Leasowes Community College

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motto = Learning to Achieve Together...
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established = 1970s
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type = Comprehensive Foundation school
religion = Secular
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head = Mr J Howells
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specialist = Business and Enterprise College
street = Kent Road
city = Halesowen
county = West Midlands
country = England
postcode = B62 8PJ
LEA = Dudley
ofsted = 103861
staff = 130+
enrollment = 1200+
gender = Co-educational
lower_age = 11
upper_age = 16
houses = Cheshire, Kennedy, Nuffield, Shaftsbury
colours = Blue & Orange
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website = http://www.leasowes.dudley.gov.uk/
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Leasowes Community College (previously Leasowes High School) is a secondary school in Halesowen, West Midlands, England. It was opened in the 1970s to replace the nearby Hill & Cakemore Secondary School, and was recently awarded Community College status.

It regularly performs well in the Dudley Borough's GCSE league tables; and there is a high application rate amongst primary school leavers, meaning that some local children have to attend schools further afield, such as Earls High School and Windsor High School (Halesowen).

Leasowes has been rated "one of the happiest schools" in the area as there is extremely few cases of bullying and the pupils are happy and comfortable in school.Fact|date=April 2008 The anti-bullying action is effective and this has caused students from other schools and areas including and particurlarly the Sandwell area Brandhall to move to Leasowes, which is one of the partial causes of the schools frequent over-subscription. More recent leavers from Sandwell schools have been refused admission by the Dudley L.E.A. claiming they must give priority to students inside the Dudley area.Fact|date=April 2008

Awards

In 2008 Leasowes Community College was awarded "Outstanding Winner 2008" at the 21st Century Learning Alliance Awards. [ [http://www.21stcenturylearningalliance.com/generic.asp?cref=GP1133564 21st Century Learning Awards] ]

Specialist School Status

In September 2004 Leasowes Community College was awarded Specialist school status, giving them the title of Business and Enterprise College. This has allowed the college to expanded by the addition of a new 2.5 million pound building to provide modern and well equipped ICT leaning and teaching equipment to accommodate its Status.

The Halesowen Education Trust

The Halesowen Education Trust is the first of its kind in the UK. [cite web|url=http://www.wlv.ac.uk/Default.aspx?page=15965|title=UK’s first education trust launched|publisher=Wolverhampton University|date=December 2007] Launched in late 2007, the area’s secondary schools, The Earls High School, Windsor High School and Leasowes Community College, have formed a Trust federation with Halesowen College, with the support of the Wolverhampton University, Dudley Local Authority and business partners. Its role is to provide opportunities for progression for students from the three schools and the college, with the University encouraging them to aspire to higher education. The Trust was launched at The Earls High School on December 10 2007 with a telephone conference with Schools Minister Jim Knight. He talked about the opportunities the Trust would create and also spoke to students. Officials from the Department for Children, Schools and Families’ City Challenges – a £160 million scheme to boost schools in the Black Country, London and Greater Manchester - met the heads of the schools and members of the Trust board, along with local MP Sylvia Heal.

Trilby Multimedia

Leasowes has a close working relationship with Trilby Multimedia. In October 2004 Leasowes worked closely with Trilby to create the Mediaonics Fantasia. For two weeks The Ruskin Centre, Stourbridge, hosted Staff and Students from The Halesowen Education Trust and Industry Partners to create The Garden Of Imaginary Delights, a Mediaonics Fantasia installation on a large scale with influences from Hawkstone Park and Follies.

As of September 2008 Trilby Miltimedia will have a base 'in house' at Leasowes Community College in a newly fitted Apple Mac Suite.

History

The school originally existed at a site on Long Lane within the old secondary modern school buildings, which dated back to the early part of the 20th century. Relocation to the current site on Kent Road took place in 1987, with the buildings first being used in September of that year, and the old school was demolished within months of its closure.

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