Highlands School, Grange Park

Highlands School
Established	2000
Type	Community school
Headteacher	Bruce Goddard
Location	148 Worlds End Lane Winchmore Hill London N21 1QQ England Coordinates: 51°38′56″N 0°06′28″W / 51.6489°N 0.1078°W / 51.6489; -0.1078
Local authority	Enfield
DfE URN	132256 Tables
Ofsted	Reports
Students	1307
Gender	Coeducational
Ages	11–18
Houses	Beech Oak Rowan Willow
Colours	Green
Website	www.highlands.enfield.sch.uk

Highlands School is a comprehensive school in Grange Park in the London Borough of Enfield in England. The school opened in 2000 in new purpose built accommodation with state of the art equipment. From September 2006 the school has been full with pupils from Years 7 - 13 including a large sixth form.^[1]

Houses

Highlands School has four houses, Willow, Beech, Oak and Rowan. The students wear a green uniform with a green tie with a stripe of the colour of their house on it. Beech is blue, Willow is green, Rowan is red and Oak is purple but used to be silver (grey).

International Baccalaureate

It has been an International Baccalaureate World School since December 2004, and sixth form students may take the International Baccalaureate Diploma (IB) instead of A-level examinations. Since the sixth form opened in September 2005, the first year of IB students took their exams in 2007, and 55% failed. Seven students were disqualified for alleged malpractice.^[2] Bruce Goddard, the headteacher, was quoted as saying, "In some cases we are currently lodging appeals against this." The school has since decided to drop the IB and switch to A-levels.

BTEC

Highlands also offers a variety of BTEC courses all of which are fully coursework ( both practical and written) and range from BTEC Media to Child Care. Unlike the IB, Highlands has decided to continue this course.

OFSTED

Highlands has received two OFSTED Outstanding Ratings: One in 2011 and one in 2014.^[3]

References

↑ Administrator. "Highlands is a mixed, community comprehensive school". www.highlands.enfield.sch.uk. Retrieved 2016-10-30.
↑ Enfield Advertiser, Exam cheats exposed at flagship school, article from July 13th 2007 accessed July 29th 2007
↑ OFSTED Reports, accessible from Highlands website

External links

Schools and colleges in Enfield

Primary schools	Bowes Primary School Edmonton County School Houndsfield Primary School Oasis Academy Hadley Our Lady of Lourdes School St Edmund's RC Primary School St Paul's School

Secondary schools	Aylward Academy Broomfield School Chace Community School Edmonton County School Enfield County School Enfield Grammar School Highlands School Kingsmead School Lea Valley High School Nightingale Academy Oasis Academy Enfield Oasis Academy Hadley Southgate School St Anne's Catholic High School St Ignatius' College Winchmore School

Grammar schools	The Latymer School Bishop Stopford's School

Special schools	Aylands School Durants School Russet House School

Independent schools	Grange Park Preparatory School Keble School Palmers Green High School St John's Senior School Salcombe Preparatory School

Colleges	Barnet and Southgate College Capel Manor College The College of Haringey, Enfield and North East London

Former	Enfield-chantry school Minchenden Grammar School

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