Impington Village College A GSG School Review
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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..
Our guides were keen to show us the science block including the plants and pond. They were very excited about the ducklings that had hatched and were hoping to show us some. ‘The international students really raise the game in the sixth form,’ said one parent, ‘and the locals follow accordingly, excellent.’ The performance school, a cross denomination of all the arts combined, actively supported by pupils throughout the school; Oliver! recently staged to rave reviews. Its ethos is very much of a community college. Open to all, with adult lessons held on site and a room for the community to use during the day...
Read more- Impington Village College
New Road
Impington
Cambridge
Cambridgeshire
CB24 9LX - Head: Ms Victoria Hearn
- T 01223 200400
- F 01223 200419
- E office@ivc.tmet.org.uk
- W www.impington.cambs.sch.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: 1,418; sixth formers: 226
- 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 September 2020, Victoria Hearn. Previously director of learning at Larkmead School (as well as the school’s pupil premium co-ordinator). One of the youngest secondary school principals in the country. History degree from Durham (First Class Honours in History) and then a PGCE from Merton College, Oxford. Has been at the school for seven years, including as assistant principal and vice principal.
At 11 from local primary schools in Histon and Impington and the surrounding villages. Increasingly oversubscribed. Entry to the sixth form is more complicated. For the Diploma Programme you need at least seven GCSEs with an average of 5s (including English language and maths); for the IB Career-related Programme you need at least five 4s at GCSE (ideally including English language and maths and preferably with a 5 in your area of specialism).
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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 | Y |
| Aspergers | Y |
| Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders | Y |
| CReSTeD registered for Dyslexia | |
| Dyscalculia | Y |
| Dysgraphia | |
| Dyslexia | Y |
| Dyspraxia | Y |
| English as an additional language (EAL) | Y |
| Genetic | |
| Has an entry in the Autism Services Directory | Y |
| Has SEN unit or class | Y |
| HI - Hearing Impairment | Y |
| Hospital School | |
| Mental health | Y |
| MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty | |
| MSI - Multi-Sensory Impairment | Y |
| Natspec Specialist Colleges | |
| OTH - Other Difficulty/Disability | Y |
| Other SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty | |
| PD - Physical Disability | |
| PMLD - Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulty | Y |
| SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health | Y |
| SLCN - Speech, Language and Communication | Y |
| SLD - Severe Learning Difficulty | Y |
| Special facilities for Visually Impaired | Y |
| SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty | Y |
| 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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