At the Teaching Leaders graduation in November last year, I was lucky enough to be awarded the Pearson Prize for Pupil Impact after successfully completing the two-year Fellows programme as curriculum leader for key stage 4 English at Westminster Academy (I have since become assistant senior leader for English).
Our school has a very diverse student body, in which the majority of students have low primary school attainment and English as a second language.
Nevertheless, the English results of our year 11 cohort were considerably above the national average: for example, 77 per cent achieved A* to C in English language, with 70 per cent of the cohort making three levels of progress from primary school, and 48 per cent making four levels.
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