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In 1919, [[Kesteven County Council]] took over the school (renaming it Kesteven and Sleaford High School). It charged fees until the passage of the [[Education Act 1944]], when the school became a state grammar school and fees were abolished; the preparatory school was wound down and it catered for pupils over 11. A modern building complex was completed between 1957 and 1968 and the school expanded its playing fields. Subsequent plans to [[Comprehensive school|comprehensivise]] Sleaford's schools came to nothing in the 1970s, after which KSHS joined [[Sleaford Joint Sixth Form]] in 1983 with the town's other secondary schools. KSHS underwent another major building programme in 1994 to 1996, became a [[Arts College (United Kingdom)|visual arts specialist college]] in 2003 and opened another building in 2006. It pulled out of SJSF in 2010 and converted to an academy in 2011, before being taken over in 2015 by the Robert Carre [[Multi-academy trust|Multi-Academy Trust]], which also manages [[Carre's Grammar School]]. It rejoined the joint sixth form in 2016. |
In 1919, [[Kesteven County Council]] took over the school (renaming it Kesteven and Sleaford High School). It charged fees until the passage of the [[Education Act 1944]], when the school became a state grammar school and fees were abolished; the preparatory school was wound down and it catered for pupils over 11. A modern building complex was completed between 1957 and 1968 and the school expanded its playing fields. Subsequent plans to [[Comprehensive school|comprehensivise]] Sleaford's schools came to nothing in the 1970s, after which KSHS joined [[Sleaford Joint Sixth Form]] in 1983 with the town's other secondary schools. KSHS underwent another major building programme in 1994 to 1996, became a [[Arts College (United Kingdom)|visual arts specialist college]] in 2003 and opened another building in 2006. It pulled out of SJSF in 2010 and converted to an academy in 2011, before being taken over in 2015 by the Robert Carre [[Multi-academy trust|Multi-Academy Trust]], which also manages [[Carre's Grammar School]]. It rejoined the joint sixth form in 2016. |
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Admission to the lower school is through the [[eleven-plus examination]]. There were 763 pupils on roll in 2024. Teaching follows the [[National Curriculum for England|National Curriculum]] and pupils generally sit examinations for [[General Certificate of Secondary Education]] (GCSE) qualifications in Year Eleven (aged 15–16). They have a choice of three or four [[A-levels]] in the [[sixth form]], which is part of the Sleaford Joint Sixth Form consortium with Carre's and [[St George's Academy]]. In 2023, the school received a "well above average" [[Progress 8 benchmark|Progress 8]] score; 90% of pupils achieved English and mathematics GCSEs at grade 5 or above, which was far higher than the national figure.<ref>[https://www.compare-school-performance.service.gov.uk/school/137667/kesteven-and-sleaford-high-school-selective-academy/secondary "Compare School and College Performance in England: Kesteven and Sleaford High School Selective Academy: Secondary"], ''[[Department for Education]]''. Retrieved 2 May 2024.</ref> The average A-Level grade in 2023 was a B, slightly above the national figure;<ref>[https://www.compare-school-performance.service.gov.uk/school/137667/kesteven-and-sleaford-high-school-selective-academy/16-to-18/advanced-level-qualifications?accordionstate=0 "Compare School and College Performance in England: Kesteven and Sleaford High School Selective Academy: Advanced Level Qualifications (Level 3)"], ''[[Department for Education]]''. Retrieved 2 May 2024.</ref> the government's progression score for the Sixth Form is "average".<ref>[https://www.compare-school-performance.service.gov.uk/school/137667/kesteven-and-sleaford-high-school-selective-academy/16-to-18/advanced-level-qualifications?accordionstate=0 "Compare School and College Performance in England: Kesteven and Sleaford High School Selective Academy: Student Destinations – Progression into Higher Education or Training (2020 Leavers)"], ''[[Department for Education]]''. Retrieved 2 May 2024.</ref> An [[Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills]] (Ofsted) inspection in 2017 graded KSHS "good" overall.<ref>[https://www.get-information-schools.service.gov.uk/Establishments/Establishment/Details/137667 "Kesteven and Sleaford High School Selective Academy"], ''[[Department for Education]]''. Retrieved 2 May 2024.</ref> |
Admission to the lower school is through the [[eleven-plus examination]] (for Year 7) or the [[cognitive ability test]] (for Years 8 to 11); entry to the Sixth Form is not based on ability, though there are minimum qualification requirements. There were 763 pupils on roll in 2024. Teaching follows the [[National Curriculum for England|National Curriculum]] and pupils generally sit examinations for [[General Certificate of Secondary Education]] (GCSE) qualifications in Year Eleven (aged 15–16). They have a choice of three or four [[A-levels]] in the [[sixth form|Sixth Form]], which is part of the Sleaford Joint Sixth Form consortium with Carre's Grammar School and [[St George's Academy]]. In 2023, the school received a "well above average" [[Progress 8 benchmark|Progress 8]] score; 90% of pupils achieved English and mathematics GCSEs at grade 5 or above, which was far higher than the national figure.<ref>[https://www.compare-school-performance.service.gov.uk/school/137667/kesteven-and-sleaford-high-school-selective-academy/secondary "Compare School and College Performance in England: Kesteven and Sleaford High School Selective Academy: Secondary"], ''[[Department for Education]]''. Retrieved 2 May 2024.</ref> The average A-Level grade in 2023 was a B, slightly above the national figure;<ref>[https://www.compare-school-performance.service.gov.uk/school/137667/kesteven-and-sleaford-high-school-selective-academy/16-to-18/advanced-level-qualifications?accordionstate=0 "Compare School and College Performance in England: Kesteven and Sleaford High School Selective Academy: Advanced Level Qualifications (Level 3)"], ''[[Department for Education]]''. Retrieved 2 May 2024.</ref> the government's progression score for the Sixth Form leavers is "average".<ref>[https://www.compare-school-performance.service.gov.uk/school/137667/kesteven-and-sleaford-high-school-selective-academy/16-to-18/advanced-level-qualifications?accordionstate=0 "Compare School and College Performance in England: Kesteven and Sleaford High School Selective Academy: Student Destinations – Progression into Higher Education or Training (2020 Leavers)"], ''[[Department for Education]]''. Retrieved 2 May 2024.</ref> An [[Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills]] (Ofsted) inspection in 2017 graded KSHS "good" overall.<ref>[https://www.get-information-schools.service.gov.uk/Establishments/Establishment/Details/137667 "Kesteven and Sleaford High School Selective Academy"], ''[[Department for Education]]''. Retrieved 2 May 2024.</ref> |
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== History == |
== History == |
Revision as of 18:28, 4 May 2024
Kesteven and Sleaford High School | |
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Address | |
Jermyn Street , , NG34 7RS England | |
Information | |
Type | Selective grammar school Academy |
Motto | Educating today's pupils for tomorrow's society |
Established | 1902 |
Department for Education URN | 137667 Tables |
Ofsted | Reports |
Chair of Governors | Nick Gibbons |
Head teacher | Josephine Smith |
Staff | 45 approx. |
Gender | Girls, Boys accepted to Sixth Form |
Age | 11 to 18 |
Enrolment | 745 approx. |
Colour(s) | Green, yellow |
Website | http://www.kshs.uk/ |
Kesteven and Sleaford High School Selective Academy,[1] commonly known as Kesteven and Sleaford High School (KSHS), is a selective school with academy status in Sleaford, a market town in Lincolnshire, England. It caters for girls aged between eleven and sixteen in Years 7 to 11, and girls and boys between sixteen and eighteen in its coeducational Sixth Form.
From the 1890s, the lack of secondary schooling for girls in Sleaford became a growing problem, but the local authority lacked the funds to expand the boys' grammar school to take on girls. In 1902, a group of businessmen and gentlemen from Sleaford formed a private company to run Sleaford and Kesteven High School based in Southgate. A private school, it catered for boys under 8 and girls of all ages, including boarders and a preparatory department; girls could sit examinations to obtain a limited number of local authority scholarships which paid their fees.
In 1919, Kesteven County Council took over the school (renaming it Kesteven and Sleaford High School). It charged fees until the passage of the Education Act 1944, when the school became a state grammar school and fees were abolished; the preparatory school was wound down and it catered for pupils over 11. A modern building complex was completed between 1957 and 1968 and the school expanded its playing fields. Subsequent plans to comprehensivise Sleaford's schools came to nothing in the 1970s, after which KSHS joined Sleaford Joint Sixth Form in 1983 with the town's other secondary schools. KSHS underwent another major building programme in 1994 to 1996, became a visual arts specialist college in 2003 and opened another building in 2006. It pulled out of SJSF in 2010 and converted to an academy in 2011, before being taken over in 2015 by the Robert Carre Multi-Academy Trust, which also manages Carre's Grammar School. It rejoined the joint sixth form in 2016.
Admission to the lower school is through the eleven-plus examination (for Year 7) or the cognitive ability test (for Years 8 to 11); entry to the Sixth Form is not based on ability, though there are minimum qualification requirements. There were 763 pupils on roll in 2024. Teaching follows the National Curriculum and pupils generally sit examinations for General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) qualifications in Year Eleven (aged 15–16). They have a choice of three or four A-levels in the Sixth Form, which is part of the Sleaford Joint Sixth Form consortium with Carre's Grammar School and St George's Academy. In 2023, the school received a "well above average" Progress 8 score; 90% of pupils achieved English and mathematics GCSEs at grade 5 or above, which was far higher than the national figure.[2] The average A-Level grade in 2023 was a B, slightly above the national figure;[3] the government's progression score for the Sixth Form leavers is "average".[4] An Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills (Ofsted) inspection in 2017 graded KSHS "good" overall.[5]
History
Background
In the late 19th century, Carre's Grammar School was Sleaford's only secondary school, but pupils had to pay a fee to attend and it admitted boys only.[6] From 1893, Kesteven County Council's Technical Instruction Committee offered annual junior scholarships which paid the school fees for pupils who passed the scholarship examination, but because of the lack of other schools for girls, they were only tenable for girls at one institution in Lincoln,[7] 18 miles away.[8] As the Sleaford Gazette reported, there was no school "supplying a good, high-class education for the daughters and young children of middle-class and well-to-do residents in Sleaford and neighbourhood".[9]
In the late 1890s, the county council wanted to expand Sleaford's secondary education provision. When the governors of Carre's Grammar School applied to the Technical Instruction Committee for a grant towards a new school building, the council wished to make the grant conditional on the school accepting girls.[10] The governors suggested creating a separate girls' high school, but discussions turned to creating a combined high school for boys and girls; by 1899, plans had been approved by the county council and costed at £4,000, of which the council offered to provide £1,500. The Sleaford Tradesmen's Association supported the scheme and began fundraising.[11] By September 1909, they had raised £540 and the school governors had raised a further £650, but £1,100 remained to be found.[12] Aside from a commitment from Henry Chaplin to contribute £50 towards the cost, the situation had not changed by the end of the year.[13] In 1900, a local newspaper reported that "no further action had been taken towards the construction of High Schools at Sleaford owing to the lack of funds, about £1,000 more being required."[14]
1901–02: Origins
The problem was solved in 1901, when a syndicate of local gentlemen and businessmen launched a venture to establish a school for girls on a private basis.[15][16] In November 1901, E. H. Godson purchased the architect Charles Kirk's mansion house on Southgate along with five cottages and stabling for £2,150; Godson was acting on behalf of a "syndicate of residents, who propose to convert it into a High School for girls".[17] A company, The Sleaford and Kesteven High School for Girls Ltd, was incorporated on 12 December 1901.[18] Its board of directors was chaired by W. V. R. Fane.[n 1] By January 1902, the directors had issued 2,500 shares at £1 each and proceeded to allotment. Margaret Lewer, from Lincoln High School, was appointed headmistress and the school scheduled its opening for after Easter.[20] Shortly before the school opened, the board of directors had asked the county council for grant in aid towards equipping and maintaining the school buildings, but the Board of Education would not sanction it because the school was for-profit.[21][22] The school opened on 6 May 1902 and had 23 girls in attendance on its first day, taught by Lewer and two members of staff; there were five boarders.[23]
1902–19: Private school
The school was arranged into three forms: the youngest (kindergarten) were under 8; the middle were juniors, aged 8 to 12; and the eldest (seniors) were aged over 12.[24] Boys under the age of 8 could attend.[25] Most students were fee-paying. The amount depended on their form; in 1905, the parents of a child in kindergarten paid £1 5s a term, while the termly fees for juniors were £2 12s and for seniors £3 3s. These fees covered the provision of a "main course", while parents would pay additional fees towards stationery and meals, and could opt at further cost for their children to partake in games and "extra" courses.[24] When the school opened, the Technical Instruction Committee agreed to add the school to the list of places where the county's Minor Scholarships were tenable.[21] These enabled girls to attend without paying fees, but there were relatively few and girls qualified by sitting the eleven-plus examination; the number of free places changed depending on the number of fee-payers.[26]
The school occupied Kirk's house on Southgate, where the main school room for juniors overlooked the long gardens which had been laid out as croquet and tennis lawns. The kindergarten room overlooked Southgate and doubled as the dining room, while the senior pupils occupied a room upstairs set up for 11 pupils. The headmistress, assistant mistresses and boarders also lived in the building.[9] By 1904, a brick building had been added to the site at the end of the house's garden, adding four classrooms, a music room and a cloakroom. A dining room and dormitory for boarders were added to the original house c. 1904.[27][n 2] In 1905, there were 93 pupils on roll, 23 of them boarders and 3 of them boys.[29] In 1909, the company secretary asked the Board of Education about the school's eligibility for grants under the Regulations for Secondary Schools; the Board advised that the school would be eligible if the company were wound down and converted into an Educational Trust under a scheme made by the Board of Education. The Board would regard the paid-up share capital of £2,250 as debentures, which could be redeemed within 30 years.[30] Four years later, the county council inquired about having the school registered as a Pupil Teacher Centre, but in 1914 the Board would not allow this as the school was still being run for profit.[31][32]
1919–44: Conversion to state school and new buildings
The Education Act 1918 made the provision of secondary education compulsory.[33] To meet these requirements, the county council drew up a scheme for providing secondary education across its jurisdiction in August 1918 and decided to take over the running of the school and purchase its premises.[34][35] Negotiations progressed through the autumn[36] and the company was voluntarily wound up in December 1918.[37] The takeover was completed on 14 January 1919, and it was around this time that the name changed to Kesteven and Sleaford High School.[25][38] The school remained fee-paying (with the exception of scholarship students), still accepted boarders and retained its preparatory school for young children (including boys).[25]
In 1920, wooden huts were added on a stretch of unkept grassland called "The Wilderness". The new building provided an office for the headmistress, a biology room, an assembly hall, a cloakroom and three classrooms.[39] Two brick rooms were added in 1924, the original house was extended in 1927, the garden path was covered in 1929, and another wooden classroom was added c. 1930. Plans to completely rebuild the school were drawn up in the early 1930s, but were never enacted; more temporary buildings were added in 1937.[40]
1944–70: Postwar expansion and abolition of fees
The Education Act 1944 made secondary education available to all children up to the age of 15 and abolished fees for state-schooling; a "tripartite system" of secondary schooling was established to provide curricula based on aptitude and ability: grammar schools for "academic" pupils, secondary moderns for practical studies, and technical schools for science and engineering. Pupils were allocated to them depending on their score in the eleven-plus examination.[41] As a result, KSHS wound down its preparatory school during the mid-1940s and the County Selection Examination was used for all admissions.[42] Early plans envisaged the school being rebuilt at Westholme, parkland owned by the county council off Westgate, but this never came to fruition.[43]
The playground and netball pitch was replaced by prefabricated concrete blocks containing classrooms, a canteen and a kitchen in 1946–47.[44] By the early 1950s, there were 330 pupils by 20 staff at the school.[45] In 1952, as part of the school's golden jubilee celebrations, staff and pupils at the school proposed purchasing land behind the school house. Owned by British Railways, the firm eventually agreed a price of £750; over a three-year period, the school raised the funds through donations from parents, staff and local people. The playing fields were eventually purchased, but delays meant that they were not opened until 1962.[46]
A major building programme began in 1957 across three phases, which removed much of the temporary accommodation and added modern buildings. In the first phase, the Council erected a single-storey block of science classrooms and laboratories on the site of disused air-raid shelters. For phase two, three classrooms were torn down; a second storey was added to the science block; and a dining hall, kitchen, a music room, administration area, reception, changing rooms, and sixth form facilities were built. The third phase took place in 1967–68, and included the addition of classrooms for eight subjects.[47]
1970–79: Comprehensive debate
The educational opportunities for secondary modern pupils were limited compared to those at grammar schools, prompting criticism of the tripartite system.[48][49] A reluctance to improve secondary moderns or expand grammar schools under the Conservatives prompted the Labour Government to issue Circular 10/65 in 1965 which requested local education authorities convert to a comprehensive system.[48][49] In 1971, Sleaford parents voted in favour of comprehensive education, but rejected the Council's proposals.[50] New plans were unveiled in 1973: the High School and the Secondary Modern sites were to become mixed 11–16 schools and Carre's would become a sixth form college.[51] Parents voted for the plans (1,199 to 628) with a 50% turnout.[52] The County Council approved them, but allowed governors a veto.[53] Following negotiations with governors at Carre's, the scheme was revised in 1974 so that Carre's and the High School would become 11–18 schools; the secondary modern would be closed, its site at Westholme absorbed by the KSHS.[54]
Despite support from most staff and all three headteachers,[55][56] the new Lincolnshire County Council voted to return the scheme for further consultation in January 1975, a move the Sleaford Standard called "politically motivated".[55] Two of the leading opponents, councillors Eric Fairchild and Reg Brealey, were governors at the secondary modern and Brealey was a former pupil there.[55] He proposed a three-school system, arguing it offered more choice: the secondary modern would be consolidated at Westholme as a single-site 11–16 school; Carre's and the High School would also take 11–16-year-olds and operate Sixth Forms.[57] Fairchild argued that this would be more popular and cheaper.[55][58] After the Government ordered the Council to submit a comprehensive proposal in 1977, it voted to submit the three-school system, which had become popular with parents and was championed by Brealey, who had become chairman of the Governors at the Secondary Modern.[59][60] But, the Labour Education Secretary, Shirley Williams, dismissed the proposals in 1978 on grounds that the Sixth Forms would be too small.[61] The council then voted against the two-school system again.[62]
1980–2011: Consolidation and expansion
In the 1979 general election, a Conservative government came to power and the Council shifted focus towards retaining Grammar Schools where they still existed and improving schools where work had been put on hold during the comprehensive debate;[63] despite 90% of English councils adopting comprehensive education, Lincolnshire had resisted.[48] In 1983, the three Sleaford schools launched a formal collaboration called the Sleaford Joint Sixth Form wherein pupils would remain officially based at one school, but could enrol on sixth form courses offered at any of the schools in the consortium. This was to enable the widest range of choice in courses.[64]
In 1994,[65] the County Council commenced a £2m programme of refurbishment and building at KSHS, including the addition of a new teaching block and sports hall[66][67] and a new music block,[65] officially opened in 1996.[66] Another new block housing a library and classroom was completed in 2005 and officially opened in 2006.[n 3] KSHS became a specialist visual arts college in 2003 and a training school in 2008.[70]
2010–present: Academy conversion and takeover
KSHS left the Sleaford Joint Sixth Form in 2010.[71] It converted to an academy the following year; KSHS officially closed on 31 October 2011, reopening on 1 November 2011 as Kesteven and Sleaford High School Selective Academy.[72][1] Ross retired in 2012.[73] The following year, the Sleaford Target reported that her successor, Craig Booker, was proposing to introduce "an adjusted staffing structure which includes some new opportunities for staff whilst improving effectiveness, particularly across the support functions of the school".[74] This was partly in anticipation of changes to the school's funding.[74] Later in 2013, eight members of staff were made redundant; the trade union UNISON reported that "substantial changes" were being introduced to some other staff members' pay and working practices. Booker defended the decision saying that the school would "need to become as efficient as possible in their use of public funding".[75]
In 2014, the governors of Carre's Grammar School announced their intention to bid for conversion to a multi-academy trust and become a coeducational, selective school on a new site;[76] in February 2015, Kesteven and Sleaford High School announced its intention to join the proposed trust, a move welcomed by Carre's.[77] On 1 September 2015, the school officially became part of the Robert Carre Multi-Academy Trust, which would see the schools operate on their sites sharing staff and facilities. KSHSSA's chair of Governors, Robin Baker, became a trustee prompting his replacement as chair by Deborah Hopkins. The headteacher, Craig Booker, resigned.[78] In 2016, KSHS rejoined the Sleaford Joint Sixth Form.[79]
School structure
Kesteven and Sleaford High School is a selective secondary school and Sixth Form serving pupils aged between 11 and 18.[1] It converted to an Academy on 1 November 2011[1] without sponsorship.[80] It was run by the Kesteven and Sleaford Academy Trust until 2015, when it was taken over by the Robert Carre Multi-Academy Trust.[78][80] The school operates on a single site at Jermyn Street in Sleaford.[1]
Since the Education Act 2002, secondary school pupils have been placed in Years 7, 8 and 9 (grouped into Key Stage 3) and Years 10 and 11 (grouped into Key Stage 4), which co-ordinates how the National Curriculum is taught.[81] On admission, pupils at KSHS are placed into tutor groups, with a teacher assigned as form tutor to provide pastoral support.[82] Each year group also has a head of year with responsibility for the students in that year.[82] Pupils are organised into houses based on their forms. The houses are named after wapentakes in Lincolnshire: Aveland, Flaxwell, Loveden and Winnibrig;[83] house competitions and events take place across the school year.[82]
Pupil population
KSHS is smaller than the average English secondary school.[84] It has a maximum capacity of 822 pupils;[1] as of 2024, the student body is made up of 763 pupils aged between 11 and 18.[1] The school admits girls for Years 7–11[1] and has a co-educational Sixth Form.[85] As of 2024, girls make up over 99% of the school population.[86] The annual intake to Year 7 will be 124 for the 2025–26 school year.[87] While many pupils live in Sleaford and walk to school, others are drawn from as far a field as Newark-on-Trent and Lincoln. Transport is arranged by Lincolnshire County Council.[88]
The last full Ofsted inspection of the school in 2013 reported that the majority of pupils were White British;[84] as of 2024, 3.0% of pupils spoke English as a second language, far below the national figure (18.1%).[86] As of 2024, 7.7% of the pupils had been eligible for free school meals (FSM) in the previous six years (compared with 27.7% nationally);[86] when assessed by Ofsted in 2013, the inspectors reported that the proportion of students receiving FSM, disabled students and pupils with special educational needs (SEN) are all "much lower than the national average",[84] though in 2024 12.5% of pupils receive SEN support which is in line with the national average.[86] Absence rates are well below the national average.[86]
Admissions
Admission to Years 7 to 11 at KSHS is selective. KSHS states that it accepts girls in "the top 25% of the ability range".[89] For entry into Year 7, prospective pupils sit the eleven-plus examination to determine aptitude; the test procedures are set by the school. According the school's admissions policy, the results of the test are used to "identify those children who are most suited to selective education".[87] Prospective students resident in Lincolnshire apply in accordance with Lincolnshire County Council's admissions arrangements; those from other areas apply through their own local authority. The Governance Tier of KSHS is the school's admissions authority. If the school is oversubscribed, eligible applicants with an Education, Health and Care Plan will be allocated places first. The following applicants who passed the eleven-plus threshold would then be admitted in the following order: looked after children, pupils registered for the Pupil Premium (i.e., those who have received free school meals in the previous six years) and students who have siblings at a school in the Robert Carre Multi-Academy Trust; any remaining places are then allocated according to the proximity of the pupil's home to the school. In cases where it is not otherwise possible to distinguish between two applicants but not enough places remain to allocate them both, a lottery will be drawn. There is a statutory appeals procedure organised by the local authority and run by an independent panel; the decision is binding on all parties.[90]
Pupils applying mid-year in Year 7 who have not previously sat the eleven-plus can arrange to sit it. Pupils who did not meet the minimum eleven-plus score in Year 6 or mid-year in Year 7 cannot resit the examination until Year 8 or later. Prospective pupils in Years 8 to 11 must sit the nationally standardised verbal, non-verbal, quantitative and spatial elements of the relevant age-appropriate Cognitive Ability Test (CAT); pupils must be within the top 25% of ability in these tests to be eligible for a place.[91]
Along with Carre's Grammar School and St George's Academy, KSHS is part of the Sleaford Joint Sixth Form,[85] which was founded in 1983.[92] It provides a common timetable across school sites and allows for pupils to choose from A-Level options offered at all three schools. Pupils may apply to be based at any one of the schools, where their pastoral and tutorial activities take place.[93] Entry into the Sixth Form (Years 11 and 12) at KSHS has minimum GCSE requirements.[85]
School uniform
For pupils in Years 7 to 11, the school uniform consists of a green blazer with the school badge embroidered on the breast pocket; a tartan school skirt or plain grey trousers; either a shirt with a collar (which must be worn with a school tie) or a revere-collared white blouse (worn without the tie). Formal plain black shoes are compulsory; they are worn with either black or green tights or black or green ankle socks. A black V-neck jumper can optionally be worn under the school blazer.[94] Sixth formers are required to wear "smart" formalwear, which can include a suit with a shirt and tie; a formal jacket with skirt or trousers and a blouse or top; and a formal jacket and dress. In any case, smart shoes must be worn and all sixth formers at Sleaford Joint Sixth Form are issued with a lanyard which must be worn at all times on the school premises.[95]
Curriculum
Key Stages 3 and 4
The school follows the National Curriculum in Years 7–11 and offers a range of GCSEs (national exams taken by pupils aged 14–16), A-Levels (national exams taken by pupils aged 16–18) and vocational equivalents.[82] Pupils participate in a number of educational visits throughout their school career (including trips abroad) and Year 12 pupils are offered the opportunity to participate in a work experience programme.[82]
For Key Stage 3 pupils, the curriculum comprises art,[96] computing,[97] design and technology (incorporating food technology, textiles and graphics),[98] drama,[99] English,[100] ethics and philosophy (EP),[101] French,[102] geography,[103] German,[104] history,[105] mathematics,[106] music,[107] physical education (PE),[108] science,[109] and a personal development programme, incorporating personal, social and health education.[110]
In Key Stage 4 (Years 10 and 11), pupils study a core curriculum comprising English, mathematics, science, PE, EP and PSHE. Students are required to take GCSEs in English language and literature, mathematics, science, either French or German, history and/or geography, ethics and philosophy, and two further subjects.[82] For science, students are entered into either a combined "double" award equivalent to two GCSEs or a "triple" award (individual GCSEs in biology, chemistry and physics).[82] As of 2024, the school offers other GCSE courses in art, business studies, computing, drama, fine art, food technology, graphics, music, PE, and textiles; pupils must select from a pre-determined combination of these options.[111]
Sixth Form
The Joint Sixth Form allows pupils to choose from around 60 vocational or academic subjects including: A-Levels in biology; chemistry; computing; design engineering; drama; English language and/or literature; French; history; geography; German; fashion and textiles; law; mathematics; further mathematics; media studies; philosophy, ethics and religion; photography; physical education; physics; product design; psychology; sociology and Spanish. Separate A-Level or BTEC/CTEC options in art, drama and photography; business; computing; performing arts; and travel and tourism; applied science; and other diplomas or certificates in bricklaying, carpentry, childcare, early years practice, health and social care, hospitality, physical education and uniformed services.[112]
Examinations
Of KSHS pupils, 100% gain five or more GCSEs at A*-C, and over 80% achieve A*-B. More than 90% of the AS/A2 level students go on to higher education.[113]
The sixth form takes both boys and girls and in 2013 was ranked at 117th in the country for its A levels results due to around 70% of Grades at A Level being A*-B.[114] In 2014 the school was ranked 170th, with 62.45% of A levels being A*-B.[115] In 2015 the school was ranked 200th, with 59.5% of A levels being A*-B.[116]
Extra-curricular activities
School clubs and societies include art club, drama club, the school choir, computing club, history club, technology club, the school orchestra and young enterprise and journalist clubs.[117][118] The school put on a performance of She Stoops to Conquer in 1924, but drama did not become a regular fixture until 1934, when an inter-form competition was arranged by Miss B. de L. Holmes; it was carried on until at least the late 1970s.[119] Since 1996 the school has put on an annual musical performance or a play.[120] From the very early years, the school also had cricket and tennis teams, who practised first in a field by King Edward Street and later at the town's cricket and tennis club grounds. In the 1920s and 1930s, sports days were conducted on Mr Coney's fields; alongside swimming lessons at Sleaford's baths, the school games were sports hockey, netball, tennis and stoolball (later replaced by rounders). By the 1970s, athletics and gymnastics were also a staple of sports education.[121] As of 2015, Sports clubs include athletics, badminton, basketball, dance, fitness, football, gymnastics, hockey, netball, rounders, tennis and volleyball.[122]
From its inception, the High School ran regular field trips, including excursions to Lord Tennyson's birthplace, the Wolds and the coast. The second headmistress, Miss Kirk, took large numbers of girls on visits to the Lake and Peak Districts; outings to Paris and Stratford were smaller affairs, while a contingent travelled to the Wembley exhibition in 1924. Geography trips to youth hostels around Britain were regularly organised after World War II, but in the 1960s, the school participated in education cruises aboard HMT Dunera and took trips to Russia, France and Holland.[123] As of 2015, the school typically offers groups of pupils the opportunity to take part residential trips to France (in year 9), Holland (art students in year 10), London (drama students in years 10–13) and Germany (year 11 history students), alongside language exchanges. Theatre and field trips are also offered, especially in years 7 and 8, and since 1962 pupils have taken part in Duke of Edinburgh Award expeditions.[124][125]
Girl guiding has a long history at the school. In the early 1920s, the school had two companies of girl guides, but after their captain, Miss Gittings, left in 1925, the school groups were amalgamated with the town's company. The group was revived in 1955 as the 4th Sleaford Company led by Miss Outram. The company was active throughout the 1960s and 1970s, although Outram became divisional commander in 1969 and Misses Hudson and Broughton took over the school's guides, which were split into four patrols.[126] As of 2015, the 4th Sleaford (High School) Guides schedule weekly meetings on Thursdays at 4:00 pm.[127][128]
A house system has existed since the school's early days, when the first houses were named Green and Yellow, after the school colours. They competed in sports events and later academic house contests for trophy donated by E. Godson. In 1923 the growing school roll led to Red and White houses being instituted. In c. 1948, the system was reorganised by the school council so that six houses, named after prominent Lincolnshire families, were created: Brownlow (yellow), Cracroft (green), Dymoke (purple), Heneage (blue), Thorold (white) and Whichcote (red). These were run by pupil House Captains and their deputies until 1973, when staff took over their organisation.[129] As of 2015, pupils are allocated into one of four houses upon arrival at KSHSSA: Aveland, Flaxwell, Loveden and Winnibrig (named after wapentakes); inter-house competitions are run each year, ranging from academic events to Sports Day.[130]
Buildings
No. 62 Southgate was built by the local contractor Charles Kirk for himself some time before 1850. Constructed to a Jacobean style, the stone house spans three storeys with three gables, the central one being moulded. Between canted windows on either side, the central section projects forward with quoins and includes an arched doorway with pilasters. Iron rails atop a stone wall separate the house from the street, and steps lead up to the doorway. Two pre-Conquest stone fragments, likely 11th century, are inlaid into a wall.[131]
Beginning in 1994,[65] the County Council funded a £2m programme of refurbishment and building at KSHS, including the addition of a new teaching block with classrooms, technology rooms and a sports hall[66][67] joined to the existing block by a corridor.[65] The existing buildings were upgraded to include new IT and science rooms and a new music block.[65] An existing brick swimming pool building, a prefabricated nursery and a boiler house were cleared in the scheme.[132] The County Council were the architects and the work was carried out by William Wright and Son (Lincoln).[67] The new building was officially opened in June 1996 by the Lord-Lieutenant of Lincolnshire, Bridget Cracroft-Eley, with the local MP Douglas Hogg also in attendance.[66] During construction, the council had planned to demolish a disused limestone stable block facing Moore's Yard but were prevented from doing so when the building was listed in 1996.[132][133]
Another new block housing a library, three classrooms, a laboratory and office space was completed in September 2005 and officially opened the following December, when it was named after a former teacher, Jenny Cattermole.[n 4]
The school has its own playing fields on-site.
Headteachers
Years | Headteacher | Notes |
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1902–1909[45][136] | Margaret Kathleen Lewer | Lewer had been second mistress at Lincoln High School before her appointment at KSHS in April 1902.[137] She later married Rev. Arthur Geoffrey Douglas Capel (d. 1933), who had taught at Carre's Grammar School before being ordained a priest and serving as curate and vicar for a number of parishes.[138][n 5] |
1909–1944[45] | Frances May Kirk | A native of Lancashire, Kirk graduated from Owens College, Victoria University of Manchester, with a first-class BA in 1902.[140] She was assistant mistress at the Pupil Teachers' Centre, Nelson (1902–04), then Principal at the Pupil Teachers' Centre in Altrincham;[141] she was a lecturer at Cherwell Hall and vice-principal at Milham Ford School immediately before she became head at KSHS in 1909.[142] She retired in 1944[143] and died aged 72 in 1951.[142] |
1944–1947[45] | Mary Anderson Ruth Baynes (acting) | Baynes was the sister of Arthur Clifford Baynes.[144] She was acting headmistress after Kirk's retirement and then retired herself at the end of the summer term in 1947.[145] She died in London in 1960, aged 75.[146][144] |
1947–1971 | Helen Elizabeth Vidal | Vidal had a Bachelor of Science degree from Bedford College, University of London, and trained as a teacher at the University of London Institute of Education. She started teaching in 1933 and taught Mathematics at the Mount School in York (1937–44) and Watford Grammar School (1944–47) before becoming headmistress at KSHS.[145][147] She retired as head in 1971[148] and died in 2002.[149] |
1971–1980 | Ann Brooks | Brooks graduated from Southampton University with a BSc in physics and applied and pure mathematics, and completed a certificate of education at the University of London. She taught at girls' grammar schools in Chatham and East Ham, before spending 5 years at St Paul's Girls' School in Hammersmith, and then 21⁄2 years at State House Road Girls' School in Nairobi until she took up her post at KSHS in 1971.[150] |
1980–1996 | Neville William McFarlane | McFarlane was head of modern languages at Carre's before becoming deputy headmaster (1967–1980). He then took up the post of headteacher at the High School and remained there until his retirement in 1996.[151][152] He has been bandmaster for the Sleaford branch of the Salvation Army since 1963 and received the British Empire Medal for his services to the community in 2014.[153] |
1996–2012 | Alison Ross | A student of Lancaster, York and Warwick Universities and the Open University, Ross taught in Oldham from 1982 to 1992, before spending four years as deputy headteacher at Lancaster Girls' Grammar School. She was head at KSHS between 1996 and 2012,[73] but was on secondment as interim head at King's Lynn Academy between 2010 and 2011.[154] |
2012–2015 | Craig Stewart Booker[155] | Booker had been teaching at KSHS for 11 years before he was appointed head in January 2012. He had been a deputy headteacher at the school during that time and was acting head while Alison Ross was on secondment at another school.[156][157] He resigned in 2015 following the establishment of the Robert Carre multi-Academy trust.[78] |
2015–present | Josephine Smith | A deputy headteacher at KSHS, Josephine Smith became Head of School after Craig Booker left in 2015.[78] |
Notable teachers
- Guy de la Bédoyère, Romanist and contributor to Time Team
Notable former pupils
- Sheila Allen (née McKenny; 1930–2009), sociologist: Professor of Sociology, University of Bradford (1972–99); President, British Sociological Association (1975–77).[158]
- Cyprus-born Air Vice-Marshal Tamara Jennings OBE, née Quincey, Director since 2018 of RAF Legal Services, and the RAF Legal Branch (there have not been many female Air Vice Marshals)
- Abi Titmuss, English actress, television personality, poker player and former glamour model.[159]
- Janet Welch MBE
References
Notes
- ^ The other directors were Thomas Samuel Brooks, George Godson, Thomas Evison Harrison, Thomas Henry Skinner, Norman Edward Snow, William Henry Spite, William Spyvee and John Ridal Wood.[19] Fane is listed as chairman in the school prospectus preserved in the National Archives, Kew (ref. ED 35/1539).
- ^ By 1909, the company had spent £743 14s 10d on erecting classrooms, £278 3s on adding a dining room and dormitories to the original house, and £54 in erecting a music room.[28]
- ^ Cattermole was a PE teacher at the school before she died in 2000; her husband, John, taught at Carre's Grammar School until his death in 2011 and attended the opening of the building at KSHS.[68][69]
- ^ Cattermole was a PE teacher at the school before she died in 2000; her husband, John, taught at Carre's Grammar School until his death in 2011 and attended the opening of the building at KSHS.[134][135]
- ^ He was ordained a deacon in 1908 and priest in 1909 by the Bishop of Lincoln and served as curate of New Sleaford (1908–09), St John in New Clee (1909–10) and Saltash (1910–15). During the First World War, he was temporary chaplain with the Royal Navy, and afterwards served as vicar of St Genny (1918–24) and St Winnow with St Nectan (1924–33). From 1929 till his death, he had been rural dean of Bodmin. He accepted the vicarage of Brauncewell with Dunsby and Anwick in 1933, but died before being instituted.[139]
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