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It gives us great pleasure to welcome you to Aylsham High School. Whether you are a parent searching for the best school for your child, a member of the local community, a visitor from another school or organisation, a student or parent/carer looking for help and guidance or are considering applying to work at the school, we hope that you will enjoy finding out more about us.
We provide an environment that is welcoming and supportive, to create a caring,working atmosphere that will enable students to reach to their full potential, intellectually, physically, spiritually and ethically. The school is organised on a House basis, which gives students the advantage of belonging to a small ‘school within a school’. The five houses are led by a Head Of House working with a team of Form Tutors to ensure that each student is given the best possible pastoral care. 
Aylsham High has been a Training School for over eight years and in that time has continued to focus on very high quality teaching and learning. The responsibility for training teachers of the future is only given to schools demonstrating the finest quality in terms of excellent teaching practice. This is a school where ‘anything can happen’, where teachers are encouraged to develop their skills and confidence, supported by an excellent CPD programme. It is a place where teachers enjoy working and supporting each other and where friendships are important. If you would like to find out more about our work as a Training School please click here.
In September 2003 the school became the first in Norfolk to specialise in Business and Enterprise. We are enormously proud to have this recognition because we believe that students benefit greatly from finding out about the world of work and from acquiring some of the all important competencies that will be required of them in the future. We also believe that young people benefit from ambition, determination to succeed and from being confident and self assured. We are also very proud to have been designated as a Hub School for enterprise. (If you would like to know more about this work please click here.)
In a rural area, having a specialism does not mean that a school only specialises in one area. We continue to offer the finest teaching throughout the curriculum. We have a long established reputation for excelling in The Arts and PE and Sport. We have some of the finest teachers in the County delivering English, Mathematics, Science, Modern Foreign Languages, Humanities, Technology, ICT and RE. We also have an excellent department supporting students who have special needs to ensure that they have every opportunity to engage in an exciting learning journey during their five years at the school. Teaching is supported by a committed team of Learning Support Assistants and Cover Assistants.
Helping parents to support their children’s learning is very important to us. We have developed a very strong collaborative partnership with all of the schools in the Aylsham Cluster to ensure that as many parents as possible have access to opportunities to support learning and to take part in family learning days and sessions. Our work has been recognised as a model of excellent practice by The Training Development Agency – please click here to find out more.
Many parents opt for Aylsham High School as their first choice. We aim to give our students a broad and balanced social and spiritual education, ensuring that they become good moral citizens with a proper respect for the cultures and needs of other people and with the highest standard of manners, dress and conduct. We have a strict policy towards school uniform and make clear demands on all our students about their standards of behaviour. We recently consulted students about their uniform and they were keen to retain the traditional uniform, many expressing pride in belonging. |
