Worthing High School
West Sussex, United Kingdom
About Worthing High School
About us
Choosing the right school for either the first step in your career or as you progress is a vitally important decision. Worthing High School offers a good education experience for our students ensuring they feel happy, valued and secure. At Worthing High School we believe that we can offer all of these things.
Everyone at Worthing High works hard to create a close community of learners in which there is a clear focus upon raising standards of student achievement.
The school is greatly valued by the community it serves and is a popular choice for prospective students and their parents. A marked feature of the school is the happy, friendly, caring ethos which enables our students to settle quickly. We believe that this is vital if students are to achieve their full potential. As a school we have high standards for our students– maximum effort and excellent levels of achievement are expected.
Worthing High thrives on being a community in the true sense of the term as it seeks to achieve a partnership between governors, teachers, parents and students as well as with our wider partners.
Students also gain from an outstanding programme of enrichment activities that are extensive, fulfilling and diverse. The broad, balanced and relevant curriculum provided by the school serves to ensure that opportunities are available to enable pupils to fully develop their interests and talents.
Our website aims to introduce you to our school but there can be no substitute for a personal visit. We would be delighted to show you around during a working day and answer any questions that you may have.
Worthing High School is part of the South Downs Education Trust (SDET).
The Trust’s mission statement of ‘Always Pursuing Excellence’ is fundamental in achieving the high expectations of working together to ensure every child and young person is able to reach their true potential.
The Trust’s shared vision is focused around five core values: to work together and support each other as a community; to continually try to improve and develop resilience; to show integrity with honesty and truthfulness at all times; to show respect in valuing and accepting differences with courtesy and consideration; and to always pursue excellence and strive to surpass our shared expectations.
The Trust aims to contribute positively to a self-improving school-led system that improves process, reduces unnecessary complexity and duplication and spreads high standards so that all the schools within the Trust are ‘Good’ or better both in terms of their Ofsted judgement and in the eyes of its pupils, parents/carers and wider community.
OFSTED Report
https://www.worthinghigh.net/page/?title=Ofsted&pid=15
Safeguarding Policy Documents
https://www.worthinghigh.net/page/?title=Safeguarding&pid=55
Location
Staff value the guidance they receive from leaders about their workload and well-being. There are regular opportunities to discuss developments in the school and for training. Newly qualified teachers are positive about the care and support from their colleagues.
- Ofsted - March 2020I believe WHS is a fantastic school that deals with its challenges in the most fair and appropriate way possible, and its current standing in the community is very well deserved. I have never come across a school with a more solid foundation to build upon, allowing innovative teaching and learning trials to take place to create the best learning experiences for its young people.
- Science TeacherThe excellent leadership filters down through all aspects of the school.
- ParentWorthing High is a wonderful school, Leaders are approachable, realistic and ambitious.
- ParentPupils believe that this is a school where people smile. There is a strong sense of community, where older pupils look out for their younger peers and bullying is rare. One pupil said, ‘This is a very accepting school’, explaining how lessons and assemblies develop an understanding and respect for diversity.
- Ofsted March 2020Lessons are calm and purposeful. Pupils and adults know and understand the behaviour policy. This includes high expectations of how pupils should be thoughtful and always respectful to each other
- Ofsted March 2020
