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Wyvern is a place where everyone is given an equal opportunity to be different and to succeed. We educate the academically brilliant and those who find school life difficult. All students are given equal access to a stimulating and demanding curriculum.

Pupils are organised into mixed ability tutor groups for registration and mixed ability classes for some lessons. We have ability sets starting in Year 7 in Maths, Science and Languages and this increases as pupils go up through the Years. We assess pupil progress at least four times a year through formal tests and informal assessments. From these results we set targets for improvement and share all this information with parents. This happens either through one of our two target setting days with tutors, or one of our subject teacher meetings, once per Year group.

The average class size is about 28 with some sets being smaller and others bigger. All our classes are taught by specialist teachers and we also have our own team of cover staff to reduce the need to rely on supply teachers from outside the school if teachers are away for any reason.

'Pupils have access to well informed advice and guidance at important

stages in their school life.' OFSTED [2003]