To report an illness on the day, please use the Arbor app or Portal to log the absence by 09.15am.  If your child is ill for more than one day, please update the Arbor app or Portal each day to confirm your child's absence.  

If your child is absent frequently because of illness, the school may ask for medical guidance to make sure the right support is given.

A truancy call will be sent upon any unknown student absence.

Based upon the Public Health Agency guidelines, students who have experienced vomiting and/or diarrhoea should be kept away from school for 48 hours from their last episode. Please notify the school each day to confirm your child's absence.

Medical or Dental Appointments

To report a medical or dental appointment on the day, please use the Arbor app or portal.  For all other absences, wherever possible, please inform the school in advance by emailing absent@st-peters.surrey.sch.uk (Years 7-11 only – for Sixth Form, see below).

All students in Years 7-11 must sign in and out of School Reception for health and safety purposes.  Sixth Form students must sign in and out on the iPad in Sixth Form.

Sixth Form Absence

To report a medical or dental appointment on the day, please use the Arbor app or portal.    For all other absences/appointments please email or telephone as follows:

E: 6thform@st-peters.surrey.sch.uk

T: 01483 484993

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Our annual Sixth Form Open Evening will take place on Thursday 25th September at 7pm with a short presentation, followed by our fantastic subject fair.  Our latest prospectus is below and please click here to go to our Sixth Form website. 

We look forward to meeting you soon. 

Mrs Rana-Brown, Head of Sixth Form, was thrilled! She commented, "I am so proud of this year group. They have proven that dedication and hard work pays off. We will really miss them next year but wish them well as they get ready for their next steps – 42% of them are going to Russell Group universities, which is excellent.”

The inspection covers three main areas: Catholic Life and Mission, Religious Education and Collective Worship that contribute to an overall effectiveness grade for the quality of Catholic education provided by the school.  I am delighted to announce that we received a grade 1 (outstanding) for every subcategory resulting in an outstanding judgement for overall effectiveness.

Clearly, this is great news for our school, for the community and for the quality of Catholic education in the area.  I would like to thank and pay tribute to all of our staff for their dedication in delivering the outcomes stated above. 

Special thanks go to our RE team and Chaplaincy, led by Tom Sellars.  Thank you to all families for your ongoing support for the school, your child and the partnership we enjoy.  Finally, thank you to all our young people who we all devote so much time and energy too, but who make the community at St Peter’s the special place it is to study, work and pray.

Whilst we are very proud of the outcome, we always endeavour to pursue our mission to be ‘Christ to all’ and ensure your children receive the very best experience now and in the future.

God bless.

The Surrey schools named the best in the South East and ranked in the UK's top 50. 

The new Fairer schools index aims to improve on official DfE league tables and highlight teachers' great work

News by Amy Sharpe Lauren Cole-LomasMultimedia Reporter Rob Parsons Paul Gallagher 

05:01, 9 JAN 2025

Surrey's top schools have been revealed in a Fairer Schools guide which gives a more accurate picture into the places where teachers are making a difference and going above and beyond for their pupils. Each school in the UK has been included in the index, which highlights staff who are making a positive impact.

Additional performance metrics have also been included to eradicate unfair biases against schools in deprived areas. Two schools from Surrey top the South East rankings, revealed exclusively by The Mirror, with another featuring in the top 10. One Surrey school has been named as one of the highest climbers in the region, compared to the P8 score, which is the measure of how much a pupil has progressed in a five year period.

The region's best schools also feature in the Top 50 Best Schools in England, which is an outstanding achievement. St Peter's Catholic School in Guildford has been crowned the Best School in the South East. It ranks at number 15 in England's top 50.

This secondary school and sixth form takes pupils from Year 7 and does not operate with a catchment area, but it does help to have children at one of its six feeder schools. With an Outstanding Ofsted rating from May 2024, the school has cropped up time and time again as one of Surrey's best. The school was named as Surrey's top school for pupil progress last year.

We shall be starting at 7pm with a short presentation by our Headteacher and Head of Sixth Form in the Dining Hall followed by the subject fair.

The Open Morning will take place on Wednesday 16th October 2024, starting at 8.45am.

To register your interest in attending these events, please complete this form: https://forms.office.com/e/W3QGJwbRLB

• Guildford (GU1), Guildford

• £10.42 per hour term time only- 30 hours per week

In addition to the above, the Learning Support Team will be located in the Library and the Admissions Team in the Dining Hall. 

Our Sixth Form and Year 9 tour guides will be available from the Dining Hall and the Headteacher will give three short presentations in St Cecilia's at approximately 6:15pm, 6:45pm and 7:15pm. A bell will be rung two minutes before the talk commences. 

Pre-booking is not required for this event.

Parking will be available on-site and all visitors will be directed where to park on arrival. 

In fact, the school results are excellent and are better than our attainment in summer 2019 which is where nationally results are most closely aligned. 92% of students gained 5 GCSEs at grade 4 or above and 85% gained 5 GCSEs at grade 5 or above. 55% of all entries are grade 9-7.

We would like to pay tribute to all our staff who supported the students throughout the last five years, to the parents who have shared the anxiety and pressure whilst trying to remain calm but especially to the students and their fabulous talents and sheer hard work that enabled them to be awarded the grades they deserved.

We are delighted to congratulate our Year 13 students for this year. We are incredibly proud of all they achieved, especially considering that this was the first round of public examinations this group had ever sat due to the pandemic. They showed perseverance and resilience across the two years of their A Level and BTEC studies.

As the government announced, schools have seen a return to pre-pandemic results in 2019. We are pleased to say we have slightly increased our attainment from 2019. Our final grades were as follows:

• 45% A*-A
• 73% A*-B
• 90% A*-C
• 46% of our students are going on to Russell Group Universities from those that applied.

Mr Miller said "I am so proud of all our students, for everything they have achieved over the last two years and the fantastic outcomes they are celebrating today.  It was a joy to share their good news with both students and parents and confirm all the exciting destinations they are headed for.  The students worked incredibly hard through, what has been, a tough four years for them and it has paid off with results to be proud of.  I’d like to pay tribute to our staff who have worked relentlessly to support our young people and nurture them through this part of their journey: a true team effort – well done to all.  Thanks as well to all our parents/carers who play such an important part in the two years of Sixth form.  Congratulations to all and we wish you all the best for the next phase.”

If you would like to explore more about our Sixth Form, please click here