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The English Faculty was proud to host Kathy Watson from Ark Curriculum Plus on Tuesday last week. She visited a range of KS3 classrooms and, in her report, celebrated the "purposeful, productive learning atmosphere and strong, positive relationships between teachers and students". Our staff and students were brilliant ambassadors for our school.

As an Ark Curriculum Plus English Mastery Ambassador School, we are proud to share how the programme is supporting our students’ success at GCSE.

Working with the English Mastery Secondary curriculum has strengthened teaching across our department and made a measurable difference to students’ confidence and outcomes. We’re seeing improvements in:

Writing accuracy and quality of extended writing

Contextual understanding

GCSE outcomes and results

Read more about our journey in the new case study:

Read more about our journey in the new case study: