Isleworth & Syon School for Boys Ridgeway Road, Isleworth Middlesex TW7 5LJ T: 020 8568 5791 • F: 020 8568 1939
[email protected] www.isleworthsyon.org ANNUAL REVIEW academic year 2014-2015 A MEssAgE FRoM thE hEAdtEAchER I am delighted to introduce this review of 2014-15 after another very successful school year. Our ambition is to provide the very best education for local boys, for our Sixth Form girls, and to ensure that as far as possible all aspects of school life are outstanding. It is not always easy to steer a path through the various and many pronouncements of successive Secretaries of State for Education, but I have always found that sticking to our main priorities of a high quality academic education, offering exemplary additional opportunities, and holding on to some of our long and fine traditions, to be the best way to ensure the continued success of our students and of the school. An analysis of the summer’s GCSE examination results confirms that we remain the most consistently top-performing non-selective school for local boys. Despite a hardening of some of the grade boundaries this summer, I am delighted to report a record-equalling year at school and sustained improvements in some areas. Overall, 73% of our boys gained five or more top grades, comfortably surpassing national benchmarks. In the core subjects of English, mathematics and science, the boys out-strip boys nationally by some distance. The stand-out figure this year was our valued-added score of 1033, which is stunning when it is set against the national expectation of 1000.