The Archer Academy A GSG School
- The Archer Academy
Eagans Close
London
N2 8GA - Head: Lucy Harrison
- T 020 8365 4110
- E admissions@thearcheracademy.org.uk
- W thearcheracademy.org.uk/
- A state school for boys and girls aged from 11 to 16.
- Boarding: No
- Local authority: Barnet
- Pupils: 810
- Religion: None
- 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 21st May 2019
- Previous Ofsted grade: Good on 9th June 2015
- Ofsted report: View the Ofsted report
What The Good Schools Guide says..
For the artistic child, this is definitely a school to consider. Possibly the most ambitious offering we have seen for a long time. Hosts an annual week long literary festival. Boundaries are firm. Smartphones or any other screens are a complete no-no anywhere on the school premises. One parent told us, ‘We’ve waited so long for a school around here. You wait, people will be moving into the area soon to get in'...
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What The Good Schools Guide says
Head
Since 2015, Lucy Harrison. Read history at Birmingham, followed by a PGCE also at Birmingham and then a master’s in educational leadership at Warwick. One could say her path was predetermined, having a head teacher for a mother and a lecturer for a father, although she says, on the contrary, ‘My parents tried to talk me out of the profession as they know how difficult it can be, and they wanted me to consider other professions.’
Not to be dissuaded, this head dived into the deep end and started her teaching career in a 13-form entry comprehensive in Cannock in Staffordshire. Although officially hired to teach history from year 7 to year 13, she was quickly promoted and took on the role as head of department for citizenship: ‘It was quite...
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Entry/Exit
Special Education Needs
The Archer Academy aims for each child to realise their full potential in a caring, supportive environment, which provides equal opportunities. All children have individual needs, many of which can be met within the normal environment of the classroom through a differentiated curriculum. The Archer Academy aims to promote excellence, inclusion and enjoyment for all students with SEND. We seek to promote high self-esteem across our school, but specifically within our SEND provision. The Archer Academy fundamentally believes that every teacher is a teacher of SEND.
| Condition | Provision for in school |
|---|---|
| ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder | Y |
| Aspergers | Y |
| Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders | |
| 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 | |
| Has SEN unit or class | |
| HI - Hearing Impairment | Y |
| Hospital School | |
| Mental health | |
| MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty | |
| MSI - Multi-Sensory Impairment | |
| Natspec Specialist Colleges | |
| OTH - Other Difficulty/Disability | |
| Other SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty | |
| PD - Physical Disability | Y |
| PMLD - Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulty | |
| SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health | Y |
| SLCN - Speech, Language and Communication | |
| SLD - Severe Learning Difficulty | |
| Special facilities for Visually Impaired | |
| 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.
For help and explanation of our catchment maps see: Catchment maps explained
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
Who came from where
| School | Year | Places |
|---|---|---|
| St Mary's School, Hampstead | 2023 | 1 |
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