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At Woodhouse Primary Academy, meeting the needs of our learners is our priority. It is a privilege for us to be part of each child’s learning journey. Woodhouse Primary Academy is a school where you will find a dedicated and skilled staff team, enthusiastic and hard-working pupils alongside supportive and proud parents. Together we seek to embody our school motto: dream, believe, inspire and achieve. Our pupils and their families are at the heart of all that we do. We provide an exciting, broad, and balanced curriculum that inspires and motivates our pupils with opportunities to promote independence, learn life-long skills, and have aspirations for the future. Within a caring and nurturing environment, we ensure all our pupils are equipped with the skills, self-confidence, and opportunities to succeed. Our inclusive school ensures that all children meet their full potential, offering specialist support where necessary. We are a diverse school, with a wide range of home languages, religions, and cultures, and we are proud of our heritage and community. There are many things we are proud of about our school. We have a proud sporting heritage with regular success in local and area competitions. Our creative skills are nurtured through art and musical opportunities and our children have access to our incredible outdoor area in the heart of the community: Pitts Wood. We have high expectations. Academic achievement is important and we work hard to help children attain high standards. We expect children to be caring towards others, act as good citizens, showing respect and tolerance in all they do. We are proud to be a part of the Education Central Multi Academy Trust. Together we work for the continued improvement in school and the trust offers Woodhouse the support, expertise, and challenge to improve further. Our staff work as a team to nurture our learners and prepare them for the future. Our mission statement is “Dream, Believe, Inspire, Achieve ” and we aim to provide a happy, secure environment in which children will thrive and develop intellectually, emotionally, socially, and physically a place where learning is central to everything. Our staff is committed to supporting the children entrusted to our care. To achieve their best, there needs to be a positive relationship between home and school. Our partnership with parents is extremely important to us. At Woodhouse Primary Academy, we promise a nurturing ethos where children will be able to dream and plan for the future. We recognize that every child is unique and we will invest in them individually by ensuring that they are known, loved, and well taught. Our Aims: To create a nurturing, secure, and happy environment where everyone cares and respects each other. To maintain and develop high standards socially and academically which empowers all children with a positive sense of achievement. To ensure equality of opportunities exists for all. To provide creative and varied opportunities to stimulate the development of the whole child and a thirst for learning. To encourage fundamental values and life skills including responsibility, perseverance, integrity, trustworthiness, friendship, and compassion. To encourage strong, beneficial partnerships between home and school. To recognize and celebrate the success of all. View full school

At Woodhouse Grove, we appreciate that every child is an individual with their unique personality, talents, and skills and it is this individuality that we grow with nurture at all stages of their education, this approach is at the heart of the school's aims and ethos (seen below). A child’s potential could lie anywhere – so we ensure that every pupil is exposed to a huge array of opportunities and experiences. We then take pride in identifying and honing their strengths to make the most of their natural abilities, while working hard to develop areas that need improvement. This approach sees every Grovian grow into the very best version of themselves they can be. We believe that every child is an individual with their unique personality, talents, and skills and it’s this individuality that we encourage to grow at all stages of their education. A child’s potential could lie anywhere – so we ensure that every pupil is exposed to a huge array of opportunities and experiences. We then pride ourselves on identifying and honing their strengths to make the most of their natural abilities, while working hard to develop areas that need improvement. This approach sees every Grovian grow into the very best version of themselves they can be. We believe that the potential to achieve relies upon having the right introduction to school life. That’s why Brontë House offers children a place where every pupil’s individual needs will be identified and met. Where they will feel truly happy, make great new friends and, of course, develop a deep-seated love of learning that they will carry forward for the rest of their school life and beyond. When you nurture a child’s confidence, achievement follows. Because every child is unique, we know that the key to reaching their true potential lies in an education that is as full as it is diverse. Our approach of striving for academic achievement is perfectly complemented by a dedication to developing a wide variety of other interests, helping to build their aspirations, and instilling confidence for the future. We do this by offering every pupil life-changing opportunities and an environment in which academic excellence is promoted through learning and shared experiences. With excellent facilities for teaching and learning and committed and well-qualified teachers, our pupils are encouraged to fulfill and often exceed their potential. Woodhouse Grove is both academically ambitious and academically sensitive. Pupils are challenged to make the most of their abilities and take responsibility for their progress. Those in need of specific additional support are identified and provided for in a well-established learning support unit. Pupils are encouraged to think ahead, to prepare not merely for GCSE and A-Level, but also the challenges and opportunities beyond school. Careers guidance is embedded in an extensive program of personal and social education. Every individual child in this school counts we ask nothing more from them than that they dare to be, not ordinary, but extraordinary, and to strive to do their very best. To be confident and proud of their academic achievements and to believe that there is no glass ceiling to their academic attainment. View full school

Woodhouse is a popular and oversubscribed sixth form college in Barnet. Our students are aged 16–18 years and come from over 180 different schools across North London. Based in North Finchley and drawing students from over 180 surrounding schools, Woodhouse College is one of the leading places to study A levels in London. Our consistently high performance in exam results backs this up. The government recognizes us as one of a small number of colleges with both Beacon Status and Ofsted Outstanding status. Our A*–B pass rates consistently place us in the top five sixth-form colleges nationally. Our students are able and hard-working. They have done well at GCSE and aim to do likewise at A level. Almost all go on to university. The college acts as a bridge from school to university, giving students a chance to grow in confidence and to develop independent learning skills. All our students study A levels. We offer a wide range of subjects, and students can study them in almost any combination. Our combination of expert teaching staff and an ambitious, supportive approach has proved very successful in achieving excellent academic results. We believe that sixth form college should be a stepping stone between school and university, a place where you can start to become an independent learner, and where you are supported to become the person you want to be. We provide a happy, trusting, and caring environment where you can challenge yourself and explore a whole range of opportunities. Woodhouse is as much about personal growth as it is about exam success. People ask if we are a specialist school, and we are. Our specialism is A level. That’s all we do. No little ones doing Key stage 3. Our teachers don’t rush from a difficult year 9 class for a bit of a breather with the year 13s. And we are not an FE college – no adults, no part-time students, or vocational courses. Just A levels, just enthusiastic students keen to do well and to progress to university. The fact that we specialize in A levels means that we have a big range of subjects – and perhaps the key thing is that they can be studied in almost any combination. When I was at school I was desperate to take maths and history at A level, my two favorite subjects. And I couldn’t. Because they were in the same block: I could only take maths or history. Last year, with around 650 new AS students, not one student had a clash, not one couldn’t do the combination they wanted. And the fact that we specialize in A levels means we have excellent study facilities – take a look today at our breath-taking library and two learning zones, and our labs and other accommodation, and our 3G pitch. And it also means that our staff are specialists too, experts in their subjects and A level pedagogy and assessment. And you might be surprised at our class sizes too, the average across the college is just over 20 with no class over 24. And it means that we specialize in advice and guidance in the university application process, that all our staff is involved, and that there is plenty of support and expertise – because 95% of our students go on to university, see us as a bridge to university - so we see it as part of the core of who we are. Our students are proud to be part of the College, and when they leave they are upset and tell us how much the college has meant to them. And they continue to be part of our community even after they have left, on Twitter, Facebook, and our alumni organization, many coming back to give talks and to mentor students. We are quite a large college, most of our new students say. But actually, overall we are only the size of a medium comprehensive school. Although we have a lot of buildings and spread out over a large site, we are smaller than many of the schools you go to. Smaller than Ashmole, East Barnet, Mill Hill County, Fortismere, APS, Highgate Wood, for example. And we have smaller class sizes than many sixth forms, especially in popular subjects. But, of course, the year groups are big – because everyone is in Year 12 or year 13. View full school