LOOKING BACK ON 2017 A year of success - Norham High School
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LOOKING BACK ON 2017 A year of success.
Contents 3. Welcome 4. Our values 6. Learning and skills 8. Supporting our pupils 10. Working with others 12. A huge thank you 13. Our year ahead
2017 WAS A YEAR OF BRILLIANT PROGRESS
As we look back at 2017, we can see it was
another exceptional year for Norham High
School as we continue to go from strength
to strength.
Our consistent and continual improvement is
a testament to the ongoing dedication of the
school’s senior leadership team, staff, governors, David Baldwin David W Bavaird
parents, partners and supporters, and this review Executive Headteacher Chair of Governors
celebrates just some of our successes across 2017.
We’ve seen improvements in achievement,
attendance and attitude right across the board and
this makes us exceptionally proud.
We couldn’t achieve this continued success without
the hard work, commitment and focus of our staff,
pupils and their families, and we’d like to thank
everyone who has been part of making 2017 such
a great year.
OUR VALUES
At Norham High School we offer all our
“The Executive Headteacher
pupils the highest quality of education in a
safe, happy and caring environment. and senior leaders bring
Each child is valued and nurtured as an individual ambition, enthusiasm and
and has the support they need to succeed,
academically and personally. high expectations to the
We stretch and challenge our pupils every day, school.”
helping them to aim higher and always believe in
themselves.
We also set very high standards for behaviour in class
“The momentum of
and behaviour towards each other, both inside and
improvement within the
out of school.
This means that Norham High School is a wonderful
school has gathered
place to learn.
significant pace.”
Our latest Ofsted report, 2016
All of our pupils, regardless of their
“Norham promotes strong
background or ability, receive:
• High quality teaching so they can achieve
community values and cares
their full potential for the wellbeing of the child,
• Excellent pastoral care and support
not just the academic results.”
• An exciting curriculum that inspires them
Comment from our parents’ survey
to learn
• Support to raise their aspirations and
achieve success
• Extra curricular activities that motivate and
excite them.
2017 WAS A FANTASTIC YEAR FOR LEARNING AND SKILLS
Our GCSE achievements
showed continued
overall improvement
across a wide range of
subjects.
Our focus for 2018 is
to continue to build
on this success, with a
continued emphasis on “Pupils at Norham come from a wide range of backgrounds and many of our pupils have
English and maths. achieved outstanding results in their GCSEs when you look at their starting points when they
first came to us.”
David Balwin, Executive Headteacher
We celebrated GCSE results to be proud of We focussed on English and maths 60 seconds of times tables questions correctly
without a single error.
We celebrated a great set of GCSE results with We placed a particular focus on maths teaching
our pupils, who were the first to sit new style this year, including lots of extra curricular We held our first awards evening
GCSE exams in maths and English. maths activities.
We celebrated the achievements of our
One star pupil achieved the ‘gold standard’ Grade We also worked hard to support our pupils amazing pupils in a very special awards
9 in maths – placing her in the top 1% of pupils towards the challenging new English exams, evening, joined by distinguished guests.
in the country. Several others achieved very high including using innovative teaching techniques
Grade 8s in both maths and English, reflecting to improve literacy levels. The celebration rewarded the efforts of pupils
their exceptional abilities. in years 7 to 9, and their families packed
We’re continuing to work closely with the school hall to see them receive awards
We saw great improvements across our subjects, colleagues from Churchill Community College for personal achievements and attitude to
including science with 64% of pupils achieving to share best practice and drive up teaching learning.
C or above in core science – 13% higher than in standards, with great results.
2016, and 77% of pupils achieving C and above There were also awards for resilience,
in additional science which was 11% higher than We came top in a national maths challenge academic excellence, being a community
last year. champion and sporting success.
Three of our brilliant year 7 pupils were the
The number of pupils achieving A* in history top performers in a national times table The award prizes were kindly donated by
rocketed to 17%, compared to 3% last year. Art competition, beating more than 150 students our generous partners and supporters of the
also saw a massive jump, with 100% of pupils from 42 schools across the country. school.
achieving C or above compared to 33% in 2016.
Our pupils were ranked the best performing
Our results made the headlines team in the competition, as well as the fastest
team to answer an amazing number of times
Our brilliant GCSE pupils featured on the Tyne tables questions correctly.
Tees evening news and in the local papers.
It makes us so proud to see our pupils receive It was a really tough contest requiring lots of
the recognition they deserve for their hard skill, and we are particularly proud of their
work. achievements, especially their ability to answer
2017 WAS A GREAT YEAR FOR SUPPORTING OUR PUPILS
Making sure our
pupils have the right
qualifications and skills
to get good jobs when
they leave us, is vital for
their future success.
We’re offering pupils
“The relationship between Norham High School and Capita continues to go from strength
inspirational careers
to strength. Our staff have found it hugely rewarding to work with students on a variety of guidance to focus their
different initiatives - ranging from helping them prepare for the world of work to providing an
insight into major engineering projects. On a personal basis, it’s been a real pleasure to have minds on what they can
the opportunity to work closely with the school and share in its successes.”
achieve with hard work
Richard Carmichael, Capita’s North Tyneside Partnership Director and an Enterprise
Advisor to Norham High School
and the right attitude.
We got ‘GEAReD Up’ for cycling training Our science skills impressed the experts The task, which was led by the Institute of Civil
Engineers, offered pupils the chance to learn
Our year 7 pupils got on their bikes to take part Five of our Year 7 pupils spent ten weeks on a about construction methods and principles of
in cycling project called GEAReD Up. project about using STEM to make an energy forces as well as develop problem solving and
efficient classroom. They had to conduct team working skills.
GEAReD Up is more than just learning to ride research, build a model, prepare a professional
bikes. It also helps pupils to build confidence, engineers report and present to a panel of It also helped pupils understand the civil
communicate better, improve their health and industry experts at Newcastle University, who engineering work happening in our local area.
connect with the community. were blown away by the efforts and attitudes of
our young engineers. They were a real credit to Our pupils were joined in the task by pupils
The pupils mastered first aid, planned their from Churchill Community College and our
the school.
own bike rides, carried out bike maintenance neighbouring primary schools.
and completed a range of classroom challenges The pupils were supported by business mentor
to earn house points. Paul McKenna from Capita. The task was so beneficial that we took part in it
twice – in April and again in November.
“It was great to gain We thought about our future careers
We boosted our love of literature
more confidence on the We spent a lot of time helping our pupils to think
We welcomed prolific poet Paul Cookson into our
about the world of work and their future careers,
roads and learn about in lots of fun and creative ways. school as part of this year’s Northern Children’s
Book Festival. Paul has been a poet for more
emergency first aid to help This included mock interview events and a than 25 years and has sold over a million books,
other cyclists.” special interactive careers fair where pupils got to so we were very lucky to host him. Our pupils
experience the world of work through hands-on were enthralled and entertained by Paul, as well
Elisha Doolan Yr 7 workshops led by real industry experts. as inspired by his work.
We built a real-life bridge! We also got to grill famous author and filmmaker
Matt Dickinson during a special event at Wallsend
Our pupils worked with experienced civil engineers Library, as well as take part in a book signing.
to construct, cross and then dismantle a huge 15
metre model bridge, all in our school gym.
2017 WAS A GREAT YEAR FOR WORKING WITH OTHERS
We’re extremely lucky to
have amazing partners
actively supporting the
school, including Capita,
Teeside University and The
High Sheriff of Tyne and
Wear, to name but a few.
Our masterclasses this
year have helped build
great relationships with our
primary school partners
“The pupils at Norham High School are evidently and justifiably proud of their amazing school
and we know pupils get a and the recent changes. The school is entirely focussed on making sure these young people are
lot from the sessions. ambitious and achieve the very best.”
Lieutenant General Robin Brims, High Sheriff of Tyne and WearWe welcomed the High Sheriff of We worked with Nissan to boost our skills We welcomed hundreds of primary pupils
Tyne and Wear into our school
We saw the start of a special partnership with
We were delighted when the High Sheriff of Nissan to boost our technology skills. Once again, hundreds of our primary school
Tyne and Wear, Lieutenant General Robin friends came to Norham over the course of
Brims took time out of his busy schedule spend Through this ongoing partnership, we hope to the year to take part in special masterclass
time with us. develop our pupils’ knowledge of industry and sessions.
equip them with the skills and qualities that
employers are looking for. The masterclasses covered English, maths,
He was invited to Norham to hear about the
science and technology-related topics and the
significant and positive changes at the school The partnership has involved staff from Nissan pupils were able to get involved in everything
and enjoyed a special ‘Norham is Changing’ offering training and coaching to pupils and from cookery to dissecting hearts.
assembly by proud pupils. He then took part in teachers. Pupils also got to visit the Nissan
a lively question and answer session. plant in Sunderland to find out more about The masterclasses are a really important way of
technology in practice. building strong relationships with our primary
The High Sheriff loved the things we are doing school partners and feedback from pupils,
The scheme – called Skills for Industry – is a parents and staff is always extremely positive.
at Norham High School during his visit and we
Design and Technology Association (DATA)
hope to continue to build the relationship with
programme supported by the North Tyneside
him into the future.
Learning Trust.A HUGE THANK YOU
We’d like to thank everyone who has supported us this year, including all of our parents,
carers and those who live in our local community.
We’d especially like to thank our partners and school supporters, particularly:
• North Tyneside Council • Teesside University
• TyneCoast College • The Phoenix Detached Youth Project
• Queen Alexandra Sixth Form • Capita
• Headteachers and staff at Collingwood • Churchill Community College
Primary School, Riverside Primary School,
New York Primary School, Percy Main • SkillForce
Primary School and Waterville Primary
• Sound Training
School.
• The High Sheriff of Tyne and Wear,
• YMCA North Tyneside
Lieutenant General Robin Brims.OUR YEAR AHEAD We are exceptionally proud of our success and achievements in 2017, but we are not complacent. We have set ourselves even more ambitious goals for 2018 and beyond, and we are on track to achieve those targets. Our focus will be on continuing to stretch and challenge each and every pupil, raising their aspirations, boosting their self-belief and supporting them as individuals, so they can really fulfil their potential and gain the skills and qualifications they need to succeed. We’ll also continue to work closely with North Tyneside Council and Churchill Community College to ensure that standards of teaching and support remain high right across the school. Our future continues to look bright and we look forward to even more success across 2018.
We can’t wait to see the successes 2018 will bring.
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