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Welcome to De La Salle...

Welcome, I am very pleased to introduce you to our school website. De La Salle is a school, which is improving in many ways, and I can assure you that we will seek to maintain this progress in every aspect of school life.

We aim to provide the best possible education and opportunity for personal development for every one of our young people, and our success in fulfilling this aim can be seen in the fact that we achieved our best-ever GCSE results in 2008.

One of the clearest indicators of a successful school is its rate of attendance, and De La Salle has an attendance rate which is above the average for schools in the Liverpool area.

In order to ensure that pupils have the best possible chance of settling down after the transition from primary school, we have in recent years introduced a radical new arrangement for year 7 and year 8 pupils. Pupils are housed in a separate building, with their own lockers, water to drink in every classroom and a separate playground.

Heads of year have offices in the building and there is also a computer room within the year 7 and 8 block. This arrangement for our younger pupils has been commented on favourably by her Majesty's inspectors for schools and by representatives of the Liverpool Education Authority and we believe that pupils coming into the school benefit significantly in their transition from primary school.

The school is continuing to invest in ICT, as we believe that this is appropriate to meet the demands of education in the 21st Century. We have made considerable improvements to our music facilities and aim to develop music technology courses within the next twelve months. Our range of sports is ever-increasing and we now have teams playing football, rugby, cricket, basketball and volleyball amongst other sports.

At De La Salle we believe in partnership with parents. We can best fulfil the potential of your son by working with you and we pledge to keep you regularly informed of developments in the school that affect your son. We want parents to feel that they are part of the school community, to feel that they are able to discuss with us any concerns that they have and to celebrate our successes with us.

On this website, you will find some of the exciting opportunities which we offer to our pupils and we hope that you will consider that De La Salle is the right school for your son. If you would like to see the school for yourself, please contact us to make an appointment.

Patrick Ferguson

Latest News...

De La Salle Humanities College, Liverpool, Receives OUTSTANDING Ofsted Report

A RECENT inspection by HMI Inspectors and Ofsted to De La Salle Humanities College in Liverpool has awarded the North Liverpool school "outstanding." - which is excellent news for the communities of Croxteth and Norris Green as well as making all staff, students and parents rightly proud of their school.

The Inspection report says: "De La Salle provides an outstanding education with the headteacher's clear, strategic direction for the school leading to rapid, sustained improvement in achievement, standards and student's personal development."

It went on to say: "Students are proud of their school and are confident, polite and friendly young people who show respect for each other and their teachers. Students make exceptional levels of progress due to the very high standard of teaching, the good curriculum and the high quality of support, care and guidance. "

The Inspectors also commented: “Personal development and well-being in both the main school and in the sixth form are outstanding. Students report that they feel safe and secure with the school adopting a zero tolerance to bullying and racist remarks."

The report added: "Students' spiritual, moral, social and cultural development is excellent: their behaviour around the school site and in lessons is outstanding."

The school received marks classed as "outstanding" in the Overall Effectiveness of the School category, Effectiveness of sixth form, Achievement and standards, Personal development and well-being, Teaching and learning, Care, guidance and support and Leadership and management.

Everyone associated with De La Salle Humanities College is very pleased that all the hard work over recent years has been recognised. They feel certain that the school can only get better and better.

The outstanding education that is provided by De La Salle will not only change the lives of our current students but will change lives for generations to come.

This is an achievement that reflects well upon the communities of North Liverpool.