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Hummersknott Academy | |
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Address | |
Edinburgh Drive Darlington , County Durham , DL3 8AR England | |
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Type | Academy |
Motto | "Striving Supporting Succeeding" |
Established | 1955 |
Local authority | Borough of Darlington |
Department for Education URN | 136838 Tables |
Ofsted | Reports |
President | Lewis Kilpatrick |
Head teacher | Nicholas Merifield [1] |
Gender | Mixed |
Age | 11to 16 |
Enrolment | 1228 |
Houses | 5 INC: Stephenson, Quaker, Wyvern, Ketton and Cuthbert |
Colour(s) | 5 INC: Red, Yellow, Green, Purple and Blue |
Telephone | +44 (0)1325 241191 |
Fax | +44 (0)1325 241122 |
Website | http://www.hummersknott.org.uk/ |
Hummersknott Academy is a secondary school in Darlington in the north east of England. It schools approximately 1,250 pupils aged eleven to sixteen.
It has specialist Language College status. Since 2005 and holds accreditations for Artsmark Silver, Eco-schools Silver, the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents silver award for Health and Safety and an International School Award.
The school began as the Darlington High School in 1955, a girls' grammar school. It was officially opened by the Duke of Edinburgh on 15 November 1955. In 1968 it was reorganised by the then Darlington County Borough to form one of six 11–16 co-educational comprehensive schools, with the Boys' Grammar School becoming a sixth form college nearer the town centre and near to the College of Technology, now known as QE (Queen Elizabeth).
In July 2007 a £15 million scheme to demolish and replace some school buildings and renovate others was initiated. The bulk of the funding was provided by national government, with the local council providing £2.7m, and the school £0.7m. Work began on the school building during the summer of 2007, although plans for the new design were drawn up a year earlier. [2] The work was completed in 2010 and the refurbished school was 'reopened' by the Duke of Gloucester in September 2010. The main hall was refurbished and new lighting and stage area was included in the refurbishment.
The school became a self-governing academy, under the name Hummersknott Academy on 1 July 2011. It is operated by the Hummersknott Academy Trust, a company limited by guarantee.
On 1 February 2013, the Hummersknott Academy Trust was reconstituted as a multi-academy trust when it took over the newly formed Skerne Park Academy (a converting primary school) in the town.
In January of 2023 it was announced that the advanced learning partnership a multi academy trust in County Durham had bought the school the deal was completed in September of 2023.
Originally, when a grammar school for girls, the school had six houses into which all pupils were distributed and these houses competed against each other in sporting and music competitions for the honour of winning the House Shield. The shields of each house can be seen above the doorways on the front of the school building. These houses were: Barrett, Bede, Caedmon, Carroll, St Hild and Wycliffe. The house system was changed in the late 1980s and the school played host to four houses: Dunelm, Edinburgh, Starmer and Trinity.
In July 2006 these were phased out and replaced by a system of colleges.
Pupils are divided into five colleges named after a variety of cultural and local aspects of life, across Darlington and the wider north east of England:[ citation needed ]
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