WELCOME TO
GREENSHAW HIGH SCHOOL
We are the highly popular founder school in a thriving multi academy trust. We are immensely proud of our great community and look forward to welcoming you, should you wish to be part of our special family of staff and students..
Greenshaw High School is a highly over-subscribed 11 to 19 mixed comprehensive secondary school situated in Sutton, South West London. We currently have around 1,960 students on roll, with staff providing teaching, pastoral care and many other support activities across the school. We have a very diverse population of students, meaning that this school offers a fully comprehensive range of opportunities for colleagues who work here.
We are fortunate to be a highly popular school with a long standing and trusted record for excellent education. This was endorsed in our most recent Ofsted report (October 2024) that judged four areas of our school’s performance to be ‘Outstanding’. We believe this comes from our ambition to achieve two different educational targets.
The first is striving for all of our students to achieve high outcomes - we have been in the top 10% of all schools for progress at GCSE in two of the last three years. We have also enabled over 60 students each year to achieve a place at a Russell Group university. We are particularly proud that the progress of our disadvantaged students is also in the top 10% nationally at GCSE, and that we are one of the most respected schools for the education of SEND students in Sutton.
The second ambition is to do all we can to create a culture of high welfare. We prize the dignity of all members of our community, greeting our pupils at the gate when they arrive at school, as they enter each classroom and around school. We encourage, and model, high quality social interaction throughout the school day so that our pupils are naturally welcoming and interested in others. Alongside our care for pupils we also have absolute regard for the workload of all colleagues, those that teach and those that are non-pupil facing, with a culture of warmth and support. I am very proud that our Ofsted report, while grading ‘Behaviour and Attitudes’ as outstanding also used the adjective ‘friendly’.
These are very exciting times for our school. We are into an amazing building project that will see two thirds of the school rebuilt, totally upgrading the day to day experience for our pupils and staff. While we work tirelessly to maintain the fabric of the existing buildings, and the decor within them, I am very excited about our students being able to learn in brand new science labs, drama studios, and art facilities supported by a twenty first century learning resource centre.
Joining Greenshaw represents an excellent professional opportunity. You would be joining a staff group, teaching and non-teaching, who are totally committed. Our Research School status means we have access to the most recent findings about educational effectiveness, and we run a rich training programme for all colleagues.
We are at the heart of the Greenshaw Learning Trust, a multi academy trust with very strong outcomes for our children across primary and secondary phases, spread over nine local authorities in southern England. This means we are also very well connected to subject leads, professional support and wider networks. As a group each school is focused on developing our own excellence, as well as committing to the successes of our other partner schools.
