Farlingaye High School is a popular and successful school, located in Woodbridge, a pleasant market town situated on the River Deben in Suffolk and just 7 miles from Ipswich. We are a creative school with excellent resources, lovely students and great results. Our most recent Ofsted report graded us Good with Outstanding features.

We are part of East Anglian Schools Trust (EAST) alongside Kesgrave High School, Bungay High School and Castle East School. We are a Teaching School Hub partner, which allows us to improve teaching and learning on a continuous basis. We are committed to providing excellent staff opportunities through developing and promoting our staff and offering an excellent CPD and support programme for new staff.

It is an extremely exciting time for the school, as we build on proud traditions of success and continue to grow a warm and hard-working community, where strong personal development for all is highly-prized and actively pursued. Our students are, overwhelmingly, happy to be part of Farlingaye, and engage with the many opportunities that the school provides for academic success and progression into the next phase of their lives. Their efforts have been rewarded with excellent exam results in recent years, at both GCSE and A Level, and huge numbers of students have been enabled to access high-quality university courses or to pursue exciting employment or training opportunities.

There is a very wide range of extra-curricular activities available for students, and we strongly encourage all students to get involved with these in order to develop their social skills and self-esteem. We know that a positive and secure sense of self is vital for our students, and we use a wide range of methods to help them to feel good about themselves, and optimistic about their futures.

At Farlingaye, we are fortunate to be able to draw on the invaluable input of engaged and supportive parents and a well-established Governing Body. We have a committed and highly-skilled staff body, and our status as a Teaching School Hub Partner helps us to be on the cutting edge of staff training and development. We believe that everyone is a learner, and that we all have a role in continuing to find improvements in everything that we do.

In March 2022 the school was visited by a team of Ofsted inspectors who looked into every aspects of the school. The report is available directly from Ofsted or from the school website.

Farlingaye was graded Outstanding in two areas: Personal Development and Sixth-Form Provision

Here are a few quotes:

• "Pupils feel safe and say they are happy”
• “Sixth form is ‘one big happy family’”
• “Everyone feels accepted and welcomed”
• “Pupils behave positively. They are lively, confident, enthusiastic and kind”
• “Pupils know that teachers are very proud of them and their achievements”
• “Leaders have constructed a broad and ambitious curriculum for all pupils”
• “Leaders make sure that pupils' needs are identified quickly”
• “Teaching in sixth form is highly effective”
• “Leaders work to promote pupils' personal development is exceptional”
• “Pupils, including those with SEND participate in a range of clubs and out of school activities involving the arts, drama and sport”
• “Sixth form students are wonderful ambassadors for the school”
• “Teachers provide high quality advice around carers and next steps"
• “Teachers say they feel well led and supported by leaders. Leaders have very high expectations”