectually to their full potential and according to their abilities and aspirations.
• To develop an ethos within the school that values everyone encourages respect for individuals and property and creates an expectation that everyone will work to their capacity to achieve their full potential.
• To tackle underachievement and rid the school of this feature.
• To promote the virtues of tolerance, personal pride, and confidence amongst pupils to enhance their self-esteem and to invest in their futures. In so doing the school will help them celebrate their achievement and success.
• To extend the range of curricular and extracurricular experiences for pupils and to enrich their minds and increase their skills, knowledge, and understanding so that they may take an active place in society upon leaving school.
• To place the school at the heart of the community to extend and improve links with homes, external agencies, and others who contribute to the success of the school.
• To provide excellent quality of education, to set high but realistic targets for all pupils in all areas of endeavor, and to strive for ever improved standards of achievement throughout the school.

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