Sacred Heart Catholic High School A GSG School
- Sacred Heart Catholic High School
Fenham Hall Drive
Fenham
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE4 9YH - Head: Mrs Suzanne Howell
- T 01912 747373
- F 01912 751939
- E enquiries@shhs.org.uk
- W www.sacredheart-high.org
- A state school for girls aged from 11 to 18.
- Boarding: No
- Local authority: Newcastle Upon Tyne
- Pupils: 1,423; sixth formers: 292
- Religion: Roman Catholic
- Open days: July
- Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
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Ofsted:
- Latest Overall effectiveness Outstanding 1
- Effectiveness of leadership and management Outstanding 1
- 1 Full inspection 12th November 2013
- Ofsted report: View the Ofsted report
What The Good Schools Guide says..
Great pride in being 'a Sacred Heart girl': one sixth former told us, 'At the open day mass you meet people who had been to the school in the past and get the feeling you are part of something special. There is a real sense of community'. Religion not forced upon pupils: 'It is a personal thing and everyone takes from it what they want'. Specialist technology and performing arts status - great opportunities for the musically interested and gifted, from rock to string bands and…
What the school says...
Converted to an academy 2011
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What The Good Schools Guide says
Headteacher
Since 2020, Suzanne Howell. Studied English and music at Lancaster. Was director of teaching and learning and assistant head at Cardinal Hume Catholic School, Gateshead and at St Wilfrid’s Catholic College, South Shields, before becoming deputy head at Sacred Heart in 2014 and head of school in 2019.
Entrance
Oversubscribed, almost three applications for each place. Catholic applicants have priority. Seventy per cent are baptised Catholics, 17 per cent of Muslim background. No academic selection though 10 per cent of places awarded on aptitude and ability in performing arts.
Sixth form applicants need at least five GCSE passes at grades 9-4 including English and/or maths. They must also meet the specific requirements for courses they wish to study.
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Interpreting catchment maps
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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.
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