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GCSE 77% grades 4-9

Revised GCSE results show that pupils at St George achieved 77% grades 4-9 in 2017 with English grades rising to 81%.  Full details of our GCSE success this year are at:

http://www.stgcc.co.uk/pages/college_information/exam-results-2017.html

Letter from Our Head of School and Executive Head Teacher

11^th September 2017  
Dear Parents

It is with great pleasure we write this introductory letter to you as the new leaders of Saint George.  We have had a really positive start to the new College year with another record breaking set of GCSE results, the best ever for the college at 76% 4-9 (A*-C) in Maths & English and on the new measure of 51% 5-9 (A*-B). An indication of the positive impact we have on our students is the stunning predicted Progress 8 score of +0.3 which in essence means on average every child did better by a third of a grade than they should have done in eight of their subjects.  The last three years have seen our results improve year on year and we continue to rank amongst the best schools nationally for progress and attainment as one of the top two performing schools in Southampton.  We would like to thank all our students, staff, parents and governors for all the hard work they put into realising this achievement against increasingly challenging criteria being set by the government each year.  Our challenge for the year ahead is to keep this positive momentum going.

This outstanding achievement is only part of our success story. The College is now oversubscribed in a number of year groups and we start the year with 800 students on roll, mixed in every year group. Two new classrooms for Geography and Languages have been built to accommodate the expansion of the College. The next phase of development will be the long awaited new Science and Technology block. We are now in the final stages of the design phase with building works due to start in January 2018. 

The College has a spring in it its step as it continues to move forward from the two “Outstanding” judgements achieved in the Local Authority inspection last year and the recent Diocesan inspection in the summer term. We have a great deal to celebrate and we are determined to continue to build on this success; a message we have given to all of our students in their first assemblies of the new school year.

 We look forward to working together to encourage our students to strive to make the most of every opportunity and achieve the very best standard possible.

Please can we ask that you help by making sure that the students have their planners signed weekly, and that the whole school agreements are also signed on page 14 & 15.  The planner has information about the topic students are studying in each lesson so that hopefully you can keep up with their lessons and have conversations at home about their learning journey.  Thanks in anticipation for your help with this initiative.

Hopefully your child will have informed you about our forthcoming Open Evening at the College on Thursday 5^th October 2017.  As usual the College will close at 12.20 pm to prepare for the evening.  A large number of students will be asked to stay through to the evening to help with the event.  The bus companies have been informed of the changes and will be available at 12.20 pm. 

We would also like to take this opportunity to remind you of a number of forthcoming events:

1.     Thursday 21^st September 2017 6:30pm–Year 11 Core Intervention Evening              (English, Maths, Science & Religious Studies)

2.     Thursday 28^th September 2017 5:30pm – Year 7 Settling in Evening

3.     Thursday 5^th October 2017 12:20pm – Early Closure – Open Evening

4.     Thursday 19^th October 2017 6:30pm–Year 10 Core Information Evening & Year 10 Work

Experience Evening. (English, Maths, Science & Religious Studies)

5.     Friday 20^th October 2017 Half term

6.     Monday 30^th October 2017 – College Re-Opens

Finally, we would like to thank you and our students for their excellent start to the term.  The uniform is the best that we can remember, the attitude and atmosphere around the College is terrific, making it a real pleasure to be part of the Saint George Catholic College Community.

Best wishes for another successful year!

Yours faithfully

   

Mr J Habberley

Head of School

 Miss Lyn Bourne

Executive Head Teacher

GCSE Results Exceed Expectations

Our GCSE results this August are well above predicted levels and place us among the highest achieving secondary schools in Hampshire.

With 76% gaining 4-9 and 51% 5-9 in English and Maths, the results are our best ever and our provisional progress of +0.32 is predicted to place us in the top 5% of schools nationally.

84% of pupils achieved a grade 4 or above in Maths and 80% in English.

EBACC 30% 4 - 9
EBACC 23% 5 - 9

Congratulations to all our students!

St George Graded Outstanding

 

Our latest validation report by the Portsmouth Diocese has graded St George as outstanding.  To read the report please go to St George Sec 48 Validation 2017

Head of School

College Leadership

­19^th June 2017

Dear Parents and Guardians,

College Leadership

Further to my previous communication in March this year when I informed you that Graham Wilson, our Headteacher, was leaving St George,  I am delighted to update you on the progress to replace him whilst maintaining continuity and minimizing any upheaval during transition.

It is with great pleasure that I am able to tell you about an exciting opportunity for the future of St George and for Catholic secondary education in Southampton.

The Governors of St George and the Diocese of Portsmouth have approached the Governors and Trustees of St Anne’s Catholic School and Sixth Form College to develop a new role of Executive Headteacher in providing strategic leadership to each school through a joint partnership alliance.  We have agreed the terms of our co-operation in principal to enable us both to communicate this exciting news whilst the final details between our Governing Bodies are being drafted.

The proposal would mean that Lyn Bourne, currently Headteacher of St Anne’s would take on this role and she would therefore be sharing her time 50/50 between both school sites.  A new Head of School would be appointed internally at each school to have the day-to-day responsibility for the running of St George and St Anne’s respectively.

It is important to note that the two schools would remain separate institutions, continuing to develop their own  distinctive character with St Anne’s remaining under the Trusteeship of the LSU Community and St George, the Diocese of Portsmouth.

The final details are currently being discussed by both Governing Bodies and this will be concluded on a timely basis.  Please be assured that the best interests of our students continue to be the first consideration at all times and any decisions will be made accordingly.

If you have any questions/comments, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Yours sincerely.

Kind Regards,

Charles Marchetti

Chair of Governors

cmarchetti@stgcc.co.uk

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