St Clere's School (formerly St Clere's School and Language College) is a coeducational co-operative secondary school with academy status located on the outskirts of Stanford Le Hope, Thurrock, Essex.[2][3] The school was established in 1978, became an academy in 2011 and since 2013 has also been a specialist science and sports college.[4][5] It has a "good" Ofsted rating and has a student population of 1342 as of 2021.[3][1]
| St Clere's School | |
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| Address | |
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Butts Lane , , SS17 0NW | |
| Coordinates | 51°30′38″N 0°25′10″E / 51.51055°N 0.41943°E |
| Information | |
| Type | Co-operative academy |
| Motto | Latin: "Persequi Optima" (The Pursuit of Excellence) |
| Established | 1973 |
| Specialists | Science and sports |
| Department for Education URN | 137456 Tables |
| Ofsted | Reports |
| Chair | Dawn Mummery |
| Headteacher | Ashlie Hughes |
| Deputy Headteacher | Jon Purkiss |
| Gender | Coeducational |
| Age | 11 to 16 |
| Enrolment | 1342[1] |
| Houses | Brandon Conrad Gordon Wallace |
| Colour(s) | Red, yellow, blue, green and black. |
| Affiliation | Thames Park Secondary School |
| Website | http://www.st-cleres.thurrock.sch.uk/ |
The school is involved with the Jack Petchey Award. It is offered to students in the upper years of the school, being years 9 to 11. It is also a sister school with fellow trust school Thames Park Secondary School, with current Headteacher Ashlie Hughes being the executive head at Thames Park.[6][7]
History edit
The St Clere's School opened in 1978 and was one of the first Essexonian schools to be grant-maintained in 1993.[8] It specialised as a language college sometime before 2008[9] and it became a foundation school in 2009. It became an academy converter on 1 September 2011[1] and in 2012 formed the St Clere's Co-operative Academy Trust with the nearby East Tilbury Primary School, the first multi-academy trust with co-operative articles of association in the entire country.[8] This trust would be renamed the Osborne Co-operative Academy Trust in 2017 to honour its late Chair Ray Osborne who was a governor at St Clere's since its establishment in 1978 and was the school chair from 1980 and trust chair from 2011. He is said to have missed only one meeting during his whole career, which was a fortnight before his death in 2016.[10]
After gaining academy status it specialised again as a science and sports College in 2013 and was ranked as "good" by Ofsted in 2014.[4][1] In 2013 it was visited by Baroness Angela Smith of Basildon who was "very impressed" with the school and its fellow trust member East Tilbury Primary School.[11]
In 2023 the school was found to have a number of potentially structurally unsound buildings due to the use of reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete as a building material.[12]
Sixth Form edit
St Clere's hosts one of two campuses for the Osborne Sixth Form[13] which has around 200 students studying A-Levels and Level 3 BTECs. The other school which makes up the sixth form is Brentwood County High School.[14]
Notable Former Pupils edit
References edit
- ^ a b c d "St Clere's School". reports.ofsted.gov.uk. 8 October 2020. Retrieved 21 November 2021.
- ^ "Welcome from the Head Teacher, Mrs A Hughes - St Clere's School". www.st-cleres.thurrock.sch.uk. Retrieved 21 November 2021.
- ^ a b "St Clere's School - GOV.UK". www.get-information-schools.service.gov.uk. Retrieved 21 November 2021.
- ^ a b "About St Clere's - St Clere's School". www.st-cleres.thurrock.sch.uk. Retrieved 21 November 2021.
- ^ "Science and Sports Specialisms - St Clere's School". www.st-cleres.thurrock.sch.uk. Retrieved 21 November 2021.
- ^ O'Neill, Lottie (29 June 2018). "Three new schools to open in South Essex to battle 30,000 population rise". EssexLive. Retrieved 29 December 2021.
- ^ "Thames Park School". Twitter. Retrieved 29 December 2021.
- ^ a b "Our History". Osborne Co-operative Academy Trust. Retrieved 21 November 2021.
- ^ "Former pupil Nicky trains teachers at her old school". Echo. Retrieved 21 November 2021.
- ^ "Osborne Co-operative Academy Trust - St Clere's School". www.st-cleres.thurrock.sch.uk. Retrieved 21 November 2021.
- ^ "Baroness Smith visits schools". Thurrock Gazette. Retrieved 21 November 2021.
- ^ "Which schools have closed, shut buildings or moved over aerated concrete?". BBC News. 1 September 2023. Retrieved 1 September 2023.
- ^ "Osborne Sixth Form - St Clere's School". www.st-cleres.thurrock.sch.uk. Retrieved 21 November 2021.
- ^ "Welcome to the Osborne Sixth Form - BCHS Campus - Brentwood County High School". www.bchs.essex.sch.uk. Retrieved 21 November 2021.
- ^ "Danielle classmates watch reconstruction". 20 July 2001. Retrieved 21 November 2021.
- ^ "Danielle Jones murder: The schoolgirl who vanished at a bus stop". BBC News. 17 May 2017. Retrieved 21 November 2021.
- ^ Duggan, Richard (5 July 2017). "Full story behind disappearance and murder of Danielle Jones". EssexLive. Retrieved 21 November 2021.
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