You will be joining Onslow St Audrey’s and the wider Danes Educational Trust family of schools at an incredibly exciting time. We are increasing the number of students in the Sixth Form and the school is continuing to expand. Supported by the Trust, we have recently completed a land sale which has led to additional funding to build a new Science block, play areas and car park. These new facilities opened in summer 2022. We are using the remaining part of this substantial capital investment to build a new sports hall, 4G Astroturf pitch, social areas and to support a number of internal school refurbishment projects

We are part of Danes Educational Trust which currently comprises 9 schools, 5 of which provide secondary education: St Clement Danes, Croxley Danes, Chancellor’s, Onslow St Audrey’s and Elstree Screen Arts Academy. The remaining 4 schools provide primary education: De Havilland, Ascot Road, Lanchester and Jupiter. As such, we offer a wide range of Continuous Professional Development and Learning opportunities as well as an excellent Early Career Framework programme of support. Close collaboration, support and challenge across our family of schools has ensured that our desire to create and sustain world-class provision has not been impacted by the pandemic. We are entirely collegiate in our endeavours.

Our last Ofsted inspection (May 2019) recognised the positive changes that had taken place to date and these were reflected in ‘Good’ judgements for Leadership, Personal Development, Behaviour and Welfare and Sixth Form. These inspection judgements were reinforced by our Challenge Partners Review in January 2022 where we were rated as ‘effective’ in all areas. We are not, however, complacent, and aspire to provide an outstanding offer to the children within our local community.

Key to our continued improvement journey is the recruitment of the very best staff. We now have a fantastic group of leaders, teachers and support staff, all of whom are playing their part in ensuring high quality provision is the norm across Onslow St Audrey’s School, including students’ attitudes to learning and attendance. There has been a steady improvement in progress and attainment over time and we have worked hard to improve staff well-being and rebalance workload. We believe all staff should have the opportunity to thrive and flourish in their work environment.