Astrea Academy Dearne

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Astrea Academy Dearne
Address
Astrea Academy Dearne
Goldthorpe Road

Goldthorpe
,
South Yorkshire
,
S63 9EW

England
Coordinates 53°31′44″N1°18′19″W / 53.52890°N 1.30526°W / 53.52890; -1.30526
Information
Type Academy
Local authority Barnsley
TrustAstrea Academy Trust
Department for Education URN 146501 Tables
Ofsted Reports
Head teacherE. Child
Gender Coeducational
Age11to 16
Enrolment1,157
Houses4
Former namesDearneside Secondary Modern School
Dearneside Comprehensive School (until August 1991)
The Dearne High School (September 1991–August 2008)
The Dearne High – A Specialist Humanities College (September 2008–December 2010)
The Dearne Advanced Learning Centre (January 2011–January 2019)
Website https://www.astreadearne.org/

Astrea Academy Dearne (legal name The Dearne Academy) is a coeducational secondary school located in the Dearne Valley, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England. [1]

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It caters mainly for pupils from the Goldthorpe, Thurnscoe and Bolton-on-Dearne areas of Barnsley. It currently has around 1,157 pupils aged 11–16 years.

History

The school was previously known as Dearneside Secondary Modern and then Dearneside Comprehensive School until its merger with Thurnscoe Comprehensive School to create The Dearne High School in September 1991. It received specialist humanities status in 2008 [2] making it The Dearne High – A Specialist Humanities College.

In 2007 the percentage of pupils gaining five A* to C grades rose 18% to 54%, [3] but in 2008 the school was one of eight schools in Barnsley to be told by the government that they were not meeting national targets on the number of pupils gaining five A*–C GCSEs. [4] In 2008 the school published a book of short stories, Out of the Shadows: An Anthology of Fantasy Stories, which sold in high street stores and was among the top three fantasy books on Amazon, and in 2009 pupils at the school produced a graphic novel called Fools Gold. [5] [6]

A new school building was constructed during 2010 next to the existing school for £29 million as part of Barnsley Council's "Building Schools for the Future" project, and the new site opened in January 2011 as The Dearne Advanced Learning Centre. [7] [8] [9]

The school had also raised over £4,700,000 for charities across Yorkshire.

In 2011 the school was one of two in the country to send pupils to a remembrance event in Ypres, Belgium, as part of the Royal British Legion's Poppy Travel scheme. [10] The school was awarded £50,000 in 2011 by the Heritage Lottery Fund. [11]

Previously a community school administered by Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council, in February 2019 Dearne Advanced Learning Centre converted to academy status, sponsored by Astrea Academy Trust. The school's legal name is The Dearne Academy, but it uses the name Astrea Academy Dearne publicly.

Thurnscoe Comprehensive School was a coeducational community comprehensive school in Thurnscoe which was founded in 1970.

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References

  1. ↑ "Welcome to Astrea Academy Dearne". astreadearne.org.uk. Retrieved 21 December 2021.
  2. ↑ "Pupils get a taste of life in the war years". South Yorkshire Times. 23 April 2008. Retrieved 25 October 2011.
  3. ↑ "Soaring to GCSE high". The Star. Yorkshire. 24 August 2007. Retrieved 25 October 2011.
  4. ↑ "Eight schools must do better". Sheffield Telegraph. 1 July 2008. Retrieved 25 October 2011.
  5. ↑ Ritchie, Meabh (11 December 2009). "Comic belief". TES. Retrieved 25 October 2011.
  6. ↑ "Young authors launch their latest graphic novel". South Yorkshire Times. 15 December 2009. Retrieved 25 October 2011.
  7. ↑ Vessey, Alex (20 January 2011). "Happy New Year... happy new school!". South Yorkshire Times. Retrieved 25 October 2011.
  8. ↑ "Building Schools for the Future". Barnsley Council. 10 October 2011. Retrieved 25 October 2011.
  9. ↑ "School reaches new neights[sic]". South Yorkshire Times. 9 February 2010. Retrieved 25 October 2011.
  10. ↑ "A date in Belgium". The Epworth Bells. 6 October 2011. Archived from the original on 5 April 2012. Retrieved 25 October 2011.
  11. ↑ "School's cash grant celebration". South Yorkshire Times. 12 October 2011. Retrieved 25 October 2011.
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