Europa School UK A GSG School
- Europa School UK
Thame Lane
Culham
Abingdon
Oxfordshire
OX14 3DZ - Head: Mrs Lynn Wood
- T 01235 524060
- E admissions@europaschool.uk
- W europaschooluk.org
- A state school for boys and girls aged from 4 to 19.
- Read about the best schools in Oxford and Oxfordshire
- Boarding: No
- Local authority: Oxfordshire
- Pupils: 982
- Religion: Does not apply
- Open days: Visit the website for details
- Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
-
Ofsted:
- Latest Overall effectiveness Good 1
- 16-19 study programmes Outstanding 1
- Early years provision Outstanding 1
- Outcomes for children and learners Good 1
- Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good 1
- Personal development, behaviour and welfare Outstanding 1
- Effectiveness of leadership and management Good 1
- 1 Full inspection 30th April 2024
- Previous Ofsted grade: Good on 5th December 2018
- Ofsted report: View the Ofsted report
What The Good Schools Guide says..
A bilingual IB state school? ‘¡Maravilloso!’ we hear you cry, ‘Fantastisch!’ It’s indeed a very rare beast. IB curriculum throughout secondary – nobody does GCSEs or A levels here, because they follow the Middle Year Programme (MYP) from years 7 to 11 and then the diploma programme (IBDP) in years 12 and 13. European heritage well represented off the curriculum as well as within it. As part of European Parliament Ambassador School Programme, students recently went to Strasbourg to debate European issues with other school pupils. Model UN is huge here, as you’d imagine, students fresh back from Toulouse when we visited and wondering who to…
What the school says...
The Europa School UK is unique, a place of welcome, where we rejoice in our differences as they bring such a rich cultural life to the school; a school which is both a UK state school and an IB World School. On one beautiful site, our pupils can follow our multilingual curriculum from age 4 to 18, culminating in the highly respected International Baccalaureate Diploma.
In Primary, half the week is taught through English and half taught through French, German or Spanish in an immersion model. In Secondary, History and Geography are studied in a second language, ensuring a deep academic and empathetic engagement with our multicultural approach. Our pupils are confident in their own roots and confident to broaden their horizons.
Throughout, we use a programme developed through cooperation among educational experts from many countries. It is well structured with a consistent academic standard. The Baccalaureate provides opportunity for deep study in some areas while preserving a rounded education through to the age of 18. With a strong reputation built over 60 years, it is highly respected by universities. The school has an excellent academic record and expects most of our students to go on to higher education .
For all the academic success, spread broadly through ability levels, the most frequent observation made by visitors is the warm welcome and friendliness evident in our school. ...Read more
Do you know this school?
The schools we choose, and what we say about them, are founded on parents’ views. If you know this school, please share your views with us.
Please login to post a comment.
Curricula
International Baccalaureate: diploma - the diploma is the familiar A-level equivalent.
International Baccalaureate: middle years - middle Years is a programme for ages 11-16.
Other features
All-through school (for example 3-18 years). - An all-through school covers junior and senior education. It may start at 3 or 4, or later, and continue through to 16 or 18. Some all-through schools set exams at 11 or 13 that pupils must pass to move on.
What The Good Schools Guide says
Head
Since 2018, Lynn Wood, previously deputy director of European School Culham, Europa’s predecessor. Attended a Yorkshire convent school before getting a first in electrical engineering at Imperial and spending ten years as a research engineer. ‘As an engineer, I had to write reports,’ she says, and it quickly dawned on her that her A levels (maths, physics, chemistry) had not given her the requisite essay-writing skills. ‘They hadn’t prepared me for the job I ended up doing,’ whilst ‘a baccalaureate model gives a broad range of experiences.’ A few years living and working in France highlighted the gaps in her language learning, too (her French now is ‘pretty good’). Retrained as a maths teacher in Abingdon after the arrival of her two sons, now in their 30s – both went through the European School...
Subscribe now for instant access to read The Good Schools Guide review.
Already subscribed? Login here.
Overall school performance (for comparison or review only)
Entry/Exit
Special Education Needs
Interpreting catchment maps
The maps show in colour where the pupils at a school came from*. Red = most pupils to Blue = fewest.
Where the map is not coloured we have no record in the previous three years of any pupils being admitted from that location based on the options chosen.
For help and explanation of our catchment maps see: Catchment maps explained
Further reading
If there are more applicants to a school than it has places for, who gets in is determined by which applicants best fulfil the admissions criteria.
Admissions criteria are often complicated, and may change from year to year. The best source of information is usually the relevant local authority website, but once you have set your sights on a school it is a good idea to ask them how they see things panning out for the year that you are interested in.
Many schools admit children based on distance from the school or a fixed catchment area. For such schools, the cut-off distance will vary from year to year, especially if the school give priority to siblings, and the pattern will be of a central core with outliers (who will mostly be siblings). Schools that admit on the basis of academic or religious selection will have a much more scattered pattern.
*The coloured areas outlined in black are Census Output Areas. These are made up of a group of neighbouring postcodes, which accounts for their odd shapes. These provide an indication, but not a precise map, of the school’s catchment: always refer to local authority and school websites for precise information.
The 'hotter' the colour the more children have been admitted.
Children get into the school from here:
regularly
most years
quite often
infrequently
sometimes, but not in this year
The Good Schools Guide newsletter
Educational insight in your inbox. Sign up for our popular newsletters.