Class of 2024: GCSE Results Day

GCSE Results Day, Thursday 22 August, has proved to be another excellent performance from our Year 11 students. To read more about their achievements and the photographs that tell of their joy, please click to visit Our Learning: Examination Results webpage.

Class of 2024: A-level Results Day

Thursday 15 August, A-level Results Day, marked another outstanding year for our exceptional students! To read more about their excellent achievements and see more photographs that tell the story, please follow this link to Our Learning: Examination Results webpage.

HighLights Magazine

 

Welcome to HighLights, your personal school magazine, written by Highsted students, for Highsted students.

To download your own copy, click on the cover page above or just follow the HighLights! 

To download previous Issues, please follow the link to Opportunities: Our Sixth Form page.

Aim High Club 2024-25

To download the full-size poster and link to the Application Form, please click here.

Royal Academy Success for Leah!

 

We are very delighted and proud to announce that Leah (Year 9) was selected for the Royal Academy Young Artists' Summer Show 2024. With over 21,000 students taking part in the national competition this year, this is a fantastic achievement - congratulations, Leah! To read this account in full and download a larger image of Leah's painting, please follow this link to our Where Learning is Fun! webpage.

Examination Resources

As we move through the main period of external and internal examinations, we are aware that this can be an anxious time for students and parents alike. To assist, there are a range of materials and resources available for you to use by following the link below to our new webpage: Examination Resources, where you can download further information to help and support you through this important time. Please also check out our Health and Wellbeing webpages for more general advice and support.

• Our Learning: Examination Resources
• Student Wellbeing at Highsted

Stem Magazines for High Flyers!

High Flyers magazines are produced by Highsted Grammar School to inspire Key Stage 2 pupils to develop a passion for learning across the curriculum. Earlier editions are still available for you to access further down this column.

To download your personal online edition of these latest new STEM Magazines, just choose the issue you wish to read and click on the link below. Please be patient, there are lots of exciting pages and activities for you to try!

Issue 1: Please download here

Issue 2: Please download here

Health & Wellbeing Information Leaflets

As part of the Highsted commitment to every individual student in our community, we are fully aware of that as the examination season begins, this can heighten feelings of anxiety and stress among young people. We recognise and understand that whilst students are encouraged to work hard and succeed, this should never be at the expense of their wellbeing. Please follow the links below to download our latest Health & Wellbeing information leaflets:

• Health & Wellbeing Information Update: 2023-24

• Managing Examination Stress 2023-24

 

International Women's Day 2024

To read our students' account of Highsted's International Women's Day celebrations by downloading their report of the week's activities, please follow the link to our Student Voice webpage.

Children's Mental Health Week: Visit from Ben West

On 5 February, marking the beginning of Children’s Mental Health Week, the Head Girl Team invited in one of the UK’s leading mental health campaigners, Ben West, to speak about his story, provide his best tips to help tackle mental health and promote the importance of speaking out about how we feel.

We were inspired by his story, alongside his book: This Book Could Save Your Life – Breaking the Silence Around the Mental Health Emergency, and we hoped his words would similarly inspire the rest of the Highsted community and get them talking.

To download our full report of this important issue, please follow this link.

LGBTQ+ History Month

The 2024 theme for LGBTQ+ History Month is Medicine - #UnderTheScope. To read more about our aims and activities to celebrate this important event throughout February, please follow this link.

To download further information and the full-sized poster for this exciting event, please click here.

Awards Afternoon: Class of 2023

Awards Afternoon for the Class of 2023 was held on Tuesday 4 January, and proved to be a very motivating event for all the students involved. To read our student account of this inspirational afternoon of celebration, please follow this link.

Mad Science Saturday 2024!

On Saturday 3 February Highsted held it largest ever Mad Science Saturday event. One hundred and eighteen girls and and boys from across 21 local primary schools attended the school to become scientists for the day. To read our report about this special day, just follow this link.

Highsted Remembers

On Armistice Day, 12 November, the head girl team participated in a community event which is always charged with special meaning, but which this year had added resonance. Armistice Day commemorates not just those men and women who have fallen in conflict since the First World War, but gives us opportunity to recommit to the values which those individuals gave up their lives to preserve: justice, peace and freedom.

To read our account in full, please follow this link.

Class of 2023: GCSE

Highsted Grammar School is delighted to report another year of success by students receiving their GCSE results. Students have consistently demonstrated their willingness to overcome challenges during their schooling and showed focus and determination following the interrupted years of the pandemic and as a school we are rightly proud of them!

It is particularly pleasing to note the significant cohort of students who achieved the very top grades across all their subjects. These exceptional students included: Samantha A, Anjie A, Saffron B, Katherine B, Hannah C, Rachel C, Ellie F, Evie G, Sophie H, Phoebe H, Dara J, Esther M, Bethany M, Rosie-May M, Sydney S and Sophie T. 

We are full of admiration and pride for all our students who thoroughly deserve this considerable level of success and we would like to thank their parents and teachers for their continued support to enable them to achieve these results.

To see more photos of celebration, please follow this link.

A-level Results Day 2023

Highsted Grammar School is pleased to report that the Class of 2023 have maintained the high standard of achievement at A-level. Despite the continued challenges associated with the last three years, the students have shown tremendous determination and commitment to their studies with 74% of grades awarded at A*-B. 

Students have strived to achieved the very top grades across a range of facilitating subjects, with over a third of the cohort grades awarded as A*/A. Exceptional performances of three A*/A grades were awarded to Sienna D, Grace D, Oakleigh F, Bethany F, Alex F, Rosie G, Elena I, Madeline K, Ellie L, Olivia M, Karine M, Neve R, Brooke S, Ria T and Ilana W.

The school is grateful to the teachers and parents who have supported our students in their journey to success, and proud of the outstanding individuals they have each become. We wish them every success in their future careers.

To see more photographs from this morning’s special day of celebration, please follow this link.

Calling all Year 4 & 5 Pupils!

Welcome to your very own High Flyers production! This journal has been designed exclusively for you by Highsted Grammar School. It is packed with ideas and information to enlighten, excite and inspire you to develop a passion for learning across a whole range of subjects, in a way that you may never have thought about before.

To download your personal online edition, just click on the cover page above or follow this link. Earlier editions from the past year are available by following the links below.

To download Issue 12, please follow this link.

To download Issue 13, please follow this link.

To download Issue 14, please follow this link.

To download Issue 15, please follow this link.

Highsted Careers Bulletin

Welcome to our regular Careers Bulletin! Thinking about your future? Curious about opportunities available to you? Eager to learn about exciting new careers? Download your own copy of the Highsted Careers Bulletin Summer 2022/23 now. Just click on the cover page above. To download earlier issues, please follow this link to our Events: Newsletters page.

School Games Gold Mark Award 2023

We are delighted to announce that Highsted Physical Education department has achieved the School Games Gold Mark Award for the 2022/23 academic year!

The School Games Mark is a Government-led award scheme launched in 2012, facilitated by the Youth Sport Trust to reward schools for their commitment to the development of competition across their school and into the community, and we are delighted to have been recognised for our success. To read more about this scheme and Highsted's achievement within it, please download the full-sized poster by clicking on the image above or following this link.

Reading at Highsted: a whole school commitment

At Highsted, '...Reading is actively promoted, and pupils are encouraged to read more widely.' (Ofsted, 2023.) Welcome to our latest webpage, which emphasises the importance and value of reading for life - whatever your age, whatever your ability, whatever your interest.

Please follow this link to find out why we believe that reading is so beneficial for learning, for creativity and for wellbeing.

Girls on Board: new webpage 

 

To visit our new Girls on Board webpage and find out more about this exciting new programme at Highsted, please follow this link.

Entry to Sixth Form: September 2023

Download your Sixth Form Student Guide 2023-25 here.

Visit our Sixth Form with a virtual tour 

Please click here to begin your journey to Highsted. Remember to open the link using a computer to view the full presentation.

For further information direct from our specialist subject staff and for anything else you need to know...

...just follow this link to our detailed information page!

Sister Act: Student Review

To read a detailed review and see a collection of photographs from our latest school production, Sister Act, just follow this link to our Student Voice page. The performance was received with great acclaim and appreciation by packed audiences during the last week of June, and our review is written by talented Year 10 student, Chik O-N.

Highsted Travels back in Time

On Saturday 18 June Highsted hosted its annual Taster Saturday event, this year themed ‘Highsted Travel Back in Time,’ when 125 pupils from across 34 local primary schools participated in a range of interactive workshops. To read about this and see our photos, please follow the link to our Community Events page.

Something Wicked This Way Comes

On Tuesday 28 June, Highsted held its second Shakespeare Day, inviting local primary school pupils to attend a series of English and Drama workshops. To read the report on our exciting way to learn about Macbeth, please follow this link to our Community Events page.

Highsted Digital Leaders: Safer Internet Day

Please click here to go to our Online Safety at Home webpage for more information about the Digital Leadership Programme. To download our Digital Leaders' account of their activities to date and the proposals for their Safer Internet Day assembly, please follow this link.

Ready to be a Highsted Girl?

Visit our school with a virtual tour

Click here to access our Open Day Presentation. Please open the link using a computer to view the full presentation.

Mental Health Update

In support of students and parents, at Highsted we work in conjunction with the Mental Health charity, Place2Be.

Parenting Smart offers practical advice for parents and carers of children aged 5-11. All of the content is created by Place2Be's parenting experts. It is based on evidence and their experiences working with children, young people and their families. Please follow this link to our Health & Wellbeing webpage, where you will find further information and access to the services offered by this important Parental Support site. 

Health & Wellbeing webpage

In Mental Health Awareness week we have created a new webpage to draw together support materials for all in the Highsted community. To access the latest information please go to Our School: Health & Wellbeing by following this link.  

Online Safety at Home

To support the Highsted community through school closures and to enable everyone to continue their education by working safely online, we have collected together a range of new resources for students and their parents/carers. Information sheets and activities are available now by following this link.  

Super-Curriculum

The new Highsted Super-Curriculum activities are now available for all Key Stage 3 students, by opening the tab at the top of this page or by following this link.

A new suite of Pre-A-level Bridging Materials, A-level Enrichment Materials and Pre-University Extension Materials are currently being developed for Year 11 & Post-16 students. A range of these activity sheets are now available by following this link.

Important Safeguarding Update

Safeguarding Procedures During School Closure

During school closures, it is more important than ever that you report concerns linked to a child’s wellbeing.

Please report your concerns as follows:

During normal school hours, contact the school team at: safeguarding@highsted.kent.sch.uk

Outside School Hours, contact Social Services on:

03000 41 11 11 (text relay 18001 03000 41 11 11) or email social.services@kent.gov.uk

If you feel a child is in immediate danger, call 999. 

Activities at Highsted

Please follow the links below to read more about a varied range of our activities and achievements:

• Highsted Presents at ASGS 2020 Conference
• Heroes and Heroines - World Book Day 2020
• Highsted Gains Champion School Award
• Year 7 Discovery Park Trip 2020
• Year 10 'Maths Feast 2020' Competition
• Kent Schools' Table Tennis Competition
• Mad Science Saturday 2020
• Chanel House Charity Event
• Kent Schools' Games - U15 Basketball Competition
• Year 7 English Reading Aloud Competition Final
• Education for Life Focus Day 4
• Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu visits Highsted
• Under-12 Football: English Schools' Cup
• County Careers Fair 2020
• Kent Schools' Swimming Championships
• Red Ribbons & Tiny Penguins Win Festive Cake Competition
• Students Read Aloud: Years 7 & 8 Reading Competition

Severe Weather

In the event of severe weather conditions or other emergencies that may result in school closure, information will be posted on the Kent County Council website: kent.gov.uk/winter or kentclosures.co.uk

Information will also be broadcast by BBC Radio Kent (96.7 / 104.2 fm), Heart FM (103.1 / 102.8 fm) and KMFM (Medway) (107.9 / 100.4 fm). You can also check kmfm.co.uk/ (Medway area) or bbc.co.uk/kent. Please note that if such weather seems imminent, further details will be issued at that time.

In these circumstances, the school website will be updated as soon as possible. Please watch this space for specific instructions or information relating to school activities.

As a result of ongoing development, exciting opportunities arise from time to time for experienced or newly qualified teachers and support staff at our highly successful girls' grammar school.

To obtain further information about any of these current vacancies, please follow this link to our Vacancies & Teacher Training page.

 

 

Teaching posts     

Teacher of French (MPS/UPR)

Support staff posts

Part-time Caretaker Salary: £13,683 pro rata (£23,337 FTE)

(25 hours weekly; term time only. Permanent position with 27 days annual leave, plus Bank Holidays. Monday to Friday shift pattern, with occasional weekend/extended day paid overtime.)