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Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School, Alford, is a Foundation status 11-18 selective school, currently having approximately 550 pupils on roll. The school is a very friendly and caring community in which pupils are known individually and valued. We provide a calm, happy and purposeful atmosphere and strive to help all pupils to achieve their full potential.
In a recent Ofsted inspection, our successes were rewarded with the top rating, ‘OUTSTANDING’.
The report included the following comments:
“The school’s care, guidance and support are outstanding.”
“Pupils make exceptional progress”
“Pupils’ personal development is outstanding. They have exemplary attitudes to their learning. Their behaviour and attendance are excellent. Sixth form students … provide impressive examples for others.”
As a Business & Enterprise College (since September 2004) students are encouraged to be enterprising and most departments have good links with the business world. Students in Year 9 and above can set up their own businesses, trading in school, and there is a venture fund to support them. As a high-performing Specialist School, we were also selected to be a Training School. This benefits the school and the community by:
- Developing further professional research into learning and teaching
- Offering further courses for the local community
- Providing a centre of excellence for training and for sharing good practice widely
- Using student voice to enhance further learning and teaching
We recognise the value of developing the whole person and therefore provide an extensive range of extra-curricular activities (run by staff and senior students) and many leadership opportunities.
We are very proud of our students and their wide-ranging achievements. Over the last year these have included:
- 100% of last year’s Y11 students gained 8 or more GCSEs at grades A*-C (over the past 10 years either 99% or 100% of our students have met the national benchmark of 5 or more grades at A*-C) . 99% gained 8 passes including English and Maths. 50% of the year group gained 5+ A* and A grades.
- 66% of all grades at A Level were at A or B.
- Value-added through all key stages is high.
- In our Charity Week we raised £3,000 for the Louth and District Hospice
- Pupils and staff have established an eco-garden in the school grounds
- Our Young Enterprise Team, EkoCharge, became District Champions
- An inspirational Student Study Tour to Sydney, Australia
- A group of Upper School students completed a week’s work placement in Conlie, our twin town in France, in addition to our annual exchange, which is open to all year groups
- Our team were national finalists in the Jaguar Car Maths Challenge
- We staged a highly-rated school production of Bugsy Malone
The information on this website will, I hope, provide you with a flavour of Queen Elizabeth’s. There is so much more, however, than any website could ever convey. To appreciate fully the way we work, I strongly recommend that you pay us a visit. Please come and talk to me, meet the students and their teachers and see the excellent facilities.
Angela Francis
Headteacher
"Lincolnshire Consortium of Grammar Schools - 11+ Information"
