Wapping High School

Wapping High School is a 11-16 community school Raising aspirations, broadening horizons and ensuring better outcomes for all its students, Wapping High School builds upon the diversity of student backgrounds, providing all students with a truly personalised curriculum to enable enhanced learning and the development of inquisitive minds. The school day at Wapping High School is extended to allow all students to participate in a range of exciting and stimulating enrichment activities.

Wapping High School promotes an inclusive ethos, in which diversity of need and ability is acknowledged and nurtured. Every aspect of school life is guided by a strong ethical code, encouraging social awareness to help students understand and meet with confidence the challenges of a diverse and changing society and the world of work. Through building positive attitudes for learning and a strong sense of personal responsibility, our students develop as flexible, resourceful and independent learners, ready for successful lives.

Wapping High School is deliberately small and has a strong sense of school community. Students from all years are organised into vertical ‘houses’ to encourage interaction across the school. Teachers know all their students individually. Families form part of the school community and are fully involved with their children’s education. Parents, students and school work closely together to ensure that every student is expected to achieve highly and does so.

Wapping High School’s ethos and values ensure that children are safe, healthy, positively contribute to their whole community, and achieve economic and academic well-being in adult life. Importantly, all students must enjoy attending school and be deeply engaged in their learning.

The principal outcomes of Wapping High School are to

• Encourage students to be flexible, independent and resourceful learners for life.
• Raise aspirations of both students and staff.
• Demand high expectations and high attainment from both students and staff.
• Provide all students with the qualifications for a sound economic future.
• Produce confident, polite and socially responsible young adults.
• Create a school which is environmentally sustainable and financially secure.
• Strengthen community cohesion by being a keystone in the community.

These are being achieved by

• Recognising that high-quality teachers are the school’s principal asset, they will be supported, rewarded and motivated.
• Setting high, individual expectations for every student that reflect their personal strengths and support them to surpass their potential.
• Offering a personalised learning programme with academic and vocational learning pathways.
• Requiring the students to participate in a self-assessed exploration of civics, society and ethics as part of their curriculum.
• Embracing the role of parents as part of the school life and culture through the innovative use of technology to enhance communication and participation
• Providing an accessible resource for education within the wider community.
• Taking advantage of our location between the City of London and Docklands to foster deep and ongoing links between the banking sector, media and universities.

Wapping High School provides a broad and balanced curriculum that meets the needs of students in a rapidly-changing world. The curriculum is designed to follow a personalised learning approach, providing flexibility to meet the needs of all students across the ability range. Students are expected to take significant responsibility for their own learning with self-directed learning time included in their programmes. The curriculum blends high quality, imaginative learning supported by a rich, digital environment with a rigorous focus on ensuring that all students develop the highest quality skills in reading, writing, numeracy and communication.

As well as the range of subjects that you would expect, students also learn how best to learn, to communicate, to think critically and strategically, and to understand themselves, each other and the wider world, both real and virtual. All students will attain the core KS4 offer of 5 GCSEs or equivalent, with the more able students taking up to 12 should they wish to. Both academic and vocational educational pathways will be highly valued and the opportunity to attain BTEC qualifications will be offered where appropriate.