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Oasis Academy Wintringham is a secondary school (academy) on Weelsby Avenue in
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, England. It is just off the A16 Peaks Parkway just south-west of the A46 crossroads next to the Lisle Marsden CE Primary School in Wellow and on the Grimsby-
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boundary (the A16). The school was originally a religious foundation, and lies in the
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History

The school began in 1933 as Wintringham Secondary School on Eleanor Street.


Grammar school

The old grammar school buildings in Weelsby Avenue, Grimsby, were opened in 1953 as Wintringham Grammar School to replace a former school on Eleanor Street, Grimsby. The school was first divided into a boys' and girls'
grammar school A grammar school is one of several different types of school in the history of education in the United Kingdom and other English-speaking countries, originally a Latin school, school teaching Latin, but more recently an academically oriented Se ...
(they are both now demolished) on a combined site, with around 750 boys and a similar number of girls. The boys' school was on the Weelsby Avenue side of the site, and the girls' school was on the west side of the site, accessed via Park Avenue next to the tennis courts. The Highfields School which was to the north, is now the Lisle Marsden CE primary school. The school was administered by the County Borough of Grimsby Education Committee, from its offices on Eleanor Street. The headmaster of the boys' school in the 1950s was Ronald Gill. The headmistress of the girls' school until the late 1970s was Dorothy Dean. The schools remained separate up to 1969 when a mixed sixth form became the start of a gradual merger. They shared the playing field and some out-of-school activities. The sixth form block was built between the two sites: the co-educational sixth form numbered 200. From the late 1960s until 1974, it was administered (but not taught) as the single-entity Grimsby Wintringham Grammar School for ages 11 to 18. The former Boys' School became the Upper School, and the former Girls' School became the Lower School. Music lessons were held in Highfield House, an old
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detached house on the school property.


Comprehensive

It became the comprehensive Wintringham School in September 1974. The school name comes from the Wintringham family, specifically John Wintringham. Also in 1974, administration was transferred over the
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to
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, and Humberside County Council, in the Grimsby Division. The school became a comprehensive (incrementally) year by year, with the first all-ability year composed of ten forms. It also became an upper school with ages 12–18, as Grimsby became part of the three tier system. In the late 1980s, headmaster Keith Bardgett switched the school from streaming to mixed-ability classes, the change starting with the new intake of pupils in September 1988. A restricted form of streaming remained, limited to specific subjects, notably mathematics and foreign languages. From September 1990, the naming convention for classes switched to the modern nomenclature still in use today. At the same time, a re-organisation of local education saw Wintringham give up its sixth form and take in new pupils a year earlier than was previously the case. This meant that the 2nd - 6th forms were replaced with Years 7 - 11. In 1996, administration passed back to Grimsby under
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Oasis Academy Wintringham

In September 2007, the school adopted
Academy An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of tertiary education. The name traces back to Plato's school of philosophy, founded approximately 386 BC at Akademia, a sanctuary of Athena, the go ...
status under 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 ...
multi-academy trust Multi-Academy Trust (MAT) or academy chain is an academy trust that operates more than one academy school. Academy schools are state-funded schools in England which are directly funded by the Department for Education and independent of local aut ...
. The former schools' buildings were to be demolished and replaced with a single newbuild costing of £25 million. The construction started on 30 August 2007, being undertaken by Clugston Construction of
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who finished in January 2009. The start of the construction work was marked by a ceremony where
Steve Chalke Stephen John Chalke (born 17 November 1955) is a British Baptist minister, the founder of the Oasis Charitable Trust, a former United Nations' Special Adviser on Human Trafficking, and a social activist. Chalke is the author of a large number of ...
of Oasis and pupils from the new Academy drove the first spades into the ground. The Academy transferred across to the new buildings in February 2009. There are also community facilities. The sports hall is sponsored by Stagecoach. The Dean Suite is named in memory of Dorothy Dean, the headteacher of the school from 1953 to 1975. The Ofsted Visit in 2016 identified significant difficulties. An interim "executive principal" was brought in from the neighbouring
Oasis Academy Immingham Oasis Academy Immingham (formerly The Immingham School) is a coeducational secondary school with academy status located in Immingham, North East Lincolnshire, England. History Secondary modern school It opened as Immingham Senior School on 14 ...
. In October 2015 the Oasis Trust appointed an interim executive board to replace the governing body. Pupil outcomes reached a nadir in 2016. In 2018, Ofsted declared this a 'good' school. Text was copied from this source, which is available under a
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Description

In its current incarnation the Wintringham academy is a smaller than average sized 11-16 mixed non-selective secondary school with more boys than girls, within a school system that retains selection. Half the students are disadvantaged and are supported through the
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 ...
. Pupil premium is additional funding given for pupils who are known to be eligible for
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or
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children. There are few pupils who speak English as an additional language: the vast majority are of White British heritage while the proportion of pupils who have special educational needs support is above average, but those with a statement remains average. This article contains quotations from this source, which is available under th
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Curriculum

Virtually all maintained schools and academies follow the
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, and their 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 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 ...
French is the Modern Language offered. Year 9 is a transition year where one of the students Key Stage 4 options is started. The school places the students into one of three pathways, which leads to guided options. At the end of Year 9 students make their final exam choices. At Key Stage 4 the focus is on the English Baccalaureate, and there are daily maths, English and science lessons- plus three guided options.


Alumni


Wintringham School

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Grimsby Wintringham Boys' Grammar School

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; his daughter married Sir Michael Bruce, 11th Baronet * Prof George Edward Briggs FRS, Professor of Botany at the
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from 1948 to 1960 *
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, Bishop of Cyprus and the Gulf 1987-96 *
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, runner * John Sellars CBE, Chief Executive from 1983 to 1994 of the
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, winner of the 2007
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of the
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, father of
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Grimsby Wintringham Girls' Grammar School

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Wintringham Secondary School

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See also

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Oasis Academy Immingham Oasis Academy Immingham (formerly The Immingham School) is a coeducational secondary school with academy status located in Immingham, North East Lincolnshire, England. History Secondary modern school It opened as Immingham Senior School on 14 ...
(formerly The Immingham School)


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