Teacher of Design Technology

With more than a hundred years of history, Springwood High School provides an education for boys and girls aged between eleven and eighteen in King's Lynn.

Springwood High School is a comprehensive school with Specialist Performing Arts Status and a long history of providing an excellent education to pupils in West Norfolk.

Springwood High School believes that it has a unique ethos that provides a calm and caring learning environment, which is focused on student achievement and engagement. The school’s vision for the future is based around four key areas: maximising student achievement; ensuring every student is engaged with the school; ensuring its students have access to world-class resources; delivering outstanding teaching and learning.

Springwood High School has one clear aim – to become outstanding. To do this, it aims: to produce world-class standards of student achievement; to further improve student and community engagement; to develop an excellent standard of Teaching and Learning; to provide and maintain world class resources for the school community.

They offer a wide range of opportunities, both within and beyond the classroom - it is vital that every student participates in other areas of school life.

Springwood High School are part of the West Norfolk Academies Trust whose aim is to challenge and support a small group of schools to provide an excellent education for the young people of West Norfolk.

The Trust works in a supportive partnership with Primary and Secondary schools with each school maintaining their unique identity and ethos.

The schools work together to ensure maximum benefit for all students through economies of scale and shared resources.

Headteacher

Andy Johnson

Values and Ethos

At Springwood High School they strongly believe in developing the whole child and are committed to ensuring that every child can fulfil their potential and make the most of their talents.

It is because of this belief and this commitment that they encourage all of their students to take AMBITIOUS STEPS!

At Springwood they want everyone - students and staff - to be AMBITIOUS

ARTICULATE - Able to communicate confidently with peers and adults alike in a range of settings

MOTIVATED - Determined and enthusiastic to achieve

BRAVE - Unafraid to challenge themselves

INDEPENDENT - Responsible for their own success

THOUGHTFUL - Kind, considerate and respectful to others

INQUISITIVE - Curios to learn

ORGANISED - Good managers of their own time

UNSTOPPABLE - Resilient to the challenges they encounter

SERIOUS - About fulfilling their potential

Ofsted

“The drive, passion and determination of the headteacher and his team have made a visible impact on all aspects of the school’s work. Dedicated teachers work extremely hard to ensure that students make good progress, behave well in lessons, and have excellent opportunities to develop their spiritual, moral, social and cultural understanding. Teaching is largely good with some that is outstanding. The sixth form is good. Results are improving sharply. Leaders are showing more ambition and therefore more students are achieving the highest grades.”

View Springwood High School’s latest Ofsted report