Cheam High School
Cheam High School
Nearest train station: Cheam
is an 11 - 19 Foundation co-educational comprehensive school. It has a strong reputation in the locality and is heavily oversubscribed with approximately 800 applicants for 300 places each year.
The school has many strengths, these include:
- High Quality of Provision.
- Strong and effective systems to support high quality teaching.
High quality of provision:
- Specialist language college status due to the excellence of its language provision.
- Artsmark Silver award from the Arts Council to recognise the high quality of work in Art, Drama, Music and Dance.
- Sports mark Award recognising the strong sporting ethos of the school and the high standard of its many extra curricular activities.
Leading department status in English and Science within the Borough. - Very good range of extracurricular trips, visits and activities
Strong and supportive pastoral system. - High standards of teaching : Ofsted graded our teaching as good across all three key stages, with 78% of lessons good or better and 36% of lessons graded as outstanding (very good or excellent).
- Good relationships between pupils and staff and between peers with good and very good behaviour in and out of lessons (Ofsted).
- Very good learning support within the school.
Strong and effective systems to support high quality teaching:
- Strong ethos of staff development including external INSET and in-house training programmes; Investors in People Award.
- Computers in every teaching room, networked to management system, supporting access to teaching resources and administration; strong emphasis on ICT in the school to minimise bureaucracy including email and internet/intranet access. Data projectors in most classrooms.
- Excellent reprographics department who support duplication and design of materials, lamination, booklets and prospectus material as well as parents' weekly flyer.
- Dedicated administrative support; new responsibilities devised to help with year and department management.
- Excellent administration team who manage funds and collection as well as attendance tracking and a variety of analysis to support evaluation.
- AVA support and training including hardware and equipment care.
- ICT technician support for departments/year teams and whole school network.
- Very effective learning support team who work supporting students in classrooms as well as providing extra additional support activities including homework clubs.
- Teachers released from invigilation in most internal and external examinations to support development work.