St Augustine's Catholic Primary School
Catchment Area, Reviews and Key Information

Primary
PUPILS
238
AGES
3 - 11
GENDER
Mixed
TYPE
Voluntary aided school
SCHOOL GUIDE RATING
Not Rated

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This pupil heat map shows where pupils currently attending the school live.
The concentration of pupils shows likelihood of admission based on distance criteria

Source: All attending pupils National School Census Data, ONS
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This School Guide heat map has been plotted using official pupil data taken from the last School Census collected by the Department for Education. It is a visualisation of where pupils lived at the time of the annual School Census.

Our heat maps use groups of postcodes, not individual postcodes, and have naturally soft edges. All pupils are included in the mapping (i.e. children with siblings already at the school, high priority pupils and selective and/or religious admissions) but we may have removed statistical ‘outliers’ with more remote postcodes that do not reflect majority admissions.

For some schools, the heat map may be a useful indicator of the catchment area but our heat maps are not the same as catchment area maps. Catchment area maps, published by the school or local authority, are based on geographical admissions criteria and show actual cut-off distances and pre-defined catchment areas for a single admission year.

This information is provided as a guide only. The criteria in which schools use to allocate places in the event that they are oversubscribed can and do vary between schools and over time. These criteria can include distance from the school and sometimes specific catchment areas but can also include, amongst others, priority for siblings, children of a particular faith or specific feeder schools. Living in an area where children have previously attended a school does not guarantee admission to the school in future years. Always check with the school’s own admission authority for the current admission arrangements.

3 steps to help parents gather catchment information for a school:

  1. Look at our school catchment area guide for more information on heat maps. They give a useful indicator of the general areas that admit pupils to the school. This visualisation is based on all attending pupils present at the time of the annual School Census.
  2. Use the link to the Local Authority Contact (above) to find catchment area information based on a single admission year. This is very important if you are considering applying to a school.
  3. On each school page, use the link to visit the school website and find information on individual school admissions criteria. Geographical criteria are only applied after pupils have been admitted on higher priority criteria such as Looked After Children, SEN, siblings, etc.

How Does The School Perform?

Good
NATIONAL AVG. 2.09
Ofsted Inspection
(19/06/2018)
Full Report - All Reports
86%
NATIONAL AVG. 60%
% pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and mathematics



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Progress Compared With All Other Schools

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Riversmead
Hoddesdon
EN11 8DP
01992463549

School Description

The leadership team has maintained the good quality of education in the school since the last inspection. You offer strong and passionate leadership that is highly valued by staff, governors and the local authority. You provide your team with a clear vision of the school’s future development and you ensure that they contribute meaningfully to your decision-making processes. You are also eager for pupils to play an active role in the school’s development. For example, you involved them in a recent review of the school’s behaviour policy and you have supported them in establishing their own teaching and learning committee. You are rightly proud of the impact that your school’s ethos has on its pupils and your staff. Staff care for pupils, nurture them and support them to succeed. Pupils enjoy coming to school; they get on well with each other and they enjoy learning, both in and out of the classroom. You have high expectations of staff and pupils. Since your appointment in September 2016, you have taken decisive action to improve the quality of teaching across all classes. You have also introduced new, more rigorous, approaches to the monitoring and evaluation of the school’s effectiveness. As a consequence, leaders and teachers have a clear understanding of what is expected of them and what they should expect of others. You are accurate in your assessment of the school’s strengths and weaknesses and your improvement plans are focused on appropriate priorities. However, you acknowledge that it is difficult to measure the impact of certain aspects of your improvement plans as, at times, their expected outcomes are not clear. The quality of teaching, learning and assessment has improved since the previous inspection. Staff are grateful for the high-quality training that they receive both collectively and as individuals; they are very positive about the informal support they receive at their weekly ‘Thursday masterclass’ with senior leaders. Support for newly qualified teachers is strong. The majority of staff who completed the Ofsted staff questionnaire agreed that leaders use professional development to encourage, challenge and support their improvement. Children continue to make a good start to their education at St Augustine’s and a higher-than-average proportion of them attain a good level of development by the end of Reception Year. By the time they reach the end of Year 6, pupils’ attainment at the expected standard continues to be above average. In 2017, pupils’ attainment and progress at the end of key stage 2 improved in reading, writing and mathematics compared to previous years. Governors provide you with highly effective support and challenge; they, too, know the school well and they are passionate about its continued improvement. Governors support the school’s development through their contributions at full governing body meetings, their two committees and their visits to meet school leaders. Both you and governors are in agreement about the need to ensure that all pupils, especially the most able, make the progress they should, and that they do this as a result of consistently strong teaching. You are also aware that some parents gave negative responses to certain questions in the Ofsted online questionnaire, Parent View; in particular, you are keen to improve communication between leaders and the school community. Safeguarding is effective. The leadership team has ensured that safeguarding arrangements are fit for purpose. Governors have a clear understanding of their safeguarding duties and they are effective in carrying them out. Leaders undertake all appropriate checks on staff and these records are scrutinised on a regular basis by a nominated member of the governing body. Staff are well trained and they know how to identify any signs that pupils are at risk. Staff understand the school’s systems for reporting concerns and they say that safeguarding is a part of the school’s culture. Safeguarding records are well kept and any child protection referrals are monitored robustly. Pupils are taught how to stay safe through assemblies, visiting speakers and personal, social, health and citizenship education sessions. These cover topics such as e-safety, bullying and personal safety. Leaders ensure that the school site is well supervised and that pupils are well looked after in and out of class. Pupils say they are safe at school; staff, and the overwhelming majority of parents who responded to Parent View, agree. Pupils say that, on the rare occasions it happens, bullying is dealt with swiftly and effectively.

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