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- 23rd February 2012
Deputy Principal
Jim Henderson, MA (Cantab)
Deputy Principal, Lambeth Academy
Deputy Principal, Lambeth Academy
Our mission is to inspire the young people who join us to develop their intellectual curiosities and their personalities to allow them to achieve at the highest level and build happy and successful lives.
I have responsibility for the day-to-day running of the Academy and am very proud of the ways in which our students approach the challenges of school life and take advantage of its opportunities.
I am always delighted to observe the skills and enthusiasm that our new Year 7 students bring with them from their primary schools. Our central task during the first years of their secondary education is to build on this and develop all of our students as capable and independent learners who are ready to take on the challenges and demands of our wide range of academic and vocational courses at GCSE and BTEC and then to progress into our sixth-form.
We are very much a community school with our students largely coming to us from local primary schools. We have very good links and partnerships with these primary schools and are delighted by the way that those important friendships are able to continue with us. Our students form strong and positive relationships with each other, helped by a careful transition programme both before and after they start in Year 7. This was recognised by the Ofsted team who visited in March 2010. They commented that “the Academy is steadily fulfilling one of its major aims to be at the heart of the community it serves”.
Beyond the broad curriculum that we offer, our students also benefit from participation in our wide extra-curricular programme. This ranges from performance to sport to music, engineering and craft, cookery, languages, book clubs and much more. I see the development of new enthusiasms and abilities as being a central part of a child developing a fully-rounded, self-confident and happy personality.
The vast majority of our Year 11 students progress onto further education, many of them to our sixth form which was described as “good” in all aspects by Ofsted.
We have also seen the vast majority of our sixth-formers progress onto further study at university.
This high ambition and high aspiration is what we will work enthusiastically to establish for your child and I look forward to a very productive and energetic partnership with you to achieve these outcomes.
I have responsibility for the day-to-day running of the Academy and am very proud of the ways in which our students approach the challenges of school life and take advantage of its opportunities.
I am always delighted to observe the skills and enthusiasm that our new Year 7 students bring with them from their primary schools. Our central task during the first years of their secondary education is to build on this and develop all of our students as capable and independent learners who are ready to take on the challenges and demands of our wide range of academic and vocational courses at GCSE and BTEC and then to progress into our sixth-form.
We are very much a community school with our students largely coming to us from local primary schools. We have very good links and partnerships with these primary schools and are delighted by the way that those important friendships are able to continue with us. Our students form strong and positive relationships with each other, helped by a careful transition programme both before and after they start in Year 7. This was recognised by the Ofsted team who visited in March 2010. They commented that “the Academy is steadily fulfilling one of its major aims to be at the heart of the community it serves”.
Beyond the broad curriculum that we offer, our students also benefit from participation in our wide extra-curricular programme. This ranges from performance to sport to music, engineering and craft, cookery, languages, book clubs and much more. I see the development of new enthusiasms and abilities as being a central part of a child developing a fully-rounded, self-confident and happy personality.
The vast majority of our Year 11 students progress onto further education, many of them to our sixth form which was described as “good” in all aspects by Ofsted.
We have also seen the vast majority of our sixth-formers progress onto further study at university.
This high ambition and high aspiration is what we will work enthusiastically to establish for your child and I look forward to a very productive and energetic partnership with you to achieve these outcomes.
