Holly Lodge Girls' College

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We welcome you to our School. At Holly Lodge Girls’ College, we believe in an ethos of high ambition, challenge, and support. We challenge all members of our school community to be the best they can be and we effectively support them on this journey.

Through our shared values and actions we aim to encourage our students to be focused, aspirational and resilient so that they can become confident and successful members of society.

We are all proud to be members of this hard-working, warm and happy school. We aim to fulfill our mission statement of “Expect to Achieve” for all our students.

At Holly Lodge Girls’ College our key values are the following:

• Aspiration
• Resilience
• Challenge and Support
• Focus

The Department for Education outlines a five-part definition of British values:

• Democracy
• The rule of law
• Individual liberty
• Mutual respect
• Tolerance of those of different faiths and beliefs

At Holly Lodge students will encounter these principles throughout everyday school life in the schools’ promotion of spiritual, moral, social, and cultural understanding both across the curriculum and as part of its ethos.

At Holly Lodge, the importance of rules and the importance of distinguishing right from wrong is consistently reinforced through assemblies and the curriculum. Mutual respect is at the core of the inclusive ethos at Holly Lodge.

The curriculum and ethos at Holly Lodge prepare pupils for life in a multi-racial and multi-cultural society where respect and tolerance are important. All pupils at KS3 follow a multi-faith RE course which employs a wide variety of teaching resources to enable pupils to develop their understanding of a range of faiths, encouraging them to treat people of all faiths races, and cultures with respect and tolerance.

As a maintained school, all students in Years 7 and 8 will follow the National Curriculum. All students will make their option choices in Year 8 to begin their Key Stage 4 programs of study in Year 9, we believe that this will: allow students to focus on the fundamental foundations of learning in Years 7 and 8 to prepare them for future success. Support students in learning the depth and breadth of their chosen subjects by giving them longer in which to do so. Allow more option choices and personalization for students since the longer timescale allows more flexibility and time for study. Allow students to specialize in areas that interest them, motivating them to fulfill their potential and move onto the next stage of their learning.

At Key Stage 4, all students will study GCSE English Language, GCSE English Literature, GCSE Maths, GCSE Double Science, Core RE, and Core PE. Most students will be expected to study GCSE French. Speakers of other languages will be allowed to take a GCSE in their home language.

In addition to these core subjects, students will make 3 option choices from a range of GCSE and Vocational subjects. Through the options process, all students are allowed to study for the English Baccalaureate – GCSE English, Maths, Double Science, Geography/History, and French.

We are proud to nurture an environment that allows our students to strive for academic and vocational excellence. We focus on progression and preparing our students for their next steps whether that be university, further education, apprenticeships, or work. We offer a wide range of level 3 courses that combine to create individual study programs to maximize our student’s potential.

The quality of teaching and learning in the Sixth Form at Holly Lodge has an excellent track record, has proved by examination results and OFSTED inspections. Results in our Sixth Form subjects compare extremely favorably against results in similar schools both locally and nationally. We are passionate about getting you the right qualifications to allow you to progress. We are very proud of our destinations for our year 13s and we will do what it takes to get you into university and apprenticeship or straight into work should you wish.

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