Sir Graham Balfour High School
North Avenue, Stafford, Staffordshire, ST16 1NR
Summary
- School name
- Sir Graham Balfour High School
- Address
- North Avenue, Stafford, Staffordshire, ST16 1NR
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Size
- 1003 pupils enrolled
- Email address
- office@sirgrahambalfour.staffs.sch.uk
- Website address
- http://www.sirgrahambalfour.co.uk (opens in new tab)
About Sir Graham Balfour High School
Welcome to Sir Graham Balfour School which OFSTED in October 2024 found to be a ‘Good’ school.
Our vision is summed up in our mission statement –
‘Learning, Working and Succeeding Together’
Our vision is summed up in our mission statement of “Learning, Working and Succeeding Together”. We believe that the best possible care we can give to our students will enable them to leave school with the very best GCSE and A level grades possible. This sits behind every objective in the School Improvement Plan. The “together” of our mission statement is at the heart of our approach. We will work together with parents and students in a collaborative and cooperative way as we aim for academic and personal excellence for each and every child in our care. We aim for our students to communicate clearly with others; to be compassionate and caring; to make responsible choices; to be ambitious; to demonstrate perseverance and resilience in the harder moments; to show pride in the successes they achieve and to be proud of themselves during their time at Sir Graham Balfour School.
We passionately believe that the circumstances of birth or upbringing should not be the key determining factors to success in life and we are relentless in our ambition for all children to achieve as well as possible at Sir Graham Balfour School, regardless of their sexual orientation, socio-economic, ethnic or gender status.
Our Values
We know that staff and parents will not always be there, at the point where critical decisions need to be made. This is why we are committed to values based learning; rules prescribe a set of appropriate/inappropriate behaviours which are specific to given contexts, whereas values provide a set of aspirational guidelines within which children must choose the right behaviour or action for the vast array of contexts they will be faced with in life. These are the values which we believe will help our students to become excellent citizens of Stafford and beyond:
Commitment to excellence
Ambition for ourselves and others
Responsibility for ourselves and others
Care for the local and wider Community
Respect, Kindness and Compassion for ourselves and others
Perseverance and resilience
Pride in working hard and the success it brings
Our values drive and shape every aspect of school life, taking the place of school rules. They seek to reinforce the development of the whole person, in addition to the academic. They are values which will, if routinely exemplified and embedded, give our young people all the skills and characteristics necessary to become outstanding citizens of the future.
Commitment to safeguarding
Sir Graham Balfour School recognises its legal duty under s175 Education Act 2002 and the 1989 and 2004 Children Acts. We take seriously our responsibilities to protect and safeguard the interests of all students. This organisation recognises that effective child protection work requires sound procedures, good inter-agency co-operation and a workforce that is competent and confident in responding to child protection situations.
Our Safeguarding Policy aims to provide a framework which ensures that all our practice in regard to safeguarding children is consistent with the stated values and procedures that underpin all work with children and young people.
Location and map
North Avenue, Stafford, Staffordshire, ST16 1NR
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