GFS in the news

We're very proud of how brilliantly our pupils are developing - and frequently welcome visitors to the school to showcase our approach. We're delighted that the GFS model is attracting national and international attention, and hope that it will be refined and developed by other schools as they build on parts of it.

On this page, we've gathered just a few of the media appearances that GFS has made.

Institute for Public Policy Research

[Politicians] "should embrace the civic energy and innovation that many free schools and academies have brought with them into the education system. It is pointless and politically counterproductive to set yourself against innovative schools like School 21 and the Greenwich Free School. The founders of these schools are at the leading edge of education reform and their commitment to comprehensive education should be welcomed ..."

See full article here.

The Evening Standard

We were thrilled to be named one of the Evening Standard's five 'new model schools' in London. The paper reported, of GFS, "there is a relentless focus on standards — and a determination to improve ... the school is now seven times oversubscribed"

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Greenwich.co.uk magazine

In an interview with Greenwich.co.uk magazine, we were pleased that Nick Raynsford, MP for Greenwich and Woolwich, said "I went to the [Greenwich] free school two or three weeks ago. I was very impressed with the atmosphere, the ethos, the clear commitment to delivering high-quality education and the fact that this was a genuinely mixed group of pupils ... I think the quality of what they're doing there is very impressive."

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BBC

"That willingness to do things differently is characteristic of this new type of school ... these pupils are doing well."

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The Department for Education

In a speech to the National College of Teaching and Leadership, the Secretary of State for Education remarked, "Our free schools policy is giving even more teachers the chance to make a difference where it matters. Whether it's ... a group of teachers determined to prove that every child can succeed ... like the team behind Greenwich Free School."

See full article here.

We were pleased to be quoted in the Prime Minister's announcement of the opening of a new cohort of Free Schools.

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The Economist

"An inner-city school provides plenty of hope for British education ... GFS is too young to be inspected by the government watchdog, Ofsted—so it arranged an extraordinary inspection. The inspector said he had seen more “awe and wonder” in two days at GFS than during two years of inspecting schools. If only every local child could experience that."

Spears

"... irrepressible and inspirational ..."

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