All Saints Roman Catholic School, York

All Saints RC School is a split-site coeducational Catholic secondary school and sixth form located in the centre of York, founded in 1686 (Bar Convent Grammar School).

All Saints' Roman Catholic School
Address
Mill Mount Lane

South Bank, York
,
North Yorkshire
,
YO24 1BJ

England
Coordinates53.9513°N 1.0941°W / 53.9513; -1.0941
Information
TypeVoluntary aided school
MottoFides Caritas Unitas
Faith Love Unity
Religious affiliation(s)Roman Catholic
Established1686
FounderMary Ward & Frances Bedingfeld
Local authorityCity of York
Department for Education URN121720 Tables
OfstedReports
Head teacherSharon Keelan-Beardsley[1]
Staff135
Age11 to 18
Enrolment1,424
Capacity1,352
HousesBernadette, Bosco, Clitherow, Kolbe, Romero, Teresa, Aloysius, De Porres, Francis
Colour(s)
Blue


Gold
WebsiteAll Saints RC School Website

The Lower Site, educates children aged 11–14 years old, and it is located on Nunnery Lane attached to The Bar Convent. It consists of Years 7–9.

The Upper Site, Educates Pupils aged 14–18 years old, located just off Tadcaster Road on Mill Mount, it comprises Year 10 and 11 but also one of the most successful Sixth Forms in the city. Upper Site is on the former site of Mill Mount County Grammar School for Girls.

Because of the schools central location and because it is the only Catholic Secondary school in York, it takes in pupils from across Yorkshire.

History

In the 1600s, York-born nun Mary Ward, began a mission to educate girls in the Catholic faith in order to continue future generations of Catholics. A School was founded and was the first Roman Catholic institution for teaching girls in Britain.

Launching her convent run schools on the Continent, where Catholicism was still legal, under the direction of Mary Ward and her Community. After the death of Mary Ward, the Sisterhood returned to York in 1686. Wishing his daughters to be given a local, Catholic education, Yorkshire businessman Thomas Gasgoine gave the Sisterhood £500 to start a small school – the Bar Convent Girls School. Gaining a good reputation, the school grew in popularity, and the Convent block in the Lower School site was built to accommodate a boarding school and a Convent.

Drake described the convent in 1736 as 'no more than a boarding school for young ladies of Roman Catholic families'.

In the 1800s, an extra wing was added to accommodate a day school, and in 1925 the Bar Convent School became a Grammar School, enabling locals to apply for scholarships.

Boys were accepted in the mid 1970s and in the early 1980s, on the abolition of the Grammar School system, to secure the future of free education for the Catholic community around York, the responsibility of the school passed from the Sisterhood to the Diocese of Middlesbrough.

In 1985, the Bar Convent School opened its doors as All Saints Roman Catholic School and soon doubled in size with students joining from St Georges and Margaret Clitherow Secondary Schools.

The Bar Convent now shares the beautiful and historic Chapel with the Lower School as well as housing the Community of eighteen Mary Ward sisters and Sacristan. It also operates as a guest house, café and museum. The ethos of the Sisterhood who run it is apparent in, and of great benefit to, the school community.

The school was named in July 2019 as a computing hub for the National Centre for Computing Education.

Mill Mount Grammar School for Girls

This was a girls' grammar school on Mill Mount Lane, also known as Mill Mount Girls' Grammar School.

In 1985, wishing to retain its central York position to enable easy access for far reaching Catholic communities, the school acquired premises close by, to accommodate the Upper School and Sixth Form. The school site of Mill Mount became All Saints, after plans to merge Nunthorpe Grammar and Mill Mount into a sixth form college fell through.

Academic results

GCSE and A level results are in the top 25% of UK schools and the Sixth Form's results are in the top 10% of the country.

Alumni

Soon To be added...

Bar Convent Grammar School

See also

References
  1. "All Saints Roman Catholic School | Senior Leadership Team".
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