Eastern High School

We work closely with parents and students to create a caring and purposeful learning environment, where students enjoy coming to school and are proud to be here. We believe that every student can succeed with the right support and encouragement, ensuring we constantly review and improve our provision to ensure this happens.

We want our school’s future success to be measured not just in terms of good exam results, but also in terms of our ability to help young people develop the personal skills and talents they need to flourish in life and to make a positive contribution to society.

Our vision is very simple in short, we strive to ensure every student who joins our learning community will leave at the end of their time with us, with the knowledge, capabilities and wherewithal to: Flourish in life. In order to achieve this vision we believe in developing attributes and values in all our students that are sustainable throughout life. This ethos is embedded throughout every aspect of school life and manifests itself through four pillars of sustainable practice.

We ensure all our students can access the curriculum effectively, so we place a high emphasis on the development of literacy, numeracy and the development of good habits in relation to learning. This allows students the opportunity to develop flexible, adaptable and independent learning skills, essential for the 21st Century. We operate a three-year Key Stage 4 where students make subject choices in Year 8, and begin their GCSE courses in Year 9. This gives them a longer period to study the subjects before their exams in Year 11.

In Year 7 all students study English/literacy for 10 lessons out of 30 per week. This is to ensure all students quickly develop the literacy skills necessary to access the wider curriculum. The English programme is delivered through Project Based Learning with the majority of the projects having a humanities (geography, history, RE) context. Humanities are therefore delivered through these projects. From Sept 2017 there will be a similar project based curriculum for maths/numeracy, where science and technology provide a context for maths related projects. This will also have a similar allocation of curriculum time.

In short we aim to develop highly literate and numerate learners by ensuring a high proportion curriculum time is devoted to English/literacy & maths/numeracy, without students realising they are doing so much! Some pupils will continue studying this curriculum until we feel they are ready to access the full curriculum.

We place an emphasis on Project Based Learning as we believe this provides the best opportunities for students to develop independent learning skills and allows teachers to personalise learning more, enabling learners to progress at their own rates.

Our Vision

In short, we strive to ensure every student who joins our learning community will leave at the end of their time with us, with the knowledge, capabilities and wherewithal to: