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Sundorne School and Sports College
A Message From The Headteacher
It is a privilege to introduce you to Sundorne School & Sports College. Sundorne is a warm, friendly and dynamic school that believes education is about achieving highly, exploring ideas, meeting challenges, learning self discipline and preparing students for life after school. We try to ensure that every one of our students achieves their full potential. We do this through individual student tracking and focussed intervention supplementing good and outstanding teaching. Sundorne staff are highly professional, friendly, supportive and totally committed to giving our students the best opportunities in life.
We are a popular community Sports College, oversubscribed for September 2011, committed to providing a caring and stimulating environment for young people between 11 and 16 years of age. Sundorne School is a forward thinking organisation and has recently entered into a formal statutory collaboration with its immediate primary school partners, Harlescott Junior School and Sundorne Infants.
Ofsted 2011 Main Findings (extract)
"This is a good and rapidly improving school. This is because of the vision, determination and outstanding leadership of the headteacher who is ably supported by his highly effective senior leadership team. The school benefits from the strong leadership of the Chair of the Governing Body and the hard-working and caring staff. Consequently, the school has a strong ‘can do’ ethos and the promotion of equal opportunities is outstanding. As a result, attainment has improved significantly from 2008."
"The attainment of five A* to C grades including English and Mathematics has improved over the last three years. All students make at least good progress in their learning. Those students with special educational needs and/or disabilities and those known to be eligible for free school meals make outstanding progress. Measures to ensure students feel safe, coupled with safeguarding arrangements, are outstanding. The school’s specialism in sports makes a significant contribution to the extent to which students are encouraged to be healthy, which is also outstanding."
"Teaching is good overall and an increasing proportion of lessons are outstanding. "
Don't take Ofsted's word for it come and find out for yourself. Please feel free to make an appointment to visit the school and gain your own impression from walking around with one of our students or staff.
Geoff Pettengell
Headteacher
