This is a School which takes pride in its history and its traditions while being responsive to new challenges and receptive to new opportunities.   It is an Outstandingly Successful School – a judgement I make not myself – but one which has been conferred upon us in four successive OFSTED Inspections.   Outstanding Schools work with their students to achieve exceptional examination outcomes and our results, at both GCSE and Advanced Level over many years, have been consistently impressive.   Ours is a culture of energy, ambition and achievement but we pursue that culture not only in the examination room but, more importantly, in relation to the personal development of young people in their formative adolescent years.

To us, values matter, and to be a member of the Westcliff community across seven years is to be reminded of those values, respect for others, honesty, industry, receptivity to new experiences, finding and pursuing activities which are life-enhancing, coming to appreciate learning and scholarship as things worthwhile in themselves and, not least, recognizing that no man is an island, which shape our daily corporate life.

We do not expect pupils to be ciphers. We enjoy free and open debate and are tolerant of those who have different perspectives to offer. But we expect no student to come to us in horizontal mode and we expect all to make some contribution to our vibrant corporate and extra-curricular life. We are fortunate to have staff who are authoritative in their specialist fields and able to pass on their enthusiasms to others. There is a buzz of vitality and excitement about our community on which pupils draw daily. I hope you are encouraged to read on and find out more about us.

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