Impington Village College A GSG School Review
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Information about the head
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Teaching and learning approaches
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Entrance & admissions information
Exit information - where do the children go next?
Learning support & SEN information
Arts, sports and extracurricular
Pupils & parents (what are they really like?)
What The Good Schools Guide says..
Consistently among the top-performing non-selective schools in the country. School very committed to the IB. Part of Henry Morris’s ‘Village College’ movement which saw education as intrinsic to our lives from cradle to grave. Has a broad intake that includes 10 per cent with SEN… the ethos of the school is to make a broad education available to all. The school believes the Anything is Possible motto enriches everyone and parents cannot speak highly enough of the provision. Six languages offered at GCSE… incredible programme of trips and exchanges abroad support language learning as well as the outward looking ethos of the school. School is confidently liberal and parents…
Read more- Impington Village College
New Road
Impington
Cambridge
Cambridgeshire
CB24 9LX - Head: Ms Victoria Hearn
- T 01223 200400
- F 01223 200419
- E [email protected]
- W www.ivc.tela.org.uk
- Impington Village College is a state school for boys and girls aged from 11 to 18. Impington Village College has 1,416 students with 233 in sixth form (112 boys; 121 girls). Want to know more? Read the Impington Village College review here.
- Boarding: No
- Local authority: Cambridgeshire
- Pupils: 1,458; sixth formers: 256
- Religion: Non-denominational
- Open days: September and October
- Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
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Ofsted:
- Latest Overall effectiveness Good 1
- Effectiveness of leadership and management Good 2
- 1 Short inspection 6th November 2019
- 2 Full inspection 30th May 2012
Short inspection reports only give an overall grade; you have to read the report itself to gauge whether the detailed grading from the earlier full inspection still stands.
- Ofsted report: View the Ofsted report
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Curricula
International Baccalaureate: diploma - the diploma is the familiar A-level equivalent.
International Baccalaureate: middle years - middle Years is a programme for ages 11-16.
Sports
Rowing
Fencing
Since 2020, Victoria Hearn, originally appointed as assistant principal in 2014, becoming deputy principal 2016. Studied history at Durham and did a PGCE at Oxford followed by a first teaching post in Abingdon before coming to Impington. A dedicated advocate of the school’s adoption of the IB: ‘Its philosophy is what education should be all about, helping pupils understand their place in the world, to be articulate and to have achieved the very best they possibly can.’
She is determined to offer that breadth of opportunity to everyone, regardless of ability and not in a selective setting. ‘You shouldn’t need to go to a private school to get amazing educational opportunity.’ Staff tell us, ‘She always listens to suggestions and wants to give things a try.’ ‘Knock on the door and ask!’ As she herself admits, ‘I’m...
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Overall school performance (for comparison or review only)
Results by exam and subject
Subject results
Entry/Exit
Special Education Needs
The Special Needs team provides flexible and supportive provision for a wide range of special educational needs at Key Stages 3, 4 and 5. The College is fully accessible for students with physical disabilities. Enhanced resource provision from the local education authority funds specialised facilities and support for students with physical disabilities. The Specialist Post-16 Provision (SPP) is specifically designed for post 16 students with moderate learning difficulties. 10-09
| Condition | Provision for in school |
|---|---|
| ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder
Might cover/be referred to as;
ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder, Aspergers, Autism, High functioning autism, Neurodivergent, Neurodiversity, Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA), PDA , Social skills, Sensory processing disorder |
Y |
| HI - Hearing Impairment
Might cover/be referred to as;
Hearing Impairment, HI - Hearing Impairment |
Y |
| MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty
Might cover/be referred to as;
Learning needs, MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty |
|
| MSI - Multi-Sensory Impairment
Might cover/be referred to as;
MSI - Multi-Sensory Impairment, Sensory processing |
Y |
| OTH - Other Difficulty/Disability
Might cover/be referred to as;
Downs Syndrome, Epilepsy, Genetic , OTH - Other Difficulty/Disability, Tics, Tourettes |
Y |
| PD - Physical Disability
Might cover/be referred to as;
PD - Physical Disability |
|
| PMLD - Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulty
Might cover/be referred to as;
Complex needs, Global delay, Global developmental delay, PMLD - Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulty |
Y |
| SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health
Might cover/be referred to as;
Anxiety , Complex needs, Emotionally based school avoidance (EBSA), Mental Health, SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health, Trauma |
Y |
| SLCN - Speech, Language and Communication
Might cover/be referred to as;
DLD - Developmental Language Disorder, Selective mutism, SLCN - Speech, Language and Communication |
Y |
| SLD - Severe Learning Difficulty
Might cover/be referred to as;
Complex needs, SLD - Severe Learning Difficulty, Cerebral Palsy (CP) |
Y |
| SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty
Might cover/be referred to as;
ADHD, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Auditory Processing, DCD, Developmental Co-ordination Difficulties (DCD), Dyscalculia, Dysgraphia, Dyslexia, Dyspraxia, Handwriting, Other specific learning difficulty, SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty, Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) |
Y |
| VI - Visual Impairment
Might cover/be referred to as;
Special facilities for Visually Impaired, VI - Visual Impairment |
Y |
Interpreting catchment maps
The maps show in colour where the pupils at a school came from*. Red = most pupils to Blue = fewest.
Where the map is not coloured we have no record in the previous three years of any pupils being admitted from that location based on the options chosen.
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Further reading
If there are more applicants to a school than it has places for, who gets in is determined by which applicants best fulfil the admissions criteria.
Admissions criteria are often complicated, and may change from year to year. The best source of information is usually the relevant local authority website, but once you have set your sights on a school it is a good idea to ask them how they see things panning out for the year that you are interested in.
Many schools admit children based on distance from the school or a fixed catchment area. For such schools, the cut-off distance will vary from year to year, especially if the school give priority to siblings, and the pattern will be of a central core with outliers (who will mostly be siblings). Schools that admit on the basis of academic or religious selection will have a much more scattered pattern.
*The coloured areas outlined in black are Census Output Areas. These are made up of a group of neighbouring postcodes, which accounts for their odd shapes. These provide an indication, but not a precise map, of the school’s catchment: always refer to local authority and school websites for precise information.
The 'hotter' the colour the more children have been admitted.
Children get into the school from here:
regularly
most years
quite often
infrequently
sometimes, but not in this year
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