Churchmead School
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| Motto | Believe to Achieve |
|---|---|
| Established | 1950 |
| Type | Voluntary aided school |
| Religion | Church of England |
| Headteacher | Mr Chris Tomes |
| Location |
Priory Way Datchet Slough SL3 9JQ England Coordinates: 51°29′10″N 0°34′44″W / 51.486086°N 0.579000°W |
| Local authority | Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead |
| DfE number | 868/4084 |
| DfE URN | 133580 Tables |
| Ofsted | Reports |
| Students | 631 |
| Gender | Co-educational |
| Ages | 11–18 |
| Houses | Victor, Faith and Beckett |
| Colours | Yellow, Red, Green And Blue |
| Website |
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Churchmead School is a co-educational Church of England voluntary aided secondary school that caters for 11- to 18-year-olds. It is located in Datchet, near Slough, England. The school's motto is 'Believe to Achieve'. The school has also gained Specialist Arts College status.
In December 2015 Churchmead school was rated as 'good' by Ofsted and 'outstanding' by a church inspection.
In August 2016 Churchmead got its best ever GCSE results. 69 per cent of pupils got 5 GCSEs including English and maths. 59 per cent of disadvantaged pupils got 5 GCSEs including english and maths. It is now rated in the top 10 per cent of schools nstionally for progress.
Churchmead was established as a secondary modern school for Buckinghamshire County Council, who, in the south of the county, operated a system of 11- to 18-year-old secondary schools, fed by 5-11 primary schools (or 5 - 7 infant schools and 8 - 11 junior schools). Changes to administrative county boundaries in 1974 led to the school transferring to Berkshire County Council, who operated it as a school within Slough's education system, by then modified for the change from primary to secondary education to take place at age 12 rather than 11. Further changes led to the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead becoming the Education Authority in 1998. The rest of the Windsor area of Windsor and Maidenhead uses a system with age 8 - 13 middle schools so leaving Churchmead as the only 11-18 school in its area of the borough. This in turn results in most students being drawn from Slough, which has resumed secondary education starting at age 11.[1]
In May 2007, Ofsted conducted an inspection of the school and came to the conclusion that the 'school requires significant improvement, because it is performing significantly less well than in all the circumstances it could reasonably be expected to perform. The school was therefore given a Notice to Improve.'[2]
In May 2008, Ofsted conducted another inspection of the school and came to the conclusion that the 'school was satisfactory and sharply improving. The key areas of improvement were the levels of respect shown by pupils towards teachers and the quality of learning.
Starting September 2008, the four house system that has been in existence since the school was founded, was scrapped for a three house inter-year form system.
In 2015 53 per cent of students achieved 5 A*-C GCSE results including English and Maths. In 2014 100 per cent of high achievers got 5 GCSEs including English and Maths. In 2014 80 per cent of students made expected progress in English and 58 per cent made expected progress in maths.
Prefects
The school maintains a prefect system. Several prefects including a Head Boy (currently Joshua Buckeridge since 2016-2017) & Head Girl (currently Rahat Syeda since 2016-2017) & Deputy Head Boy (currently Muhammad Saifuddin since 2016-2017) & Deputy Head Girl (currently Annalise Wicks since 2016-2017) they were chosen in Year 11.
School links
Churchmead School is in co-operation with East Berkshire College, this means that sixth form students from both schools can study Advanced Level courses including Media and Photography at Churchmead.
References
- ↑ Ofsted report February 2005 accessed 5 August 2007
- ↑ Ofsted Section 5 inspection report accessed 5 August 2007