Churston Ferrers Grammar School

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Churston Ferrers Grammar School
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Address
Churston Ferrers Grammar School
Greenway Road

Brixham
,
Devon
,
TQ5 0LN

England
Coordinates 50°23′45″N3°33′27″W / 50.395948°N 3.557532°W / 50.395948; -3.557532
Information
Type Academy
Selective grammar school
MottoLearning to create a better world
Established1957
Specialist Humanities
Department for Education URN 136388 Tables
Ofsted Reports
Gender Co-educational
Age11to 18
Enrolment980 [1]
Website www.churstongrammar.com

Churston Ferrers Grammar School (also known as CFGS) is a selective coeducational Grammar School with Academy status, situated in the village of Galmpton in Torbay, South Devon, England. It is also a specialist Humanities College. Year 7 annual intake is approximately 130 pupils. [2]

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History

The school was founded in 1957 and accommodated around 350 pupils, drawn from the surrounding areas including those of the schools it replaced and as far afield as Totnes. Its first headmaster, Donald W. Carter, was head of the Dartmouth Grammar School until its closing in 1957 when Churston opened. He led the school until 1972 when he retired.

In 2011, the school became an academy.

Location

The school is next to Churston railway station on the Paignton and Dartmouth Steam Railway. Its main playing fields are separated from the remainder of the school by the railway line and are currently accessible via a path under the railway line at the bottom of the main school playing field, or via Dartmouth road and the pavilions which were opened at the start of 2009.

Buildings

The school has occupied its current buildings since opening and was largely unchanged for the first half of its existence. When the school expanded in the late 1980s, a new classroom block and sports facility was added. Later, in 2001, the school expanded further with a Modern Foreign Languages block. In late September 2008, the school had a new block consisting of: a humanities classroom; a study centre; an IT room and two new departmental offices. This building was named 'The Cube' by the students in a poll from a selection of alternative names. For some time, there was a "maths hut", which was a temporary building that housed two Mathematics classrooms. This was eventually demolished in 2011 to make way for the new Sixth Form Centre which was completed in the summer of 2012. Also in 2016 a remodeling and extension of the Modern Foreign Languages block created a new section of the school for Art and Music.

Academic houses

There are currently five academic houses: Brunel, Christie, Gilbert, Singer and Thompson. [3] All of the houses are named after notable individuals with ties to the local area, South Devon. Each house is represented by an individual crest and colour (Brunel - blue, Christie - green, Gilbert - red, Singer - purple, Thompson - yellow) and a head is appointed to ensure the running of the house system.

Each pupil is assigned to a house-based form upon induction and throughout the duration of the pupil's time at CFGS, will compete in both academic and sporting inter-house competitions as determined by an annual calendar of events; house points are subsequently awarded to each form group, contributing towards the yearly House Badge Competition. [4] Students are organised into year groups which are managed by a Head of Year and an Assistant Head of Year.

Headteachers

AppointmentName
1957Donald W. Carter
1972Ron Beal
1975David Beresford-Williams
1979John Parsons
1997Steven Kings
2007Robert Owers
2019Kieran Earley
2023James Simpson

Academic

There are currently 954 pupils in total, including 240 pupils in the sixth form that is heavily over-subscribed.

Churston Ferrers Grammar School is currently ranked "Good" by Ofsted. The most recent Ofsted inspection was on 19 October 2022. [5] Prior to 2022, Churston Ferrers Grammar School had been ranked Ofsted "Outstanding" on 11 February 2009.

Churston A-Level results:

A22003200420052006
A-E99.4%100%100%99.74%
A-C80%81%88.6%90.03%
A-B49%59%65.6%66.04%

2018 A2 Results:

A*-E99.53%A*-D98.35%A*-C91.25%A*-B70.69%A*-A37.12%

Churston GCSE results:

GCSE1993199419951996
A*-C94.1%94.3%97.8%95.6%
5D*-E9%9%9.1%9.4%
D-E*3.3%4%5%5.8%

The school has no present plans to offer sixth formers the option of either the International Baccalaureate or the Pre-U. It does however currently offer the AQA/English Baccalaureate to sixth form students.

Partnerships

Churston Ferrers Grammar School seeks to maintain and grow its local and international ties. CFGS has partnerships with several schools in Torbay, Europe (Erasmus Partnership Project with Portugal, Germany and Norway) and Peru.

With cooperation with GlobalEd, Churston Ferrers Grammar has developed its programme of Sustainable Development Education (ESD) with the goal of becoming a Sustainable School. This focus on sustainability has resulted in four of CFGS's feeder primaries pursuing a simultaneous programme of ESD development. [6] Additionally, the ESD programme has seen CFGS establish links to Peruvian schools; in recent years this relationship has manifested itself in triannual trips, some as student exchanges. Various educational development projects conducted by CFGS pupils have made a worthwhile contribution to the partner pupils and in the UK, past activities have seen pupils design calendars in support of the on-going partnership. [7]

Sports and extra-curricular

Basketball

Since the establishment of the CFGS team, the school has twice been crowned National Champions. [8]

Duke of Edinburgh's Award

The Duke of Edinburgh's Award at CFGS has grown increasingly in popularity over the last ten years and CFGS is a Directly Licensed Centre for DofE. Students have the choice to take part in DofE between Years 9 and 13 and approximately 200 students are currently doing either bronze, silver or gold level. [9]

Other

Churston Ferrers Grammar School has historically had a debating presence both on and off site, from the organisation of hustings events for general elections to active participation in South West Academic Trust (SWAT) competitions. [10]

Students have in the recent past had available the option of attending a 'Listeners' programme that trained senior students in how to offer well-being support to younger students. [11]

Notable former pupils (Old Churstonians)

Following on the success of the 50th anniversary of the founding of the school, the Old Churstonians' Society was formed and is open to all past students and teachers.

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