Belfairs Academy

Last updated

Belfairs Academy
Address
Belfairs Academy
Highlands Boulevard

Leigh-on-Sea
,
Essex
,
SS9 3TG

England
Coordinates 51°33′01″N0°38′25″E / 51.55024°N 0.64015°E / 51.55024; 0.64015
Information
Type Academy
MottoShaping the Future
Established1955
Local authority Southend-on-Sea City Council
Department for Education URN 138174 Tables
Ofsted Reports
Chair of GovernorsDominic Carver
PrincipalBev Williams
GenderCoeducational
Age11to 18
Enrolment1324
HousesResolute – Defender – Endeavour
Colour(s)   Maroon and light blue
Website belfairsacademy.org.uk

Belfairs Academy (formerly Belfairs High School) is a non-selective secondary school with academy status in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex. [1]

Contents

Inspection judgements

As Belfairs High School, the school was inspected by Ofsted in 2010 and judged Good. [2]

Following conversion to an academy, the school was inspected in 2013 and judged Good. [3]

A short inspection took place in 2016, and found that the school continued to be good. [4] [5] As of 2021, this is the most recent inspection.

History

In March 1955, UK Minister of Education David Eccles joined local dignitaries at Belfairs High School to open eight schools in the County Borough of Southend-on-Sea.[ citation needed ]

The opening of these eight schools in the Southend-on-Sea borough would "represent an addition of 3,520 school places." During this period, demand upon the council to increase school locations was driven by a number of factors.[ citation needed ]

During the war, the County Borough suffered relatively little damage to school buildings. Only two schools were severely bombed, and the post-war urgent need for new school places was therefore only attributable in a small part by war damage. The greatest need has been to provide schools for the increased numbers of children of school age, due to an increased total population, the higher birth rate, and the raising of the school leaving age from 14 to 15 in 1947.[ citation needed ]

With an increase in total school places across the borough, a large proportion of these places were created in the development of Belfairs High School. Belfairs was originally conceived as a comprehensive school for 1,600 boys but due to the 'changes in national economy and the need for more school places' the site was developed into two 'Modern Secondary Schools,' Belfairs High School for boys and Belfairs High School for girls.[ citation needed ]

The two schools were created to serve the area of Leigh-on-Sea, with a zone extending from the western boundary of the County Borough to Southbourne Grove and Crowstone Road. They replaced the former West Leigh High School, which was part of an "all-age" school built before the First World War.[ citation needed ]

In July 2009, the school was given permission for a £24 million rebuild. Belfairs High School was the only school in Southend to be completely rebuilt under the previous government's 'Building School's for the Future' scheme. [6]

In September 2011, the newly built school building was opened.[ citation needed ]

In March 2012, Belfairs was granted Academy Status coinciding with a newly appointed head, taking responsibility from Headteacher John Duprey, Beverly Williams.[ citation needed ]

In January 2015, it was announced that Belfairs Academy and Cecil Jones College would be combined to form an academy trust with Beverly Williams as Executive Headteacher, headquartered at Belfairs Academy Site.[ citation needed ]

Academic standards

Students' achievement is good with 69% of students achieving 5 A*-C GCSE grades (including English and Maths) in 2013 against a national average of 59%. [7]

Notable former students

Related Research Articles

St Aldhelm's Academy is a co-educational secondary school serving the Rossmore, Parkstone, Newtown, Wallisdown and Alderney areas of Poole, Dorset, England.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sheldon School</span> Academy in Chippenham, Wiltshire, England

Sheldon School is a large mixed secondary school and sixth form in Chippenham, Wiltshire for students aged 11 to 18 and is the largest school in Wiltshire. Since April 2011, it has been an Academy. It is one of three secondary schools in Chippenham, the others being Abbeyfield and Hardenhuish. The school is headed by Peter Lynch, former Headteacher of Bradley Stoke Community School, who was appointed in September 2023.The school is off the Hardenhuish Lane in the southern region of Hardenhuish Park, which is all that separates it from Hardenhuish School to the north.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">The Hurst School</span> Community school in Tadley, Hampshire, England

The Hurst School, previously The Hurst Community College, is a state secondary school in the village of Baughurst, within the county of Hampshire in England. Jayne McLaren is the Headteacher and was appointed in January 2021. The school has just over 1,000 students.

The Burgate School and Sixth Form is an 11–18 academy school. The school is situated in Fordingbridge, Hampshire, and at the current time has approximately 1000 students. The school achieves results above the national average at all levels. GCSE results in 2018 were significantly improved on previous years with a Progress 8 score which ranked the school third in Hampshire.

King Charles I School is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form located in the town of Kidderminster, Worcestershire, England.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Range High School</span> Academy in Liverpool, Merseyside, England

Range High School is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form located in Formby, Merseyside, England. It was built during the early 1970s after a contracted period of delays and was necessary due to the increasing overcrowding at nearby Formby High School.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Chessington School</span> Academy in Chessington, London, England

Chessington School is a co-educational secondary school with a sports centre, in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, Greater London. The current building was opened in September 2009.

St Thomas More High School is a Roman Catholic bilateral academy school located in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, England. It caters for boys between the ages of 11 and 18 but has a mixed sixth form. The school is larger than the average sized secondary academy. 1,027 students were on the roll in September 2015. The majority of pupils come from local Roman Catholic schools but the school does accept pupils from other Christian denominations. The school is located in the Diocese of Brentwood and the serving bishop is Rt. Revd. Alan Williams. The school's patron saint is St Thomas More, which is mainly celebrated annually on St Thomas More Day.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Southend High School for Boys</span> School in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England

Southend High School for Boys, also known by its initialism SHSB, is an 11–18 boys selective secondary Grammar school situated along Prittlewell Chase in Prittlewell, in the north-west of Southend-on-Sea, England. It teaches students from the age of 11 through to 18 years old, and admission to the school is dependent upon their performance in selective 11+ tests set by the Consortium of Selective Schools in Essex (CSSE). It converted to Academy status on 1 February 2011, and has autonomous control over itself. Student numbers have been increasing over recent years, and, as of academic year 2023–2024, just over 1,300 students on roll, with over 420 of them in the co–educational Sixth Form.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sutton Community Academy</span> Academy in Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, England

Sutton Community Academy is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form with academy status, located in Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, England.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Oasis Academy Sholing</span> Academy in Southampton, Hampshire, England

Oasis Academy Sholing, previously known as The Sholing Technology College and, before that, Sholing Girls' School, is an academy school in east Southampton, Hampshire, in the south of England. The school is for girls and boys aged 11 to 16 years. The school was founded as Sholing Middle Road Girls' School between 1910 and 1912. It became a specialist technical college in 2003, though still remained a girls school. It became an Oasis Charitable Trust academy in September 2018 with a mixed boys and girls entry.

Caversham Primary School is a state primary school in Caversham, a suburb of Reading, Berkshire in England. The school was established in 1907 and educates around 450 children between the ages of 4 and 11.

Abbs Cross Academy and Arts College is situated on Abbs Cross Lane, Hornchurch, in the London Borough of Havering, England. Abbs Cross Academy and Arts College is an Arts College. The school has a strong link with Havering Sixth Form College in which a majority of its students go on to attend. The School's Headteacher is Mrs Nicola Jethwa, who took on the role of Acting Headteacher but later became the Headteacher. Abbs Cross school was opened in 1958 as a mixed Technical High School, and was enlarged in 1973. Abbs Cross Academy and Arts College joined the "Loxford School Trust" on Tuesday 2 February 2016.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Richmond Park Academy</span>

Richmond Park Academy is a secondary school with an academy status in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. The school is part of the Academies Enterprise Trust academy chain.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ridgeway High School, Birkenhead</span> Secondary school in Birkenhead, Merseyside, England

Ridgeway High School is a co-educational, comprehensive school in Noctorum, Birkenhead, on the Wirral Peninsula in England. The school caters for pupils between the ages of 11 and 16, from within the Local Authority area of the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, primarily Noctorum, Prenton, and Oxton.

Chase High School is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form, located in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, England.

The Ravensbourne School is a secondary academy school in the London Borough of Bromley. It stands on a 22-acre (8.9 ha) site in Hayes Lane, to the south of Bromley, and in the parish of Bromley St Mark. It is named after the River Ravensbourne, which runs nearby.

Southchurch High School is a coeducational secondary school located in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England. It opened on 1 September 2016, replacing the former Futures Community College.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Highworth Grammar School for Girls</span> Grammar school in Ashford, Kent, England

Highworth Grammar School is a selective secondary in Ashford, Kent. The school also admits boys to the sixth form. At an Ofsted inspection in June 2013, the school was rated 1 (outstanding) in all categories.

Rhyddings is a mixed secondary school located in Oswaldtwistle in the English county of Lancashire. The current headteacher is Andrew Williams, who took over in September 2018.

References

  1. ↑ "Welcome – Belfairs Academy – Shaping the Future". belfairsacademy.org.uk. Retrieved 9 December 2016.
  2. ↑ Mcfarlane, Ruth (2010). "Belfairs High School". Ofsted. Retrieved 5 January 2021.
  3. ↑ Stoneham, Bill (2013). "Belfairs Academy". Ofsted. Retrieved 5 January 2021.
  4. ↑ Lyons, Adrian (2016). "Short inspection of Belfairs Academy". Ofsted. Retrieved 5 January 2021.
  5. ↑ "Belfairs Academy rated "good"" . Retrieved 11 May 2017.
  6. ↑ "Belfairs School rebuilding work is agreed", Echo, 18 July 2009.
  7. ↑ "All schools and colleges in Southend-on-Sea - Find and compare schools in England". Find and compare schools in England. 23 March 2020. Retrieved 25 October 2020.
  8. ↑ "Teacher is proud of Hammer". Echo.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.