Harris Academy Upper Norwood

Harris Academy Upper Norwood (formerly Westwood High School and then Westwood Girls' College for Languages and Arts and Ingram County Secondary Girls' School) is a mixed secondary school with academy status, located in the Upper Norwood area of the London Borough of Croydon, England. The school is sponsored by the Harris Federation.[1]

Harris Academy Upper Norwood
Address
Spurgeon Road

Upper Norwood
,
Greater London
,
SE19 3UG

England
Coordinates51.41375°N 0.09439°W / 51.41375; -0.09439
Information
TypeAcademy
Established1958
Department for Education URN139906 Tables
OfstedReports
PrincipalMr N Soar
GenderMixed
Age11 to 18
Websitewww.harrisuppernorwood.org.uk

The school offers GCSEs, BTECs and OCR Nationals as programmes of study for pupils. The school specialises in languages and the arts, and has additional facilities for the specialisms. The school will open a sixth form provision in September 2014, which will offer a range of A Levels and additional BTECs.[2]

The school was formerly a community school under the direct control of Croydon London Borough Council. However the school was rated as "inadequate" in its most recent Ofsted inspection report and was put into special measures in January 2013. The governors of the school decided to pursue academy status, with the school becoming part of the Harris Federation in September 2013.[3] the school was then renamed Harris Academy Upper Norwood.

In September 2014, the school amalgamated with Harris Academy South Norwood, sharing teachers and a sixth form campus.[4]

References
  1. "Welcome to Harris Academy - Upper Norwood - Harris Academy - Upper Norwood". Harrisuppernorwood.org.uk. Retrieved 9 September 2013.
  2. "Sixth Form - Harris Academy - Upper Norwood". Harrisuppernorwood.org.uk. Archived from the original on 28 September 2013. Retrieved 9 September 2013.
  3. Andrew Levy (17 May 2013). "Teachers vow to strike after head suggests sitting in on lessons... but staff claim it puts them under 'intolerable pressure' | Mail Online". Dailymail.co.uk. Retrieved 24 July 2013.
  4. "Leadership Newsletter" (PDF). 13 May 2014. Retrieved 11 June 2015.


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