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St Mungo’s Academy is a 6 year secondary school catering for the Roman Catholic children from its catchment area in the east end of Glasgow – Bridgeton, Calton, Dalmarnock, Parkhead, Dennistoun and Riddrie. Our roll is approximately 1080 and we have 5 partner primary schools.
Last year, our attendance figure was just below the Glasgow City average at 86%. Our exclusion figure was below the national and Glasgow city average.
Leadership of Change
Last year, we continued to build on pupil leadership opportunities, such as our Rights Respecting Group, Equalities and Equity Group and we re-established our Young Leaders of Learning. Young people have led many events and activities across the school this year including our annual culture celebration, Learning Community Mass, charity Bingo and Quiz nights and lunch time fundraising activities. Our Young Leaders of Learning have worked with another secondary school in Glasgow, visiting them to look at different aspects of school life. They have met with the Head Teacher on their return to discuss their findings.
Many teachers within St. Mungo’s are working with other organisations such as Education Scotland, SQA and Glasgow City Council and share their experience and expertise to help plan new experiences for pupils and provide training opportunities for other staff.
Learning, Teaching and Assessment
Positive relationships exist in almost all classes between staff and young people, resulting in keen and motivated learners. In most classes, young people are engaged in their learning and appropriately supported and challenged to achieve their best.
We continue to work to support the needs of all young people in our classes through using a variety of methods to capture their progress, adapting teaching strategies and using support from our English as an Additional Language and Support for Learning departments.
The use of our new Tracking and Monitoring tool has allowed greater analysis of how young people are making progress in their learning and sharing this with families. This also allows us to see where young people require some additional support to help them achieve their best.
Ensuring Wellbeing, Equality and Inclusion
All staff have received training from Glasgow City Council in Anti- Racism Education and this has helped our school community increase awareness and feel more confident in addressing any issues. We continue to work with our Equalities and Equity pupil group to celebrate the diversity of our school community and find ways to broaden our curriculum to reflect this. In our pupil survey in April 2025, there was a decrease in the number of young people who said they had experienced racist incidents. Of those who had, almost all agreed that the school dealt with the incident well.
We were recently re-accredited as a Gold Rights Respecting School. The inspection report recognised the confidence of young people speaking about rights, the passion of staff arounds rights respecting work and the continued commitment of the school community in embedding Children’s Rights in policy as practice as key strengths.
Last year our school achieved the ‘Keeping the Promise’ award, recognising the work our school community has done to support Care Experienced learners.
Raising Attainment and Achievement
Our S4-6 continue to achieve well in their SQA examinations with 78% of S4 pupils achieving at least one qualification at level 5/National 5 and 24% achieving at least five qualifications at this level. In S5, 44% of pupils achieved at least one Higher/Level 6 qualification with 8.5% achieving at least 5 qualifications at this level.
Most school leavers achieved at least Level 4 literacy and numeracy, while the majority achieved Level 5 literacy and numeracy. This has been a steady improvement over the last 4 years as we build on the literacy and numeracy interventions established in primary and we continue to ensure that all young people who require additional support have been provided exam supports to ensure they are able to reach their potential.
For our young people leaving school, almost all (97%) moved on to a positive, sustained destination. This figure reflects the high number of employability opportunities that are provided by our Developing the Young Workforce co-ordinator who has organised visits to a large number of employers around the city.
Impact of Pupil Equity Funding
This year, our Pupil Equity Fund has supported:
- Increased counselling provision for young people
- Holiday Hunger programme for young people during the school holidays
- Opportunities for groups to attend exhibitions, events at universities and colleges and school trips linked to various subject areas
- Access for all pupils to the uniform bank and food bank
- A broader range of subjects that can be studied in St. Mungo’s Academy
- Access to our Campus Police Officer for young people and families as well as Police inputs on safety issues
- Activities such as the Voices for Equity programme, organised by our school librarian which saw young people working with other schools across the city
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