Established 1964 Religion Mixed DfE URN 137981 Tables Motto Aspire Gender Mixed-sex education | Headteacher Mr. Richard Vasey Phone +44 1623 455000 Founded 1964 | |
Location Sutton RoadKirkby-in-AshfieldNottinghamshireNG17 8HPEngland Address Sutton Rd, Kirkby in Ashfield, Nottingham NG17 8HP, UK Similar Quarrydale School, Selston High School, Sutton Community Academy, West Nottingha College, All Saints' Catholic Voluntary Profiles | ||
Ashfield School is a secondary school with academy status located in Kirkby-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, England, which educates children ages 11–19.
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Ashfield has approximately 2,500 students, split into six houses - Trent, Chesterfield, Thoroton, Byron, Hargreaves and Coates. The six houses contain students from all year groups except those who are from the sixth form.
September 2007 saw the opening of a multimillion-pound Post-16 Centre offering A-level courses as well as vocational studies. Ashfield School offers a sixth form provision in consortium with Kirkby College, Quarrydale Academy and Sutton Community Academy. The consortium offers an extended range of sixth form courses for students over the 4 school sites.
The current head teacher of the school is Mr. Richard Vasey.
Ashfield School was chosen as a training ground for the London 2012 Olympics due to its vast amount of sports facilities.
History
Built in 1964 as Nottinghamshire's first purpose built comprehensive school, Ashfield School now has a self-contained 40-acre (160,000 m2) rural campus. Facilities include computer suites, an ICT Centre, on-site sports facilities including four gymnasiums, tennis courts, all weather sports fields, running track and a swimming pool. For food, students can visit the on-site canteen named the Ashfield Top Eating (ATE) Centre. Other resources on-site include music studios, a tiered theatre and drama complex, photographic darkroom, print making and ceramics studios, fifteen science laboratories, a business centre, a CAD/CAM centre, library and careers library.
Late 2012 saw the opening of a new music and drama block following the destruction of the previous blocks earlier in the year. In January 2013 a new study area/library and classrooms was built onto the sixth form block, this is named the Resource Centre.
Ashfield Skills Centre (ASC)
The Ashfield Skills Centre is a £7.1 million project which delivers six learning environments. The centre includes: