Wrotham School

General information

Welcome to Wrotham School. High expectations, challenge and opportunity are central to our school. As soon as you enter the school you will sense the strong ethos that underlines everything we do. The achievement of our students speaks for itself and highlights the high quality teaching and support that our students receive every day. Wrotham is a popular co-educational day school for pupils aged 11-18 with a current roll of 770. There were 452 applications for 130 Year 7 places in September 2014. We have been heavily oversubscribed for the past ten years. We have a growing sixth form which now benefits from a fantastic new Sixth Form Resource Centre as part of our new building which opened in February 2013.

High Expectations, Challenge and Opportunity

We have the highest expectations of all our students and they deliver! In 2014 66% of year 11 achieved 5 or more A*- C GCSE grades including English and mathematics and 96% achieved 5 or more A*- C GCSE grades in any discipline. Wrotham Sixth Form students achieved the best ever set of A2 and vocational equivalent results, with 51% of grades being at A*-B. We are immensely proud of what our students have achieved and their performance bucks the national trend. Students at Wrotham make excellent progress placing the school consistently in the top 5% for this measure and we have the third highest value added of all schools in Kent.

We have a well-deserved reputation as a school that challenges students to reach their potential in a friendly, caring and well-disciplined environment. Care, guidance and support for students is outstanding and contributes strongly to the success of our students. We have excellent staff – professional, lively and supportive, and the Leadership Team is committed to consultation and an open style of management. The average class size is 26. All staff are encouraged to participate in continuing professional development and there is a massive commitment to a wide range of extra-curricular activities for students.

The school has a clear focus on teaching and learning. The most recent full OfSTED (November 2009) has judged overall Achievement and Standards as Good with 12 separate outstanding judgements. It has also recognised the capacity to make further improvements in attainment as outstanding.

Leadership and management was judged as Outstanding and as a team we are dedicated to ensuring that all our students thrive at Wrotham School.

Learning Environment

In September 2011 our new state of the art 3G all weather pitch was completed and is proving to be a real asset to the school and local community. A new £3 million building opened in February 2013 which includes eleven new classrooms and an impressive sixth form resource centre. This summer we completed a total refurbishment of our SEND support building and further updated our fast growing ICT network.

We are incredibly proud of our students and of our school.

Headteacher – Mr Matthew Wright MA