The Latymer School

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The Latymer School is a high achieving, selective grammar school with a great tradition of success we aim to provide a first-class education for all our students. We believe that an outstanding education develops students academically, socially, and morally, giving them the skills to be successful in whatever they do once they have left us. We also feel it is important to develop students outside of the classroom and offer a wide range of extra-curricular activities and trips including visits to our residential center in Cwm, Wales.
Secondary education represents a major stage in the life of each young person and so we aim to work together with parents, carers, governors, and the local community to support our young people enabling them to develop and grow within this community and in building together a real sense of identity within The Latymer School.
Our motto is ‘who endeavors wins’ and that sums up the ethos we wish to build within our school community life is not always straight forward and we encourage our students to persist, to keep trying, and then success will come.
The Latymer School aims to provide a broad and stimulating educational experience with very high standards within the formal curriculum while believing that school life should be valued for itself and not only as a preparation for adulthood. The heart of the school's aims is the intellectual, cultural, and social development of all pupils in a context of mutual esteem and sensible good order.
There is an outstanding musical tradition that leads to a wide range of music-making, much of it of very high quality, mainly as an extra-curricular activity. Drama, sport, and outdoor pursuits are also very strong.
The House system engenders much purposeful activity: inter-House competitions in sport, drama, and music and non-competitive ventures such as fundraising for a wide variety of charities. Our field center in North Wales, owned by the Foundation, is widely used as a base for outdoor pursuits and field courses.
Our aim is for each pupil to develop talents and interests to the full while experiencing a broad and balanced curriculum throughout Years 7 to 11. In Years 12 and 13, the curriculum is narrower and academic and prepares pupils for further studies and many different careers.
The courses offered at all levels challenge pupils to develop insight and independence of thought and value both sound learning and intellectual rigor. Our courses in Years 7 to 11 comply with the requirements of the National Curriculum. The curriculum is reviewed each year.

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