A key part of our school improvement journey is our membership of HLP a Hillingdon network of schools committed to sharing best practise and professional challenge.  They provide an annual professionally-led peer review focused on teaching and learning. Each year we will be welcoming external reviewers; a lead reviewer who is Ofsted trained and head teachers or senior leaders from other schools across the country.

Our last review was in 2025. The review looked across the whole school and focused on the strengths and areas for development in;

• Leadership across the school 
• Quality of teaching and learning

We are pleased with the areas the review team identified as our strengths and are committed to working on the areas for improvement in our determined ambition for the continual development of William Byrd. 

We are delighted to announce that our Early Years has been accredited as an Area of Excellence!

The title of our accreditation is: Championing child development - Achieving EYFS success within a multicultural community.

The reviewers said that EYFS is a strength of the school because of the wide-variety of experiences the children are given and how well the children are supported and encouraged to develop fundamental skills independently. They said children’s ability to communicate and explain their thinking is excellent and acknowledged that a lot of this is because of the comprehensive understanding of childhood development of the staff.

They were impressed with the learning environment; both indoor and outdoor environments. They loved the ‘real’ materials children were given to explore. Please ask if you’d like to see a copy of the whole report!

We're so pleased that our incredibly hard-working team has received this recognition and that the visitors felt we were supporting children in this community so well!