Bohunt Horsham Prospectus 2022

Welcome to Bohunt Horsham

I would like to thank you for your interest in our school. It is my privilege to be the first headteacher of this new school at the heart of the community in Horsham and I am thrilled to be leading a school that is characterised by engaged and dedicated young people with enormous potential. At Bohunt Horsham we value character and experience as highly as academic attainment. Our culture of high expectations extends beyond the classroom and incorporates the development of character traits such as resilience, curiosity and empathy.

I believe that for children to succeed in school, they must feel safe and happy. At Bohunt Horsham, we provide a caring and inclusive environment in which your child can thrive.

A love of learning is something we value highly as a staff; we encourage thought and explicitly teach skills of listening and debating in lessons across the curriculum which creates an atmosphere of highly engaged and mutually respectful learning.

When our students leave us they will have achieved excellent academic progress and developed the skills they need to help them realise their potential. They will take with them the wealth of memories and relationships they have built. AYLING

Who we are

Over the next few years, we will grow to become an all-through school for 1620 students aged 4-16 with a nursery facility. in our brand new state of the art building. We are proud to be part of the supportive and innovative Bohunt Education Trust (BET).

Enjoy

We value a love of learning, we promote the characteristics that make lifelong learners such as curiosity, hard work, critical thinking and a thirst for knowledge.

Respect

We champion characteristics that will ensure our learners make the world a better place such as empathy, tolerance and kindness.

Achieve

We empower our learners and support them in building characteristics such as resilience, confidence and courage. Achievement for us is more than just academic attainment, we value personal growth and experience just as highly.

Welcome to Bohunt Education Trust

Bohunt Horsham will provide a high quality seamless education from age two to 16 for approximately 1,600 children and young people in the local area. They will benefit from the innovative approach to education that is the mark of all Bohunt Education Trust’s schools and from being part of a vibrant, dynamic local trust which has already proven its capacity to deliver a high-quality educational experience.

BET’s approach to teaching and learning is innovative and immersive – a rich blend of the latest education thinking, technology and practice both in and outside the classroom. We set the highest expectations for ourselves and our students, and this is reflected in our results and Ofsted accolades.

We are thrilled that Georgette Ayling is the Headteacher of Bohunt Horsham, and we are watching the school’s journey with great excitement and pride. We have seen first-hand Georgette’s expertise, commitment and passion through her work and achievements at Bohunt School Worthing, and we look forward to seeing this replicated at Horsham. BET is looking forward to delivering exceptional education to even more students in the local area.

NEIL STROWGER

CEO, BOHUNT EDUCATION TRUST

About our school

Bohunt Horsham is a school that strives to develop the whole child as an individual; we encourage all our students to participate in their school life and to shape the school through their voices and their actions. We are a community that supports one another to excel and we recognise the important role we play in our local area. Through We create responsible global citizens and ensure that our students leave us equipped and committed to make the world a better place.

We are an all-through school that benefits from working collaboratively across educational phases, taking the best practice from each phase and using it to improve impact and provision across the school.

We are an iPad 1-2-1 school and, although these devices do not replace the traditional exercise books and pens, across all curriculum areas our students benefit from this technology through immediate access to a wealth of resources, instantaneous, low-stakes assessment of progress leading to far greater levels of personalised learning and creative approaches to working.

Enjoy, Respect, Achieve

Bohunt Horsham is a dynamic learning community whose ethos is encapsulated by three simple words: enjoy, respect, achieve.

At Bohunt Horsham we strive to develop a lifelong love of learning; this is possible through the creation of a stimulating, vibrant environment within a framework of high expectation. We offer excellent support to students with special educational needs, sharing best practice across the community of schools within the Trust, and we are committed to ensuring high levels of challenge to engage our most able learners.

We promote a strong sense of self-worth combined with a respect for others and for the world in which we live. Consistently high expectations are embedded within an environment that is founded on mutually respectful relationships between students, staff and families.

We, as parents, are witnessing every day the full commitment staff have to provide the highest level of education, both from the academic and civic side, to our children.”

BOHUNT HORSHAM FAMILY 2022

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A culture of high expectations requires a safety net of support and we have an effective pastoral system to provide exactly that. All of our students are ably supported by their form tutor and our Achievement Coordinators, highly skilled and dedicated staff members who hold responsibility for students’ welfare and progress. This system is built on our core principle of getting to know each child as an individual so that we can best support them and help them to achieve their goals.

The Bohunt

We believe that our commitment is not just to our students but to their families; before your child starts at Bohunt Horsham we will involve you in school life with events to welcome you and to support you in getting your child ready to join our community. We work with our families for a common goal, to help raise children who have the skills and knowledge as well as the characteristics they need to go out into the world as happy, safe and successful adults.

As a new school at the heart of a thriving and vibrant community, the voices of our founding families have been instrumental in shaping our direction and our decisions since before we even opened our doors. In the summer of 2019 we formed our first Bohunt Horsham Parent Reference Group, a community of parents and carers who are willing and able to give some of their time and energy to support the school and to help ensure communication between home and school is excellent. The Parent Reference Group is a vital part of the school and we value the input and dedication of its members. Bohunt has surpassed my expectations. My child’s confidence is so much higher and they feel listened to and noticed and rewarded for their hard work!”

Unparalleled opportunities

Highly qualified staff offer exceptional experiences outside the curriculum and beyond the school gates. Students are challenged to work things out, take risks and experience new ideas, emotions and activities. A focus on expressive arts and culture encourages all students to become adept and confident communicators. Guided reflection on how actions impact others and how to improve in the future develops teamwork, leadership skills and resilience.

Current examples include:

• An outdoor classroom to embed outdoor learning as an expectation for all students. We also offer an extensive outdoor experience programmes including Bushcraft and the Duke of Edinburgh Award.

• Annual ski trips.

• Opportunities to perform at events such as local festivals, school musicals, variety shows and weekly school assemblies.

• Dance, Language and Sports Leaders Awards.

• Cross-Trust opportunities and pioneering activities, such as education experiments.

We recognise that some of our students will need support in building the confidence to feel able to take part in these experiences and are committing to helping all of our students to gain that level of courage. We are also committed to supporting families for whom these activities may be financially prohibitive.

The relationships between students and staff and the routines and expectations of students are two of the biggest strengths at Bohunt Horsham.”

We opened our doors to 120 students in Year 7 in September 2019 while our brand new, purpose-built school was under construction. Since those first days, we have been unwavering in our high expectations. Our new school is an expansive green fields site, with excellent facilities in all areas of the curriculum including sports, technologies (including a robotics laboratory), expressive and performing arts, an outdoor classroom and shared specialist teaching spaces designed for safe and effective use by students across educational phases. We offer a broad range of extracurricular clubs, visits and experiences, as we have from day one. Horsham has teachers who are enthusiastic and genuinely care about the pupils. The students are in an environment of safety and acceptance where children can happily grow to their full potential.”