Improvement for a new look Norham High School
Terry Conway, Head Teacher of Norham High School was kind enough to share with Schools North East the journey which the school has been on from September and the changes which have been made to aid school improvement.
A new Head Teacher, Deputy Headteacher and Senior Leadership Team was brought in for the new term in 2020 alongside good support from their Local Authority- North Tyneside Council which has all factored in to help start to rebuild the reputation of the school. Terry Conway, Head Teacher of the school said “we are candid, tell it like it is, wear our heart on our sleeves and our biggest credit this year was being told we displayed ‘the best example of moral and ethical leadership seen.’” Following this there were big changes and decisions made such as closing the school’s isolation room and the number of exclusions from September to January went from 40+ in the past to just 2 since the new school year.
The announcement of the “staged re-opening” of schools has set a seemingly impossible task of catching pupils up, especially those who are taking exams in the next year. However, Schools North East are proud to know that education institutions in our region always rise to the task and find a way to succeed even in the most trying of times. Norham High School has managed to figure out a timetable which enables year 10 pupils to receive 50 hours of face-to-face teaching before the summer. This has seen a positive uptake with the pupils and the school community. Alongside this year 11 students engaged in distance learning on evenings and weekends.