Derby Moor Community Sports College Trust
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| Established | 1989 |
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| Type | Foundation School |
| Headteacher | Mrs Wendy Whelan |
| Specialism | Sports College |
| Location | Moorway Lane Derby Derbyshire DE23 2FS England |
| Local authority | Derby |
| DfE URN | 112952 |
| Ofsted | Reports |
| Students | 1337 |
| Gender | Coeducational |
| Ages | 11–18 |
| Houses | Dedication, Participation, Solidarity, Honour, Spirit |
| Website | www.derbymoor.derby.sch.uk |
Coordinates: 52°53′44″N 1°30′52″W / 52.89558°N 1.51458°W
Derby Moor Community Sports College Trust, formerly known as Derby Moor Community Sports College and Derby Moor Community School, is a secondary school and specialist Sports College situated on Moorway Lane, Littleover, Derby. It can be seen as the successor to Derby School, which closed in 1989, resulting in Derby Moor opening in the same year with a new head teacher and governing body. Although the buildings, pupils and most of the teaching staff were the same.
The school will consist of one building, once refurbishment is complete, but presently has four main buildings, Derwent Building, the Millennium Centre, Stenson Building and Cromford Building. Ms W. M. Whelan is the current Headteacher, whilst Mr M Shales and Mr N Jameieson are the Deputy Headteachers.[1]
The school has a joint sixth form centre, The Millennium Centre, with neighbouring school Littleover Community School, which opened in 1999. Ivy House Special School is also located on the same site but in different buildings[2].
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[edit] School System
The current school system uses 'vertical tutoring' where there are representatives from all years (7-11) in the the form groups, with houses instead of years being used. There are five houses, taking inspiration from the Olympic values and rings, these are; Solidarity (Red), Participation (Black), Honour (Yellow), Dedication (Blue) and Spirit (Green).[1]. Each house has its own 'house manager' who looks after the eleven forms within the house.
On the 1st January 2010 the school became a Foundation School with a Trust and acquired charitable status, this allowed the school greater control over its finances. The trust partners are, at the moment, Derby County Football Club, Ivy House School, NHS Derby City and Derby City Council Sport & Leisure.
[edit] Curriculum
The houses of the school; Solidarity, Participation, Honour, Dedication and Spirit, are linked with different areas of the curriculum or faculty, meaning that the forms are based in a certain subject area with the form tutor teaching within it. The houses correspond as follows:
- Dedication - Science & Technology
- Biology
- Chemistry
- Physics
- Food Technology
- Graphics
- Product Design
- Systems & Control
- Textiles
- Honour - PACE (Physical & Creative Education)
- Art
- Dance
- Drama
- Music
- Physical Education
- Solidarity - Communications
- English (Language & Literature)
- French
- Punjabi
- Media Studies
- Urdu
- Spirit - Maths & ICT
- ICT
- Maths
- Participation - Humanities & PSE
- Business Studies
- Geography
- History
- Humanities
- Psychology
- Religious Studies
- Sociology
[edit] Buildings from 1964-2011
The first buildings on the site where built in the 1960's. Consisting of Stenson (prefabricated concert panels and steel construction) and Derwent (steel and brick construction)[3]. These were built when the school was still Derby School Due to this Derwent building contained memorabilia from the old school including war memorials, boards in the hall with lists of former students on and a mosaic in the entrance hall of the schools emblem.
In 1992 there was a fire in a part of the Stenson building resulting in demolition of this part. A new building, Cromford, was constructed on the tennis courts that were close to the entrance of the school, with the area that had been cleared becoming tennis courts. It was opened in 1993 by Margaret Beckett, MP for Derby South. The Markeaton building was constructed in 1999 to house The Millennium Centre, it consisted of terrapin blocks that had been linked together. Other temporary buildings where added to the site as the buildings out grew there capacity, these included the music block and seclusion area. Following a grant in the mid 2000's an astro turf pitch was constructed on the south fields of the site, along with this came extra changing rooms, and a few years later a gym. The gym was built thanks to a grant from Sport England because of Ivy House Special School being built on one of the top fields to the north[2].
[edit] Building Schools for the Future
Derby Moor is taking part in the BSF program, being one of the test schools for Derby City along with Noel-Baker Community School. The school is having a partial refurbishment and partial a partial new build, the cost of this being £19 million[4], with some £3 million of this to be spent on IT equipment. The new building and refurbishment has been designed by Hawkins\Brown as the main architects[5], Fabric as landscape architects and Cundall Johnston and Partners as the structural, mechanical and electrical engineer. These companies partnered with Balfour Beatty to win preferred bidder status in 2010.
The new building was designed to link together Derwent building and what was to remain of Stenson building, after it was decided that these two where to be kept. The remainder of Stenson's fabric was to damaged to be of use and Cromford, due to its construction methods, had inefficient energy usage and poor acoustics. The new building, known as the Learning Barn would provide many of the more complex facilities such as the science and technology labs and ICT suits. This allows the older buildings to provide what they are able to in terms of learning spaces as they are restricted due to the arrangement of the original steel work. The rooms and facilities are grouped in accordance with the house system; Dedication, Honour, Solidarity, Spirit and Participation respectively. There is a 'Hub' area in each faculty containing IT facilities and open learning space. In addition to this there is a main hub that contains the dinning area, Flexible Learning Centre (which contains the libary and IT facilites) and the sixth form centre (The Millennium Centre).
After uncertainty around whether funding would be given due to spending cuts by the UK Government, construction started in January 2011[6]. In January 2012 the PACE faculty opened[7], this being contained in what remains of Stenson building, this included the refurbished sports hall. The rest of the building is due to open in September 2012[7], with the demolition of the other buildings to commence afterwards.
[edit] Notable Alumni
- Lee Camp (footballer)[8], goalkeeper for Nottingham Forest[9] and Northern Ireland national football team.
[edit] References
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Derby Moor Community Sports College Trust |
- ^ a b Derby Moor Community Sports College - official site
- ^ a b Ivy House Special School - official site
- ^ Derby City Planning Department Document
- ^ Derby Telegraph 2008
- ^ Hawkins\Brown Portfolio Page
- ^ Derby Telegraph 2010
- ^ a b Derby Telegraph 2011
- ^ Derby County Football Club
- ^ Notts Forest Profile Page
