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OUR MISSION: To give every child, regardless of background, starting points or ability, the opportunity to live life to the full. OUR VISION: For our pupils to finish their secondary education at St James', ready and equipped to progress into the next chapter of their lives.
St James Catholic High School is voluntary aided mixed sex school for students from 11–18 years of age. It was founded by the Dominican sisters in 1934. Today it operates from one site in Colindale, Barnet in North London, England. The current headteacher is Mr Anthony Ellul.
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St James’ Catholic High School continues to be a good school.
St James’ Catholic High School is a caring and inclusive school. Pupils say that they feel safe here and know that they can talk to staff if they have any concerns. Pupils behave well around the school and are respectful to each other and to their teachers. Pupils and staff take pride in their work and in their school. In lessons, pupils are atte...
Leaders have ensured that the curriculum is delivered consistently well across subjects and year groups. Staff have strong subject knowledge and benefit from continuous and targeted training. This ensures that they can deliver subject content with confidence. This in turn leads to pupils having a secure grasp of the concepts, knowledge and skills t...
The arrangements for safeguarding are effective. Leaders have established a strong culture of safeguarding in the school. Leaders ensure that staff are fully trained so that the whole school community is alert to keeping pupils safe. Leaders work closely with relevant agencies, including the local authority, to get advice and support. Pupils have...
Pupils in Year 9 study different subjects according to their GCSE options. This means that these pupils do not study all aspects of the curriculum in the same depth. Leaders should ensure that the Year 9 curriculum enables all pupils to access the scope and ambition of all national curriculum subjects. It is clear from leaders’ actions that they ar...
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You can search for published performance information about the school. In the report, ‘disadvantaged pupils’ refers to those pupils who attract government pupil premium funding: pupils claiming free school meals at any point in the last six years and pupils in care or who left care through adoption or another formal route.
This was the first routine inspection the school received since the COVID-19 pandemic began. Inspectors discussed the impact of the pandemic with leaders and have taken that into account in their evaluation of the school. Inspectors carried out deep dives in English, mathematics, history, computing and art. For each deep dive, they discussed the cu...
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- Great Strand Colindale London NW9 5PE
- 020 8358 2800
School Ratings for St James' Catholic High School, Great Strand, Colindale, London, NW9 5PE. This school was rated Good by Ofsted in June 2022. For it's latest set of GCSE results it scored an 50.3 attainment 8 score. 51 percent of students got a grade 5 or above in Maths and English and 67 percent of students got 5 or more GCSEs at grade 9-4 ...
Leaders are rightly proud of the Catholic ethos that permeates the life of the school and ensures that the school’s mission statement, embodied in the words of John’s Inspection report: St James’...
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Oct 6, 2020 · Use our Ofsted Parent View Survey to tell us what you think of this school or your child’s experiences. For any general enquiries about St James' Catholic High School, please contact...
