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About Woodford County High School for Girls

Location: Woodford Green, L B Redbridge, United Kingdom

Type: Grammar School

Phase: Secondary with sixth form

Funding status: State - Community

Gender: Girls

Age range: 11 - 18 years

About Woodford County High School for Girls

Woodford is a selective girls' grammar school of 1240 pupils, including 340 in the Sixth Form. The school opened in September 1919.  Our catchment area today includes the entire London Borough of Redbridge (LBR) as well as part of neighbouring boroughs. There are two single-sex grammar schools in the Borough, the boys' school being in Ilford. All the other state-funded secondary schools are comprehensive.

We moved into our new teaching block associated with the school’s expansion in September 2017 – one of many exciting developments in the run up to the school’s centenary (2019). The new facilities we acquired include 13 science laboratories, 11 classrooms, computing facilities, an additional changing room for PE, a staff room, study facilities for sixth form students and a roof-top outdoor classroom. Full refurbishment of other department accommodation has since been completed.

Woodford is a six-form entry school and heavily oversubscribed. The selection test, administered by the LA, is voluntary; each year about 1500 eligible girls take the test on the school site on a Friday in September. Most girls stay with us for seven years, and we have a flourishing Sixth Form, all following A-level courses. By design everyone follows a broad curriculum at GCSE to keep opportunities open for as long as possible.  Students start two languages in Year 7 (French and either German or Latin) and continue with at least one language at GCSE. Three separate sciences are studied at GCSE. We have strong A-level groups in all areas of the curriculum and flourishing, highly successful Extended Project Qualification (EPQ) provision (about 100 entries per annum.)  All students undertake work experience at the end of Year 11 and commit to 25 hours of Voluntary Service in Year 12 as part of an enrichment programme.

Our school has a great deal to offer. Academic results are excellent and generally all our Y13 leavers choose to go on to Higher Education. We encourage participation and personal achievement, whether academic, creative or sporting.  We provide daily after school provision (a homework club and a changing menu of 5-week activity courses provided by contracted instructors) as well as many extra-curricular activities led by members of staff: choirs, orchestras, instrumental groups, sports teams, drama and debating events just to mention a few.  All students in Year 8 learn to play a brass instrument. An ambitious programme of educational visits abroad is scheduled annually. Take up of the Duke of Edinburgh Award (Year 10) and National Citizen Service (Year 11 or 12) is extremely high. Our highly competitive House system offers opportunities for every kind of inspiration and enthusiasm – Drama and Dance Festivals, Charity events, Sports Day etc.

Our student community is multi-ethnic, multi-faith and multi-lingual. School life here blends the very new with the very traditional. The atmosphere is vibrant, purposeful and very friendly.  Our status as a girls’ school ensures stereotypes about male dominance in Science, Technology and Computer Programming – and in leadership positions generally – are summarily overturned. The school community is strong, cohesive and valued by its members: students, colleagues, parents and governors.

We were delighted that OFSTED judged Quality of Education and Sixth Form Provision to be ‘outstanding’ in November 2022 and are proud of the written report. Woodford offers its students an outstanding all-round education and Ofsted recognised the strong ethos of the school.

Woodford is an energising and rewarding school in which to work. If it sounds to you from all the above that your profile and ours might be a good match for one another, we should be delighted to receive an application from you. In the meantime, don’t hesitate to ring or e-mail us with any further questions you might have. You can be sure of a prompt and friendly response.

To find out more, please visit us at www.woodford.redbridge.sch.uk

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