We held a fabulously festive Christmas Market at lunchtime with students setting up stalls and selling a range of gifts and goodies including homemade jewellery, sweet treats, handmade crochet items and hot chocolate! These entrepreneurial students are taking part in our ‘Starter for 10′ fundraiser where they have up to 5 months to raise as...Read More
We have just been crowned Comprehensive School of the Year for Academic Excellence AND Comprehensive School of the Year in the Southeast! We are immensely proud to celebrate yet another amazing achievement for our school. We have been recognised by The Sunday Times with not one, but two highly prestigious accolades in their annual, “Parent...Read More
Dame Alice Owen’s School is delighted to announce yet another magnificent set of GCSE examination results. This year, 29% of all grades were awarded at grade 9, with a further 24% at grade 8. In total, an amazing 72% of results were grades 9–7. We are also proud that 94% of our students achieved at...Read More
The anti-bullying alliance recently shared our fabulous anti-bullying video which has now gone viral with over 140k views! The video is set to be used as a teaching tool in other schools next academic year to help young people think about the language they use. @antibullyingallianceRead More
Our A level artists recently visited the beautiful metropolitan city of Madrid in search of inspiration for their respective themes, Contrast and Union. We were fortunate enough to view some of Spain’s most famous paintings including Picasso’s Guernica in the The Reina Sofia, one of the three golden triangle of Museums including The Thyssen-Bornemisza and...Read More
Dame Alice Owen’s School is considered the happiest secondary school in Potters Bar, Welwyn and Hatfield according to a recent table of the ‘Happiest schools ranked by Ofsted’ compiled by The Sunday Times, with 97% of parents saying their child was happy here!Read More
Last week, students and staff at Dame Alice Owen’s School were featured in an exciting segment on The One Show. The feature highlighted the school’s involvement in the Bootstrap study, an international research project exploring how mobile phone use affects young people’s mental health. It was an incredible opportunity for some of our students to...Read More
A group of year 13 Spanish students recently went on a trip to Granada. They took part in intensive, daily Spanish lessons that really tested their resilience – they threw themselves into it with great enthusiasm! Visits to the Alhambra Palace and beautiful Albaycín created unique memories for life. The visit to the town of...Read More
On Tuesday 7th January, a group of our students had the exciting opportunity to represent the school on BBC 5 Live. Nico S (Year 9), Safa H (Year 8), Anya A (Year 8), Thomas S (Year 9), and Stanley M (Year 9) took part in an interview that highlighted their insightful perspectives on the impact...Read More
We have been chosen, by The Sunday Times Parent Power Guide 2025, to be the Comprehensive School of the Year 2025 (Southeast) alongside St Andrew’s Catholic School, Surrey. Widely acknowledged as the most authoritative survey of the country’s top schools, the guide places Dame Alice Owen’s School as the highest performing non fully selective school...Read More
