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The Thomas Aveling School is a secondary school and sixth form with academy status, located in Rochester, Kent, England.
We believe that all involved in Thomas Aveling work and achieve best when happy; students are given considerable say in their education, for example choosing their option subjects in Year 8, choosing extra-curricular activities early in Year 7 and having the chance to take part in the Student Council. We have high expectations of all our ...
At Thomas Aveling we have the very highest expectations of all involved: Students, Teachers and Parents. Please scroll down through this section to check out our expectations of attendance, behaviour, our home school agreement, and uniform.
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- What is it like to attend this school?
- What does the school do well and what does it need to do better?
- Safeguarding
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The Thomas Aveling School continues to be a good school.
Pupils and students say that they are happy and they feel safe. They say that staff care about them and help them to do their best. Pupils show a pride in their school. They work hard and want to do well. The school's extensive careers programme ensures that pupils are well prepared for their next stage. Pupils have increasingly high aspirations fo...
The curriculum is ambitious. It is carefully structured to ensure that all pupils are well supported and actively encouraged. This includes pupils with SEND, those who are disadvantaged and those who are high performing. Subject leaders think carefully about their curriculum. They ensure that it carefully matches the national curriculum. Leaders ha...
The arrangements for safeguarding are effective. There is a strong culture of safeguarding. The welfare, safety and well-being of all pupils are a high priority. Staff receive regular training and frequent updates. They know how to identify risks and what to do if they have any concerns. The school conducts thorough checks when appointing new staff...
Reading is not yet fully embedded across the school. As a result, reading does not allow all pupils to access the full curriculum and assessment practices are still being refined. Leaders across the school should continue to develop strategies to assess, develop and encourage pupils’ fluency, confidence and enjoyment of reading. The PSHE programme ...
You can use Ofsted Parent View to give Ofsted your opinion on your child's school, or to find out what other parents and carers think. We use information from Ofsted Parent View when deciding which schools to inspect, when to inspect them and as part of their inspection. The Department for Education has further guidance on how to complain about a s...
You can search for published performance information about the school. In the report, 'disadvantaged pupils' refers to those pupils who attract government pupil premium funding: pupils claiming free school meals at any point in the last six years and pupils in care or who left care through adoption or another formal route.
You will already know that Thomas Aveling is a great school – that will be the main reason you chose us to educate your child. We have very high standards and expectations of children who attend our school in terms of their behaviour, effort and dress and know that you will continue to support us in maintaining these standards.
We take Character Education seriously, as we believe it is fundamental to the development of our students. The Quality Mark process has enabled us at The Thomas Aveling School to review our practice and allow us to make clear actions plans when developing character education in the initial stages.
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