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Lister Community School

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Lister Community School
Address
Map
St Mary's Road

, ,
E13 9AE

England
Information
TypeAcademy
TrustNewham Community Schools Trust
Department for Education URN148902 Tables
OfstedReports
Head teacherAlice Clay
GenderCo-educational
Age11 to 16
Enrolment1700
Websitehttp://www.lister.newham.sch.uk/

Lister Community School is a co-educational secondary school located at St Mary's Road, Plaistow, Newham, London.[1]

The school uses vertical tutoring to integrate the community of students across the range of ages and year groups.[2] It is one of a few schools in Newham that provides specialist British sign language interpreters for students who have hearing impairments.[2]

History

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The school was founded by West Ham Council in 1921 as Livingstone Day Continuation Institute, in Balaam Street Congregational schoolroom. It relocated a few times, was briefly absorbed into North West Ham Technical School after World War II, and was successively renamed as Lister Day-Continuation Institute (1933), Lister Technical School (1956), Lister Comprehensive (1972) and finally Lister Community School. Purpose-built facilities for the school were completed in the 1990s.[3]

In 2003, pupils staged a walk-out in protest against the invasion of Iraq.[4]

In 2005 Lister pupils won a poetry slam, and the school magazine Carbolic (named in honour of the school's namesake, local surgeon Joseph Lister) gained high praise from Benjamin Zephaniah and Michael Rosen.[4]

In November 2008, an Ofsted inspection rated the school "Good with outstanding features".[5] This was downgraded to "Satisfactory" following an inspection in 2012.[6] but upgraded again to "Good" in the recent inspection in November 2013, with 64% of lessons inspected rated as "good" or "outstanding" and none "inadequate".

The school moved into brand new premises completed in 2010 at a cost of £25 million under the Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme.[3][7]

In 2017 the school started teaching GCSEs from Year 9 instead of Year 10 with the first class graduating in 2020.[8]

Between 2018 and 2019 Lister Community School gained 7 more classrooms and a new "learning hub".

  1. A new classroom was created on the second floor by moving the EAL office to the library
  2. 4 new classrooms were created by an extension to W block which provided 4 new English classrooms
  3. 3 new classrooms and a new careers office were created in a new "E"
  4. A new classroom was built replacing a small office as "S001"
  5. The classroom S008 was removed and expanded to hold a computer room managed by the library.
  6. The Library was expanded.
  7. The E block was converted into the JFK Special Needs School
  8. A new 2 floor extension to the S Block was built in place of the old lunch hall, along with a revamped break area and a new dance hall
  9. A new "Rainbow Cafe" was added
  10. The former two story dance hall in the agora was revamped into a new lecture theatre.
  11. The north gate was relocated

In 2019 a plan to increase the schools capacity from 9 forms of entry to 11 forms of entry in 2021 was consulted on.[9]

In academic year 2020 Health and Social care started being taught at the school by the RS department.

Previously a foundation school administered by Newham London Borough Council, in December 2021 Lister Community School converted to academy status. It is now sponsored by the Newham Community Schools Trust.[10]

As of September 2024, Lister will discontinue their house system in place of a year group system. Each year group will have their own form class comprising only of people of the same year. Instead of a Head of House and a Pastoral Manager there will be a Head of Year and Assistant Head of Year.

References

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  1. ^ "Department for Education: Lister Community School". EduBase. Retrieved 18 February 2014.
  2. ^ a b "Welcome to our School". Newham Council. Retrieved 21 February 2014.
  3. ^ a b "Lister Community School, 1973". The Newham Story. Newham Council. Archived from the original on 8 March 2014. Retrieved 21 February 2014.
  4. ^ a b "On the write lines". Times Educational Supplement. 4 August 2008. Retrieved 22 February 2014.
  5. ^ Ofsted Inspection Report, 2008. Retrieved 10 July 2013.
  6. ^ Ofsted Inspection Report, 2012. Retrieved 10 July 2013.
  7. ^ "Lister Community School, Newham BSF". Stantec. Retrieved 21 February 2014.
  8. ^ "Year 9, 10 & 11 – Curriculum | Lister Community School". lister.newham.sch.uk. Retrieved 19 November 2019.
  9. ^ "CONSULTATION ON EXPANSION OF LISTER COMMUNITY SCHOOL | Lister Community School". lister.newham.sch.uk. Retrieved 19 November 2019.
  10. ^ "Our Schools – Newham Community Schools Trust".
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