“'There is a strong sense of community between both students and staff and each other” Staff survey 2025

Our vision is that all students should "dream big and achieve" through the following:

• High expectations in all aspects of school life including uniform, attendance, behaviour and academic achievement
• Working together through truly valuing a positive working relationship with staff, students and parents
• Enjoying the journey, we strongly believe that all involved in our community can enjoy being at our school and create lasting positive memories.

We are at a very exciting stage of realising our aspirational vision through the following:

• Very strong academic achievement, significantly above Kent similar school averages
• Continued oversubscription across the school
• A key emphasis that we are not an exam factory, we seek to develop the whole person with equal importance to academic performance
• Valuing and developing our committed staff team through wellbeing support and further career opportunities
• A strong financial position allowing us to invest for the future

Further quotes from our 2025 staff survey include;

"Consistently applied high expectations for behaviour and uniform helps to create a professional and warm atmosphere within the school"

"Great CPD and teaching support, friendly environment, healthy relationship with leadership, teaching staff and non-teaching staff. Students happy and achieving good results"

"Staff effort is regularly acknowledged"

"Relationship with staff and students is excellent"

"SLT are approachable and deal efficiently with concerns"

"Staff well supported across school by SLT"

"The behaviour system and DM process is highly effective"

"I feel supported by my line manager and SLT in managing workload"

"Effective and engaged leadership, dedicated and high-quality teaching staff, a positive school culture and climate"

"The staff team is a real community, not just a staff team"