Coopers School

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Coopers School
Coopers Technology College Crest.png
Address
Coopers School
Hawkwood Lane

Chislehurst
,
London
,
BR7 5PS

England
Information
Type Academy, all ability [1]
MottoTrust, Respect and Resilience
Established1939 (1939) [2]
Department for Education URN 136464 Tables
Ofsted Reports
ChairAndrew Downes [3]
Head Of SchoolClaire Bessa [1]
Staff96 qualified teachers in 2010 [4]
GenderMixed
Age11to 18
Enrolment1,357 [5]
Capacity1,629 [5]
Website coopersschool.com

Coopers School is a mixed secondary school with academy status in Chislehurst in the London Borough of Bromley, England. [1] The current Head of School is Claire Bessa. [3]

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The site is on land between Chislehurst Common and the National Trust's Hawkwood Estate, an area of working farmland and woodland, [6] and is above the Chislehurst Caves.

As of 2013 the school had some 1,357 students, [5] of whom approximately 200 were in the sixth form. [7]

The school was inspected by Ofsted in 2023 and rated good.

History

The school was first established in 1939 as the Sidcup Day Commercial School, with headmistress Miss Scorrer. [8] After World War II, in 1946, a second site linked to the Sidcup school was established at Hawkwood Lane, Chislehurst. The new school eventually became known as the Chislehurst and Sidcup Technical High School for Girls and in 1949 Mary Anderson was appointed head teacher. [2]

By 1969 the Chislehurst site had been further developed, with several new buildings, and the two schools split. The Chislehurst school became Coopers School, named after the Coopers Mansion House which stood on the site. [9] [10] The house is still standing, and has recently been refurbished to become the school's sixth form centre. Later, in 1969 later school accepted its first intake of 37 boys. [2]

In 1981 the school became an all-ability comprehensive school.[ citation needed ] The school became a specialist Technology College in 2002, and was renamed Coopers Technology College. [11] [12] In February 2012 the school converted to an academy. [5] It subsequently renamed itself Coopers School. In late 2018, the school joined the E21C academy trust. [13]

The house system was removed in 2021. The system previously divided students into the houses Pankhurst, Wilberforce, Newton and Franklin.

Achievements

The school won a national award for ICT in 2006, for using computers to improve the way in which it is run. [14] The school's website allows extensive interactive access to school information by staff, students, parents and governors through its learning gateway. [1]

Notable alumni

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  3. 1 2 "Interim Representative Body" (PDF). Coopers School. Retrieved 10 May 2019.[ permanent dead link ]
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  6. ↑ "National Trust Petts Wood and Hawkwood". National Trust. Retrieved 14 April 2013.
  7. ↑ "Coopers Sixth Form". Coopers School. Archived from the original on 9 June 2014. Retrieved 13 April 2013.
  8. ↑ "Reunion to celebrate 70th school anniversary". Bexley Times. Retrieved 3 June 2020.
  9. ↑ "Coopers House". Chislehurst Society. Retrieved 14 April 2013.
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  11. ↑ "Better science at tech college". News Shopper. 12 July 2002. Retrieved 14 April 2013.
  12. ↑ "Coopers Technology College on educationbase.co.uk". educationbase.co.uk. Retrieved 14 April 2013.
  13. ↑ website, E21C Education for the 21st Century Trust. "Home". E21C Education for the 21st Century Trust. Retrieved 31 August 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  14. ↑ "School joins IT crowd with prize win". News Shopper. 15 March 2006. Archived from the original on 24 February 2014. Retrieved 14 April 2013.

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