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Dear Parents/Guardians,
Dear Parents/Guardians,
I hope that you had a good break. I write to you with immense
pride in the achievements of students at St. Paul's Way
Community School, and with great enthusiasm for the new School
year. Year 11 students produced the best results the School has
ever seen, giving us a figure of 58% of students who achieved 5
or more GCSEs at grade C or above. For very many others,
performance in the summer exams outstripped the predictions that
had been made. That outstanding performance has made us the
fourth highest achieving secondary school in Tower Hamlets at
GCSE, and puts us less than 2% behind the national average.
Congratulations to those students who have shown that, with hard
work and commitment, the opportunities exist at St. Paul's Way
Community School to soar. I look forward to hearing about the
further success of our former Year 11 students as they begin
their studies at colleges and Sixth Forms. They have really set
the standard for our new Year 11 students.
Students returned this week to a
school with brand new toilet facilities. The first phase of a
quarter of a million pounds' building programme has been
completed and existing student toilets have been totally
modernised. Additional toilets will join these new,
state-of-the-art facilities as they are finished over the next
two months.
By the end of this month, every
classroom in the School will have been equipped with an
interactive whiteboard. This revolutionary technology combines
the simplicity of a whiteboard with the power of a computer. The
boards connect to a PC and a digital projector. Computer
programs can be controlled directly from the display, the
Internet can be accessed and displayed and work saved to share
later. Students can be far more involved in their learning and
research has shown that the use of these boards can help them
progress faster.
Best news of all is that we are
very hopeful that a Tower Hamlets bid to the Government will be
successful and that this will result in an entire rebuild of St.
Paul's Way Community School. Sadly, we won't hear for sure until
March of next year, but I am confident that our students will
soon get the building they deserve.
Numbers in Year 7 are up this
year, as news of the successes of students travels around the
borough. I really do believe this is a wonderful time to be a
staff member, a student or a parent at St. Paul's Way Community
School.
I look forward, as always, to
welcoming you to the School in the very near future.
With best wishes,
Simon Harris
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