Lister Community School
| Lister Community School | |
|---|---|
| Address | |
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St Mary's Road , , E13 9AE England | |
| Information | |
| Type | Community school |
| Department for Education URN | 102778 Tables |
| Ofsted | Reports |
| Head teacher | Anthony Wilson |
| Staff | Approx. 300 |
| Gender | Co-educational |
| Age | 11 to 16 |
| Enrollment | 1310 |
| Website | http://www.patience-is-a-virtue.org/ |
Lister Community School is a non-selective, mixed, 11-16 comprehensive secondary school, located at St Mary’s Road, Plaistow, Newham, London.[1]
In November 2008, an Ofsted inspection rated the school "Good with outstanding features".[2] This was downgraded to "Satisfactory" following an inspection in 2012.[3] 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 current headteacher of the school, since September 2011, is Anthony Wilson.
The school uses vertical tutoring to integrate the community of students across the range of ages and year groups.[4]
It is one of a few schools in Newham that provides specialist British sign language interpreters for students who have hearing impairments.[4]
Lister Community School also is one of the most best and improved schools in the whole Great Britain. HM The Queen is scheduled to visit Lister on the 3rd March 2016.
History
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.[5]
In 2003, pupils staged a walk-out in protest against the invasion of Iraq.[6]
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.[6]
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.[5][7]
References
- ^ "Department for Education: Lister Community School". EduBase. Retrieved 18 February 2014.
- ^ Ofsted Inspection Report, 2008 (Accessed 10 July 2013)
- ^ Ofsted Inspection Report, 2012 (Accessed 10 July 2013)
- ^ a b "Welcome to our School". Newham Council. Retrieved 21 February 2014.
- ^ a b "Lister Community School, 1973". The Newham Story. Newham Council. Retrieved 21 February 2014.
- ^ a b "On the write lines". Times Educational Supplement. 4 August 2008. Retrieved 22 February 2014.
- ^ "Lister Community School, Newham BSF". Stantec. Retrieved 21 February 2014.