Dormers Wells High School

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We are a mixed community comprehensive school in the London Borough of Ealing dedicated to serving our locality. All visitors to our school notice how proud the students and staff are of their school. They notice how well the students behave in this very friendly and high achieving school, and how smart they appear in their school uniform.
Our vision is to empower students so that they can take control of their future and have enhanced life chances as a result of learning with us. We have very high expectations for the achievement of all of our students at Dormers Wells High School. Our latest Ofsted report validates this sentiment with the school continuing to be judged as securely Good.
However, the real measurement of a school is not in its building or resources. It is about the strength and effectiveness of the people who belong to its community. Our 2015 Ofsted inspection stated students are proud of their school. At the heart of everything we do are our students. Our curriculum is student-centered and we aim for their education to be inspiring, stimulating, and challenging. Our students’ results in mathematics placed us in the top 2% percent of schools nationally for progress made from KS2 to KS4 and humanities is in the top 3% nationally. We encourage and nurture a ‘growth mindset in all members of our community this ethos is supported by our flexible curriculum, which enables our students to make rapid progress. As Ofsted stated: “The atmosphere is calm and orderly. Pupils have high aspirations and work hard”.
Our staff members, both teaching and support, are a dedicated and highly professional team with a genuine interest in the psychological and physical well-being, and development of every student. Our pastoral care systems ensure that the students are provided with every opportunity to realize their full potential. It is well known that the staff, students, and parents of DWHS work in close partnership to ensure that all the necessary ingredients are in place to meet individual needs.
We know from our own experiences what difference teachers make to the progress of the students. That is why staff development is given the highest priority at DWHS. Our extensive training program is based around the Dormers 9, which gives us a common language about the delivery of great teaching and learning.
We also have a provision for students with a hearing impairment, which enables these students to be fully integrated into the main school curriculum and extended school activities.
Dormers Wells High School aims to provide an excellent education in a safe, supportive learning environment, where people are valued and make positive contributions to the school community, and where students go on to become responsible, independent members of society.
Our vision is to empower students so that they can take control of their future and have enhanced life chances as a result of learning with us. We are academically ambitious for our students: everyone matters.
We want our students to become independent learners, who are critical in their thinking, informed in their choices, and confident in their ability to succeed in the modern world. We also want students who are respectful and tolerant, driven and confident, and who strive for the best. In addition to their academic lives, we also want our students to benefit from extra-curricular experiences in the arts, sport, and culture, which will help them become well-rounded balanced adults.
Dormers Wells High School is committed to working closely and in harmony with its community and celebrating the diversity of the UK. We aim to prepare students for life in modern Britain and to ensure that our school ethos, curriculum, and approaches to teaching and learning reflect and promote British values.
We recognize that these values are not exclusive to being British and that they have come to be accepted throughout the democratic world as the method of creating an orderly society in which individual members can feel safe, valued, and can contribute for the good of themselves and others.
We work alongside our local community and recognize the variety of religious beliefs within it. Students take part in local events and meet different members of the community to appreciate the valuable contributions they make. All subject departments are aware of the importance of transmitting British values through their curriculum content.

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