Type Academy DfE number 373/4008 Phone +44 114 255 7331 | Chair Mr L Baxter DfE URN 140821 Tables Staff 93 | |
Headteacher Mr D Webster and Mrs E Anderson Location Lees Hall Road
Sheffield
South Yorkshire
S8 9JP
England Address Lees Hall Road, Sheffield S8 9JP, UK Motto Working Together to Succeed Similar Notre Dame High School, Meadowh School, Silverdale School, Tapton Secondary School, King Ecgbert School Profiles | ||
Newfield secondary school is a coeducational secondary school with academy status for 11–16-year-old children, situated in the south of the city of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, specifically in the Norton Lees area. It is co-located with a special school (the Talbot specialist school) with which it has some collaborative arrangements. There are approximately 1000 students at the school. The current headteachers Mr D Webster and Miss E Anderson, who took over from Mr T Eldridgein October 2015. In 2013 the school was sponsored to become an academy as part of its ongoing partnership with King Ecgbert School, with Lesley Bowes assuming the role of executive headteacher .
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Physical aspects of the school
The school has its own private drive from Lees Hall Road which leads on to a shared grounds with Talbot Specialist School and the Sheffield South City Learning Centre (or CLC). The school is contained in a single building, attached on one side to the Talbot building. To the right of the main building are the sports facilities, including a large field, astroturf and tennis courts.
New build
The school's rebuild, begun in summer 2007 and completed in January 2009, brought new facilities so that the school, including a recording room, a gym with seats for spectators and astroturf football pitches. A new purpose-built specialist school, The Talbot specialist school, was also constructed as part of the rebuild; it is located on the lower field.
Academic performance
The percentage of students achieving five or more A*–C grades at GCSE level (or equivalent) was 55% in 2011; 88% passed five or more GCSEs at any grade (A*–G), and 96% of all pupils achieved at least one qualification. When specifically including English and maths GCSEs, the percentage of students achieving five or more GCSEs at A*–C grade was 35% in 2011 (down from 44% in 2010). This compares with 49.4% for all secondary schools in the Sheffield local authority area, and 58.9% for England as a whole.
Pupil demographics
Newfield is a broadly average sized secondary school. The proportion of students known to be eligible for free school meals (21.6% in 2011) is in line with the national average. The proportion of students identified as having special educational needs and/or disabilities is above average, although the proportion with a statement of special educational needs is below the national average. The large majority of students are of White British heritage. The proportion of students from minority ethnic heritages is below average, and the proportion that speaks English as an additional language is well below average.
Overall pupil absence was reported as 10.9% in 2011, compared to a national average of 6.5%. Unauthorised absence was 5.7% (national average 1.4%).
Notable former pupils
Ofsted inspections and special measures status
In 2008 an Ofsted inspection report graded Newfield overall as Grade 4 ('inadequate'), resulting in special measures status being applied. Over the following two years, progress was made culminating in the special measures status being removed and the school being judged to be Grade 3 ('satisfactory') in the 2010 inspection.