St Anthony's School A GSG School
- St Anthony's School
Woodlands Lane
Chichester
West Sussex
PO19 5PA - Head: Miss Helen Ball
- T 01243 785965
- F 01243 530 206
- E schooloffice@st-ants.org
- W www.st-ants.org/
- A state special school for boys and girls aged from 4 to 16. Type of SEN provision: ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder; MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty; SLCN - Speech, Language and Communication.
- Read about the best schools in West Sussex
- Boarding: No
- Local authority: West Sussex
- Pupils: 222
- Religion: Does not apply
- Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
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Ofsted:
- Latest Overall effectiveness Outstanding 1
- Early years provision Outstanding 1
- Outcomes for children and learners Outstanding 1
- Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Outstanding 1
- Personal development, behaviour and welfare Outstanding 1
- Effectiveness of leadership and management Outstanding 1
- 1 Full inspection 7th November 2023
- Previous Ofsted grade: Outstanding on 29th November 2012
- Ofsted report: View the Ofsted report
What The Good Schools Guide says..
We met a lively, chatty, key stage one group having time in the library; this session was as much about getting them to transition to a different environment and different staff as about literacy. Children are assessed through the school’s own system known as St Anthony’s Steps. Teachers create learning journals, which provide picture evidence and observations to show children acquiring key skills. Parents can download an overview. An unusual provision here is DMP (dance therapy), which primary pupils have once a week on the curriculum, to explore their feelings through dance and movement. ‘It is all about ...
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What The Good Schools Guide says
Head
Since 2012, Helen Ball. Really has spent her entire career here, beginning with her teaching practice in 1996, and then stepping through head of the PE department and assistant head posts. Clearly a place that gets under the skin – her deputy and line manager of the primary school Ruth Aspden has been here even longer, and most of the senior team have been in place for a decade or more.
Ball has seen a near-doubling of pupil numbers in her time, and she still teaches swimming as a way of getting to know them all. ‘Never wanted to be a head at the start, I wanted to teach football,’ she says. That interest provides a way in with pupils, prompting conversations around how Pompey or Brighton and Hove did at the weekend...
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Overall school performance (for comparison or review only)
Results by exam and subject
Subject results
Entry/Exit
Special Education Needs
School caters for pupils with moderate learning, speech and language difficulties.
| Condition | Provision for in school |
|---|---|
| ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder | Y |
| Aspergers | |
| Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders | |
| CReSTeD registered for Dyslexia | |
| Dyscalculia | |
| Dysgraphia | |
| Dyslexia | |
| Dyspraxia | |
| English as an additional language (EAL) | |
| Genetic | |
| Has an entry in the Autism Services Directory | |
| Has SEN unit or class | |
| HI - Hearing Impairment | |
| Hospital School | |
| Mental health | |
| MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty | Y |
| MSI - Multi-Sensory Impairment | |
| Natspec Specialist Colleges | |
| OTH - Other Difficulty/Disability | |
| Other SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty | |
| PD - Physical Disability | |
| PMLD - Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulty | |
| SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health | |
| SLCN - Speech, Language and Communication | Y |
| SLD - Severe Learning Difficulty | |
| Special facilities for Visually Impaired | |
| SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty | |
| VI - Visual Impairment |
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.
Children get into the school from here:
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most years
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sometimes, but not in this year
Who came from where
| School | Year | Scholarships | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ashfold School | 2023 | 1 | Scholarships: Drama |
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