Greenshaw High School

Greenshaw is a highly over-subscribed 11 to 18 mixed comprehensive secondary school situated in Sutton, South West London. We currently have around 1,930 students on roll, with staff providing teaching, pastoral care and other support across the school. We are fortunate to be a highly popular school with a trusted record locally of nurturing high levels of attainment in our students. We believe this comes from striving to always offer a first rate-teaching environment, full of challenge for students to achieve their very best, alongside a pastoral support programme to guide them. In addition, despite our significant size we hope that we continue to offer a ‘community’ – as the most recent Ofsted report notes, relationships between pupils and staff are caring and this is something I am very proud of.

These are very exciting times for our school. We have the prospect of a second Ofsted visit over the next year, following a very successful ungraded inspection in October 2023. We are also on the cusp of a significant building project that will see two thirds of the school rebuilt, totally upgrading the day to day experience for our pupils and staff. While we work tirelessly to maintain the fabric of the existing buildings, and the decor within them, I am very excited about our students being able to learn in brand new science labs, drama studios, and art facilities supported by a twenty first century learning resource centre.

The rebuild and the Ofsted revisit mean that the next few years will be exciting, and in the context of a fully staffed, oversubscribed school with Progress 8 scores in the top 10% of the country, as well as around 50 Sixth Form students each year progressing to Russell Group universities, they offer extraordinary opportunity. You would be joining a staff group, teaching and non-teaching, who are totally committed. Our Research School status means we have access to the most recent findings about educational effectiveness, alongside a rich training programme for all colleagues. Put simply, the better we get as a staff body, the better our students’ experience and future chances become.

We are at the heart of the Greenshaw Learning Trust, a multi academy trust with extraordinary outcomes for our children across primary and secondary phases, spread over eight local authorities in southern England. This means we are also very well connected to subject leads, professional support and wider networks. As a group we are each dedicated to developing our own excellence, as well as committing to the successes of our other partner schools.