Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Park View judged ‘good’ by OfSTED! Leadership and management judged outstanding!
Park View is celebrating a significant step forward in an excellent OfSTED report. The school was judged to be ‘good’ overall, but leadership and management was rated ‘outstanding’.
Key OfSTED findings
- Leadership and management are outstanding. The inspired headteacher leads an excellent team and their highly effective work has led to major and sustained improvements since the last inspection.
- Examination results over the past three years show an upward trend of achievement. Students from different minority ethnic groups achieve well.
- The overall quality of teaching is typically good and there are some examples of outstanding practice.
- Students’ attitudes in class are consistently good and often exemplary. There is a positive ethos around the school.
- Social, moral, spiritual and cultural development is exemplary and enables students to thrive in a supportive, highly cohesive learning community.
- Students report few instances of bullying. They say when this does occur it is dealt with by the school.
- A strength of the school is the promotion of literacy skills. This supports good achievement across a range of subjects.
- Teachers use their very good subject knowledge and information about students to plan well for their individual needs.
- Working in partnership with schools and local colleges provides opportunities for students to proceed to the next stage of their education, training or employment
Headteacher, Mr Alex Atherton said “I am delighted with the outcome of the inspection. The OfSTED framework introduced in September 2012 is far more challenging than anything seen before; it is very clear from the report that Park View is now a school bordering on outstanding. The only recommendation was to increase the proportion of outstanding lessons still further, we are well on the road to achieving that.”
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Permalink Reply by Beewan Athwal on
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Congratulations.
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Permalink Reply by matt on
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Well done Park View. I hear very good things about the school from your parents.
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Permalink Reply by Liza on
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Great, well done Park View !
A question if I may? The report talks about acheivements of low attainers on entry but not high attainers. How do they do at Park View ? As many of the local schools are improving I imagine the numbers of these children may be going up in your entry cohorts. Thank you.
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Hi
I'm the headteacher at Park View.
Overall attainment on entry to the school is low, the school has a much higher proportion of low attainers (less than level 4 from year 6) than the national average and also a much lower proportion of high attainers (more than level 4 from year 6). An issue this presents in terms of local perception is that the assumption is made we specialise only with the low attainers and doing well with them, it is not true. Just because you have more or less of any particular cohort does not mean you do/don't know what to do with them.
The improvement in primary school SAT results has not yet fed through to the year 11 students, although the profile of the intake changed in 2012 in particular. The number of A/A*/distinction grades has more than doubled in a short period of time. In the large majority of GCSE courses the percentage of top grades is in line with the national average. It is not possible to achieve that unless those who came in with high levels go on to achieve top grades.
The performance table information on the DfE website only tells you so much. The number of students going to Woodhouse and so on is increasing. If you look at the alumni bit of our website it can give you a little more information.
Hope this helps
Alex Atherton
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Permalink Reply by Karin on
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Brilliant news, congratulations Park View.
Alex, sorry I couldn't find the alumni section on the website. What is Woodhouse? I've been told Park View doesn't have a sixth form. Does this mean they go to Woodhouse for A levels?
I'm not up to speed with how secondary schools in England work as went to school in Scotland!
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Hi Karin
It's part of the image gallery, link below.
http://www.parkview.haringey.sch.uk/37/image-gallery/cat/12/park-vi...
Park View is 11-16 and our students go to many different places for post 16 study. Woodhouse generally requires the highest grades but they are not alone. There is a fantastic range of high quality post 16 provision in and around North London.
Alex
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Permalink Reply by Pembysingsong on
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H Alex
Congratulations on the report - it was really interesting to look at the alumni section of your website. Can you tell me, is Park View still roughly 2/3rd boys, 1/3rd girls?
Thanks
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thanks Fiona
Roughly 60:40 which may not seem significantly different from 2/3:1/3 but in my view significant enough for it to be truly mixed rather than boy dominated. A similar picture across the council as there is one girls' school and no boys' school.
Alex
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