Challenging Destiny

Schools are in a period of significant change. Education is a focus for this government as it was for the last. Michael Gove, Secretary of State for Education, summed up his reason for the recent changes: “While we have some of the best schools in the world, we also have too many which are still struggling.”

Parents with children at Park can be confident that their sons and daughters are in one of the best schools.  Our results last year proved once again that the progress made by students here measures up.

This government has spoken many times about unfairness in society and, whether one thinks they have a real sense of what is fair or not, they are quite right when they say that “In our education system it is still far too often the case that deprivation is destiny.”

Park is a school which is one of the government’s engines of social mobility, where accidents of birth and the unfairness of life’s lottery are overcome through academic progress and success. Each year the results for Year 11 allow the students to make choices about their future based on success at school.

Christopher Anders
Headteacher