Turves Green Girls' School

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Turves Green Girls’ School is a community that typifies the best in our society. Our pupils are keen, resilient learners, ambitious for themselves and the future of their area. They bring energy and creativity to all they do, and we are rightly proud of them. Our staff works as a team. We are driven by a sense that the young people we serve deserve the very best education we can provide. Our senior leaders and the Governing Board understand that our teachers and support staff are the key to unlocking our young people’s potential, and therefore we place the welfare and professional development of our staff as central.

We are building our success outward from a very simple premise: everyone is important. As a small school, we value every individual. We nurture individual talents and structure support to meet individual needs. Our success, recognized by our recent OFSTED, is based on being a caring community. As a single-sex school, we can create an environment where excellence is applauded not mocked. In 2015, for example, saw our Year 11 Netball Team win not just the District championship but the County championships as well. Our exam results since 2010 have regularly scored amongst the best in South Birmingham.

We are an outward-facing school. Partnerships with other schools, colleges, universities, charities, and businesses offer our young people opportunities to develop their academic interests, explore new experiences, and investigate career pathways. As a cooperative school, we are part of a cooperative school family which shares our values.

It is our aim that Turves Green pupils, after five happy and challenging productive years with us, should leave our school as well-qualified young adults who have a broad outlook, concern, and respect for others, and self-confidence which will enable them to be successful in achieving their goals and fulfilling their ambitions and to play a valuable part in the future of their world.

Our vision is to provide for our young people the very best teaching and a supportive environment where their talents are nurtured and insecurities overcome. We will support the young people of our community throughout their childhoods to build their aspirations and ensure their needs are met. We work to put our school at the heart of the community. By working together with other schools and agencies we have a greater capacity for success.

Through our cooperative ethos, we pool our efforts, ideas, and enthusiasm to support our young people and their families in ways that would not be possible on our own. As educators, learners, parents, young people, and the wider community, we draw upon both our strength and the expertise of partner organizations. We work to give parents, pupils, staff, and the wider community a strong voice in the development of education and services in the area. The children in our area deserve the very best education and we will strive to deliver it. We are their champions. Together, we succeed.

Aims:

• To enable our pupils to be strong and independent – able to form healthy and respectful relationships, able to safeguard themselves and each other from exploitation and violent extremism, and able to stand up for British and cooperative values.
• To secure the highest possible academic standards and levels of challenge for our pupils and to prepare our pupils for the constantly changing challenges of life and work after school.
• To provide a curriculum that is broad, balanced, and relevant to each pupil, providing a breadth of experiences and allowing pupils to discover their passions.
• To create a happy and positive learning environment, fostering mutual respect, consideration for others, and personal responsibility.
• To be committed to developing positive relationships with parents, promoting education as a partnership between home and school.
• To provide a school-based experience for all our pupils which promotes equality of opportunity and seeks to overcome barriers to their achievement.
• To prepare our pupils for life after school so they can access the best opportunities in further education and the world of work. We achieve this by working closely with colleges and employers in addition to providing excellent independent careers advice.
• To encourage our pupils to be creative, resilient, and independent learners.
• To establish effective working relationships with other professionals for the benefit of all. We work with partner schools, particularly Turves Green Boys’ School and Cofton Primary School to improve all of our schools.
• To promote Turves Green Girls’ School as part of the wider community, through the implementation of our cooperative values, specifically our commitment to democracy.
• To provide a safe and caring environment in which all pupils can make a positive contribution to their learning, school, and community.
• To provide the best possible environment and inspirational teaching by using current technology and new approaches in the classroom.

Here at Turves Green Girls’ School, we pride ourselves on the high quality of teaching delivered by our staff and the fantastic opportunities this gives to all our pupils, whatever their ability. We aim to develop this love of learning by ensuring TGGS lessons are well matched to the needs of our pupils, engaging and challenging. We encourage our pupils to be brave and take a chance in their lessons, to try to be resilient if they make a mistake as this is what will help them make progress.

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