Cams Hill School is a medium-sized mixed secondary school for ages 11–16, located in Shearwater Avenue in

Fareham Fareham ( ) is a market town at the north-west tip of Portsmouth Harbour, between the cities of Portsmouth and Southampton in south east Hampshire, England. It gives its name to the Borough of Fareham. It was historically an important manufac ...

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. Along with

The Henry Cort Community College The Henry Cort Community College, formerly Fareham Park Senior School, is a mixed sex comprehensive school in Fareham, Hampshire, England. It is one of three comprehensive schools in Fareham, and had around 850 students at the last count. I ...

and

Fareham Academy Fareham Academy is a medium-sized mixed secondary school, with five tiers of entry (ages 11–16), located in St Anne's Grove in Fareham, England. Along with The Henry Cort Community College and Cams Hill School, it is one of the three main stat ...

, it is one of the three main state schools which serve the town of Fareham,

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. The school attracted national media attention in 2002, when then-headteacher David Wilmot recruited teachers at a nearby

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supermarket. He told ''

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'' that he had struggled to recruit and retain newly qualified teachers. The recruitment crisis was highlighted as a "major concern" in an

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report later that year. The school had an OFSTED inspection in 2007 and was reported as a "good school". During an additional inspection in music during October 2008, the school was graded "good" for music provision. Later, in 2011, the school was rated "outstanding" by OFSTED and subsequently converted to an

academy An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary or tertiary higher learning (and generally also research or honorary membership). The name traces back to Plato's school of philosop ...

. In 2019, the school was rated as "good" overall by OFSTED. In 2018, a teacher at the school was banned from the profession after sending shirtless photos of himself to a pupil he was teaching at the time.

References

External links

School website

School location on Google Maps
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