St Paul's Catholic Primary School, Thames Ditton A GSG School
- St Paul's Catholic Primary School, Thames Ditton
Hampton Court Way
Thames Ditton
Surrey
KT7 0LP - Head: Hayley Towns
- T 020 8398 6791
- F 020 8398 6080
- E info@stpauls-tham…tton.surrey.sch.uk
- W www.stpauls-th…n.surrey.sch.uk
- A state school for boys and girls aged from 4 to 11.
- Boarding: No
- Local authority: Surrey
- Pupils: 340
- Religion: Roman Catholic
- Open days: October, November
- 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 24th April 2018
- 2 Full inspection 16th January 2014
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.
- Previous Ofsted grade: Outstanding on 18th March 2008
- Ofsted report: View the Ofsted report
What The Good Schools Guide says..
High praise from parents for an able and effective teaching staff. 'Every time we change classes we say we wish we could have that teacher again – and then the next one is just another delight,' said a mother who has had children at the school for many years. There is plenty of praise and reward, with a system of highly-prized stickers and certificates, not just for academic work but also for helpfulness, cheerfulness and so on. Prayers are said at the end of each day, and children attend mass regularly. The religious teaching really kicks in...
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What The Good Schools Guide says
Headteacher
Since September 2022, Mrs Hayley Townsend. She has a long association with the school – first as a parent (her four children attended the school), then as a teacher and now as headteacher.
Entrance
Heavy oversubscription has allowed funding for expansion from single to two-form entry. School accepts 60 children per year and the pressure has eased up a little - but Catholic families whose children have been baptised (and you need the certificates to prove it) still take 99 per cent of the places. The school serves the parishes of Cobham, Esher and Thames Ditton, a mostly white, middle-class lot. It is non-selective academically - regular church attendance will get you a long way.
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Overall school performance (for comparison or review only)
Entry/Exit
Special Education Needs
No comment but good general provision, in our view. Ofsted report worth a read.
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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