John Whitgift Academy

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John Whitgift Academy
Address
John Whitgift Academy
Crosland Road

Great Coates
Grimsby
,
Lincolnshire
,
DN37 9EH

England
Coordinates 53°34′17″N0°07′56″W / 53.5713°N 0.1323°W / 53.5713; -0.1323
Information
Type Academy
MottoChanging Lives
Local authority North East Lincolnshire
Department for Education URN 137464 Tables
Ofsted Reports
Chair of GovernorsGail Young
PrincipalRobert Spendlow
Staff95
Gender Coeducational
Age11to 16
Enrolment945

John Whitgift Academy (formerly known as Whitgift School) is a co-educational secondary school with academy status in Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire, England. The academy is a part of Delta Academies Trust.

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Admissions

The school became John Whitgift Academy in September 2011. There are around 945 pupils. It serves the areas of Great Coates, The Willows and Wybers Wood, although it has an intake from across Grimsby now that it has its own transport. The school has been described as "based in a large area of a former council estate... Families moving into that area have Whitgift school at the heart of their community, which is also an area with some deprivation". [1]

History

It is named after John Whitgift, a native of Grimsby and Archbishop of Canterbury from 1583 to 1604. Crosland Road, where the school was built, was named after Anthony Crosland the former (pre-1977) MP for Great Grimsby. Crosland implemented Comprehensive Education across the UK, specifically removing most grammar schools. Until April 1974 the school was administered by the County Borough of Grimsby Education Committee, then Humberside Education Committee in Beverley. The school became known as Whitgift Comprehensive School.

It became a specialist sports college in 2006. [2]

Whitgift Film Theatre

The 203-seat theatre at Whitgift School. The theatre is used for educational purposes within the school, such as assemblies, as well as the showing of films. WhitgiftFilmTheatre1.jpg
The 203-seat theatre at Whitgift School. The theatre is used for educational purposes within the school, such as assemblies, as well as the showing of films.

The school has the 203-seat Whitgift Film Theatre. [3] This is the only school in the UK with such a building, and was built as part of the school when the British Film Institute wanted a network of regional film theatres. [3] It opened on 28 September 1972, showing Gumshoe , around the same time that Doncaster Film Theatre opened. There were 45 BFI-funded regional film theatres in the UK at that point. It became known as Grimsby Film Theatre.

From 1992 to 2000, it was known as Grimsby Screen. The cinema was bought from (former) Grimsby council when it was going to be closed by a group of amateurs who also had in their possession a large film library. [3] The commercial operation briefly closed in April 2005 due to competition from the nine-screen Parkway Cinema in Cleethorpes which opened in November 2004 but the group of amateurs stepped in two weeks later. It used to be Grimsby's only cinema, until the Odeon was re-opened as The Regal on Freeman Street.

Academic performance

In 2018/19 2019/20, 2020/2021 and 2021/2022, the school's Progress 8 measure was Well Above Average and the highest performing academy in Grimsby. [4] The proportion of pupils achieving Grade 5 or above in English & maths GCSEs was above the local authority average of 34%. [4] The proportion of pupils entered for the English Baccalaureate was 53% compared to 37% in the local authority and 40% nationally. [4]

The school's rate of exclusions in 2016/17 was very high, almost one in four children being excluded, the fifteenth-highest rate nationally, although well below national average in subsequent years. [5]

Attendance in recent years is well above national average and the highest amongst all local secondaries. [4]

Inspection judgements

As of 2020, the school's most recent Ofsted judgement was Good. [6]

The previous judgement, in 2017, was Requires Improvement. [7]

The rapid improvement in inspections may be down to the hard work of the new head teacher Robert Spendlow and his staff. Pupils are more well behaved due to the higher expectations and discipline in place.

Alumni

See also

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  1. ↑ HC Deb, 2 February 2007 c546
  2. ↑ "School bids to be sports college". BBC News. BBC. 26 April 2006. Retrieved 28 October 2018.
  3. 1 2 3 Russell, Ben (5 October 2000). "'Fancy a night at the movies? let's go to school'" . The Independent. Archived from the original on 14 June 2022. Retrieved 28 October 2018.
  4. 1 2 3 4 "John Whitgift Academy". Find and compare schools in England. DfE. Retrieved 3 April 2020.
  5. ↑ Waller, Jamie (10 September 2018). "John Whitgift Academy head says 'high expectations' which excluded one in four pupils in a single year has turned the school around". Grimsby Telegraph. Retrieved 28 October 2018.
  6. ↑ "John Whitgift Academy". Ofsted. Ofsted. Retrieved 3 April 2020.
  7. ↑ "John Whitgift Academy". Ofsted. Ofsted. Retrieved 19 October 2018.
  8. ↑ "Suspects drifted through series of jobs and homes before Soham - The Scotsman". Archived from the original on 2 April 2015.
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