Leighton Park School Wins ‘Future Ready’ Award by ISA

Leighton Park has been recognised as a national leader for preparing students to thrive in a fast-changing world, winning the Independent Schools Association (ISA) Award for Future Readiness. The award aims to celebrate best practice in preparing students for their life beyond school and ensuring they have the skills and the mindset to thrive. The School won Senior School of the Year in the same awards last year.

Words from Alex Wallace

Alex Wallace, Deputy Head (Academic) who was at the conference dinner to receive the award on Thursday 14th November enthused: “I am absolutely delighted and incredibly proud of the whole school community who have contributed to the winning of this award. It has been an excellent evening!”

As a values-led school, we create unrivalled opportunities for personal development and character education. Our school also works with partners to create a better world. This focus draws on our heritage as a Quaker school and the impressive history of Quakers who set up forward-thinking companies like Cadbury and Rowntree. These extraordinarily successful businesses treated staff and suppliers fairly and created social good. Equally important, Quakers helped found leading charities and campaigning organisations, such as Amnesty International, Greenpeace, Oxfam and the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust. Quakers won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1947.

Our vision is to prepare our students to be future changemakers. We do this through innovative and comprehensive educational approaches that extend beyond the traditional curriculum. Our goal is to nurture self-awareness and community engagement, empowering students to imagine a better world, and with the skills to make a meaningful difference.

Alex continued: “The award reinforces the strength of the curriculum we have created. It is wonderful to see the work of our Approaches to Learning (ATL), Creativity Activity Service (CAS) and Oakleaf Diploma programmes being recognised. It is the skills developed in these subjects which will ensure our students can thrive in their lives beyond Leighton Park.”

Editor’s Notes

Leighton Park has received several recent accolades, including winning Senior School of the Year in the Independent Schools Association Awards 2023 and being a Finalist for Independent School of the Year in the TES Awards 2023. The most recent UK Government analysis shows that the school’s Sixth Form leavers achieved the best academic progress in Berkshire. The Independent Schools Inspectorate awarded it excellent in all areas in January 2022. This is the highest possible attainment for an independent school.

The School was recognised as a national leader for Pupil Personal Development in 2022. It also won the Independent Schools Association (ISA) Award for Excellence in this area. In the same year the School gained the Wellbeing Award for Schools, accredited by the National Children’s Bureau.

Leighton Park School is a day and boarding school for 11-18 year olds in Reading, Berkshire. For more information please see www.leightonpark.com

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Alex Wallace (Deputy Head, Academic) at Leighton Park School receives the ISA Future Ready award

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