The Woodlands School, Coventry

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name = The Woodlands School


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established = 1954
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type = Comprehensive
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specialist = Sports College
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street = Broad Lane
city = Coventry
county = West Midlands
country = England
postcode = CV5 7FF
LEA = Coventry City Council
ofsted = 103730
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enrollment = 1,011 (approx.)
gender = Boys only
lower_age = 11
upper_age = 18
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website = http://www.thewoodlandsschool.org/
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The Woodlands School and Sports College is a boys school situated in west Coventry in the West Midlands, England. The school was purpose-built in 1954 as one of the first comprehensive schools in the country, by the collaboration of two local educational establishments, Templars School and Coventry Technical College. Historic links to these two can be seen in The Woodlands School coat of arms. Pupils are aged between 11 to 18. It has remained a boys school; girls go to the nearby Tile Hill Wood School. In 2003, the school was awarded specialist status as a Sport College. In the main building there is a copy of the "Guernica" painting, which illustrates a stylised view of the 1937 Bombing of Guernica in Basque Spain by German and Italian bombers in the Spanish Civil War, in which the artist Picaso clearly expressed his abhorrence to the military suppression of the Spanish people. [cite web |author = Colm Tóibín |url = http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1764206,00.html |title = The Art of War |publisher = The Guardian |date=2006-04-29 |accessdate=2007-10-02]

In 2003, Woodlands School adopted a new system where all the pupils take their SAT's and GCSE's a year early compared to most other secondary schools in England. The percentage of pupils gaining five grade A*-C GCSEs rose from 36% in 2007 to 61.7% in 2008.Fact|date=September 2008

Houses

The school makes use of the house system and every pupil being registered into one of them. Initially a total of ten houses were established, they were named after famous citizens of Coventry. The school now has seven houses. Out of the original ten houses, four of the houses were closed, and Thompson and West are additions named after two former head teachers of the school.

Original ten houses
* Brooke
* Cresswell
* Ellis
* Gibson
* Malins
* Mclachlan
* Perins
* Smith-Clarke
* Sparkes
* StringerCurrent seven houses
* Cresswell
* Ellis
* Mclachlan
* Sparkes
* Stringer
* Thompson
* West

Former pupils

*David Moorcroft (born 1953), athlete
*Kevin Reilly (born 1958), British Fencing County Coach
*Neil Back (born 1969), rugby union player who has played for the English national team
*Danny Grewcock (born 1972), rugby union player who has played for the English national team
*Clive Owen (born 1964), world famous actor

References

External links

* [http://www.woodlands.coventry.sch.uk/ School website]
* [http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.woodlands.coventry.sch.uk/ Website Archives]