St Anne's Catholic School, Southampton

For other schools by the same or similar name, see Saint Anne's School (disambiguation).

Coordinates: 50°54′53″N 1°24′20″W / 50.91472°N 1.40556°W / 50.91472; -1.40556

St Anne's Catholic School
Motto Semper Fidelis
(Always faithful)
Established 1904[1]
Type Academy
Religion Roman Catholic
Headteacher Ms Lyn Bourne
Location Carlton Road
Southampton
Hampshire
SO15 2WZ
England
DfE number 852/5417
DfE URN 138476 Tables
Ofsted Reports Pre-academy reports
Students 1,113
Gender Girls; Coeducational Sixth Form
Ages 11–18
Houses 7
Colours Blue and yellow
Diocese Portsmouth
Website www.st-annes.southampton.sch.uk

St Anne's Catholic School is a secondary school in Southampton, England, for girls. The school also has a coeducational sixth form. The school is situated close to the city centre, and attracts pupils from all round the city and beyond. The school converted to academy status in August 2012. In January 2011, there were 1113 girls enrolled in the school, and 104 in the Sixth Form.[2] Until 2006, it was known as St Anne's Convent School.[3]

History

St Anne's Convent School was established in 1904 by the La Sainte Union Sisters and is still under their trusteeship. It was the first direct grant grammar school to convert to a comprehensive intake.[4] After over a century of single-sex education, boys were admitted into the sixth form for the first time beginning in the 2006-07 school year. The "convent" was dropped from the school's official title to reflect this change.[3][5]

Premises

The school occupies a site on the corner of Carlton Road and Carlton Crescent back to Rockstone Place. Nos. 11 and 12 Carlton Crescent are Grade II listed buildings. The westwards extension of No. 12 was built in 1961, for which the architects, Richard Sheppard, Robson & Partners received a Civic Trust design award;[6] this was described as "a model of neighbourly treatment in terms of scale character and materials, and an outstanding example of a modern building meeting present-day requirements yet harmonising beautifully with an earlier style".[7]

Houses

The school is organised into a house system, with each of the seven houses named after a Saint (Alban, Becket, Bede, Campion, Edmund, Fisher and Gregory). There are two House Captains for each house: students from the Sixth form who apply for the posts. The students have several "House Assemblies" per year, in addition to their weekly "Year Assemblies". Along with Tutor Groups (in houses) there are Teaching Groups. In KS3 these are named after trees and rivers and arranged according to English and maths ability.

Academics

The school achieves significantly better than the national average.[8] The progress students make from starting at age 11 places it in the top 20% of schools nationally.[9] The school's 5A*-C indicator has been in the 70-80% range for the past 4 years. It achieved an English Baccalaureate result of 36% in 2011.[10] It regularly ranks at the top of the A Levels results table for non-independent schools in Hampshire.[3]

Ofsted Inspection Reports

The school was last inspected by OFSTED in February 2012. The inspection team rated the overall effectiveness of the school as Good. The "Quality of teaching" and "Achievement" were rated as Good. "Behaviour and Safety" and "Leadership and Management" were rated as outstanding.[11][12]

Key findings of the Inspection

References

  1. ↑ "St. Anne's Catholic School Website".
  2. ↑ "DfE School and College Performance Tables 2011". Retrieved 20 March 2012.
  3. 1 2 3 "Oh boy, the times are changing at St Anne's". Hampshire Chronicle. 4 March 2005.
  4. ↑ Donnison, David, ed. (1970), Report on Independent Day Schools and Direct Grant Grammar Schools, Public Schools Commission, Second Report 1, London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, p. 55, ISBN 978-0-11-270170-5.
  5. ↑ "St Anne's to take boys for the first time in 100 years". Hampshire Chronicle. 4 September 2006.
  6. ↑ Leonard, A. G. K. "Carlton Crescent: Southampton’s most spectacular Regency development" (PDF). Southampton Local History Forum Journal. Southampton City Council. pp. 43–44. Retrieved 23 March 2012.
  7. ↑ Coles, R. J. (1981). Southampton's Historic Buildings. City of Southampton Society. p. 19.
  8. ↑ "School Inspection Report" (PDF). Ofsted. Retrieved 20 March 2012.
  9. ↑ "Value Added (Best 8) Score for St. Anne's Catholic School". School and College Performance Tables. DfE. Retrieved 20 March 2012.
  10. ↑ "School and College Performance Tables". Retrieved 20 March 2012.
  11. ↑ Ofsted School Inspection Report
  12. ↑ "Praise for St. Anne's Catholic School in Ofsted Report". Daily Echo. Retrieved 21 March 2012.
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