We are an ambitious, inclusive and forward thinking 11-18 secondary academy in Tulse Hill, Lambeth serving our local community. The academy opened in September 2013, in brand new purpose built accommodation, with state of the art facilities to match our high quality educational provision.
City Heights E-ACT Academy will grow year on year until 2020. When full, our academy will offer high quality sixth form provision including being part of SL6 (South London Sixth, a collaboration of local sixth forms). As an E-ACT academy, we are part of nationwide family of 25 academies, which allows us access to outstanding educational resources and expertise to help provide exceptional opportunities for all our students.
We are proud to be a values driven academy which are reflected in our vision statement. Our vision at City Heights E-ACT Academy is simple. We are an academy anchored at the heart of our community. Developing tomorrow’s leaders, compassionate and articulate; ready for university or a career of their choice.
City Heights E-ACT Academy, is a language specialist school, which promotes bilingualism.All students at the academy study a language (Spanish, French or Portuguese). In addition to this specialism, we also have a small inclusive additional learning needs provision for students with ASD, allowing them to access mainstream education alongside tailored individual support. At City Heights, we also enjoy a unique partnership with the renowned independent school, Dulwich College who work collaboratively with us to share enrichment provision and educational opportunities. Our academy is a warm, welcoming, inclusive environment, where we have high expectations and where staff go the extra mile, to ensure that all students realise their full potential.
City Heights is a happy academy, anchored in the heart of our community and we pride ourselves on the relationships our staff have with our students, caring for them throughout their education. We pride ourselves on working closely with families to ensure that all our students are committed to learning and throughout their time with us, achieve our vision statement and demonstrate our academy values in all that they do. Our values are important to us and we live them day in, day out.
We were delighted to be graded as ‘Good’ by Ofsted in May 2015, just 21 months into our existence. Our ambition now is for a very strong first set of GCSE results this academic year consolidating our position as a school of choice in the local community.At City Heights Academy we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all employees and volunteers to share this commitment.
Our academy vision is integral to all that we do and is underpinned by our academy values, which are reflected in the actions, decisions and behaviours of our community.These values are taught through our tutorial programme, assemblies, and day to day interactions with our students, as we develop compassionate and articulate leaders of tomorrow. In addition, as an academy we uphold, model and promote the British values of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect of those with different faiths and beliefs.These are developed fully in our lesson content, tutor time programme and our weekly assemblies.
Learning and teaching is our core business at City Heights E-ACT Academy – without exceptional lessons we can’t become an outstanding academy. We believe that one lifetime is not enough to develop the craft of teaching and that as soon as a teacher stops learning they stop improving. As such, we are committed to giving the time, training and leadership to our teachers which they need to reach these standards.
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I have a daughter at this school. I have to say that ive been very impressed. She has been there three years.
By Norah agaboye (Sep, 2017) |
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My son joined from another local school and has only had a great experience. His head of year Mrs Ahmed is salt of the earth and has been helpful and provided him with guidance and really cares about these kids. The headmaster Nr Cayhill has responded to my worries over a friendship issue quickly and has high expectation of the students, since he's joined most of the bad kids have left and he is working to improve the behaviour of the children after that last headmaster let it go to pot. The school has put in line ups to teach these children how to follow rules. I for one am not complaining about it. We need to support these teachers to put rules in place rather than complaining behind a keyboard you hear me? My boy has good teachers in all subjects especially in geography and is doing well expect for English where his teacher left at Christmas but his new one is very good and has already contacted me to update me on what he needs to do. The biggest difference I can see has been the improvement in the teacher's and the people who are there now really care. Quit the hating and start supporting the headmaster and the school.
By Mercy Ogun (Feb, 2018) |