Campsmount Academy is a
coeducational
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secondary school
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and
sixth form
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located in
Norton,
South Yorkshire
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, England.
Originally known as Campsmount School, the school gained specialist status as a
Technology College
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and was renamed Campsmount Technology College. The school was gutted by a major fire in December 2009, and temporary classrooms were erected on the site. A rebuild of the school was completed in April 2012,
and a month later the school converted to
academy status and was renamed Campsmount Academy.
Campsmount Academy offers
GCSEs
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and
Cambridge Nationals
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as programmes of study for pupils, while students in the sixth form have the option to study a range of
A-level
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s,
BTECs and
Cambridge Technicals
Cambridge Technicals are vocational qualifications, offered by Oxford, Cambridge and RSA Examinations (OCR) in the United Kingdom, and Cambridge International Examinations (CIE) internationally; both are part of Cambridge University Press & Assess ...
.
References
External links
Campsmount Academy official website
Secondary schools in Doncaster
Academies in Doncaster
Norton, Doncaster
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