Newent Community School

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Newent Community School
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Location
Newent Community School
Watery Lane

Newent
,
Gloucestershire
,
GL18 1QF

England
Information
Type Academy
MottoFidem Praesto
Established1840 and 1921 (ancestor schools) 1951 (comprehensive) - moved to present site in 1965.
Local authority Gloucestershire
Specialist Arts (visual arts) and Science
Department for Education URN 138746 Tables
Ofsted Reports
PrincipalBen Dumanye
Gender Coeducational
Age11to 18
Enrolment1,063
Houses  Collingwood
  Mountbatten
  Nelson

  Sixth Form

Unnamed House (2023)
Colour  Green   Gold
Website http://www.newent.gloucs.sch.uk/
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Newent Community School

Newent Community School is a secondary school in Newent, Gloucestershire, England. It is an Academy of 1,063 students, serving the town, rural community and Gloucester. The school provides secondary education for ages 11 to 18. The school offers GCSEs as well as A Levels. In 2001, the school was granted Arts College specialist status. In 2007 the school was also granted Science College as a second specialism. In addition, the school has been awarded Sportsmark Silver, Artsmark Gold and Healthy School. The school became an academy in 2012.

Contents

The campus consists of 35 acres (140,000 m2) which includes extensive sporting and leisure facilities, including: a floodlit all-weather pitch; sports hall; squash courts; gymnasium; fitness suite and indoor heated swimming pool - all of which are for use by the school and wider community, through Freedom Leisure. [1]

Mark Harper MP was governor between 2000 - 2005. [2]

History

Newent Community School and Sixth Form Centre was Gloucestershire’s first purpose-built comprehensive school. The present building was opened in April 1965, although previously it had operated on a split site in Ross Road. [3]

Originally there were four houses; Collingwood(blue), Mountbatten(red), Nelson (green)and Drake (yellow), but due to a low student numbers Drake was removed and only three remain.

Eco-Lab

The school required a new laboratory to meet curriculum requirements and inspired by exchange visits with a school in Kenya the pupils requested that it be developed as an eco lab. The building incorporates a comprehensive range of sustainable qualities; designed for low energy use with a high performance thermal envelope locally sourced and using renewable, low maintenance materials; good levels of north daylighting linked to automatically controlled artificial lighting and underfloor heating. Energy consumption results are published in the school news network. [4]

Kenya student exchange

Newent Community School, along with two other Gloucestershire schools (Dene Magna School and Lakers School) has been involved with student exchange with St George’s Secondary School near Kisumu in Kenya for twelve years. [5] The school maintains a strong partnership with St George's Secondary School and provides financial and educational support through the use of fundraising.

Students visited St George's in Kenya in 2004, 2006, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015 and 2017. [6]

Notable former pupils

References

  1. ↑ "About Us". Newent Community School. Archived from the original on 3 July 2020. Retrieved 28 August 2020.
  2. ↑ "Mark Harper". Mark Harper. Archived from the original on 26 January 2020. Retrieved 28 August 2020.
  3. ↑ "Four generations celebrate 50 year school reunion". Forest of Dean and Wye Valley Review. 15 April 2015. Archived from the original on 28 August 2020. Retrieved 28 August 2020.
  4. ↑ "The EcoLab". Newent Community School. Archived from the original on 3 July 2020. Retrieved 28 August 2020.
  5. ↑ "Kenya exchange". Hereford Times. 11 July 2003. Archived from the original on 28 August 2020. Retrieved 28 August 2020.
  6. ↑ "Community Services". Newent Online. Archived from the original on 23 February 2020. Retrieved 28 August 2020.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 Phillips, Jenni (13 October 2019). "World champions, rugby internationals and Paralympic stars - why Newent could be the best sporting school in Gloucestershire". Gloucestershire Live. Archived from the original on 3 May 2021. Retrieved 3 May 2021.
  8. ↑ Anon (2017). "Holford, Prof. Karen Margeret" . Who's Who (online Oxford University Press  ed.). Oxford: A & C Black. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U286206.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

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