Welcome

I am proud to lead Ada Lovelace, the newest school in the Twyford CofE Academies Trust, an outstanding school established to serve the local Ealing community. We are a value centred school that is relentless in its approach to deliver the highest standards of academic achievement for its students. Ada Lovelace is an 11-18 Comprehensive school, which will reach a roll of approximately 1350 students in the academic year 2024/25.

Our new building provides an incredible environment for learning, full of light and airy classrooms, equipped with modern technology and with huge spaces where we join as one community. This enhanced learning environment is academically uplifting, motivating students to do and be the best that they can be.

At Ada Lovelace, we have formed our unique identity using Ada Lovelace’s legacy as ‘the first computer programmer’, as a brilliant, agile thinker and problem solver. This legacy will be at the heart of our Digital Specialism where ‘Digital’ learning will shine brightly. Indeed, the ‘Lovelace Leap’ is central to our school motto ‘Make the Leap…’ Ada courageously challenged her contemporaries to think about computers in a totally different way than was common at the time taking knowledge, and applying it in a different context creating new understanding as a result. This Lovelace Leap is where our motto Make the Leap has its origins and will inspire Ada Lovelace students present and future to do and be great.

At Ada Lovelace, the longer school day means that the Curriculum is broad and balanced and the extended curricula time enables deep academic stretch. All students study an academic, Grammar school curriculum model with a focus on the core and enabling subjects in the morning curriculum with longer lessons in the creative applications in the afternoon. The opportunity to have lessons in the core subjects each day, supported by the daily lesson preparation task completed at home delivers a flow to learning that leads to incredible results.

Teachers are very aware of the needs of students with SEND and care is taken to ensure access to the curriculum for these students.

We also have a well-developed approach to Careers, Information, Advice and Guidance which closely aligns with the Pastoral Programme designed to deliver PSHE within the context of the strongly articulated Christian values of the school (see Ethos and Vision tab above).

In September 2023 launched our T-Levels programme for post-16 students initially majoring on Digital Production, Design and Development or Laboratory Science.

Ada Lovelace is driven by a confident sense of purpose, a clear education vision and ambitious aspirations for our students. We are passionately committed to the students and families we serve. Through the development of the skills and attitudes so well modelled by Ada Lovelace herself, we work tirelessly to ensure that we stretch all students both academically and personally to achieve the highest of standards and of course…. Make the Leap.

Mr Keir Smith

Headteacher