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Established
  
2005

Headteacher
  
David Page

Phone
  
+44 1405 813000

Founded
  
2005

Type
  
Academy

DfE URN
  
135007 Tables

Number of students
  
1,225

Religion
  
Christian (accepts mixed ethics)

Location
  
Church Balk Thorne DN8 5BY England

Address
  
Church Balk, Thorne, Doncaster DN8 5BY, UK

Local authority
  
Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster

Similar
  
Hall Cross Academy, Ash Hill Academy, Goole Academy, The Hayfield Further E, The McAuley Catholic

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Trinity Academy is a non-selective co-educational secondary school in the English Academy programme, at Thorne near Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England.

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It is a member of the Emmanuel Schools Foundation, established by entrepreneur Sir Peter Vardy to educate pupils within a Christian ethos.

History

The school opened in September 2005 and replaced Thorne Grammar School, established in 1930, which became a comprehensive school in 1973. The majority of the Grammar School's building was demolished, but its war memorial plaque and window were moved to the new Academy building and re-dedicated. The main, Georgian style frontage of the school was subsequently converted into apartments in 2009, with new mews style houses built on the former grass tennis courts along the frontage facing Church Balk.

The school has received rewards from the Specialist schools and Academies trust for being the 'Most Improved Academy in England & Wales' in 2008 and 'Most Improved Academy in Yorkshire & Humberside' in the years 2008, 2009 and 2010. The school was deemed 'Outstanding' by Ofsted in March 2011. However, in December 2013, the school faced a huge disappointment when Ofsted placed the school in 'special measures.' As of 2015, the school is no longer in 'special measures.'

Thorne Grammar School

  • Peter Davies (politician), Mayor of Doncaster from 2009 to '13, and father of Conservative rebel MP Philip Davies
  • Lesley Garrett, opera singer and Principal Soprano from 1984 to '98 with the English National Opera
  • Leslie Hodson, physicist from Fishlake who discovered the kaon (K+ meson) sub-atomic particle in 1954 and did important work with cloud chambers
  • Nicholas Lane, actor
  • Jill Morrell, author, campaigner, motivational speaker, and Head of Public Affairs with the British Lung Foundation
  • George Porter, Baron Porter of Luddenham, awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1967, knighted in 1972, President from 1985 to '90 of the Royal Society, and Chancellor from 1986 to '95 of the University of Leicester
  • E. A. Smith (historian)

    • Productions

    Trinity Academy theatrical productions are performed by a various year groups including the Sixth Form.

    Other Emmanuel Schools

  • Bede Academy, Blyth, Northumberland
  • Emmanuel City Technology College, Gateshead
  • The King's Academy, Middlesbrough

    • References

    Trinity Academy, Thorne Wikipedia
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