Olsj

What Olsj does

Our Lady & St Joseph Catholic Primary School (OLSJ) is a state-funded Catholic primary school operating under the Diocese of Westminster, located at Wade's Place in Poplar, Tower Hamlets, London (E14 0DE). The school delivers education from Nursery through Year 6 (ages 3-11) to a diverse East London community, with comprehensive provision for Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) and English as an Additional Language (EAL). Curriculum scope includes core subjects (English, Maths, Science), Religious Education aligned with the Diocese, STEM, Music, PE, French, Art, Design and Technology, Computing, Philosophy for Children (P4C), and Building Resilience to Extremism through Enquiry (BREE). The school operates extended services including a Breakfast Club and After School Care, and maintains admissions through the Tower Hamlets council eAdmissions portal, requiring a Supplementary Information Form and Certificate of Catholic Practice issued by the local parish priest.

The school's digital infrastructure integrates a suite of third-party educational technology platforms rather than proprietary systems: CPOMS for safeguarding and pastoral care, Accelerated Reader for reading comprehension, Numbots and Times Tables Rock Stars for maths fluency, Phonics Bug Club for phonics, Bedrock Learning for literacy, Letter-join for handwriting, Tootoot for pupil voice and welfare, SPaG Tests for grammar assessment, Third Space Maths Hub for tutoring, and Arbor for school management information. The school also operates internally hosted platforms including OLSJ Blogs (WordPress-based class and subject blogs across year groups and curriculum areas) and OLSJ Apps (Google Sites hub), plus a Virtual Tour for prospective families. No public API, SDK, or developer-facing integrations are offered.

OLSJ is funded primarily through Local Authority government commissioning, supplemented by school meal fees, breakfast club charges, and after-school care fees. Pricing is not publicly disclosed. The school holds multiple quality accreditations including Healthy Schools London Gold, Inclusion Quality Mark, Music Mark, Primary Science Quality Mark, Disability Confident Committed, and Rail Safe Friendly. A positive Ofsted inspection was conducted in 2022. No revenue, headcount, financial reporting figures, or founding date are publicly disclosed in the source material.

Name

Olsj

Legal name

Our Lady & St Joseph Catholic Primary School

Website

https://olsj.towerhamlets.sch.uk

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Our Lady & St Joseph Catholic Primary School (OLSJ) is a state-funded Catholic primary school in Poplar, Tower Hamlets, London, under the Diocese of Westminster, serving children aged 3-11 (Nursery to Year 6) with comprehensive SEND and EAL provision and a broad curriculum spanning RE, STEM, arts, and modern languages.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Primary Education

NAICS

Elementary and Secondary Schools (61111), Educational Services (611)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200), Services-Child Day Care Services (8351)

akta.pro primary industry

Faith-Based (Religious) K–12 Schools (EDAJABAC)

akta.pro secondary industries

Faith-Based Preschools (EDACABAF), Faith-Based Before/After Care Programs (Early Years) (EDACAHAE), Public Elementary Schools (EDAJAAAB)

Keywords

• Primary education services
• Catholic primary school
• Early years education
• SEND inclusive education
• Religious education curriculum

Headquarters

HQ city

London

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Supply Chain

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

OLSJ (Our Lady & St Joseph Catholic Primary School) delivers state-funded Catholic primary education from Nursery through Year 6 to children aged 3 to 11 in the Poplar area of Tower Hamlets, London. The school provides a broad curriculum including core academics, Religious Education, STEM, Music, PE, French, Art, Design & Technology, Philosophy for Children, and Catholic life formation, alongside dedicated SEND and EAL support led by a Head of Inclusion and phase-specific SENDCos. Extended services include a breakfast club, after-school care, school meals, and a safeguarding culture underpinned by the CPOMS welfare system and Diocese of Westminster oversight.

Product overview

OLSJ (Our Lady & St Joseph Catholic Primary School) is a primary school in Tower Hamlets, London, providing education from Nursery through Year 6. The school offers a comprehensive curriculum including core subjects (English, Maths, Science), Religious Education, STEM, Music, PE, French, Art, Design and Technology, and Philosophy for Children (P4C). The school's digital offerings include OLSJ Blogs (a WordPress-based platform with class blogs for Nursery through Year 6, plus subject-specific blogs for RE, Music, PE, STEM, Arts, and School Council), OLSJ Apps (a Google Sites hub), a Virtual Tour, and CPOMS safeguarding system. The school also provides extended services including Breakfast Club and After School Care, and maintains partnerships with various educational technology platforms for literacy, numeracy, and assessment.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Catholic Primary Education (Nursery to Year 6) Full-time Catholic state-funded primary schooling for children aged 3 to 11, covering Nursery, Reception, Key Stage 1 (Years 1-2) and Key Stage 2 (Years 3-6), with a curriculum including English, Maths, Science, Religious Education, STEM, Music, PE, French, Art, Design & Technology, and Philosophy for Children (P4C). Open to Catholic families (priority with Certificate of Catholic Practice) and families of other faiths or no faith through an inclusive admissions policy.

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration14 records

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Nine partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Diocese of WestminstercoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerOLSJ is a Catholic primary school under the Diocese of Westminster. The Diocese provides religious oversight, approves admissions policies (including the Certificate of Catholic Practice for admissions), and supports the school's Catholic mission and RE curriculum. The school follows the Diocese's religious education framework.
• Tower Hamlets Education Partnership (THEP)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration with the Tower Hamlets Education Partnership for professional development, curriculum resources, and educational best practices shared across schools in the borough.
• London East Teacher Training Alliance (LETTA)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership supporting teacher training and professional development for staff at OLSJ, contributing to the school's ability to attract and develop high-quality teachers.
• Langdon Park SchoolminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerOLSJ Year 5 students attended an after-school STEM project at Langdon Park School, collaborating with surrounding primary schools to create an A.I. product and present ideas. OLSJ students also presented their project at Langdon Park School.
• Magic BreakfastminorOthersCharitable partnership providing nutritious breakfast food to pupils at OLSJ, ensuring children are not too hungry to learn at the start of the school day.
• SETpoint LondonminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerSETpoint London delivered a chemistry workshop for Year 5 students during their trip to the Soanes Centre, supporting hands-on science learning and STEM engagement.
• The Soanes CentreminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerYear 5 students visited the Soanes Centre in Mile End for a science trip, exploring properties of materials, participating in chemistry workshops, and engaging in outdoor learning activities.
• Poplar and Limehouse ParishcoreOthersThe school operates within the Poplar and Limehouse Parish boundary. The Parish Priest provides the Certificate of Catholic Practice required for school admissions, linking the school's Catholic intake process to the local parish community.
• Mudchute FarmminorOthersSt Patrick's class (Reception) visited Mudchute Farm for an educational trip, where Farmer Tom showed the children around and taught them about different animals, with opportunities to feed the animals and have a picnic.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Others

• Arbor Education: School MIS vendor whose platform OLSJ uses for admissions, records, and pupil welfare. Ecosystem-adjacent rather than competitive, but critical to operations and a comparable UK EdTech operating in the same buyer segment (UK primary schools).
• Renaissance Learning: Provider of Accelerated Reader, the reading assessment and practice platform integrated into OLSJ's literacy curriculum. A product peer only in the sense that the same product is sold into comparable primary schools; not a school operator.
• CPOMS (Edukey Education Ltd): Provider of the safeguarding system OLSJ uses for pupil welfare monitoring. Serves the same UK primary school buyer base and underpins OLSJ's safeguarding posture, making it an enabling peer within the school's operational stack.

Direct peers

• St Edmund's Catholic Primary School: Another Tower Hamlets Catholic primary school serving a similar Nursery–Year 6 cohort under the Diocese of Westminster. Directly comparable admissions catchment, demographic, and funding profile, making it the closest functional peer for enrollment and parent-choice benchmarking.
• Bishop Challoner Catholic Collegiate School: Catholic all-through school in Tower Hamlets serving the same Catholic feeder community. While secondary-aged, it operates under the Diocese of Westminster and shares the same Catholic applicant pool and parish-linked admissions logic, making it a peer for pupil-pipeline analysis.

Regional players

• St Mary and St Michael Catholic Primary School: Catholic primary school in the neighbouring East London/Tower Hamlets area operating under the same Diocese of Westminster framework. Comparable faith-based intake, curriculum, and inclusion model, though drawn from a slightly overlapping but distinct catchment.

Broad incumbents

• Diocese of Westminster Education Service: The governing body overseeing OLSJ and a network of Catholic schools across London and Hertfordshire. Comparable in mission and admissions policy framework; functions as the broader Catholic education ecosystem to which OLSJ contributes and from which it draws governance, RE curriculum, and admissions standards.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/olsj

Compliance7 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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