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Long term success. Stratford is a very effective school. It provides a very good education for its pupils OFSTED December 2003.
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Long term success • Stratford is a very effective school. It provides a very good education for its pupils • OFSTED December 2003 • Stratford School provides a good education for students with wide-ranging abilities, interests and needs. The school is a lively, friendly community where students attend regularly, feel safe and receive good care, guidance and support • OFSTED March 2011 • Stratford is a good school that helps students to achieve well and develop into well-adjusted and caring individuals who • are equipped effectively for adult life. • OFSTED April 2008
Our recipe for long term success • The large majority of teaching and learning is good or outstanding … • Students are keen to learn and their good behaviour and concentration in lessons makes a strong contribution to their learning. • OFSTED March 2011 Good Parents Unauthorised absence just 0.6% Attendance at parents evening between 75% and 80% Getting the basics right: Good teaching by good teachers Real subjects Making sure pupils are ready willing and able to learn
The school knows and understands the needs of students and their families, and provides well targeted care and support to help students make good progress whatever challenges they may face OFSTED March 2011. As one visitor said, ‘Stratford is not a shouting school’.
The teacher I have come to the frightening conclusion: I am the decisive element in the classroom. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather As a teacher I possess tremendous power to make a child’s life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humour, hurt or heal. In all situations it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated; a child humanised or de-humanised.