GCSE Results 2010

30% of year 11 students gained five or more A*-C grades with mathematics and English and 59% A-C in any subject. Executive Headteacher Mr Tippett said "The school has hit national baseline targets" and added "The school is extremely pleased considering the uncertainty about the school for the past three years."

FUTURE OF THE SCHOOL

Press Release from Brian Palmer, the Chair of the Stanway Federation:

The Governors of the Stanway Federation met on June 25th and agreed that the Federation would integrate and become a single school on multiple sites as soon as possible.

They noted that ‘Building Schools for the Future’ wave 6 funding for Colchester might well be curtailed. As a consequence our Local Authority’s plans for ‘The Future of Secondary Education in Colchester’ would be difficult to deliver. The schools in the Federation, like all the providers of secondary education in Colchester, have foundation status. So it falls to the Governors of the Federation, in consultation with the local authority, to make alternative arrangements in the best interests of the schools and students.

The Governors therefore agreed that the Stanway School would, from September 2011, be willing to accept the current 8 forms of entry onto the Stanway site and up to a further 6 forms of entry onto the Thomas Lord Audley site.

Stanway School could accept a further 4 forms of entry onto the Alderman Blaxill site but pupil numbers in Colchester would appear to be insufficient for that to be a viable before about 2017.

The Federation supposes that, in view of the bureaucratic constraints, it is now too late for the Local Authority’s notices of closure for Thomas Lord Audley and Alderman Blaxill Schools, and the consequential rearrangement of catchment areas and feeder primary schools, to be rescinded for September 2010.

It has been proposed to the Local Authority that the Mersea Island catchment area be shared between Stanway and Thurstable Schools from September 2011.

For further information contact;

Mrs Burns, The Stanway School , Winstree Road, Stanway, Colchester CO3 0QA

Tel: 01206 575488

 

 

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