Notre Dame High School, Southwark

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Notre Dame RC Girls Secondary School
Address
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118 St George's Road Southwark , London , SEl 6EX United Kingdom
Coordinates	51°29′49″N 0°06′22″W / 51.4969°N 0.1062°W / 51.4969; -0.1062Coordinates: 51°29′49″N 0°06′22″W / 51.4969°N 0.1062°W / 51.4969; -0.1062
Information
Type	Voluntary aided comprehensive
Religious affiliation(s)	Roman Catholic
Established	1855
Founders	Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur
Local authority	Southwark
Department for Education URN	100859 Tables
Ofsted	Reports
Foundation Governor	Colin Garvey
Headteacher	Sister Anne Marie Niblock SND[1]
Gender	Girls
Age	11 to 16[1]
Enrolment	615[1]

Notre Dame High School is an all-girls' Roman Catholic comprehensive school (having been a grammar school until 1977) situated in Elephant and Castle, in south London in the UK. Girls attend the school from ages 11–16 (11-18 until the 1980s). The current headteacher is Anne Marie Niblock.

School history[]

Previous Headteachers include Sister Myra Poole, SND and Sister Rosemary O'Callaghan, SND. Sister Rosemary O' Callaghan is now acting as the school chaplain.

The school was founded by the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur in 1855 and celebrated its 150th anniversary in the London Borough of Southwark.

Linked schools[]

The Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur base their spirituality on the teachings of their Mother Foundress, Saint Julie Billiart. The Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur founded other schools in the United Kingdom:^{[citation needed]}

• Notre Dame High School, Glasgow
• Notre Dame Catholic Sixth Form College, Leeds
• Notre Dame Catholic College, Liverpool
• Several schools which became part of St Julie's Catholic High School, Liverpool
• Notre Dame High School, Norwich
• Notre Dame Catholic School, Plymouth
• Notre Dame High School, Sheffield

They also previously had other schools in Battersea, London; Wigan, Greater Manchester; and a boarding school in Birkdale, Lancashire.

With the exception of the Birkdale school the Notre Dame order consciously sited their schools in deprived areas, with the objective of providing an opportunity for high quality education for girls who might otherwise not receive it. The Mission Statement for their Southwark school is "Educating Girls for Success"^{[citation needed]}

School performance[]

As of 2020, the school was last inspected by Ofsted in 2012, when it received a judgement of Outstanding.^[2]

In 2019 the school was identified as the most undersubscribed school of those judged Outstanding; it had the lowest ratio of applications per place.^[3]

References[]

External links[]

• Notre Dame RC Girls' School, Southwark