Headteacher's Welcome

It is my great pleasure to welcome you to our website and introduce you to Willowfield School.

Willowfield school exists to serve children. Children get one chance at education, and it is our responsibility and privilege to ensure the educational experience for all our pupils is rich and rewarding.

Children come to Willowfield and experience an excellent curriculum, exceptional learning and brilliant pastoral care. They feel happy, are safe, and leave us ready to choose their futures.

We develop our children as kind, curious, respectful, conscientious and independent young people who are confident and eager to embrace challenge.

Willowfield is very proud to have been serving our community; educating and caring for children for over 100 years. Willowfield is a happy, oversubscribed and financially secure school doing great work – as was so clearly identified in the January 2026 OFSTED inspection and as shown by our recent exam results. Such is our popularity that we have expanded and our recent building projects have now finished giving us even better facilities for our children.

Willowfield is characterised by great relationships, every member of our community is part of the Willowfield family. The school ethos and values are centred on developing our young people as great citizens and this infuses the entire curriculum and learning experience. We have a happy, dedicated, and excellent staff team who work tirelessly for our children. We have strong partnerships with local schools and colleges and are involved in many community projects.

We are a mixed 11 to 16 comprehensive school within the London Borough of Waltham Forest. Willowfield is a truly inclusive and multicultural school. There are around 50 different languages spoken in the homes of our pupils. The school welcomes and celebrates this diversity that helps make us the school we are.

Teaching groups are mainly mixed attainment, with some setting in Mathematics and Science. The special educational needs of pupils are met mainly through in-class support, although there is some extraction for intensive help with literacy and numeracy. Key Stage 3 lasts three years ensuring our young people have depth and breadth of experience before moving onto GCSE courses in year 10. At Key Stage 4, all pupils follow a humanities course (either History or Geography) in addition to the core subjects and choose a further 3 options from a wide range including Art, Astronomy, Business, Computing, Drama, Food, French, Media Studies, Music, Photography, Physical Education,  Psychology, Religious Studies, Spanish, Sociology, Textiles and 3D Design.

All children follow a comprehensive and diverse PSHE curriculum and are encouraged to attend our extensive extra-curricular programme. We have a wide range of trips/visits/experiences and clubs available to all pupils including overseas trips, residential trips, after school and breakfast clubs (every day) and a very full careers programme, cultural activities and end of year programme that every child experiences.  We are proudly an Arts Mark Platinum school reflecting the rich and high quality offer available to all.

Rebecca Linden