Harris Academy Beckenham

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Harris Academy Beckenham
Location
Harris Academy Beckenham
Manor Way

Beckenham
,
Greater London
,
BR3 3SJ

England
Coordinates 51°23′57″N0°01′33″W / 51.399186°N 0.025856°W / 51.399186; -0.025856
Information
Type Academy
MottoAspire, Discover, Achieve
Established1 September 2011
Trust Harris Federation
Department for Education URN 137121 Tables
Ofsted Reports
PrincipalCiara Warnock
GenderCo-educational
Age11to 18
Houses  Blue (Franklin)
  Yellow (Turing)
 Red (Seacole)
  Green (Attenborough)
Website http://www.harrisbeckenham.org.uk/

Harris Academy Beckenham (formerly Kelsey Park Sports College) is a secondary school and sixth form located in Beckenham in the London Borough of Bromley. The academy is run by the Harris Federation. It was awarded 'Outstanding' in its 2023 Ofsted report. [1]

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History

Harris Academy Beckenham started life as Alexandra Boys School, in Parish Lane, Penge. The school opened in 1875 and consisted of one room. [2]

In the mid-1950s, it was decided to move to a new school which would be built on the Elgood Playing Fields in Beckenham. However, it took more than 10 years for these plans to become a reality. On 23 April 1968, Kelsey Park School for Boys opened. [2] In 2005 it achieved Sports College status resulting in Kelsey Park changing its identity and renaming to 'Kelsey Park Sports College'. [2]

Harris Federation

Following growing pressure from local parents in the Beckenham area for a co-educational school a public consultation in February 2011 regarding the future of the school concluded that Kelsey Park Sports College was to become a co-educational academy sponsored by the Harris Federation from September 2011 with the Kelsey Park name being scrapped. [3] [4] [5] The first co-educational year began in September 2012. [6]

Notable Alumni

Nick Heyward, (b,1961) singer-songwriter and guitarist; [7] lead singer-songwriter for Haircut One Hundred; attended Harris Academy Beckenham where he studied art and photography. He left school at 16 to work as a commercial artist. [8]

References

  1. ↑ "2023 Ofsted Report". Ofsted. 4 May 2023. Archived from the original on 26 July 2023. Retrieved 26 July 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  2. 1 2 3 Background: Kelsey Park Sports College Archived July 2, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  3. ↑ Beckenham. "Beckenham School at centre of Harris Academy row deemed 'satisfactory' - News". Bromley Times. Archived from the original on 29 September 2011. Retrieved 26 July 2012.
  4. ↑ Mills, David (15 October 2010). "Beckenham: Parents demand a Harris academy (From This Is Local London)". Thisislocallondon.co.uk. Archived from the original on 3 October 2012. Retrieved 26 July 2012.
  5. ↑ "Two Harris academies set to open in Bromley" (PDF). Harris Federation. 21 February 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 September 2011. Retrieved 17 August 2012.
  6. ↑ "Harris Academy Beckenham". Harris Federation. Retrieved 28 December 2017.
  7. ↑ Colin Larkin, ed. (1992). The Guinness Who's Who of Indie and New Wave Music (First ed.). Guinness Publishing. p. 135. ISBN   0-85112-579-4.
  8. ↑ Rice, Maureen (19 June 1985). "Love, Money and Perfect Pop" (jpg). Smash Hits . Flickr: EMAP. pp. 58–59. Retrieved 8 July 2015.
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