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Bishop Challoner School, Bromley

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Bishop Challoner School details

Address:

Bishop Challoner School
228 Bromley Road, Shortlands, Bromley, Kent BR2 0BS

Telephone:

020 84603546

Fax:

020 8466 8885

Email:

office@ bishopchallonerschool.com

Website:

www.bishopchallonerschool.com/ junior-school.html

Authority:

Bromley

Gender of entry:

Mixed

Age range:

2-19

Number of students:

399

Affiliation:

ISA

Last inspection:

September 2006. Read the full inspection report.

General information

Headteacher: P Colling.

Staff: 12 (men 3, women 9).

Motto: Quantum potes tantum aude.

Background: Founded in 1950, the school occupies four and a half acres of attractive, wooded setting grounds in a very pleasant suburban area of Shortlands, near Bromley. It is housed in a mixture of buildings from 18th century and Victorian to late 20th century. The junior school is part of an all-age school from 2 to 18 years. French is taught in addition to the national curriculum and the school has an excellent tradition in chess and fencing with a growing tradition in music. Several pupils have represented country and county at football, fencing, rugby and athletics. Other sports include cricket, rounders, gymnastics and swimming. Homework club, art, chess, sport, design and technology, choir and fencing are among the after-school clubs on offer. There are strong links with the local Roman Catholic parish of St Edmund's, Beckenham, and charitable links with Southwark Catholic Children's Society, CAFOD and a school in Bali. This is a Catholic school providing traditional, friendly and family-oriented environment.

Approach to discipline: A caring, positive attitude is adopted. Close contact with parents maintained. Detentions used at breaktimes if necessary.

Uniform: Maroon cap/hat, maroon blazer, charcoal-grey trousers (boys), grey pinafore dress, summer dress with maroon stripe (girls), grey socks, black shoes. Uniform regulations are enforced very strictly.

Special needs: The school has a junior special educational needs coordinator, one special educational needs specialist teacher (mainly for dyslexia and dyspraxia) and a specialist room to overcome the learning difficulties.

Inspection: September 2006: 'The school is successful in meeting its aims. It is governed and managed well, and has leadership with a clear vision for the school?s development. It is backed by hard-working and caring staff who work very well together as a team to provide pastoral care and support of high quality. Teaching is generally good and is an important element in the achievement by pupils of good and often outstanding national tests and public examination results. It does not always provide successfully for the full range of ability, and opportunities for pupils to research and become independent learners are limited, but specialist support for those with learning difficulties is good. Assessment procedures in some subjects are not yet fully developed, although in others, such as English, geography and history, much good practice takes place. The school community is underpinned by strong Christian Catholic values in which pupils? spiritual and moral awareness is well developed. Pupils are articulate, polite and their behaviour is exceptionally good. Pupils are proud of their school and speak highly of it. Pupils? respect for others, and their interest and care for each other are of a high order. Parents are very satisfied with the education provided, the high standards achieved by the pupils, and they are very supportive of the school. Progress since the last inspection in 2000 has been generally good. The school?s high expectations of classroom behaviour have been maintained; standards of achievement have continued to improve; the procedures for recording pupils? presence and absence at after-school activities have been tightened up and the procedures for twice-daily registration have been brought into line with statutory regulation; the outstanding potential hazards mentioned in the 2000 report have been attended to, as has the lack of privacy in the sick bay. In addition, although the library stock and organisation have been much improved, the integrated use of the library by subject departments and junior school classes is yet to be developed, and the much enhanced ICT provision has yet to be fully integrated into subject schemes and classroom practice. The school is aware of these shortcomings, and planned improvements are already in place for most. The school meets all the regulatory requirements.'

Over-subscribed: 1.5:1.

Before-school care: 08.00-08.50.

After-school care: 15.30-17.00.

Percentage admitted according to academic ability: 50%.

Factors taken into account other than academic ability: Religious affiliation and siblings.

Selection procedures: Children are invited to spend a day or two in school. Assessments in English and mathematics.

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