Notre Dame Catholic College (Liverpool)

For other schools of the same name, see Notre Dame High School (disambiguation).

Notre Dame Catholic College

Motto	Ah Quil Est Bon Le Bon Dieu
Established	1902
Type	Voluntary aided school
Religion	Roman Catholic
Headteacher	Frances Harrison
Founder	Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur
Specialism	Performing Arts
Location	Everton Valley Liverpool Merseyside L4 4EZ England
Local authority	Liverpool
DfE URN	104706
Ofsted	Reports
Students	890
Gender	Girls
Ages	11–18
Diocese	Liverpool
Former name	Notre Dame Collegiate School
Website	NDCC

Coordinates: 53°25′51″N 2°58′21″W / 53.430883°N 2.972382°W / 53.430883; -2.972382

Notre Dame Catholic College is an all-girls' secondary school and sixth form in Liverpool, L4 4EZ, ^[1] England.

Admissions

The school holds Specialist Arts College status. It is a catholic girls' school. 45% of the girls receive free school meals.

History

It was founded in February 1869. The Notre Dame Catholic College was originally the residence of the Sisters of Notre Dame in Liverpool, and began as a pupil-teacher centre with links to local primary schools. The collegiate school did not actually come into existence until 1902, with this merging with the pupil teacher centre in 1908.

Direct grant grammar school

It was the Notre Dame Collegiate School, a catholic girls' direct grant grammar school from 1946.^[2]

Comprehensive

The sisters did not move out of the building until 1978 due to the expansion and the intake of the school building, and the school building also followed this expansion to pave the way for the institution to become an all-girls comprehensive school in 1983, which also tallied with the amalgamation of both St John’s Secondary Modern School and St Catherine’s Secondary Modern School to form Notre Dame High School in the same year.

In 1999 there was an outbreak of meningitis, resulting in one death.

In 2001, the school inserted the word 'Catholic' into its title to become Notre Dame Catholic High School, but 2002 saw the school also becoming a specialist 'Performing Arts College' - returning the institution to a College as it once originally was.

Former teachers

• John Thornhill, Chairman since 2008 of the Magistrates' Association (taught Classics from 1972-8)

School buildings

Academic performance

It gets below average results at GCSE and at A level. Its results at A level, although low for a faith school, are not as low as some catholic girls' schools in the local area.

Alumni

Notre Dame Collegiate School

• Colette Bowe, Chairman since March 2009 of Ofcom
• Prof Yvonne Carter CBE, Dean from 2004-9 of Warwick Medical School
• Joan MacNaughton, President since 2011 of the Energy Institute
• Dame Mary Morant
• Mary Mulligan, Labour MSP from 1999-2011 for Linlithgow
• Dr Mary Parke, phycologist at the Marine Biological Association
• Margaret Wall, Baroness Wall of New Barnet
• Joan Walmsley, Baroness Walmsley, married to Martin Thomas, Baron Thomas of Gresford

See also

• Notre Dame High School, Glasgow
• Notre Dame High School (Southwark)
• Notre Dame High School, Sheffield

References

1. ^ http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/schools/for-parents-and-carers/find-school-inspection-report/provider/ELS/104706
2. ^ Direct Grant

External links

• School website
• EduBase