Willows High School serves the areas of Splott, Adamsdown and Tremorfa in the east of Cardiff. We are proud to have served this community since 1967. Our school motto is 'Belong, Believe, Achieve' and that is what we aim to achieve. We recognise that everyone in our community has the potential to achieve and our role is to ensure that all learners achieve as highly as they possibly can. Please feel free to have a look around our website, new things are being added all the time and we would be happy to answer any questions you might have. Willows High School is situated in the South east of Cardiff and serves the areas of Splott, Tremorfa and Adamsdown. We currently have approximately 750 pupils on roll and cover the 11 – 16 age range. We are proud to be part of a strong local community where we work closely with our local primary schools to ensure that all pupils are given the opportunity to succeed during their time in education. We are particularly proud of our Learning Centre which many local children have benefited from in the last 17 years. Approximately 50 pupils attend homework club on Mondays and Thursdays. 2010 saw us achieve our best GCSE results ever with 34% of pupils achieving 5 A* - C grades or their equivalent. Pupils at Willows have a choice of over 40 courses to choose from when they enter Year 10. We place great emphasis on the care and wellbeing of all pupils. All pupils have a Form Tutor and Progress Manager who follow them through their 5 years in the school. We work in an area of high population change and significant challenge. 44% of our pupils qualify for Free School Meals. One of our main challenges is helping pupils to overcome some of the barriers to learning they experience outside school. An increasing number of our pupils choose to remain in education when they leave us and we have excellent links with Coleg Glan Hafren, St. David’s Catholic 6th Form College and Cardiff High School in providing post 16 placements for our pupils. Our motto is ‘Belong, Believe, Achieve’ and we seek to make sure that all members of our community parents, staff and pupils, are ready to take up the challenge of becoming a lifelong learner



