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St Andrew the Apostle School
Barnet, United Kingdom
About St Andrew the Apostle School
Welcome to St Andrew the Apostle School, a caring, Christian school in Barnet with the highest aspirations for all our students. These are exciting times for STA. Our students have just achieved a record set of GCSE results, with excellent value-added scores. The school was the first Orthodox state- funded secondary in Britain, which was established in 2013 jointly by the Russell Eduation Trust, the Greek Orthodox Church and the Classical Education Trust.
Values and vision
The St Andrew the Apostle School’s motto is: “Ever to Excel.” The school aspires to deliver a broad curriculum that promotes both exceptional progress across the ability range and academic excellence
The school aims to foster a spirit of kindness, tolerance and responsibility, which it hopes will enable each student to grow in character as an individual and as a member of their community. The school seeks to help students to excel in sports, music and the arts, and encourages them to progress into higher education.
It also aims to help a high number of students to study maths, sciences, the classical subjects languages at university.
Our future
We are delighted to announce the upcoming completion of our new state-of-the-art facilities in September 2025. These buildings consist of a rooftop Multi-Use Games Area, 4G pitch, modern classrooms, drama studios and a 300-seater auditorium, sports hall, further enhancing our commitment to academic and all-round excellence. Our teaching rooms fully equipped with the latest technologies available to support learning. In addition, we will have a large Sports Hall and studio space for the wide range of sports we offer in our curriculum and during extra-curricular periods.
Ofsted
“The thoughtful, insightful and effective leadership of the headteacher leads to a common, shared vision for excellence, which is underpinned by the religious character and values of the school.”
“The school takes all practicable steps to ensure the safety of students and helps them to understand and deal with risks. Students are adamant that they feel perfectly safe in the care of the school.”
Location
Pupils’ are happy members of this school community and said that it 'feels like a family'.
- Ofsted 2024Pupils achieve very well in their examinations.
- Ofsted 2024The school has put in place a broad and aspiring curriculum. The curriculum is implemented consistantly well.
- Ofsted 2024Teachers are confident subject experts.
- Ofsted 2024Pupils character development is a considerable strength of the school.
- Ofsted 2024Pupils follow instructions because of the deep culture of mutual respect with teachers and the morals and values they are taught.
- Ofsted 2024Pupils take part in a wide range of extra curricular activities.
- Ofsted 2024The school is a calm place where pupils are kind to each other. Pupils have high positive attitudes towards their learning.
- Ofsted 2024