Established 1965 Principal Mr Andrew Burton DfE URN 139957 Tables Number of students 1,130 Gender Mixed-sex education | DfE number 928/4013 Phone +44 1536 741857 Founded 1965 | |
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Location Gainsborough RoadCorbyNorthamptonshireNN18 9NS England Similar Kettering Buccleuch Academy, Brooke Weston Academy, Corby Business Academy, Lodge Park Academy, Kettering Science Academy Profiles | ||
Kingswood Secondary Academy (formerly The Kingswood School) is coeducational secondary school and sixth form with academy status, located in Corby, Northamptonshire, England. It is sponsored by the Greenwood Academies Trust
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History
The school was established as a comprehensive school in 1965 with 150 students. The school now has over 1,200 students operating on the new school site. Many changes have taken place in the past two years with the introduction of a new school uniform, vertical tutoring, a brand new building with state of the art facilities. The school was the subject of a BBC documentary produced by Richard Denton in academic year 1980/81 together with an earlier sister documentary on a public school Radley College.
The Kingswood School was designated a Specialist Arts College in September after grades were excelling in subjects related to the performing arts. (Dance, Drama, Art, Music and Media Studies)
In 2008 Kingswood its highest pass rate at 54%.
The school used to operate on two sites; the Upper School site, which was for students between the ages of 11-16, and the Lower School, which was once Our Lady and Pope John Catholic Secondary School. The school was taken over by in 2004 and its students were then mixed with The Kingswood pupils. The Lower School site was then used as a sixth form centre. The Pope John site underwent demolition from November 2012, following an arson attack on the site in August 2012. The School is now on one site in the new building.
The school converted to academy status on 1 September 2013 and was renamed Kingswood Secondary Academy. After having been bought by the Greenwood Dale Foundation Trust.
The New School
The new school is now open and the administration has changed the way the school operates. There is a horizontal tutoring system, which includes around 20 to 30 students in each form with the form group name being Year Number + Form Group letter. So for example 9A to 9I. There are 5 year group offices where the Head of Year, normally a teacher who doesn't have many lessons to teach, and the Assistant Head of Year, who does the jobs of the Head of Year when they are teaching. They deal with the whole years On Calls, people who misbehave and detentions.
The School Day
The school day officially starts at 8:40am with lessons also starting then. Every student has 6 lessons, each of which lasting 50 minutes. This excludes sixth formers with free periods in which extra study is carried out in the sixth form workroom. At 8:40 the students will either go to their allocated form room or attend an assembly, depending on the student's year, the day on which the assembly is held will change. The students receive two lunches during the day, one for 20 minutes after their second lesson and then another after their fourth which lasts 40. The day then finishes at 3:10pm unless the student partakes in an extracurricular activity.