'Be the Best You Can Be’

Mr Robert Swindells

Headteacher at Chesterton Community Sports College

Key Trust Responsibilities: overseeing standards and vision across the trust, leading standards at CCSC (all areas). Chief Finance Officer for the Trust, Trust Curriculum Lead.

Chesterton Community Sports College is a fully subscribed and very successful 11-16 secondary school with an established ethos based on the principle of being ‘The Best You Can Be’. The school is at the centre of the community and offers a broad and balanced curriculum that supports the development of each pupil.

The school has an excellent reputation for its supportive and warm working atmosphere and caring staff.  Although CCSC is fully subscribed, leaders and staff know their pupils extremely well and visitors often remark on the 'amazing positive working atmosphere' within the school.

CCSC is now one of the highest performing schools in the area on many measures. The school has excellent facilities, and the curriculum offer is outstanding. The ICT technology used throughout the school both in and out of lessons is unbelievable with all pupils being given their own iPad and case in Year 7 and the staff having the best Apple computers on the market to ensure that the curriculum drive of “know more, remember more, understand and apply”  has maximum impact in all areas.

The primary enrichment supports the transition process and ensures that children settle quickly. This is a huge success story and one of the reasons why the school is over-subscribed each year.

The pastoral care is fantastic, bespoke to each child’s needs and very consistent to ensure that each child has a valuable and productive five years of education at CCSC.

The high skilled specialist staff are used to help and support other schools within the Trust giving strong specialist curricular support and advice.

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https://www.ccsc.staffs.sch.uk/index.php