Headteacher Welcome

 CSP9516 SQ

Welcome to St Ignatius College

As Headteacher, it is a pleasure to welcome you to our website which I hope will give you a flavour of life here at St Ignatius College.

First and foremost, our goal is academic excellence and intellectual formation. We believe that with the right support, all students can achieve and they do. We are all boys at KS3 and KS4 and our boys achieve exceptionally well, significantly better than boys locally or nationally.  With a mixed thriving and highly successful Sixth Form, we believe that we have the best of both worlds.

Our students are believed in and cared for: they are known and valued as individuals.  Human flourishing is at the core of our Catholic, Jesuit philosophy of education.  Each individual student is supported to develop fully: academically, socially, emotionally, culturally and spiritually. Our goal is for our students to have the qualifications, confidence, skills and clear sense of self to fulfil their ambitions, live full lives and to go into the world and make it a better place.

Partnership with our parents is fundamental to all we do. We foster strong, open, honest, mutually supportive relationships and welcome and expect parents to be involved in all aspects of school life. We are outward looking and work closely with many other organisations, both locally and nationally.

The social, economic and cultural diversity of our community enriches us.  We are a Catholic, Jesuit school but in addition to Catholics, our students and staff belong to other faiths and other Christian traditions, and we encourage all of them to play a full part in the spiritual life of the school and to gain a deeper understanding of their faith. We have a wide catchment and are oversubscribed but you don’t need to be Catholic to attend this school.  

I warmly invite you and encourage you to visit to witness for yourselves life at St Ignatius College.

Mary O'Keeffe 
Headteacher 

 

Latest Tweets

@st_ignatius Jul - 18
Year 12 had a great workshop with Talk the Talk, learning how to be confident communicators by developing effective use of structuring in short talks and presentations and applying persuasive language techniques to get their message across effectively.#AMDG pic.twitter.com/L5I75pPUPg
@st_ignatius Jul - 18
We welcomed over 130 year 11 students who plan on joining our Sixth Form next year. It was a great day of team building, experiencing A Level lessons and getting to know the school and staff. We are are looking forward to seeing everyone in September.#AMDG pic.twitter.com/kY7WkqaM97
@st_ignatius Jul - 17
A highlight of our Ambition Programme is that each Friday morning we arrange a speaker from a huge variety of industries to give a talk about their chosen career. If this is something you would like to do, we would be very happy to hear from you.#AMDG pic.twitter.com/QGg8WltrRY
@st_ignatius Jul - 16
The community event for the redevelopment of school is tomorrow, 17 July, from 5pm–8pm. This is an opportunity to speak to Bowmer&Kirkland and the DFE about the development of the site. More information can be found here: https://t.co/H3gM7HFWo7#AMDG pic.twitter.com/ruk54sIv8x
@st_ignatius Jul - 15
National Book Tokens are offering £1,000 in book tokens to 5 winning schools. More entries mean more chances to win! We would therefore be very grateful if you could click on the below link and nominate us:https://t.co/UpZog1ZLuf
@st_ignatius Jul - 15
We are extremely grateful to The Bank of England, , Centre of the Cell, , , College, Capital City, and Ask Apprenticeships who spoke to Y10 students on our post 16 Options Day#AMDG pic.twitter.com/Hzs5XwPDnT
@st_ignatius Jul - 14
The word of the week is camaraderie The person of the week is David Gradon who realised that the barrier to making friends as an adult was seeing the same people regularly and developing genuine camaraderie so David established The Great Friendship Project #AMDG pic.twitter.com/8nfSo5jSD0
@st_ignatius Jul - 14
China trip - on our way home! Students have had such an amazing time. Thank you to the MEP and everyone at Yunnan Normal University for organising the programme and looking after us so well! We hope have the opportunity to go back to China in the future!🇨🇳#AMDG pic.twitter.com/iiGOyT5q5G
@st_ignatius Jul - 14
China trip- Closing ceremony. All our students received a certificate and Berat gave a speech about what he has learnt during the trip. Raphaell and Kevin performed the traditional Lion Dance accompanied by music from Charlie!#AMDG#Chinatrip pic.twitter.com/pWBrmnrHz0
@st_ignatius Jul - 13
China trip - students are enjoying shopping and negotiating discounts using their Mandarin language skills#AMDG#Chinatrip pic.twitter.com/HpEOlw7xen
@st_ignatius Jul - 13
China trip update We had a large portion of traditional rice noodles for lunch. We then headed to the Yunnan nationalities village where we saw buildings and traditions from different ethnic minorities. pic.twitter.com/0A27Jgt8H0
@st_ignatius Jul - 13
China trip update. A visit to Cuihu Park - we saw traditional buildings and the lotus flower! Students also visited the traditional stage#AMDG#Chinatrip pic.twitter.com/FAOYrIs5OH