Dame Alice Owens- Racism

[orangeblosssom]

I understand from a current DAO parent that there has been a protest at the school by students that have suffered from racial harassment from their peers. I was horrified to hear that students have been called the N word.
The headteacher has not been particularly supportive of the demonstration and there has not been any repercussions for the racist perpetrators- current year 10 students.

DAO has 6% pupils on pupil premium. 6%! It's nothing. They have a cohort from Islington who if they were going to local secondaries would have at the very least 50% on PP, with a fair few at well over 70%. Most of the Islington children I know there have come from private preps that do verbal reasoning practice the whole way through y5. And their siblings are all similarly well supported and bright.

It's far more akin to a grammar school than a comprehensive. And a London grammar too, not your common-or-garden Kent type.

And they have a huge chunk of extra funding from some endowment or other, when their pupils are in least need of it.

@Valleyofthedollymix

DAO has 6% pupils on pupil premium. 6%! It's nothing. They have a cohort from Islington who if they were going to local secondaries would have at the very least 50% on PP, with a fair few at well over 70%. Most of the Islington children I know there have come from private preps that do verbal reasoning practice the whole way through y5. And their siblings are all similarly well supported and bright.

It's far more akin to a grammar school than a comprehensive. And a London grammar too, not your common-or-garden Kent type.

And they have a huge chunk of extra funding from some endowment or other, when their pupils are in least need of it.

I agree with everything you're saying but a lot of very good schools in London that are not selective have very low pupils on pupil premium.

For example the The Archer Academy in East Finchley which is very good and lauded by many has i think only 25% of pupils on pupil premium which is nothing as well.
Likewise another Barnet school, The Compton School in Finchley which is another very good school that isn't selective has only 30% of pupils on pupil premium.

I think there's quite a difference between 6% and 30%. I happen to know Compton - it's a great school but definitely not the middle class cohort of DAO. It's much more mixed.

Precisely nothing has happened at the school except lip service.
They even sent a letter saying sometimes that the N word should be used in historical context.
Teachers will be sent on a diversity training course, apparently.

They're just not interested.

A strong, unequivocal message should have been sent that children would be excluded for such behaviour.

Same old, same old

@NOTANUM

I think there's quite a difference between 6% and 30%. I happen to know Compton - it's a great school but definitely not the middle class cohort of DAO. It's much more mixed.

I see

What about Archer Academy?

@Sladurche

Precisely nothing has happened at the school except lip service. They even sent a letter saying sometimes that the N word should be used in historical context. Teachers will be sent on a diversity training course, apparently.

They're just not interested.

A strong, unequivocal message should have been sent that children would be excluded for such behaviour.

Same old, same old

Wow, sad to hear

Shame on the headteacher and governor's. Any person of colour would be mad to send their kid to DAO, no matter how high performing the school is...

@sammyvine My information on Archer is a bit dated as they've changed the criteria for entry over the years. When I knew more children at the school, it took most of the kids from named primary schools including from a Hampstead school but not kids living in the same street. All that has changed now and it's done on postcode.

But from the little I know, it's still quite an affluent school with very little deprivation if any.

[quote NOTANUM]@sammyvine My information on Archer is a bit dated as they've changed the criteria for entry over the years. When I knew more children at the school, it took most of the kids from named primary schools including from a Hampstead school but not kids living in the same street. All that has changed now and it's done on postcode.

But from the little I know, it's still quite an affluent school with very little deprivation if any.[/quote]
Yes Archer changed the admissions policy after backlash of the feeder system and now they take from 3 postcodes I think.

I think their pupil premium is 27% which is still very small...Compton in North Finchley's pupil premium is 30% so not much better them surprisingly.