La Sainte Union, Camden

Borough: Camden
Address: Highgate Road
Town: London
Postcode: NW5 1RP
Phone: 020 74284600
Fax: 020 7267 7647
Email: general@lsu.camden.sch.uk
Website: La Sainte Union
Nearest tube or station: Underground station: Tufnell Park

Funded: Voluntary Aided
Admissions: Comprehensive
Gender: Girls
Age group: 11-18
Number of Pupils: 1206
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La Sainte union is a local maintained, special, voluntary aided school located in the borough of Camden. The school takes in children ages 11-18.

The school says

Which is a Catholic voluntary aided comprehensive school for girls. Consistently oversubscribed, the school takes pupils from a wide geographical area. At 16-19, the school is a partner in the local sixth form consortium and offers places to a limited number of boys. This partnership offers a broad curriculum to our students.

LSU provides a full life: there is challenging work in the classroom and in the laboratory, competition in sports, creative fulfilment in art, drama and music, enjoyment in extended curricular activities including travel abroad. It is a Christian community where those who gain most are those who contribute most in terms of energy and commitment.

La Sainte Union (LSU) is a Roman Catholic girls' school. The school is in the trusteeship of the Sisters of La Sainte Union.

Ofsted report in 2007

"La Sainte Union is a good school with many outstanding features. The tireless and dedicated work of the headteacher, along with her highly competent and committed senior management team, has ensured that pupils have reached high standards in national tests and in GCSE examinations over a number of years. Provisional results for 2007 show a further rise in the percentage of pupils gaining 5 A* - C at GCSE and results in national tests in Year 9 showed a

marked gain in the percentages of pupils reaching the higher levels of attainment. 'A' level results are good and improving. Subject leaders and heads of year are highly capable and monitor the work of their areas thoroughly. The quality of departmental documentation is exemplary and identifies clearly what the strengths and areas for improvement are, and what actions are in place to raise achievement. Leaders and managers at all levels have excellent capacity to improve further. Parents and pupils are overwhelmingly positive about the school and praise it highly for its work. One parent quite simply states that 'the school is wonderful'.

Another writes, 'I feel my daughter has matured and blossomed since joining La Sainte Union. Her strengths have been encouraged ...' Governors are a highly skilled and loyal group of people who work hard to support the school in its work. They are able to successfully work as a critical friend because they are knowledgeable about all aspects of their job and participate fully in the process of school self-evaluation."

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