Winterbourne Academy

The Winterbourne Academy, is a co-educational school in South Gloucestershire the school is in the village of Winterbourne in South Gloucestershire, on the outskirts of Bristol, England.

Winterbourne Academy
Address
High Street

Winterbourne
,
South Gloucestershire

England
Information
TypeAcademy
Established1957
TrustThe Olympus Academy Trust
Department for Education URN135944 Tables
OfstedReports
Head teacherMr. J Beardmore
GenderMixed
Age11 to 18
Enrolment1,808
Websitehttps://www.winterbourneacademy.org.uk

History

The Ridings High School was founded in 1957 and opened by the eminent Labour politician, Tony Benn.

Academy proposal

In 2007, Rob Gibson (Headteacher at the time) was invited by the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) to consider a move to Academy status as the Lead (non-financial) sponsor in a Hard Federation, incorporating King Edmund Community School in Yate. As a result, in September 2009, The Ridings' Federation of Academies was established with two independent academies, Winterbourne International Academy (formerly 'The Ridings High School' and the lead sponsor) and Yate International Academy (formerly King Edmund Community School). The two academies have since parted ways, and now operate under separate trusts.

Rob Gibson became the Chief Executive Principal in 2009 of the Federation but left at the end of 2014. Beverley Martin became Chief Executive Principal of the Federation in 2015 and Principal of Yate International Academy. The Winterbourne Academy has approximately 1,820 students on roll including 370 in its sixth form. Winterbourne Academy used to base its curriculum models upon the International Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme. The Winterbourne International Academy delivered the International Baccalaureate Diploma (post-16). International Baccalaureate results were consistently above the International benchmark pass rate of 80%. Since 2008, The Winterbourne International Academy has had three students awarded the prestigious Prime Minister's Global Fellowship: students have used these awards to travel to China and Brazil. Following major changes at the academy, the International Baccalaureate Diploma was dropped, and thus Winterbourne International Academy became solely Winterbourne Academy.

The Principal of Winterbourne Mr Rob Evans announced that he was going to be resigning in 2015. Mr Richard Haupt took his place of Principal on 1 June 2015.

In September 2018 Jason Beardmore became the new principal, taking over from Peter Smart who had been interim headteacher since 2017[1]

Academic standards

The school (and now Academy) has expanded since its inception, providing services such as a technology college, Arts Centre and Sixth Form. Since 2006 it has offered the International Baccalaureate, becoming the first school in South Gloucestershire to offer this qualification, and even attracting students from abroad.[2] It hosts the most popular Sixth Form in the county, with children joining at the age of 16 from all of the other local secondary schools.

The OFSTED dashboard for WIA may be found at: http://dashboard.ofsted.gov.uk/dash.php?urn=135944 and the inspection reports at: http://reports.ofsted.gov.uk/inspection-reports/find-inspection-report/provider/ELS/135944.

New build

The school was granted £19.3 million to finance their new build. In January 2013, the new school opened at the end of 2014.

Notable former pupils
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References
  1. Yong, Michael (7 June 2018). "The biggest school in the Bristol area has a new head". bristolpost. Retrieved 13 December 2019.
  2. "State school draws foreign pupils". 12 June 2007. Archived from the original on 22 May 2015. Retrieved 27 October 2018 – via news.bbc.co.uk.
  3. MacCormick, Ken. "Bristol author Nathan Filer wins Costa Book of the Year award". Bristol Post. Archived from the original on 30 January 2014. Retrieved 30 January 2014.
  4. "Mike Green makes Bristol Rovers debut in 6-1 defeat at Oxford". The Gazette. Newsquest Media Group. 12 August 2010. Archived from the original on 26 July 2011. Retrieved 19 August 2010.
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