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About St John’s Catholic School & Sixth Form College
This is a good school Leaders are ambitious for the pupils who attend the school. They have a clear understanding of the school's current strengths and its weaknesses. They have the capacity to improve the school further.
Leaders, supported by governors, have established a positive environment in which pupils can flourish. The school's ethos is embodied in leaders' provision for pupils' personal development and welfare, which is a strength of the school. Outcomes in 2018 dipped from where they had been in 2016 and 2017, in mathematics and science and for the disadvantaged and most-able pupils.
Current pupils are making stronger progress. Teaching, learning and... assessment is effective in enabling most pupils to make good progress. Teachers use planning to good effect most of the time.
Teachers' use of tasks usually stretch and challenge pupils of different abilities. However, this is not consistently the case. The curriculum is broad and balanced, but the key stage 4 curriculum is more developed than key stage 3.
Rightly, leaders are to turn their attention to a root and branch review of the curriculum, especially key stage 3, so that it provides the necessary underpinning of pupils' knowledge before the start of key stage 4. The leadership of the 16–19 study programmes is effective. Students' progress is in line with national averages and their personal development is well supported.
The foundations are in place for outcomes to strengthen further.
Information about this school
The school is a larger than average-sized school. It converted to an academy in December 2011 and joined the Romero Catholic Education Trust in December 2016.
Responsibility for governance rests with the trust board. St John's School and Sixth Form – A Catholic Academy converted to become an academy school on 1 December 2011. When its predecessor school, St John's Catholic School and Sixth Form Centre, was last inspected by Ofsted, it was judged to be outstanding overall.
Most pupils are White British. The proportion of pupils with an education, health and care plan is below the national average, as is the proportion of pupils who receive support for their SEND. The proportion of pupils who are disadvantaged is below the national average.
The school has links with several providers of alternative education: 5Palms, Haggrid, Education Plus, DELTA and Open Arms. Leaders have brokered support from Durham local authority to assist them with the development of middle leaders, mathematics, science and modern foreign languages. They also draw on the support of schools within the Hexham and Newcastle Catholic Diocese in the development of systems for assessing pupils' progress.
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