Our Lady's Catholic High School is an inclusive Catholic school.
It was established in Amhurst Park in 1904 by the Servite Sisters in order to provide education to young women in Hackney. From September 2024, the school will admit boys into Year 7, providing the same high-quality teaching and personal development opportunities that our girls experience.
We invite you to visit and experience the energy and vibrancy of the
school.
Congratulations to Mariam, our Student of the Week! Awarded for a superb start to Year 10. Her excellent attitude to learning has been recognised by many of her...
TWITTER Thu 21st Sep 2023
Join us at our Open Events to witness our excellence in action.📚✨Register here: https://t.co/NDJFVIrAEz Now accepting Boys and Girls from Septem...
TWITTER Tue 19th Sep 2023
Embracing a new chapter together! 📖✨ Year 7 Welcome Mass and the blessing of the New Testament & Psalms. Here's to a year of growth, faith, and l...
TWITTER Mon 18th Sep 2023
Explore your potential at our #SixthForm!🌟 Are you ready to embark on an exciting #educational journey and take your skills to the next level at Our Lad...
TWITTER Mon 11th Sep 2023
Come & witness our values in action! We're thrilled to announce that we'll be welcoming boys into #Year7, offering the same top-tier education & personal develo...
TWITTER Thu 7th Sep 2023
Come & witness our values in action! We're thrilled to announce that we'll be welcoming boys into #Year7, offering the same top-tier education & personal develo...
TWITTER Wed 6th Sep 2023
With the new year starting, we would love to welcome our new #students to our wonderful family. This is Our Lady's Catholic #secondaryschool! We, as a #communit...
TWITTER Tue 5th Sep 2023
One of our #Year11 #students, Dejah, who studied #creative #arts with us, produced this beautiful #PrayerBox for our #School #chapel, where it has a central pla...
TWITTER Thu 31st Aug 2023
Applause for our amazing ladies! 👏👏 Congratulations to all our talented students on their fantastic GCSE exam results. Your hard work and achiev...
TWITTER Fri 25th Aug 2023
Andy English, Headteacher expressed his delight at the students’ #GCSE achievements. "The outcomes are a reflection of their resilience, providing an affi...
TWITTER Thu 24th Aug 2023
What a fabulous morning celebrating the students' #GCSE success! There were beaming smiles, squeals of delight, hugs of congratulations & sighs of relief as the...
TWITTER Thu 24th Aug 2023
Our #STEMClub #students took part in an #engineeringcompetition run by @KingstonUni, addressing the question, 'If you were an Engineer, what would you do?&rsquo...
TWITTER Wed 23rd Aug 2023
Our Lady's #Alevelsresults has not only been featured once, but four times in the @hackneygazette , @CATHOLIC_NETWK , @Times_series & @CatholicUW. A massive tha...
TWITTER Tue 22nd Aug 2023
At Our Lady's, our #students #learning thrives in a nurturing and empowering environment!As a #school #community, we follow our 5 principles: peace, politeness,...
TWITTER Mon 21st Aug 2023
We want to say #congratulations to our #ALevel #student Monique for getting 3 distinctions and getting into her first choice #university, the @UniNorthants. We...
TWITTER Fri 18th Aug 2023
We want to say a massive congratulations to our #Alevel #students for their amazing results and incredibly hard work. It has been a massive pleasure to have you...
At Our Lady's, our student's health and well-being are at the heart of everything we do!Our wonderful #catering team and our new #chef Gary are committed to ser...
TWITTER Tue 15th Aug 2023
At Our Lady's, our students are unleashing their creativity and problem-solving skills during the thrilling STEM activity, the Tower Building Challenge!They had...
TWITTER Fri 11th Aug 2023
Awaiting your next masterpiece! We are incredibly proud of our ladies who demonstrate their artistic flair throughout classrooms across the school. Here are a f...
TWITTER Tue 8th Aug 2023
We are incredibly proud of our new #Year7 #students, who worked extremely well together to create a carnival headpiece using transfer-printed feathers, a #texti...
TWITTER Mon 7th Aug 2023
We are very proud of our #student Shalom in #Year8, who won the @JPFoundation award earlier this #academic year and decided to spend her prize money on a year g...
TWITTER Fri 4th Aug 2023
Exciting news: the long-awaited letters from our #French penpals have arrived!This #summer, our #Year9 #students will be sharpening their French skills and gett...
TWITTER Wed 2nd Aug 2023
This year, 11 #students from Y7-Y13 entered The Anthea Bell‘s Prize for Young Translators organised by Queen’s College Translation Exchange from @Un...
TWITTER Mon 31st Jul 2023
"#Prom was definitely the event of the year! It was a beautiful way to celebrate all of our year 11’s achievements. Thank you to the staff who helped befo...
TWITTER Sat 29th Jul 2023
As we come to the #endofterm, I want to congratulate all of our #students on a very positive year!For their resilience & positive contributions to the life of t...
1904, 11 January School opened at 14 Amhurst Park. It was used as a school for Senior pupils whilst Lordship Road continued to be used for Kindergarden. There were 38 pupils on roll of all ages. siste...
was head from 1904 to 1916 and was responsible for establishing Our Lady's at 14 Amhurst Park, having moved the school from its earlier site in Lordship Road to accommodate the growing number of stude...
No 16 Amhurst Park, 'Scarborough House', was brought on 8th September for £650
1918 - 1923
Sr Angela Butler
became headteacher in 1918. In 1923 Miss Tynan became the first lay member of staff.
1924
Early Days at Amhurst Park
The Sisters bought number 12 Amhurst Park on 19th March for £450. It had been called Heath Lee.
1937 - 1951
Mother Mary Celestine Corcoran O.S.M,
guided the school through the years of Evacuation during World War II 1939-1945, and under her direction the school roll was greatly increased. She obtained special government permission in 1949 to bu...
oversaw the enlargement of the school from 14-16 Amhurst Park to 6-16 Amhurst Park, the construction of the buildings from the present gym up to and including the chapel. Subject options and the size...
Sr. Mary John Murdock O.S.M,
oversaw change from a two form entry grammar to a three form entry comprehensive with co-operation at sixth form level. Subject options increased further; setting became t...
Our Lady's celebrates the 75th Anniversary of the school.
1994 - 2003
Mrs. Margaret Dixon
the school's first lay headteacher led the school through some exciting periods of reform and change. During her headship, Our Lady's enlarged to be four forms of entry and gained the following awards...
Mrs Jane Gray, the school's second lay headteacher led the school through the complete rebuild of the school as part of the 'Building Schools for the Future' programme. This included a two year period...
We have started 2017 with a fantastic OFSTED report, and the hard work of our students has been reflected in their mocks. These were not easy times and 2017 was a challenging year for many of us. Scho...
Mr English has been appointed as the new substantive Headteacher with effect from 19th April 2022. Mr English has been working with the school as Head of School since September 2021. He is an experien...