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Despite many changes and challenges Coloma continues to grow and deliver excellence in education. Whilst academic results are outstanding, life at Coloma is about much more than success in the classroom. There is a wide range of extra-curricular and service-related activities. These develop specific skills but equally importantly build up values and friendships that girls leaving Coloma to take with them for the rest of their lives. Although in many ways Coloma is a very formal and traditional school it equally does not standstill. Facilities are constantly being updated and teachers at the school are always looking for new and innovative ways of including technology within their lessons. We are proud of our Comprehensive intake and although results are comparable and sometimes better than similarly sized grammar schools what is important is that every girl fulfills her potential, works hard, and does her best. There is a well-developed pastoral system and developing community links that recognize the school’s importance both within the Catholic and local communities. The recently completed Jubilee Centre, the 3G Floodlight all-weather pitch, and the Winton House Performing arts Centre have already expanded the range of activity on the site and support the long-standing successes in charity fundraising and community service activities. In 2010 the Guardian recognized Coloma as being the best Girls’ Comprehensive school in the country. This is what we believe in and will continue to strive to achieve and maintain but we will also reach out to others, for example, to help other schools and their staff and pupils achieve similar success. Partnerships with The Good Shepherd RC Primary School and the current sponsorship of The Quest Academy – Coloma Trust and The Archbishop Lanfranc Academy – Coloma Trust are striking examples of Coloma’s outreach intentions. As we look forward we continue to keep all that is good of the old and develop the best of the new. Standing still is not an option. We stride forward into the future with great confidence knowing that the standards and values that we take with us were right in the past, are still valid today, and will remain so in the future. Coloma is a community of staff, pupils, parents, and governors where each is recognized as a highly valued individual. The school aims to foster a deepening awareness of Christian faith and service alongside an understanding and tolerance of other creeds and cultures. We aim to provide an opportunity for the balanced development of the student's intellectual, emotional, physical, and spiritual qualities and to foster an appreciation of those things which add quality to life, by developing creative and artistic gifts and skills. We intend to develop the potential of all students by encouraging them to search for knowledge and truth. We seek to be a place of Christian service where all are sensitive to the needs of others where there is a determination to promote human rights and a recognition of the corresponding duties and responsibilities where a sense of justice is fostered and an awareness that all people have an equal value. We aim to work in partnership with the home and the parish, to help all members of the school community to live the Gospel values of reconciliation and forgiveness and to respond in a Christian way to the challenges of life with its joys and sorrows. Thus, it is hoped that each one will be able to achieve a loving relationship with God and all creation, to make the appropriate moral decisions, and to grow towards mature membership of the Church. View full school