The Manor Academy

Information

The Manor Academy is a co-educational secondary school with academy status in Mansfield Woodhouse, Nottinghamshire. It has a specialism in sports.

Contents

• Beetlejuice the manor academy dance concert
• The manor academy promotional video
• Information
• Awards
• 2016 Ofsted Inspection
• Controversy
• References

The 2013 GCSE results are a record for the Academy with over 80% of students achieving 5 A* to C grades and 60% of those students achieving A* to C grades in English and Mathematics.

In 2013, The Academy introduced a new curriculum for students; the Year 7 cohort now study New Basics which gradually introduces them to secondary education. Year 8, 9, 10 and 11 students now follow the Manor Expressway, which allows them to learn and be assessed at a rate that suits them, focusing on each student’s stage of learning, not their age. On top of this, the academy was split into five strands; Strive, Voyage, Discovery, Enigma and New Basics.

Previous international links with Jin Cai High School in Shanghai meant that students at the Academy had the opportunity of a once-in-a-life¬time trip to China. However, this is no longer available.

The school has its own sports and recreation centre, a full sized all weather sports pitch, a construction centre, an engineering workshop, a hair and beauty training salon annexed in a high-street shopping area, advanced ICT facilities, a comprehensive library, and the Manor Farm, which consists primarily of chickens, but is also used to grow different varieties of crops.

An investment in iPads for the whole school in 2014 has also improved teaching by providing advanced tools to improve learning.

The school was previously made up of the Forest View County Secondary Modern school on Park Hall Road, and a site on Yorke Street; however, following the destruction of large parts of the Park Hall Road site by fire in 1996, work was carried out to incorporate the school to a single site. This was achieved for the start of the 1999/2000 school year, and the Yorke Street site was demolished and sold for housing construction.

Awards

The school has achieved several awards including Artsmark, Sportsmark Gold and Home Access. It provides a range of extended services. The on-site facilities for the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) provide both crèche and physical activity sessions in a separate building at Manor Sport and Recreation Centre.

2016 Ofsted Inspection

In April 2016 the school was placed into special measures, following the 2016 Ofsted inspection when the school was graded as 'Inadequate'. The inspection report states:

"Actions put in place by senior leaders have not brought about sufficient improvements since the last inspection. Standards have stalled in some areas, and declined in others. Leaders, managers and directors have not shown the capacity to secure improvements in teaching and pupil outcomes."

Controversy

In late April 2016, three teachers were suspended following an April Fool's Day prank where Olbas Oil was introduced into a drink of tea, which caused a trainee teacher to be hospitalised for monitoring. The incident was reported to the local newspaper following school-gossip.

In early May, the school announced that the three suspended teachers had left "by mutual agreement", and, following the Ofsted report, "the school’s 900-plus students must come first".