Oasis Academy Leesbrook is

coeducational Mixed-sex education, also known as mixed-gender education, co-education, or coeducation (abbreviated to co-ed or coed), is a system of education where males and females are educated together. Whereas single-sex education was more common up to ...

secondary school A secondary school, high school, or senior school, is an institution that provides secondary education. Some secondary schools provide both ''lower secondary education'' (ages 11 to 14) and ''upper secondary education'' (ages 14 to 18), i.e., b ...

located in the

Oldham Oldham is a town in Greater Manchester, England. It lies amongst the Pennines on elevated ground between the rivers River Irk, Irk and River Medlock, Medlock, southeast of Rochdale, and northeast of Manchester. It is the administrative cent ...

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, England. It is part of the

Oasis Community Learning Oasis Charitable Trust, commonly known as Oasis, is a United Kingdom-based Christian registered charity. It was founded by the Reverend Steve Chalke in September of 1985. Chalke had been assistant minister at Tonbridge Baptist Church, Kent, for f ...

. It opened to pupils in September 2018. It moved to its new site on 9 November 2020. It has not had its first Ofsted inspection.

History

Oldham City Council and the Department for Education identified a need for 1000 extra secondary school places in East Oldham.

put forward a proposal to open a 1500 place Free School. This was approved in April 2017, and the site in Lees was agreed by Oldham Council in July 2017.The site was controversial as it formerly was the site of the failed Breeze Hill School that was demolished in 2013. The proposal was for a free-school, and Manchester was still reeling from the failure and closure of both the Greater Manchester UTC and the Collective Spirit Free School. The school opened in a vacant GM-UTC building, in Oldham town centre in September 2018 and into their new purpose built building in November, 2020.

Description

Oasis Academy Leesbrook is part of the Oasis Community Learning group, and evangelical Christian charity. The trust has guided forty schools out of special measures. 19 per cent of the 52 Oasis academies are classified as failing. Oasis has opened two other free schools Oasis Academy South Bank and

Oasis Academy Silvertown Oasis Academy Silvertown is a Mixed-sex education, coeducational secondary school, secondary Free school (England), free school located in Silvertown in Newham, in London, England. It is part of the Oasis Community Learning. It opened to pupils ...

and senior management and teachers have experience in other Oasis schools. The Oasis philosophy involves engaging the community from the start so they have ownership, and offering facilities for the community to use. Almost 50% of the students are deprived receiving

pupil premium The pupil premium is a grant given by the government to schools in England to decrease the attainment gap for the most disadvantaged children, whether by income or by family upheaval. For each pupil who is eligible for free school meals, or has cl ...

and

free school meal A school meal (whether it is a breakfast, lunch, or evening meal) is a meal provided to students and sometimes teachers at a school, typically in the middle or beginning of the school day. Countries around the world offer various kinds of schoo ...

s. Parents sign a Home-school agreement where they accept a fairly strict discipline regime. Oasis has a long-term strategy for enhancing the performance of its schools. Firstly it has devised a standard curriculum, that each school can safely adopt knowing it will deliver the

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. Secondly it has invested in staff training so they are focused on improving the outcomes for the students, and thirdly, through its Horizons scheme it is providing each member of staff and student with a tablet.

Building

The two and four storey blocks and hard landscaping were built by

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Academics

The academy currently serves students from Year 7–11.

Curriculum

Virtually all maintained schools and academies follow the

, where success is judged on how well they succeed in delivering a 'broad and balanced curriculum'. Schools endeavour to get all students to achieve the

English Baccalaureate The English Baccalaureate (EBacc) is a school performance indicator in England linked to the General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) results. It measures students' attainment by calculating an average score from specified subject grades. ...

qualification- this must include core subjects a modern or ancient foreign language, and either History or Geography. The academy operates a three-year,

Key Stage 3 Key Stage 3 (commonly abbreviated as KS3) is the legal term for the three years of schooling in maintained schools in England and Wales normally known as Year 7, Year 8 and Year 9, when pupils are aged between 11 and 14. In Northern Ireland the ...

where all the core National Curriculum subjects are taught. This is a transition period from primary to secondary education, that builds on the skills, knowledge and understanding gained at primary school, and introduces youngsters who are starting from a lower than average base to wider, robust and challenging programmes of study needed to gain qualifications at

Key Stage 4 Key Stage 4 (KS4) is the legal term for the two years of school education which incorporate GCSEs, and other examinations, in maintained schools in England normally known as Year 10 and Year 11, when pupils are aged between 14 and 16 by August 31 ...

. Students study Spanish, French or German.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Oasis Academy Leesbrook Secondary schools in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham Free schools in England Leesbrook Schools in Oldham