Rawlins Academy is a secondary school of about 1600 students situated in

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, England. It has a large Sixth Form of approximately 300 students, offering a wide array of A-Level subjects.

History

Origin

Thomas Rawlins founded the school in 1691.

Grammar school

Rawlins became the Thomas Rawlins Grammar School, also known as Rawlins Grammar School.

Comprehensive

Leicestershire changed to comprehensive schools in the 1960s and 1970s, with its Leicestershire plan, implementing

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with upper schools from the age of 14. The school was known as Rawlins School and Community College from 1967, before being renamed the Rawlins Upper School and Community College in the late 1970s. In September 2013, Rawlins admitted over 240 year seven students as it moved from 14-19 provision to 11-19.

Academy

On 1 November 2011, Rawlins Community College officially gained academy status and became independent of local authority control. In September 2013 the name of the school became Rawlins Academy.

Traditions

Houses

At the beginning of the 2006 autumn term, Rawlins was divided into six houses: Bradgate (purple), Beaumanor (red), Swithland (blue), Outwoods (green), Beacon (orange), and Buddon (yellow). In the 2009 autumn term there were vertical tutor groups with students from all years being placed in the same forms. Each form was assigned a house, with about 20 forms from each house. In 2017, Rawlins changed their coaching system to year tutor groups. At this point each year group had 12 forms (two for each house). A revamped house system was launched in 2020, with the school reducing to four houses: Ignis (red), Terra (green), Aqua (blue) and Spiritus (yellow). This meant that there were now eight tutor groups for each year (two in each house). The house names are the Latin translations of the words for fire, earth, water and air. These names were chosen by a vote by the whole school, and Latin was chosen by the Year 7 group of 2020-2021.

Media enterprises

Raw TV

Raw TV broadcasts programs from news to event coverage and general entertainment programming via the Rawlins VLE. The current regular programme is the ''Raw TV News''. Other shows currently air as one-off specials and cover anything from sporting events to Rawlins filmmakers. Raw TV was featured on

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'' in December 2008 as it is one of the only student run college TV networks in the country. The students who run Raw TV work in partnership with other local schools. Programs are edited by students using Apple Final Cut Pro.

Notable former pupils

* Tom Bayliss, footballer for Lincoln City (formerly of Preston North End and Coventry City - League Two play-off final winner 2017/18) *

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, Professor of Cell Biology, since 1999, at the Molecular and Clinical Sciences Research Institute at

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* Billy Kee, footballer for Leicester City and Accrington Stanley * Gothy Kendoll, drag queen; appeared on ''RuPaul's Drag Race UK'' (series 1) *

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, , BBC weather presenter, from

Rothley Rothley ( ) is a village and civil parish within the Borough of Charnwood in Leicestershire, England. Situated around west of the River Soar and north of Leicester, it had a population of 3,612 inhabitants . The population measured at the 20 ...

(only her A-levels), and her husband Ian''Loughborough Echo'' Friday 28 September 1990, page 10 *

George Martin Sir George Henry Martin (3 January 1926 – 8 March 2016) was an English record producer, arranger, composer, conductor, and musician. He was commonly referred to as the "fifth Beatle" because of his extensive involvement in each of the Beatle ...

, rugby player for Leicester Tigers; Premiership Rugby winner 2021/22 *

Liam Moore Liam Simon Moore (born 31 January 1993) is a former professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Spalding United. Born and raised in England, he represented Jamaica at international level. Club career Leicester City Born in Loughboro ...

, footballer for Reading FC and Leicester City; championship winner 2013/14 with Leicester City *

Matt Piper Matthew James Piper (born 29 September 1981) is an English former professional footballer and current coach, who played as a winger. Career Piper came through the youth ranks of hometown club Leicester City. After signing a professional contr ...

, footballer for Leicester City; scored the last goal at

Filbert Street Filbert Street was a football stadium in Leicester, England, which served as the home of Leicester City F.C. from 1891 until 2002. Although officially titled the City Business Stadium in the early 1990s, it remained known almost exclusively b ...

stadium *

Willie Thorne William Joseph Thorne (4 March 195417 June 2020) was an English professional snooker player. He won one ranking title, the 1985 Classic. He also reached the final of the 1985 UK Championship, losing 16–14 to Steve Davis after leading 13– ...

, snooker player and BBC TV commentator *

Jenny Tomlinson Jennifer Clare Tomlinson (née Mills) (born 10 August 1961) has been Archdeacon of Birmingham, England, since 2019. Early life Tomlinson was educated at Humphrey Perkins School up to the age of 16 and took her A levels at Rawlins Academy in Quor ...

, ,

Archdeacon of Birmingham The Archdeacon of Birmingham is a senior ecclesiastical officer within the Diocese of Birmingham. The archdeaconry was created within the Diocese of Worcester by Order-in-Council on 12 August 1892 (substantially from the Archdeaconry of Covent ...

since 2019

References

External links

Rawlins Academy website

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