The Garibaldi School (formerly Garibaldi College) is a

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and

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built in the 1960s. It is situated near to the edge of

Clipstone Clipstone is a village in the Newark and Sherwood district of Nottinghamshire, England. The population of the civil parish was 3,469 at the 2001 United Kingdom census, 2001 census, increasing to 4,665 at the 2011 United Kingdom census, 2011 c ...

village, Nottinghamshire (part of

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administrative area) but lies within

Mansfield District Council Mansfield District is a local government district in Nottinghamshire, England. It is named after the town of Mansfield, where the council is based. The district also contains Mansfield Woodhouse (which forms part of the Mansfield urban area) and ...

's ''Newlands'' electoral ward and it teaches young people from

and the Forest Town area of Mansfield. It provides pupils from 11-16 with a

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education and 16 to 18 year-olds with an advanced GCE or VCE education through their sixth form.

History

Secondary modern school

The school was founded in the 1960s and was named for the Italian leader

Giuseppe Garibaldi Giuseppe Maria Garibaldi ( , ;In his native Ligurian language, he is known as (). In his particular Niçard dialect of Ligurian, he was known as () or (). 4 July 1807 – 2 June 1882) was an Italian general, revolutionary and republican. H ...

. The Garibaldi County Secondary School opened on Tuesday 8 September 1959. It was named after a nearby woodland plantation. The first headmaster Mr Neville Purdy, was educated at the Brunts Grammar School, and had been head for five years at a school in Shuttlewood in Derbyshire. The school had 270 at first, which was to reach 480. On Tuesday 8 September 1963 the school was visited by the missionary

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, who said that schoolchildren in Britain were too addicted to 'silly comics and stupid films'. A house of the school was named after her. Garibaldi college

Comprehensive

The school went comprehensive in September 1973. 29 year old teacher Manuel Moreno was suspended in May 1974, appearing on the front page of the'' Nottingham Evening Post'' . The headmaster was Derek McIntosh. Moreno was an advocate of 'progressive education' and 'child-centred education', without 'imposed discipline'. He did not like 'conformity'. He later wanted to establish a 'free school' in Nottingham, where children could turn up when they liked.

New headmaster

Garibaldi Comprehensive School was by the 1980s suffering from a poor reputation. In 1989 a new headmaster, Bob Salisbury, was appointed who put in place a programme of improvements that lasted five years. The school removed levels of management and marketed itself. The school was able to attract new funding and the head was recognised for his skills as an entrepreneur. The head noted that the success came from not investing in one-off initiatives but in activities that continued from year to year. Salisbury was known for his 'bobbing cork' analogy. He believed his staff should progress like a cork along a stream, knowing that they were free to speed up, slow down or try a different route. Bob Salisbury was given a knighthood in 1998 in recognition of his work in Education.

1976 fire

The school appeared on the front page of

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on 12 January 1976, when a large fire had been discovered at 4am that morning. The whole of the school records were destroyed, and a three-storey block, with cooking and needlework rooms, and biology and chemistry laboratories. The Nottinghamshire chief fire officer J.J.Boggis was at the scene.

Curriculum

A 2009 Ofsted Inspection of the Design and Technology department found that overall their education was "good".D&T Ofsted report
accessed December 2010 An earlier inspection of the whole school in 2008 rated the school as "good" overall.2008 Ofsted report
/ref> In March 2013, Ofsted rated Garibaldi as a "good" school, with some aspects of "outstanding" teaching. In August 2013, Garibaldi received some of the best GCSE and A-Level results the school has ever seen, and topped the league tables, ranking as one of the best schools in Nottinghamshire. The college was also ranked within the top 25 schools across the nation.

Investments

With help from the

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s ''specialist status'' scheme, it was a specialist computing and mathematics college from 2003 until 2012 when it lost its specialism. The college then became known simply called 'Garibaldi College' instead of 'Garibaldi Maths and Computing College'. Locally known as 'Gara', the words "Pride, Respect and Achieve" are now the school's key words. In 2010 the school was identified as part of a rebuilding programme. The council noted that the older buildings were costly to maintain and it was intended to rebuild them but keep the newer buildings like the sports hall, however, the long overdue rebuild was cancelled and all plans were scrapped

References

External links

Garibaldi School website
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