Cumberland School

Cumberland School
Address
Oban Close London , E13 8SJ
Information
Type	Comprehensive
Local authority	Newham
Specialist	Sports College, Applied Learning
Ofsted	Reports
Chair of Governors	Sharon Higgins
Headteacher	John Bradshaw
Gender	Mixed
Age	11 to 16
Enrollment	1163
Website	http://www.cumberland.org.uk/

Cumberland School is a comprehensive mixed state secondary school in the London Borough of Newham with 1163 pupils. It is situated on Oban Close off Prince Regent Lane close to its junction with Newham Way and has substantial land, owing to its sports specialism, sharing facilities with neighbouring Newham Leisure Centre. It is built on the site of the former Woodside Community School.

Sports specialism

Cumberland School was designated as a Sports College in 2003. As host of the Cumberland School Sport Partnership (SSP), students are given the opportunity to develop their sporting talents in addition to enhancing their academic achievement. It shall be a training venue for the 2012 Summer Olympics.

The School was awarded with the FA Charter Standard in 2005.

In 2007, the school achieved its highest ever results for GCSE Physical Education, with over 200 students achieving a pass. The specialist Sports College results for PE and Sport peaked in 2007 prior to the introduction of the BTEC First Diploma in Sport. In that year there was a growth in numbers of students that completed the British Sport Trust Level 1 Award in Sports Leadership.

Building Schools for the Future

Cumberland School was rebuilt in 2005 as part of the UK Government's Building Schools for the Future programme. The new building opened in 2006 and was opened by Dame Kelly Holmes. The new building consists of a sports hall, netball courts, two football fields and a triple jump area.

School Day

The Cumberland school day starts at 8.40am with registration and ends at 3pm. There is a 15 minute registration period first followed by two 1-hour lessons then a 20 minute break. After break there are another two 1-hour lessons then a 45 minute lunch. The last lesson is 1-hour.

Headteachers

• Current: John Bradshaw

History

The school was first formed in 2000 from the merger of Plaistow County Grammar school and the school then occupying the building that had originally housed Denmark Street Board School.

The school's premises have changed a number of times over recent years, originally a split site school with the lower school on Denmark Street E13, bordered by Cumberland Road E13 to the west and Holborn Road E13 to the north, (now demolished though some of the border walls still exist), and the upper school on Prince Regent lane E13, on the site of the current NewVIc Newham Sixth Form College. It moved to what had been the site of Trinity Boys School on Barking Road, Canning Town, E13 (also now demolished), before moving to its current location.

External links

• Official Cumbeland School page
• Page on Department for Children, Schools and Families website
• View from Google Maps
• A History of the County of Essex: Volume 6 p144-157
• New school fit for champions
• [http://www.doublegold.co.uk/diary/september-catch-up Dame Kelly Holmes official website, news in the news it said that cumberland school is locked up and is going to be a prison