Type Academy Chair Robin Webb Phone +44 1736 363240 Motto Success for all | Head Sara Davey DfE URN 136873 Tables Number of students 960 Gender Mixed-sex education | |
Location Boscathnoe Lane
Heamoor, Penzance
Cornwall
TR18 3JT
England Ofsted Reports Pre-academy reports Address Boscathnoe Ln, Heamoor, Penzance TR18 3JT, UK Similar Humphry Davy School, Cape Cornwall School, St Ives School, Bolitho School, Hayle Community School | ||
Mounts bay academy
Mounts Bay Academy (formerly Mounts Bay School) is an academy school in Heamoor, Penzance, Cornwall, England, UK. The school teaches 960 11- to 16-year-old students. It has specialist status as a Sports and Community College.
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Mounts bay academy
Facilities
Mounts Bay occupies five buildings: main building, art block, music/drama block, sports building and 'Qube'. The main building houses most of the departments, with some of the subjects housed in exterior buildings. The newest building, known as the 'Qube' (or 'Cube') was primarily built to teach media.
On the site there is also a Sports Centre that is divided into three sections, two tennis courts and a multi court. On one of the fields there is an astroturf cricket pitch, a hockey pitch, two rounders pitches, a 400m running track, a shot put circle, a javelin area, and a football pitch. On the other field (which is over the road from the school) there is a full sized rugby pitch. The school also now has a 3G astroturf pitch behind the school dome which was erected in 2011.
At the far end of the site there is a small woodland area (known as the 'copse') which encloses a small swamp.
History
The school used to be called Heamoor Secondary School, until it became a comprehensive school in 1980.
The Academy officially gained academy status on 1 July 2011, and changed its name to Mounts Bay Academy
Subjects
At GCSE the school teaches: