Tewkesbury School

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name = Tewkesbury School


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street = Ashchurch Road
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county = Gloucestershire
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postcode = GL20 8DF
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Tewkesbury School is a comprehensive school in the English town of Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire. The Head Teacher is John Reilly.

History

The school was the product of the decision taken in 1969 to make Tewkesbury switch to comprehensive secondary education, the first town in Gloucestershire to do so.

Formerly Tewkesbury had had four secondary schools: the Grammar School for Boys, located at Southwick Park to the south of the town (now the Severn-Trent Water Authority's premises); the Grammar School for Girls, known as the "High School", in Church Street (now the Abbey School); the Secondary Modern School for Boys in Chance Street (now the C of E Primary School); and Elmbury Secondary Modern School for Girls, a modern premises on the Ashchurch Road. It was the latter whose buildings were chosen to form the nucleus of a new Tewkesbury Comprehensive School, with all of the town's secondary education being concentrated on the one site, and the former schools closing.

After a major building programme, enlarging the old Elmbury School to several times its original size, the new comprehensive, known as Tewkesbury School, was opened on in 1972 with about 1,200 pupils on its books, and John Faull as its first Head Teacher.

A couple of months later, on Thursday 16 November 1972, the official opening took place, performed by Professor Dorothy Hodgkin (1910-1994), Chancellor of Bristol University from 1970 till 1988, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964 and the Copley Medal from the Royal Society in 1976.

Present day

The school has 1,413 Students, aged 11-16, with an additional 327 Sixth Form students, aged 16-18. [http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/portal/site/Internet/menuitem.7c7b38b14d870c7bb1890a01637046a0/?event=getReport&urn=115756&inspectionNumber=290329&providerCategoryID=8192&fileName=\\school\\115\\s5_115756_20070212.xml Ofsted Inspection Report January 2007] ] and is classified as a Beacon School and Technology College, it has also gained both the Sportsmark and the Artsmark, whilst also qualifying as an Investor in People.

In its most recent Ofsted inspection, in January 2007, the school attained a good result from the inspection being described as "a good school that has a number of outstanding features" with its 6th Form College achieving an "outstanding" level - The highest level assigned by Ofsted.

References

External links

* [http://www.tewkesburyschool.org/ School website]