Weavers Academy

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]

Weavers School
Address
Brickhill Road

Wellingborough
,
Northamptonshire
,
NN8 3JH

England
Coordinates52.3008°N 0.7129°W / 52.3008; -0.7129
Information
TypeAcademy
Department for Education URN139819 Tables
OfstedReports
Head teacherMrs Vivien Swaida
GenderCoeducational
Age11 to 18
Enrolment1'140
Websitehttp://www.weaversacademy.org.uk/

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

References
  1. http://www.weaversacademy.org.uk/
  2. "PC is not there to keep order". Tes. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
  3. "School gives pupils f-word limit". 29 August 2005. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
  4. "Citation Needed Sticker Pack". The xkcd store. Retrieved 4 September 2019.


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