Onslow St Audrey's School
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Onslow St Audrey’s School is a mixed comprehensive, non-denominational school situated in Hatfield, Hertfordshire
in England
. It has business and enterprise specialist status and is one of only two schools nationally to be awarded British Red Cross School status. Around 550 students attend Onslow St Audrey’s with around 60 in the sixth form. It caters for pupils aged 11 to 18.
is currently made up of 60 students, spread across two year groups. A friendly, communal atmosphere is present. Although the Sixth Form block, which contains a Study Room and a Common Room,is based away from the central school building, all lessons take place in the main school buildings. The Sixth Form is part of the 16 to 19 Welwyn & Hatfield Consortium and as such offers a wide range of A-Level subjects. Within the school A-Levels in Mathematics, English, History, Art, Music, Business, ICT, Biology, Psychology and Sport are offered, as well as a range of BTECs. Monitored broadband access is available, along with limited kitchen facilities, disabled access and toilets. All Sixth Formers have the opportunity to take the Community Sports Leaders Award, and most go on to the university of choice.
The 2009 Ofsted inspection report judged care, guidance and support to be outstanding, wrote of "students' pride in and enjoyment of their school", and deemed attainment and achievement to be good. Ofsted judged overall leadership and management to be good and the leadership of the Headteacher, Paul Meredith, to be outstanding.
Hatfield, Hertfordshire
Hatfield is a town and civil parish in Hertfordshire, England in the borough of Welwyn Hatfield. It has a population of 29,616, and is of Saxon origin. Hatfield House, the home of the Marquess of Salisbury, is the nucleus of the old town...
in England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
. It has business and enterprise specialist status and is one of only two schools nationally to be awarded British Red Cross School status. Around 550 students attend Onslow St Audrey’s with around 60 in the sixth form. It caters for pupils aged 11 to 18.
Sixth Form
The sixth formSixth form
In the education systems of England, Wales, and Northern Ireland, and of Commonwealth West Indian countries such as Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, Belize, Jamaica and Malta, the sixth form is the final two years of secondary education, where students, usually sixteen to eighteen years of age,...
is currently made up of 60 students, spread across two year groups. A friendly, communal atmosphere is present. Although the Sixth Form block, which contains a Study Room and a Common Room,is based away from the central school building, all lessons take place in the main school buildings. The Sixth Form is part of the 16 to 19 Welwyn & Hatfield Consortium and as such offers a wide range of A-Level subjects. Within the school A-Levels in Mathematics, English, History, Art, Music, Business, ICT, Biology, Psychology and Sport are offered, as well as a range of BTECs. Monitored broadband access is available, along with limited kitchen facilities, disabled access and toilets. All Sixth Formers have the opportunity to take the Community Sports Leaders Award, and most go on to the university of choice.
School performance
Onslow St Audrey's is a rapidly improving school, its most recent Ofsted inspection report deeming it to be "good with a number of outstanding features." Results have improved dramatically year-on-year, and the most recent contextual value-added measure places it third in Hertfordshire. Teachers and students alike are elated with recent achievements which have acted as a spring-board to continued success and improvement.The 2009 Ofsted inspection report judged care, guidance and support to be outstanding, wrote of "students' pride in and enjoyment of their school", and deemed attainment and achievement to be good. Ofsted judged overall leadership and management to be good and the leadership of the Headteacher, Paul Meredith, to be outstanding.