The staff, governors, pupils and families of Woodford County High School are profoundly saddened at the death of Her Late Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II. Everyone in our school community gives thanks for Her Late Majesty’s service and dedication. We offer our thoughts and condolences to the King and the Royal Family.
Because of our large catchment area, our students nearly all travel long distances on crowded overheated buses. For that reason, and due to concern about our capacity to maintain an environment conducive to effective study in such high temperatures (particularly in the older accommodation in the school) we are advising parents to keep their child at home to study via WCHS Remote Schooling on Monday 18 and Tuesday 19 July 2022.
On the 27th June 2022 an assessor from the South West Grid for Learning visited Woodford County High School to review the school’s e-safety provision. The Assessor met school teaching and non-teaching staff, SLT, parents, Governors and students and was very pleased to find that the school provides a high level of protection for users of new technologies.
Dear Parent / Carer
You will be aware that from 1 April 2022 the remaining Covid-19 legal requirements in England (aimed at preventing the spread of the virus) were removed. Several recommendations remain in place in the form of guidance. Significantly, testing (lateral flow or PCR) is no longer free and while isolation guidance for those with symptoms (or with positive tests) remains in place, it is no longer mandatory.
Our priorities in school have not changed. We are committed to doing all we can to support the health and wellbeing of those in the WCHS community and to maintaining a full and first rate educational provision for students on our site. Infection rates (locally and nationally) remain high, but at WCHS (as elsewhere) we need to learn to “live with Covid” for the foreseeable future.
To this end, I draw the following guidance to your attention:
Year 12 Vicky wins national Science essay competition
WCHS was delighted to celebrate the success of its GCSE cohort at Prize Giving 2021. Our speaker for the event, a barrister in children’s law (and self-professed “Woodford Girl”) , urged her audience to grasp all their opportunities and not be daunted by setbacks in the pursuit of goals.
Superb results – well done everyone!
Woodford County High School is pleased to have been recognised as a best practice representative for the 2021 edition of The Parliamentary Review; an independent publication which looks at how key British organisations are responding to different political and economic challenges.
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Wednesday 3 June 2020
Woodford County High School stands in solidarity with all those who are feeling pain and finding non-violent means to express anger and outrage about the brutal murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis last week. As a school, we stand in solidarity with black students, staff and families, and recommit to valuing diversity and to fighting inequality and inequity. We are proud of the courage and integrity of our students in exercising a right to make their voices heard.
COVID-19: Requirements of anyone visiting the school
Woodford County High School for Girls is asking for the support of all those who visit the school in minimising the risk of COVID-19 to its community.
1. You are asked to refrain from visiting the school if you have travelled from or transited through any of the following countries or areas in the time scale indicated:
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Woodford County High School first opened to its pupils on 29 September 1919. Seven teachers oversaw the education of 110 girls in a building which would doubtless be familiar to us, but had only recently been repurposed having served as a military hospital throughout World War One. Over the intervening century the school has increased ten-fold in size. While its core purpose remains unchanged, the ways in which it prepares girls to thrive in adult life is constantly evolving.
Last summer, three students from Year 9 (now 10A) entered a STEM competition sponsored by IBM and Disney called Girls Who Change The World, beating approximately 200 applications to make the national final comprised of only ten teams.
