Ashlawn School

Ashlawn School

Motto	Every Child Matters
Established	1985 (Formerly Dunsmore for Boys and Dunsmore for Girls)
Type	Academy
Religion	Mixed
Headteacher	Lois Reed
Specialism	Science , Leadership and Academy
Location	Ashlawn Road Rugby Warwickshire CV22 5ET England
Local authority	Warwickshire
DfE URN	125751
Ofsted	Reports
Staff	110 members
Students	1,750 - 1,800
Gender	Coeducational
Ages	11–18
Colours	(Yellow = Lower School) (Black = Upper School) (Blue = Lower School PE) (Maroon = Upper School PE)
Website	www.ashlawn.org.uk

Ashlawn School is a secondary school on Ashlawn Road, Rugby, Warwickshire, England. It also includes a grammar stream within it. Around 1,750 pupils attend the school educated by 90 full time teaching staff. The total amount of staff is around 110 members.

Ashlawn was previously known as Dunsmore School for Boys and Dunsmore School for Girls, until 1985, when it merged with another secondary school, Fareham High School, to become Ashlawn School. The current headteacher is Lois Reed, former assistant head. Former headteacher (at the school for around 23–24 years, since it became Ashlawn school) Peter Rossborough retired in July 2008.

In 2005 the school was granted Special Science College status, entitling the establishment to government grants for new educational equipment, such as portable tablets with internet access for the teachers. These are linked up to data projectors so that presentations and research can be done online and easily in front of a class. In April 2009 it was also awarded a Leadership College status. Both achievements have been commemorated with the construction of monuments, a rainbow coloured piece of modern art (created by a local artist), for the Science College status, and a large text embossed sun, for the Leadership status. In May 2010, the secretary of education approached Ashlawn to become an Academy and on 1 April 2011 the school took on the Academy status.

In early 2007 the school received planning permission from Rugby Borough Council to erect a wind turbine at the school, making it one of the first in the country to employ such a scheme. In 2010, the roof of the languages/PSHE block, was fitted with solar panels. This is the latest way for the school to cut their carbon footprint.

As of January 2010 Ashlawn School has been working closely with Yamaha Music School to enhance the teaching of music in the local area. Students have access to specialised equipment which normally would not be available and expert teachers. The initiative was kicked off on 11 December 2009 with an event led by Troy Miller, drummer for artists such as Amy Winehouse, Mark Ronson and Daniel Merriweather.

Ashlawn School's Music Department worked with a Loughborough University student in 2011/12 to create an online learning system (http://www.ashlawn-music.co.uk) which is hoped will improve attainment and increase uptake.

In December 2011, it was announced that former pupil, Lauren Taylor, had won the BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year.