Bow School is a
comprehensive secondary school
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and
sixth form
In the education systems of Barbados, England, Jamaica, Northern Ireland, Trinidad and Tobago, Wales, and some other Commonwealth countries, sixth form represents the final two years of secondary education, ages 16 to 18. Pupils typically prepa ...
for boys and girls, located in
Bromley-by-Bow in the
London Borough of Tower Hamlets
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, England. It has a roll of about 1200 students and increasing. In September 2014 the school moved from the old site off Fairfield Road,
Bow to a new site in Bromley-by-Bow a mile to the south-east by
Bow Locks, in a new building designed by
van Heyningen and Haward Architects.
The school started accepting girls in the new school building, along with the move, into Year 7 and the numbers will grow so that by 2019, the school would have all its year groups mixed sex.
Subjects
Bow teaches a number of subjects, including at
GCSE
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and
A Level, stretched across a five period day throughout the week.
The school operates a
sixth form
In the education systems of Barbados, England, Jamaica, Northern Ireland, Trinidad and Tobago, Wales, and some other Commonwealth countries, sixth form represents the final two years of secondary education, ages 16 to 18. Pupils typically prepa ...
provision in consortium with
Langdon Park School,
St Paul's Way Trust School and
Mulberry Stepney Green Maths, Computing and Science College. The sixth form consortium is known as Bow Sixth Form. The Head of sixth form at Bow School is Atif Khan.
References
External links
Bow School online, the official site.Creative Partnership ProjectTSIA is supported by the Annenberg FoundationThe MLEE Programme
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Secondary schools in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets
Community schools in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets
Educational institutions established in 1985
1985 establishments in England
Bromley-by-Bow