Ormiston Chadwick Academy

Ormiston Chadwick Academy (from 2014, prior to which it was called The Bankfield School) is a coeducational secondary school with academy status, located in Widnes in the English county of Cheshire.

Ormiston Chadwick Academy
View of the school (2008)
Address
Liverpool Road

Widnes
,
Cheshire
,
WA8 7HU

England
Coordinates53.3724°N 2.7594°W / 53.3724; -2.7594
Information
TypeAcademy
Motto"Aliquam in Pedicabo"
Established1958 (1958)
Department for Education URN140864 Tables
OfstedReports
PrincipalMrs J Lowry-Johnson
Executive PrincipalMrs Tuesday Humby
Head of SchoolMiss J Flavin
GenderCoeducational
Age11 to 16
Capacity976
HousesEllie Simmonds, Stephen Sutton, Malala Yousafzai, Tim Parry
Websitehttp://www.ormistonchadwickacademy.co.uk/

History

Bankfield School

Bankfield School opened in September 1958 as a small secondary modern school, before becoming a comprehensive school in 1974. The numbers on the roll fell, and in the 1980s the school was threatened with closure. In January 1990, following a campaign by the local community, Bankfield became a grant-maintained school. In 1997, the school joined the other schools managed by Halton Borough Council.[1]

In September 2004, Bankfield School was awarded the specialist status Science College and in doing so partnered with the Catalyst Museum and Science Discovery Centre along with 16 industrial sponsors.[2] In 2010, Bankfield became the first school in the Borough of Halton to be judged as 'Outstanding' by Ofsted.[3] The school also gained a second specialism in Applied Learning, and also became a Gifted & Talented Lead School.

Ormiston Chadwick Academy

In April 2013, Ofsted deemed the school to 'require improvement'. This inspection found that standards in the school had significantly slipped. In January 2013, following an October Ofsted report, the school was placed into special measures. Bankfield was then taken over by an Interim Executive Board who aimed to improve the school, and they appointed John Rigby as the Interim Executive Headteacher. On 1 September 2014, the school re-opened as Ormiston Chadwick Academy. The academy is now sponsored by Ormiston Academies Trust and is paired with Ormiston Bolingbroke Academy in Runcorn.[4]

Notable former pupils
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gollark: I also wrote a chat program in about 30 lines of easily memorable python which uses that convenient IPv4 broadcast address, because I wanted a version of my multicast chat thing which was less ridiculously fragile. So you could also plausibly cheat using that.
gollark: You could actually just use the HTTP thing to download code off pastebin too I guess.

References
  1. "Golden Year for Bankfield School", Inside Halton, Halton Borough Council: 7, December 2008
  2. The Bankfield School, The Bankfield School, retrieved 29 October 2013
  3. http://bankfield.com/pdf/Ofsted2010.pdf
  4. http://www.runcornandwidnesweeklynews.co.uk/incoming/widnes-schools-newleadership-confirmed-7084135
  5. "Golden Year for Bankfield School", Inside Halton, Halton Borough Council: 7, December 2008
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