Secondary Excellence!

We need to learn from the very best secondary schools and use their example and expertise to drive up standards for every young person. Michael Gove used three brilliant examples in his speech last week...

"Look at Perry Beeches in Birmingham. 25 per cent of children are on Free School Meals and 41 per cent have special needs. Yet in three years they have moved from 21 per cent five A*-C GCSEs including English and Maths to 74 per cent.

Or Paddington Academy – which jumped from 34 per cent to 63 per cent five A*-C with English and maths in just one year. At Paddington 51 per cent of children are on Free School Meals and 65 per cent are identified has having some kind of special need.

Or Woodside High School in Haringey, a school Steve spoke eloquently about in his speech, where almost no children at all achieved five A*-C with English and maths five years ago and where over 50 per cent will hit that benchmark this year. Again this is a school where 55 per cent of children are on Free School Meals and 38 per cent have identified special needs."
Michael Gove