Organisation of the School
The school has a Headteacher, four Deputy Headteachers and four Assistant Headteachers. The Deputy Headteachers’ responsibilities include teaching and learning, student performance and rewards, curriculum, and pastoral support. Teachers are organised into departments and there are 81.6 teaching staff.
The school is organised on a College basis with 210 students in Years 7-11. The Post 16 G+ Centre accommodates 200 students. The roll at September enumeration was 1149. The school is situated on two sites and students are divided into six vertical Colleges with Key Stage 3 & 4 students in each building. Alfege, Brasher and Demilew Colleges are at Westcombe Park and Hawking, King and Teresa College are at Maze Hill. Heads of College are responsible to the Pastoral Deputy Head for the welfare, learning support and personal development of all students in their college through leadership and co-ordination of a team of Academic Tutors. The Head of College co-ordinates and monitors all aspects of the students' school life and communication of information regarding their progress and needs to parents, teachers, support agencies and students themselves. At the end of Year 9, the year group join together to start their Key Stage 4 as indicated below. They continue at the site named below until the end of Year 11.
September 2007/8 Year 10 – Maze Hill Site
September 2008/9 Year 10 – Westcombe Park Site
We celebrate the different cultural backgrounds of our students, their needs and their aspirations. We seek to form a caring, supportive and collaborative partnership of students, staff, parents and the wider community, working to create an ethos which promotes equality of opportunity regardless of disability, race, gender, class, culture and sexual orientation. The school makes provision to enable every child to develop as fully as possible relevant skills, abilities, interests and attitudes appropriate to his or her individual needs.
Academic achievement remains central to our philosophy and we encourage each student to achieve his/her best at all times and to prepare for their life after leaving The John Roan School.