St Mary's and St John's CE School is a

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all-through school located in the

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area of the

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, England. The school admits pupils aged 3 – 18. Known as SMSJ, it was created by the London Diocesan Board for Schools and London Borough of Barnet to provide a mixed Church of England-based education up to

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for an increasing number of pupils in the Barnet area. It was the first all-through school in Barnet. It specialises in performing arts as well as Business & Enterprise, offering Music, Dance & Drama to its students, as well as scholarships in these subjects. It is based on 3 sites: A Nursery School and Reception to Year 4 are based at the Lower School on Prothero Gardens; Years 5 - 8 at the Middle School on Sunningfields Road and Years 9 - 13 at the Stamford Raffles campus on the Downage. The school has undergone a huge refurbishment and rebuilding programme and the newest site opened on the Downage in September 2017.There Reward System is Tes Class Charts , Where There Are R's & C's . It is a voluntary aided school, part of the London Diocesan Board of Schools, administered by the Church of England

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and

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. Reportedly, the school's motto for many years was "Audio, Video, Disco", Latin for "I hear, I see, I learn". This motto gained some notoriety in 1983, after all three words had gained new meaning in English. Previously a

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located at Prothero Gardens in Hendon, SMSJ was asked to expand by Barnet Local Authority and began accepting

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age pupils in September 2014 when the Middle School site opened on the former St Mary's CE School Upper Site in Sunningfields Road. The building was officially opened by the then Bishop of London, Richard Chartres. The school operates a sixth form, and has a pupil roll of some 1,800 pupils across its three sites. The third campus and Upper School building, Stamford Raffles opened on the former St Mary's Lower School site in Downage in September 2017. It was officially opened by the Bishop of Edmonton, Rob Wickham, in November 2017. St Mary's and St John's Church of England School offers

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as programmes of study for pupils, whilst students in the sixth form have the option to study from a range of

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References

External links

St Mary's and St John's CE School official websiteLatest Ofsted reportOfficial opening of Upper School
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