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Welcome to West Twyford Primary School where we seek to develop happy, inquisitive, and resilient life-long learners who strive for excellence in all they do learners They are respectful, polite, and kind, and who take pride in belonging to our school and the wider community. We aim to provide the very best education within an aspiring and harmonious environment. We do this through providing top-quality teaching and learning opportunities, with highly skilled and dedicated staff, through a broad and vibrant curriculum and an exciting program of extra-curricular enrichment activities. We are very well resourced and have a beautiful new school building, specifically designed to facilitate our learning. We have very high expectations for every child and we work in partnership with our parents, outside agencies, and the wider community, to ensure that every child achieves their full potential, is happy and fulfilled. Our vision is to develop happy, inquisitive, and resilient life-long learners who strive for excellence in all they do: learners who are respectful, polite and kind, and who take pride in belonging to our school and the wider community. Mission Statement: We aspire to excellence in all we do and we have high academic expectations for all our children. We continually strive to innovate, evaluate and reflect to ensure that we provide the best teaching, learning, resources, and opportunities for our community. We expect and celebrate endeavor and achievement. We encourage children to be confident, resilient, reflective, and independent learners. We provide access to a rich, broad, and balanced curriculum, which incorporates the National Curriculum and enables each child to achieve her/his level of personal and academic excellence irrespective of gender, ethnicity, or socio-economic background. We provide opportunities that enable children to develop high standards of self-discipline, self-esteem, moral values, listening, and social skills which allow children to become independent learners. Teamwork is at the heart of all we do. We respect everyone and treat people the way we would like to be treated. We are a community school. We welcome, encourage, and embrace parental and community involvement. We acknowledge the importance of strong home-school links. We are a happy, well-organized school that achieves together. We take pride in our school and ourselves. Our Curriculum Letters introduce you to the topics that your child will be taught during the term. They detail what is being planned for your child’s lessons, the skills, knowledge, and concepts that are being developed and the learning objectives taught. View full school

Welcome to West Twyford Primary School where we seek to develop happy, inquisitive, and resilient life-long learners who strive for excellence in all they do learners They are respectful, polite, and kind, and who take pride in belonging to our school and the wider community. We aim to provide the very best education within an aspiring and harmonious environment. We do this through providing top-quality teaching and learning opportunities, with highly skilled and dedicated staff, through a broad and vibrant curriculum and an exciting program of extra-curricular enrichment activities. We are very well resourced and have a beautiful new school building, specifically designed to facilitate our learning. We have very high expectations for every child and we work in partnership with our parents, outside agencies, and the wider community, to ensure that every child achieves their full potential, is happy and fulfilled. Our vision is to develop happy, inquisitive, and resilient life-long learners who strive for excellence in all they do: learners who are respectful, polite and kind, and who take pride in belonging to our school and the wider community. Mission Statement: We aspire to excellence in all we do and we have high academic expectations for all our children. We continually strive to innovate, evaluate and reflect to ensure that we provide the best teaching, learning, resources, and opportunities for our community. We expect and celebrate endeavor and achievement. We encourage children to be confident, resilient, reflective, and independent learners. We provide access to a rich, broad, and balanced curriculum, which incorporates the National Curriculum and enables each child to achieve her/his level of personal and academic excellence irrespective of gender, ethnicity, or socio-economic background. We provide opportunities that enable children to develop high standards of self-discipline, self-esteem, moral values, listening, and social skills which allow children to become independent learners. Teamwork is at the heart of all we do. We respect everyone and treat people the way we would like to be treated. We are a community school. We welcome, encourage, and embrace parental and community involvement. We acknowledge the importance of strong home-school links. We are a happy, well-organized school that achieves together. We take pride in our school and ourselves. Our Curriculum Letters introduce you to the topics that your child will be taught during the term. They detail what is being planned for your child’s lessons, the skills, knowledge, and concepts that are being developed and the learning objectives taught. View full school

Twyford School is one of the oldest prep schools in the country. We are proud of our heritage and the beautiful history and architecture around the school. The worn stone steps in the corridor to Upper School are a wonderful reminder of the two hundred years of education provided at Twyford. We embrace Christian values and teach children from the earliest ages to be kind, considerate, and respectful of others. We are also proud of having some of the most up-to-date facilities and forward-thinking approaches to education. Our innovative, progressive, and ‘structured play’ curriculum aims to provide young, creative minds the opportunity to learn and to be stretched inside and outside the classroom. Classrooms are modern, bright, and well-equipped with the latest technology. Our sports and outdoor facilities are simply outstanding. We understand that children develop their mental and physical learning at different stages. This is at the heart of our teaching and proven academic success. We shape and nurture each learning journey so children never feel overwhelmed, but maintain their confidence and enthusiasm for creative learning throughout their time here. We strive to find new ways to teach the curriculum and are not shy about reaching beyond it. By developing a child’s curiosity and enthusiasm for learning and the world around them, we hope to inspire a self-belief that will serve them well in life. At Twyford, we pay attention to the detail of day-to-day life because it’s very often the little things we do that can make the biggest difference. The boys, girls, and staff are the heartbeat of the school – please come and see for yourself. At Twyford, we invest all our energies into helping each child learn in a secure and nurturing environment where they can confidently thrive, become resilient and self-sufficient, and able to positively respond to challenge and change. We pride ourselves on our exceptionally high-quality pastoral care that is woven and delivered throughout every aspect of school life here. Our nurturing approach starts from Nursery where regular communication with parents and the School is paramount to ensuring happy children. We celebrate success in all areas but we value most the child who goes the extra mile to embrace our School values Honesty, Kindness, Friendship, Respect, and Responsibility. Our overriding aim is that all children will flourish in our care as individuals and through this wrap-around approach acquire the tools and skills to move to their secondary school and successfully continue their journey to adulthood with confidence and capability. The structure of our pastoral care is designed to support these aims by providing opportunities and encouragement to empower a child to be the best person they can be. All children in both the Prep and Pre-Prep have a class/form tutor they see every day who is responsible for their academic and pastoral well-being. The tutors get to know the child very well, very quickly, and are best placed to help and support them through good and bad. Years 7 and 8 have a personal tutor specifically skilled in helping them make the transition to their Senior school, with a particular responsibility to help them to flourish. These children meet with their tutors twice a week to touch base on pastoral and academic matters, as well as sharing any news with their tutor or tutor group. Mental health awareness classes are part of well-being modules in PSHEE which is taught as a discrete subject from Reception upwards. Each week there is a pastoral topic linked to the Chapel theme and covered in both assemblies and tutor time. We run a full program of pastoral talks for parents and also for children and staff. We also support girl-specific issues using the “Girls on Board” philosophy. We are a talking school but more importantly, we are a listening school. Our School Listener is a trained counselor and our fully trained Peer Supporters are on duty at all times should the children feel their best listener is another pupil. We also have a specific ‘bullying@’ email address and multiple whisper boxes around School if children have any concerns. All the pastoral staff is Mental Health First Aid trained and we have robust systems in place for spotting a child who needs some extra assistance, recording, and helping as required. Well-being is a core part of the School’s PSHEE curriculum, as is resilience and independence. Matrons are at the very heart of the school and play an integral part in boarding life as well. The Matrons’ Room is warm and welcoming and is often the first port of call for both parents and children they hand out medical help as required but most of all is a sympathetic listening ear for all. They are a very special group of ladies to whom many turn to. We aim to ensure that all our children share in our strong sense of community caring for each other and understanding and embracing difference. Christian family values and community lie at the heart of Twyford School and we welcome children from a wide range of cultural backgrounds and all faiths. Children in the Pre-Prep have a daily assembly along with several special services that take place either in the School’s beautiful 150-year-old Victorian Chapel (which is quietly nestled within the school buildings) or in the village parish church. Prep School children gather regularly in Chapel, enjoying a morning service with hymns. Parents are invited to share in the Prep School Saturday morning services when we have visiting preachers, and also to join us for other services, such as Harvest Festival and Carol services. Younger children enjoy the traditional Nativity and other festive celebrations. View full school

Twyford is an 11-18 comprehensive School with a roll of just under 1400, including over 500 in the Sixth Form. Twyford is organized into year groups each containing seven tutor groups, which are also members of the school's seven houses Truro, Wells, York, Fountains, Ripon, Durham, and Canterbury. Each Year Group has a Head of Year and an Assistant Head of Year. The Head of Year 7 liaises with the Primary Schools that our students have come from, and for this reason, remains Head of Year 7 each year. Once students move into Year 8 they will then remain with their new year head until the end of Year 11. The lower years (7 to 9) cover the National Curriculum's Key Stage Three and are overseen by the Head of KS3. In the same way years, 10 and 11 are overseen by the Head of KS4. In the Sixth Form there is a permanent Head of Year 12, and also one for Year 13 as well as an overall Head of KS5. At Twyford, we wish to instill a love of learning. The curriculum is broad and balanced. The core subjects of Mathematics, English, and Science provide a very secure foundation for progress. With each intake of new Year 7 students we aim to build immediately on their achievements at Key Stage 2. Setting in Maths, Science and Languages start in Year 7 and other subjects in Year 8. As students move up the school, their available options become increasingly varied. In the past 4 years, Twyford has developed its reputation as a Specialist Language College to become a Unesco Associated School. Our curriculum is very well developed as at KS3, half of the year group studies two languages and Latin is a core subject. All students are then encouraged to study at least one Modern Language at GCSE (they choose from French, German, or Spanish). Many take more than one language at GCSE and some elect to study Latin as an extra subject. This year Mandarin is also offered as an extra-curricular subject. At KS3 pupils have the opportunity to take part in a wide variety of trips to Normandy, Barcelona, Paris, Bath, and the University of Cambridge and we also run an exchange program in Year 8 to Moenchengladbach in Germany. At KS4 the school has exchanges with 2 other partner schools in Toledo and Lyon and at KS5 students are encouraged to take part in the Comenius and Erasmus schemes, which allow them to debate at the European Parliament in Brussels and visit Mozambique, China, and our same sister school in Lyon. Approximately four hundred students have been involved in the Language College's wider learning opportunities, which help to enrich their experience of learning a foreign language. In addition, our teachers have developed privileged links with primary schools across the borough and help to train teachers to teach French and Latin at KS2. All students take ICT, History, Geography, Music, Drama, PE, Art, and Religious Education. Religious Education GCSE is taken one year in advance of other subjects and our success rate in this subject is particularly high. All students have ICT lessons and use computers as a learning tool in many subjects. A full program of Personal, Social, and Health Education and Citizenship is also followed by all students. View full school