About HWS

Covid 19 Catch-Up Premium and Curriculum Expectations 2020/21 Please click here for the school’s Covid-19 Catch Up Strategic Plan, which is a developing document building on the principles outlined below. Covid 19 Catch-Up Premium overview The DfE has allocated £650 million to be spent on ensuring all...

Welcome to Highgate Wood School. I am very proud to be the Headteacher at Highgate Wood School and to be given the privilege of leading this wonderful school community.

We expect our students to have high aspirations; their academic progress and examination success are ensured by top quality teaching, first rate facilities and challenging targets. Our school motto is Everyone Matters and this ensures that we take an approach that values every student as an individual, with a wide range of curricular and extra-curricular opportunities enabling talent and creativity to be identified and nurtured.

We are proud to have a diverse and strong community at Highgate Wood School. Students are encouraged to follow our established vales of the 4Cs: Courtesy, Consideration, Contribution and Cooperation. Our students are proactive in making a positive change and helping out globally and within the community.

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We expect everyone in our community to work together cooperatively, to show consideration and courtesy to each other and the wider community and to make an active contribution to the world they live in. More recently we have also highlighted the importance of respect and honesty and of perseverance and hard work. These are all qualities that help us thrive, individually and collectively, be healthy, stay safe, enjoy and achieve.

Students at Highgate Wood School benefit enormously from opportunities to become true global citizens.

We want everyone to feel welcome, safe and secure in the school and believe that each of us has a valuable contribution to make to the school community and its continued success.

Students at Highgate Wood School are continuing to make good progress and we are delighted by their successes at A Level this year - the first year of "normal" public examinations since the pandemic and the first public examinations sat by our Year 13 students. Similarly our GCSE students returned fantastic results. See below for details of GCSE and A level results achieved by our students in 2023 and in earlier years.

The School's last Ofsted report was carried out in November 2021 and judged the school as good.

See here for information on our Curriculum.