Weavers Academy
| Weavers School | |
|---|---|
| Address | |
 | |
Brickhill Road , , NN8 3JH | |
| Coordinates | 52°18′03″N 0°42′46″W / 52.3008°N 0.7129°W |
| Information | |
| Type | Academy |
| Department for Education URN | 139819 Tables |
| Ofsted | Reports |
| Head teacher | Mrs Vivien Swaida |
| Gender | Coeducational |
| Age | 11 to 18 |
| Enrolment | 1'140 |
| Website | http://www.weaversacademy.org.uk/ |
Weavers Academy (Weavers School) is a co-educational secondary school and sixth form with academy status, located in Wellingborough in the English county of Northamptonshire.[1]
Formerly a Technical Grammar School, it went on to become Weavers School, a community school administered by Northamptonshire County Council. It then briefly became a foundation school before converting to academy status in September 2013, and was renamed Weavers Academy. The school is now sponsored by the Creative Education Trust, but Weavers Academy continues to coordinate with Northamptonshire County Council for admissions.
Weavers Academy offers GCSEs, BTECs and OCR Nationals as programmes of study for pupils, while sixth form students can choose to study a range of A Levels and further BTECs.
In 2002, Weavers School achieved the distinction of becoming the first educational establishment in England to have a serving police officer based on its premises[2]. Two years later, the school was placed in special measures by the Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills (Ofsted). While in special measures, the school made national headlines (albeit in the Daily Mail) following the implementation of a policy under which certain pupils' use of profanity was deemed tolerable by staff[3], a so-called "five fucks rule"[4]. The headteacher who oversaw this innovative approach to raising educational standards resigned in November 2006.
Alumni
- David Bell (born 1984), Footballer
- Dr James Warren (Professor of ancient philosophy, Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge), Weavers 1985-1992
- DanTDM a British YouTube personality, professional gamer, and author.
References
- ^ http://www.weaversacademy.org.uk/
- ^ "PC is not there to keep order". Tes. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
- ^ "School gives pupils f-word limit". 29 August 2005. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
- ^ "Citation Needed Sticker Pack". The xkcd store. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
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