The Cotswold School named Comprehensive School of the Year

Places - Article | Tue 24 Nov
By Matt Dicks

A massive congratulations to The Cotswold School, which has been named The Sunday Times Comprehensive School of the Year 2015-16

Bourton-on-the-Water’s The Cotswold School has been named The Sunday Times’ Comprehensive School of the Year.

Superb results, the school's steady climb up the league tables over the last 4 years, a fourth consecutive ‘Outstanding’ Ofsted inspection which rated the school ‘outstanding’ across all categories, as well as the school's reputation for excellent extracurricular provision and facilities have all contributed to The Cotswold School achieving this accolade.

In addition to the coveted 'School of the Year' title, The Cotswold School has climbed the ranks on The Sunday Times' league tables.  

Following its outstanding results at both GCSE and A Level, the school made it into the Sunday Times Top 20 Comprehensives in 2014 (ranked 18th) and has, in 2015, climbed yet further to 12th amongst the country’s comprehensives.

This follows The Daily Telegraph's ranking of The Cotswold School's Sixth Form as 14th in the country for A-Level results achieved in August 2015. For the second year running, the school's Sixth Form ranked 1st in Gloucestershire, according to The Daily Telegraph, and currently outranks comprehensive Sixth Forms in Oxfordshire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire.  

The Department for Education has recently highlighted that statistically, there is no better performing school within 75 miles.

What is the secret of the Bourton on the Water school’s success?? The school's Headteacher, Mr William Morgan, says:

‘Happy students and staff ... and a lot of hard work. The only way we can achieve what we do at The Cotswold School is through hard work – and that’s from all of us.' 

‘Teaching and non-teaching staff, students and Governors are all committed to our pupils excelling as individuals.  And our parents and carers show that commitment too.  We do not work hard in isolation. We work hard as a team.'?

Mr Morgan continues: ‘To receive such national recognition by The Sunday Times is even more gratifying considering the ongoing changes to the national curriculum, the more robust exam requirements and the increasing need for schools like ours to produce more and more with decreasing funding.’

‘I have had the privilege of leading The Cotswold School since 2011 and I said at the time, it was like getting the opportunity to captain the sports team that you have backed all your life!  This holds just as true today. I am extraordinarily lucky.

‘There is a warm and welcoming ethos here and it’s a place where everyone, whatever their background or abilities can shine. Being a Welshman in The Cotswold School, I have seen this first hand!’

Find out more about The Cotswold School at www.cotswold.gloucs.sch.uk