Richard Challoner School

Welcome to Richard Challoner School

Richard Challoner School is a highly successful Catholic comprehensive school for boys aged 11-18 which has been serving the local Catholic community since 1959.

The school is a DfE designated Academy with Specialisms in Technology and Sports, it is heavily oversubscribed, with 4 applicants for each place available.

Y11 Mocks and January Exams

Y11 Mocks and January exams can now be viewed on the pupil calendar (CLICK HERE)
You can also download the exams calendar in ical format HERE
You can subscribe to an RSS feed for the exams calendar HERE

Mr Oswald Jones (1917-2011)

The Funeral Mass for Mr Oswald Jones took place on Friday 25th November at St Andrew's RC Church, Edinburgh.

Click here to read the Funeral Homily by Canon John O'Toole

Click here to read the Obituary by Mr C.J. Doran

Mr Oswald Jones

Richard Challoner School is sad to announce the death of Mr Oswald Jones, the school's first Headmaster (1959-1977).

Details of Mr Jones' funeral, are now confirmed as follows...

Friday 25th November at 11am.
St Andrew's RC Church
77 Belford Road
Edinburgh
EH4 3DS

May he rest in the love and peace of Jesus Christ.

Big Draw – Inter-House Art Competition

Winners 2011 – Fisher House

A huge thankyou to the Art Department, Heads of House and students who put in so much time, effort and creativity to make this event such a success.

Federation Pre-Sixth Form Evening

Our Federation Pre-Sixth Form evening takes place this year on Wednesday 28th September at The Holy Cross School at 19.00. Please endeavour to be seated by 18.50. A welcome from the Headmaster will be followed by a short presentation from Mr M Oliver (Assistant Head i/c post 16 education at HX) and Mr S Maher (Deputy Head i/c post 16 education at RC). Students and parents will then have an opportunity to attend up to five presentations from subject leaders on courses offered at the Federation. If you would like a Sixth Form prospectus (current Year 11 students will be issued with one automatically) or application form, these can be downloaded from the Sixth Form page or contact Mrs McAleenan (Sixth Form Admin Assistant).

GCSE Results

Well done to Year 11 students and their teachers for some excellent GCSE results this Year. 72% of students gained 5 or more GCSEs at grades A* -C including English and Maths. 45% of students achieved the new English Baccalaureate which is 3 times the national rate of 15%. Special mention to Stephan Clarke who achieved 12 GCSEs all at A *, a remarkable and record breaking achievement. At least 30 boys managed to achieve 8 or more GCSEs at A*/A grades. Remarkably , the English , Maths and Science departments alone achieved 254 A*/A grades from a school total of 415 A*/. Overall 32% of all grades achieved by the students were A*/A grades. We look forward to welcoming most of Year 11 students back into the sixth form and wish those who are going to college or employment every success for the future.

Record Results!

We would like to congratulate all of our A level students on achieving outstanding results - A* - B 58% A - C 82% A - E 99% This is a fantastic achievement for the students, teachers and the school. A special mention should be made for Kieran Turton who achieved 5 A* grades in Further Maths, Maths, Chemistry, Physics and English Literature and James Tyrrell who achieved 3 A* and 2 A grades in Chemistry, Maths, Physics, Biology and Further Maths, as well as Joe Van de Wiel who achieved 2 A* and 1 A grade and Robert White who achieved 1 A* and 2 A grades.

ACADEMY STATUS CONFIRMED

As of Wednesday 17th August 2011, Richard Challoner school is now an academy.

Eportal Problems

Today's Eportal problems have now been resolved.

Sorry for the inconvenience caused.