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Here at Stoke Newington School & Sixth Form, we pride ourselves in providing all our students with excellent creative teaching and learning opportunities within the curriculum and through our program of extra-curricular activities. We want all of our students to enjoy their secondary education, do exceptionally well academically, and grow personally and socially as active citizens in our community. We are delighted you’re interested in applying for our school. You can apply directly through the Hackney Learning Trust website. We are a popular school and have a waiting list for places in all years. Please note that admissions for our school are handled by Hackney Council’s Learning Trust. The school has no say in allocating places. Please have a look at our prospectus and our upcoming open days. Once your child has been accepted we make every effort to make their transition to secondary school as smooth and as enjoyable as possible. We have a sixth form block with state-of-the-art ICT facilities, a study space, a common room, and a cafe to provide a marvelous academic environment for our growing number of students. Our students get places at top universities, studying subjects including medicine, economics, and art. Academic excellence is key to students’ success. Our curriculum offer includes a wide range of A levels as well as our popular and highly rated BTEC sports course. The A-level subjects reflect our academic and creative school ethos ranging from English, the three sciences, and maths through to subjects such as music technology, art, and photography, as well as new subjects such as philosophy and economics. Our results are good and rising year after year. GCSE and A level results and progression from Year 11 and Year 13 are very strong. The fact that so many students choose to stay on into our Sixth Form and take the qualifications they need to get into the universities of their choice is proof of our success. We are proud of our award-winning reputation as a creative and vibrant school and the unique opportunities that this brings to our students, staff, and community. The implementation of creativity across the curriculum is key to our school improvement plan. Whether in the arts or sciences, our staff has great power to innovate, take risks, and find new creative ways of approaching teaching and learning to engage, motivate and inspire our students with a love for learning. They can draw on the outstanding teaching and development opportunities in school as well as on a range of external partners, agencies, and professionals. We include a wide range of educational visits for every child in our school they take part in workshops, attend lectures, visit theatres, galleries, museums, and places of work as well as being offered opportunities abroad. Our international residencies have seen students visiting Rome with Latin, New York with Photography, Belgium with PE, and Geneva with Physics. All of these opportunities provide our students with new experiences to bring their learning alive. We offer a broad and balanced curriculum, which has been designed to offer every student the chance to achieve place great emphasis on creativity in the classroom and use creative approaches to stimulate learning, build confidence and raise the attainment of our students. We understand how different students learn and our teachers engage students by using a variety of teaching styles and appropriate challenges for all. To support the curriculum and enhance learning the school is equipped with excellent resources, including over 750 computers, a professional music studio, well-equipped science and technology classrooms, outstanding sports facilities, and media suites. Mental Health and well-being are increasingly a central consideration within the school and within the wider community. We have several different processes to help students who feel that they may need to talk to someone about their mental health or get support for someone they are concerned about. As a school, we take all aspects of a young person’s wellbeing seriously but we are first and foremost a school so as well as contacting us to let us know your concerns we strongly recommend that you contact your GP to discuss any concerns that you may have about your young person. We place great emphasis on the welfare of our school community and provide support, information, and guidance to help everyone at our school feel happy. We also celebrate the diverse and inclusive nature of our school community and recognize the faiths, beliefs, and needs to be held by all. View full school

We are an independent day and boarding school based in Suffolk for boys and girls aged 4-18. We are set in tranquil parkland overlooking the River Stour, equidistant from Cambridge, Bury St Edmunds, Colchester, Braintree, and Saffron Walden. In November last year, education investors bought the school and are investing heavily in staffing, facilities, and technology. Since the end of February, we have been operating Stoke College Online, virtual classrooms, and lessons. You can find out more about how this works in our ‘News Section‘ The future is very bright for Stoke College. We looking forward to welcoming you. Stoke College has ambitious new investors with deep pockets and the determination to forge a new, 21st-century school campus while reviving the traditional school as its foundation. Stoke-by-Clare is close to Cambridge, to Stansted, and not a million miles from London itself. Yet it remains impeccably an ancient Suffolk village within a picturesque pastoral setting. On our country house estate are a church, riverside walks, and playing fields, and the woodlands for a Forest School. It is a hub for families from miles around, not only in Suffolk but in Cambridgeshire and North Essex. The future is coming fast, and the world is being transformed both by technology and global competition. We want the stability and tranquility of our setting for making young people feel secure and happy but we also need new buildings and state-of-the-art technology to ensure the education they receive prepares them for a radical future. We intend to begin building as soon as our designs are approved (we already have planning permission in principle). The quaint terrapins will soon be replaced with additional boarding houses and a higher standard of classrooms, including laboratories and a theatre. Our key investor Mark Wang is a significant figure in the United World College movement and a passionate believer in bringing sixth-formers from around the world together. But we want the school to be fundamentally English and to ensure that our local children come right through the school to join and lead a Sixth Form which we are determined will become a market leader with international education. We are a nonselective school with high academic ambitions. We are set in tranquil parkland overlooking the upper reaches of the River Stour. We pride ourselves on providing a forward-thinking and holistic education. Our new investors bought the school and are investing heavily. This includes introducing an affordable, transparent fee structure. Stoke College is led by Dr. Gareth Lloyd, who was previously Head of Ratcliffe College and St Joseph’s College. Dr. Lloyd is leading the school at an exciting time. Alongside our new investors, he is determined to transform the education we offer, providing innovative and exciting opportunities for all our pupils and establish ourselves as a model of high quality, affordable independent education. Alongside embedding ourselves in the local community, we will develop an innovative international outlook, which will include having an international sixth form. Our investors are committed to investing millions in the success of the school, including new buildings, infrastructure, and technology. We normally hold several admissions events throughout the year. However, these are extraordinary times. Instead of on-site open mornings, we will be holding regular online symposiums, talks, and activities. You will be able to meet our Principal Dr. Gareth Lloyd, as well as our pupils and staff. Grab a coffee from the comfort of your kitchen, settle down and let us tell you what makes Stoke College so special. The College traces its name back to 1415 when a college for priests was founded on the site. The College served as a pleasant rural retreat and an extra source of income for senior churchmen, who usually held livings elsewhere or were fellows of Cambridge The last Dean was Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury under Elizabeth I, and effectively the founder of the Anglican church. For Parker, his College at Stoke-by-Clare was his favorite residence for 12 years. Stoke College “can lay claim to a place of honor in British history,” says Suffolk architectural historian Leigh Alston in a recent study. “For it was here that Parker developed the ideas that allowed him, as one of the major figures of the 16th century . . . to create a stable Church of England from the chaos of the Reformation.” Until Mr. Alston’s investigation, the Dean’s Lodging, 70 feet long, two stories high, and built of stone, had lain unsuspected for centuries inside this large country house. Stoke College, set in tranquil parkland overlooking the upper reaches of the River Stour, also has a 15th-century dovecote “that preserves some of the finest decorative medieval brickwork in Britain,” according to Mr. Alston. The park wall is possibly one of the earliest brick walls in the country, dating back to the 1460s. We believe that high-quality education doesn’t need to cost the earth. Our ambition is to offer a forward-thinking approach to education that is competitively priced. Here is our commitment to parents. Affordability We know that families often have to make sacrifices to afford school fees. We commit to offering the most competitive fees within a 20-mile radius. Transparency Planning for the future is essential for families, so there are no hidden charges in our fees. Additionally, our price freeze commitment means no inflationary increases within each educational stage of the school. Loyalty We think loyalty should be rewarded. Families will receive discounts the longer they are in the school. Family focussed We are a true family school, taking boys and girls of all ages with a wide range of academic ability. Our sibling's discount supports entire families. Fairness We will approach all fees with fairness and openness. We do not do under-the-table deals or hide charges. Our pricing structure is competitive, fair, and transparent. Excellence We offer scholarships of up to 30% to children who have exceptional ability in valued disciplines. A child must love being at school. Too often, schools are places where children survive rather than thrive. In some, class sizes are too big for individual pupils to get much attention or praise in others, there are counter-productive pressures around test outcomes in a few schools, the behavior of children can be cliquey and even tribal. At Stoke College, we do know that unless children love their learning school can become a chore. If children are to feel happy, friendship and community are key. If children are to feel special, a school needs to look at the whole scope of each child’s talents and keep finding strengths to celebrate and reinforce. These are the basics. We must also inspire achievement. At Stoke, we create an environment where success is possible because children are happy, interested, and take pride in what they achieve. Excellence, in whatever field, is the product of opportunity, guidance, perseverance, and character. View full school