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Welcome to Dunraven School

The last ten years have seen remarkable progress at Dunraven.  For example in 2000, the GCSE outcomes stood at 39%: in 2011 the 5 A*-C figure was 93%.  In fact, we’ve just recorded another set of ‘best yet’ results at Key Stages 3, 4 and 5 which is a testament to the commitment of the students and the expertise of their teachers. In 2000, the Sixth Form, SL6 and the new building were just a twinkle in the school’s aspirational eye.  We now have an ‘outstanding’ Sixth Form and SL6 is the most successful collaboration in this part of London.  

Ofsted viewed the school as improving in 2000 and on the verge of outstanding in 2010.  The school has helped develop 7 successful headteachers in the past decade and gained a second specialism, High Performing status, Beacon Status, International status, Advanced Healthy School status, Investors in People status for the second and third time, Artsmark, Sportsmark and won a Public Service Award for our landmark sports hall. Dunraven has also been designated as a National Support School (NSS) in recognition of the good work we do in working successfully with and supporting other schools.

One of the reasons for the school’s on-going success has been the ability to control our own destiny and decide the best use for the resources we have been given to better support the progress of our students. To this end, Dunraven became a Grant Maintained school in 1993, a Foundation school in 1999 and, continuing the tradition of independent self-management, became an Academy in August 2011.

We’ve been visited by the Prime Minister and Education Secretary of the day; Headteachers from America, China, Sweden, Norway and Canada; by two Knights, a Baroness and 3 Directors of Children Services in recognition of the work we do for our young people. We’ve also run thousands of educational visits (almost 300 in 2010-11 alone) and hundreds of events to enrich and extend the curriculum. We have developed a strong reputation locally, within London and nationally featuring in positive reports about outstanding schools. 

Our Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme has now begun and we are excited that our first new buildings will be in use from October 2011. An updated version of the BSF newsletter, with a summary of the whole building programme, was published at the end of the summer term. You can read it here

David Boyle
September 2011