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Curriculum at St Robert of Newminster School and Sixth Form College is developed to identify the key knowledge and skills that students need in order to be successful within the school community and beyond.
- St Robert of Newminster
What is the intention of our PDE curriculum? Develop pupils...
- St Robert of Newminster
What is the intention of our PDE curriculum? Develop pupils to become responsible, respectful, and active citizens who can play their part and become actively involved in public life as adults
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- What is it like to attend this school?
- Safeguarding
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St Robert of Newminster Catholic School and Sixth Form College, Washington continues to be a good school. The headteacher of this school is Dean Juric. This school is part of Bishop Wilkinson Catholic Education Trust, which means other people in the trust also have responsibility for running the school. The trust is run by the chief executive offic...
Pupils at St Robert of Newminster School achieve well. This is because the school has high expectations for the quality of education pupils receive. There is a strong culture of positive relationships. Pupils are happy and safe. Pupils benefit from the school and wider trust’s sharp focus on high standards of behaviour. Learning in lessons is suppo...
The arrangements for safeguarding are effective. What does the school need to do to improve?
In some areas of provision for SEND and personal development, monitoring and evaluation are not as sharp as they could be. This means that the school does not have a precise understanding of the impact of some aspects of its work. The school should ensure that it continues to develop and refine its monitoring and evaluation systems to support leade...
You can use Ofsted Parent View to give Ofsted your opinion on your child’s school, or to find out what other parents and carers think. We use information from Ofsted Parent View when deciding which schools to inspect, when to inspect them and as part of their inspection. The Department for Education has further guidance on how to complain about a s...
You can search for published performance information about the school. In the report, ‘disadvantaged pupils’ is used to mean pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND); pupils who meet the definition of children in need of help and protection; pupils receiving statutory local authority support from a social worker; and pupils ...
Inspections are a point-in-time judgement about the quality of a school’s education provision. This was the first routine inspection the school received since the COVID-19 pandemic began. Inspectors discussed the impact of the pandemic with the school and have taken that into account in their evaluation of the school. Inspectors met with the head...
We offer breadth and clear progression in our academic and vocational courses. It is most important to stress that the greatest care must be taken when Sixth Form courses are chosen as students should be aware that this may limit career opportunities later on.
Our curriculum stresses skills in grammar, composition, reading, spelling, library science, and handwriting. As the most basic and essential subject taught in the elementary grades, reading is given high priority.
St Robert of Newminster Catholic School and Sixth Form College, Washington is a non-selective, Roman Catholic academy. It has about 1,640 boys and girls aged between 11 and 18. In October 2023 the school was rated ‘Good’ by Ofsted. The present school opened in 2019.
Jan 24, 2017 · Your curriculum is planned to maximise opportunities for pupils and is broad and balanced. Extra-curricular opportunities are plentiful and help to support pupils to develop wider personal and social skills.
