Abraham Darby Specialist School for the Performing Arts

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name = The Abraham Darby School for the Performing Arts


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motto = "Achieving success through challenge and support"
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specialist = Performing Arts
street = Hill Top
city = Telford
county = Shropshire
country = England flagicon|England
postcode = TF7 5HX
LEA = Telford and Wrekin
ofsted = 123596
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enrollment = 1220
gender = Mixed
lower_age = 11
upper_age = 16
houses = Turner, Pritchard, Wilkinson, Northfield and Anstice
colours = Red, green, yellow, purple and blue
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website = http://www.abrahamdarby.org.uk/
website_name = www.abrahamdarby.org.ukThe Abraham Darby School for the Performing Arts in Telford, Shropshire, UK, received specialist status in performing arts in 2003. It is named after Abraham Darby III and is situated approximately one mile from the world famous Iron Bridge which he built in 1779. Outline proposals to turn Abraham Darby School into an Academy by linking it to Adams' Grammar School have been accepted by the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) and it is hoped the new Academy will be open to students by September 2008.

The current headteacher is Christine Brown. The school has 44 years of musical tradition and is home to the wind band, The Abraham Darby Showband.

Development

Between 2006 and 2008 there were significant improvements at Abraham Darby and the proposal to turn the school into an Academy gave the opportunity to increase the pace of improvement still further and ensure excellent results for students.

Links between both schools will be developed at every level and will benefit both sets of students by allowing multiple opportunities for the sharing of resources, student and teacher exchanges and leadership training through a student prefect and mentoring system. Students in both schools will be part of a new house system and will be linked across the schools by colours. Through this system, students will be brought together for sporting, musical, drama and other events.

Both schools will be underpinned by a curriculum including the provision of cutting edge ICT, but will each have a different specialism; Abraham Darby School in performing arts and possibly business and enterprise, while Adams’ Grammar School will specialise in technology and modern languages.

Abraham Darby students will be supplied with a new uniform comprising a tie and blazer bearing the Haberdashers’ crest.

This unique project, which involves Abraham Darby School, Adams’ Grammar School, Telford and Wrekin Council, the Haberdashers' Company, and the DCSF, aims to bring the two schools together under a shared ethos and set of values. The Haberdashers' Company, as sponsors, brings 300 years of experience and expertise in education and the proposals will see Abraham Darby and Adams’ Grammar linked through governors, but continuing to act as separate schools. There will also be, as part of this project, substantial capital investment in both schools and Abraham Darby will have a ‘state of the art’ new school building by 2011.

External links

* [http://abrahamdarbymusic.co.uk/ Abraham Darby School]