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[email protected] Web: www.wokinghigh.surrey.sch.uk NEWSLETTER Headteacher: Jane Abbott Headteacher’s Letter THE CHARACTERISTICS THAT were one grade higher than nationally During the autumn term all schools are UNDERPIN OUR SCHOOL MOTTO expected). benchmarked against each other based on “Inspire, Challenge, Achieve” resonate their P8 score. I am delighted to report that Attainment 8 = 57 (this means students throughout this, the first of our newsletters Woking High School’s 2016 P8 examination scored an average of a B grade in all of the academic year 2016/2017. results placed the school in the top 10% subjects). of all secondary schools in England and Looking back to last summer our class of 32% of all results were at A*/A Wales. This is truly something to celebrate. 2016 deserve huge praise for their superb GCSE examination results. A new system 72% of all students gained 5 A*-C Once again Woking High School welcomed of accountability measures was introduced including English and Mathematics record numbers of parents and prospective this year to evaluate schools’ performance. 10 students gained at least 12 or more students to the school for our annual open It includes an assessment of the rate of A*/A grades evening and open mornings in October. progress students have made since joining At the open evening we were inundated secondary school (Progress 8) and their 16 students gained at least 10 or more with visitors who had chance to hear the attainment over their best 8 GCSEs A*/A grades Windband play and see our latest Woking including English and Mathematics, which 30 students gained at least 8 or more A*/A High School prospectus and information are counted twice (Attainment 8).