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We are proud of our school and of the difference we make to the life and the future of our community. We aim to provide a stimulating, happy and caring atmosphere where our children can learn and develop. We want each child to achieve their potential and to grow as an individual. We have been a community school since 1872. We take pride in being a friendly, caring, and welcoming community. We believe very strongly that when children leave our school they should be confident, kind, and tolerant individuals who have achieved their full potential academically and retain a love of and excitement in learning. At Southwark Park, we aim to provide a rich, engaging curriculum for all children. We will continue to embed the new curriculum and strengthen the quality of provision this year, particularly around promoting British Values. We believe that learning is a lifelong process and should be a rewarding and enjoyable experience for everyone it should be fun. Through our teaching we equip children with the skills, knowledge, and understanding they need to be able to make informed choices about the important things in their lives. We aim to engage children in a stimulating, rewarding, and challenging environment with high-quality teaching through which to foster: Children who have a keen sense of their progress, take pride in achievement, and have a desire to succeed, seeing themselves as having limitless possibilities in their learning. Children who are literate and numerate Enquiring, active minds that are excited by learning and want to learn more each day. Attitudes to learning so that children enjoy a challenge, cope confidently with risk and failure, have the stamina and resilience to keep going, and see mistakes as something to learn from. Children who are independent and confident in their approach to learning, who persevere in their determination to be successful and make learning their own. Children who are flexible and able to support and cooperate with others, and understand the importance of nurturing good relationships. Imagination and creative expression through a wide range of media. Conscientious and responsible young citizens of our diverse society who are tolerant and respect others’ values. Effective links between the school, the child’s home, and the community encourage aspiration and high expectations. To start the year the children will start by telling us all about themselves, sharing the things they like to eat, their favorite colors, and books too. We will also be making portraits of ourselves and our families. We will also be reading about a very mischievous dog, who can’t help but make a mess! In Reception, we continue to teach the children through play. Following the Early Years curriculum, we can offer your children a broad spectrum of learning opportunities. In our classes, the children are encouraged to become independent learners and are provided with opportunities to grow and develop in confidence. We plan and implement highly engaging sessions, which inspire the children to become well-rounded motivated individuals. The children are then able to build upon their learning, by participating in a wide range of activities, including daily writing, reading, and maths exercises. We follow the CLPE Power of Reading scheme, which places high-quality books at the center of all learning. To create a sense of excitement, we do not tell the children the books that they are reading! This helps to create a highly immersive setting where the children are transported to the world of the books. We use the “Letters and Sounds” phonics program to deliver systematic phonics lessons with the aim that the children become fluent readers by age seven. The children are taught how to decode text by segmenting words into phonemes (the smallest units of sound) and then blending them into words. Children then use this knowledge to segment words when spelling. At Southwark Park, we embed a consistent whole-school approach which is supported by scheduled assessment, targeted interventions, and commitment to pace and rigor. We continue to ensure children use strategies and strengthen their spelling capability as they progress into KS2. Phonics is taught every day in Early Years and Key Stage 1 using the “Letters and Sounds” teaching program. Forest School is part of a holistic approach to learning which closely fits with our Early Years provision. Through physical, emotional, and intellectual experiences, the children are allowed to learn and develop within a woodland setting. The ethos of Forest School is based on a respect for children and their capacity to the initiative, investigate and maintain curiosity in the world around them. Children will learn and acquire important life skills that will support and enhance the learning taking place in the classroom. Children will also learn a great deal about the natural environment, what can be found there, its uses, and how it should be cared for. View full school

Lewisham Southwark College is a further education college, with three campuses across south east London with easy access from the tube/DLR, buses, and trains. We passionately believe in encouraging talent in a friendly and supportive environment and deliver a range of exciting, vocational courses. The College welcomes teenage and adult learners – creating employable graduates with relevant work skills. Our teaching staff is here to help strengthen your practical, technical and professional know-how and your time with us will probably be very different from school. You'll be treated as an adult and a number of our lecturers have been within the industry themselves, meaning you can learn from their expert knowledge. We want to create inspired, knowledgeable, and award-winning students. And we'll strive to equip you with fundamental and hands-on expertise in a subject you're passionate about, so you're ready to take that next step. Having completed your qualification on a sufficient level, you should leave us with a well-rounded and applied understanding of your specialism, which is just what employers are looking for. You can potentially go on to higher education after Level 3 courses, too. We deliver HND and Access options, helping boost your prospects for some of the top universities.LS College is a division of NCG, one of the UK’s largest national training and college groups.NCG’s purpose is to Unlocking Potential Through Learning. That’s the simple goal at the heart of everything we do, working with government, employers, and partners to help thousands of people start or develop a career. With a nationwide network of colleges and training centers and around 2,500 staff, we work with thousands of learners and businesses every year, regionally and nationally, to help them reach their full potential and build a talented workforce through high-quality education and training. Lewisham Southwark College is a further education college, with three campuses across south east London with easy access from the tube/DLR, buses, and trains. We passionately believe in encouraging talent in a friendly and supportive environment and deliver a range of exciting vocational courses and Apprenticeships. Our friendly Apprenticeship team can provide you with loads of advice and support – from helping you choose the right Apprenticeship to secure employment and beyond. What’s more, we’ll provide you with your assessor to guide you throughout your Apprenticeship. We work with a large number of Employers in a lot of different industries from Construction to Theatre Support. We work across the South of London – and we will help you find the right Employer and Apprenticeship for you. Our Apprenticeships run all year round, so you do not need to wait until term-time to start one. We’ll help and advise you on your next steps once you’ve completed the Apprenticeship – continuing to support your career aspirations. We’ll help you stay on track with your learning through our online system – we have achieved Gold Status for this proving how well we use this to support our Apprentices. Our team is available every day – so whenever you need to talk to us, we’ll be here to answer your questions. We care about helping you reach your full potential at work, and are committed to supporting you throughout your Apprenticeship. View full school

Compass School Southwark opened in September 2013 with the ambition to become an outstanding local school. In a short space of time, Compass School has already become the school of choice for many families in our local community, and we are providing a unique education to the children that we serve. We aim to be the best school available to our students, renowned for delivering outstanding academic results, developing world-class opportunities for our students, and ensure a global outlook and high aspiration in every student, regardless of their background. Everyone in the Compass School Community holds the unshakeable belief that every child can achieve their full potential given the right support and challenge. This is reinforced in our vision that “everyone in the Compass Community will confidently reach the destination to which they aspire.” We want every student to achieve more than they first thought they were capable of to lead fulfilling and inspiring lives. There are four core values that we strongly believe will help to deliver this vision – aspiration, integrity, exploration, and resilience. All aspects of school life, including the school day, the curriculum, and our enrichment opportunities, are focused on supporting these core values. Compass School is a 600 place free school in Southwark for pupils aged 11-16: Our commitment is that: "Everyone in the Compass School Community will confidently reach the destination to which they aspire". Compass School will work closely with the Local Authority and other Southwark Schools to ensure that we help to meet the local need for good school places – complementing existing provision rather than abstracting from it. Compass School will provide High expectations and aspirations, a varied and student-driven curriculum, a safe, caring, and inclusive environment, a strong relationship with its community, and an enriching extra-curricular program. At Compass School Southwark, we believe that education is about more than just academic achievement. We want to engage and enhance all aspects of our student’s lives and in doing so help them to determine their course, with a good understanding of the world and opportunities around them. We can deliver this vision by focusing on our four core values: Aspiration Integrity Exploration Resilience In each subject area at KS3 there is an emphasis upon developing independent learners who have good thinking skills, are good researchers, can be team players and leaders within the same lesson, and think innovatively to solve a range of problems. These skills are taught and modeled in assemblies, learning family time, and in lessons as well as encouraged through independent learning, exploration projects, and homework. In Year 7 and 8 students follow a broad and balanced curriculum. The curriculum covers the core subjects (English, Maths and Science) as well as the humanities (Geography, History and Relating) the Arts (Drama and Art) French, Computing and PE. This prepares the students so that as many students as possible will have access to the English Baccalaureate courses. At the end of Year, 8 students choose whether to study Geography or History as well as French or Spanish to begin these GCSE courses in Year 9. Year 9 is a mixture of KS3 and GCSE courses. The students begin to study the GCSE curriculum in Science as well as their choice of humanity and modern foreign language. Their remaining subjects follow the KS3 curriculum in preparation for their GCSE choices at KS4. At KS4 students continue to study the core subjects (English, Maths, and Science), and to recognize their importance for the student's life chances the hours per week are increased to 5 per subject, over 50% of their curriculum time. To ensure most students cover the English Baccalaureate set of subjects, students take a Humanity (History or Geography) and a modern foreign language (French or Spanish). The students also choose two further option subjects to study to GCSE. Compass School Southwark will not have its own Sixth Form, but on joining the City of London Academies Trust, Compass pupils can expect equal access to the new City of London Academy Sixth Form on Rotherhithe New Road. View full school

Welcome to the City of London Academy (Southwark). We offer high-quality education in a vibrant, innovative learning environment to students aged 11-18. We provide added focus on Business & Enterprise and Sport and are one of only 10 schools in England to be awarded Basketball Academy status by Basketball England. We are passionate about helping every student achieve their full potential in a caring, inclusive community. COLA is sponsored by the City of London, allowing our students to access unique, exciting career opportunities in the heart of the capital. The city of London Academy is high-achieving and oversubscribed. The majority of our students progress to leading universities - including Oxbridge - apprenticeships or employment. Many also go on to prestigious college basketball scholarships in America. We continue to raise attainment and achievement, boasting academic results significantly above the national average. In 2017, CoLA has achieved its best-ever GCE A-level results in its history and matching our best GCSE results for the second year running. At A-level, the pass rate remained at 100%, with 79% gaining A*- C. We celebrated a further 11% increase in last year’s GCSE results, with the best results of 38% of students achieving the English Baccalaureate measure and 76% of students secured 5 or more A*-C grades including English and maths. Overall 86% of students received 5 or more GCSEs grade A*-C, with great results in subjects including the essential core areas of Maths, English, and Science. Top-achieving students gained between 9 and 14 A*/A grades each and 32% of all grades were A*/A. A significant achievement was also recorded by Pupil Premium students, with 72% achieving 5 or more A*-C, including English and maths. We offer a broad, balanced curriculum, with small class sizes ensuring no child is left behind. But the City of London Academy is renowned for being more than just a school we are dedicated to nurturing every student’s holistic development. We believe every child matters and were awarded the Investors in Careers (gold) for our exceptional work in supporting students’ development. We are also a joint lead school of London South East Maths Hub, part of a national program dedicated to improving the quality of mathematics education. The city of London Academy is entering a new and exciting era, with our purpose-built Sixth Form center opening at 399 Rotherhithe New Road in September 2017, ready to accommodate 400 students. This will transform facilities for our students as we embrace the latest technology on a specialist Sixth-Form campus to improve learning, motivation, and aspirations. The City of London Academy’s vision is to be an inspirational, ambitious, inclusive, and happy learning community in which pupils, parents, and staff are motivated, respectful, and have high expectations of one another. We are proud of our City heritage and value the opportunities it brings our community. Aspiration and hard work are at the heart of our vision. We strive to shape resourceful, resilient, and well-rounded young people who can each make valuable contributions to our diverse Academy and society at large. Our vision embraces a culture of life-long learning in which all members of our Academy community matter and where both endeavor and achievement are celebrated. Positive relationships are underpinned by a relentless drive for excellence and are rewarded with communication, creativity, confidence, and success. At The City of London Academy Southwark, we believe that our pupils are entitled to receive an inspiring, broad, and balanced curriculum which will enable pupils to succeed in the world today. Our curriculum offers a wide range of academic and vocational courses taught by highly qualified staff. The curriculum is designed with the latest research and is underpinned by three main principles in mind: choice, challenge, and progression. The Key Stage 3 curriculum is followed by students in Years 7 and 8. From Year 7, students are placed in teaching sets according to their ability in Maths, Science, and English. All other subjects are taught in tutor groups that match their needs so that they can achieve their best potential and make the highest possible progress. The Key Stage 4 curriculum is followed by students in Years 9 to 11. The majority of students will sit eleven GCSE examinations at the end of Key Stage 4. However, our most able scientists and mathematicians will sit more GCSEs. All students are provided with high-quality career advice and guidance before making their option choices at the end of Year 8. City of London Academy Southwark offers a wide range of subject choices within the timetable. Our Sixth Form is large and has a specialist accommodation to enable us to offer a wide range of GCE AS or A2, Vocational and Applied courses. City of London Academy Southwark Sixth Form is a top-performing Sixth Form Academy in London Borough of Southwark with over 300 students and has been recognized by the Department for Education as one of the top ten non-selective schools/colleges for progression to higher education. View full school