Passmores Academy

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Passmores Academy
Address
Passmores Academy
Tracyes Road

Harlow
,
Essex
,
CM18 6JH

England
Coordinates 51°45′26″N0°07′25″E / 51.75721°N 0.12355°E / 51.75721; 0.12355
Information
Type Academy
MottoImproving Upon Our Best
Opened1 September 2011
Local authority Essex County Council
TrustPassmores Cooperative Learning Community
Department for Education URN 137445 Tables
Ofsted Reports
ChairNeil Lawson
PrincipalNatalie Christie
Age11to 16
Enrollment1204
Capacity1200
HousesDragon, Lion, Unicorn and Griffin
Colour(s)    
Blue, Red, Green and Yellow
Website passmoresacademy.com

Passmores Academy is a 11-16 secondary school in Harlow, Essex. [1]

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The academy has an annual intake of 240 pupils in Year 7, and approximately 1,000 pupils. It featured in the 2011 television series Educating Essex.

The principal is Natalie Christie. [2]

History

The school was originally Passmores Comprehensive School, later becoming Passmores School and Technology College, until its conversion to Academy status in September 2011 when the name was changed to Passmores Academy.

The school reopened for the 2011–12 school year on a new site which is approximately one mile from its old site. This new site is the home of a £25 million new building which was constructed over a two-year period from 2009 on the old Brays Grove Secondary School site.

In November 2008 the school was graded as Outstanding by Ofsted, having been graded as Good in November 2005. [3] It received a Good in May 2018. [4]

In September 2013 Purford Green Primary School and Potter Street Primary School became part of Passmores Cooperative Learning Community as well as becoming feeder schools. [5] In 2018 The Downs Primary School and Nursery joined. [6]

Curriculum

There is a two-year Key Stage 3, with French and Spanish the only languages offered. [7]

Educating Essex

The school was the setting for a seven-part Channel 4 reality TV show, Educating Essex . [8] The show follows a group of GCSE pupils, and the staff who teach them, as they face the most important year in their education. [9] The school was fitted with 65 fixed cameras – from the corridors to the canteen, and from the headteacher's office to the detention hall. Recording with the fixed cameras lasted for seven weeks. This was used alongside occasional standard filming by camera crews from September 2010 to August 2011 and edited into a seven-part series. [8]

Bereavement support during the COVID-19 pandemic

In 2020, the school was aware of the need to support children and staff who had had family members die during the COVID-19 pandemic. [10]

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References

  1. ↑ "Passmores School & Technology College". BBC News. 15 January 2009. Retrieved 17 June 2009.
  2. ↑ "Senior Leadership Team". Passmores Academy. Retrieved 26 July 2024.
  3. ↑ "Ofsted | Passmores School and Technology College". www.ofsted.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 17 February 2013. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
  4. ↑ "Ofsted Reports". reports.ofsted.gov.uk. 16 October 2019. Retrieved 4 July 2020.
  5. ↑ "Passmores Academy – Tes Jobs". www.tes.com. Retrieved 4 July 2020.
  6. ↑ Staff Reporter (6 September 2018). "The Downs Primary joins Passmores Cooperative Learning Trust". Your Harlow. Retrieved 4 July 2020.
  7. ↑ "Curriculum". Passmores Academy. Retrieved 4 July 2020.
  8. 1 2 Channel 4. "Educating Essex – Series & Episodes". Archived from the original on 24 September 2011. Retrieved 30 September 2011.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  9. ↑ Channel 4. "Educating Essex – About". Archived from the original on 3 October 2011. Retrieved 30 September 2011.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  10. ↑ "One school, 25 bereavements: Essex head fears emotional impact of Covid-19". The Guardian. 4 July 2020. Retrieved 4 July 2020.
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