Fearns Community Sports College

Fearns Community Sports College
Motto Further, Faster, Higher
Headteacher Helen Stead
Location Lancashire
OL13 OTG
England
Coordinates: 53°41′22″N 2°19′13″W / 53.68940°N 2.32029°W / 53.68940; -2.32029
Local authority Lancashire
DfE number 888/4158
DfE URN 119745 Tables
Ofsted Reports
Gender Coeducational
Ages 11–16
Website Fearns Community Sports College

Fearns Community Sports College is a State Maintained co-educational secondary school in Bacup, Lancashire, England. The school caters to children of all abilities between the ages of 11 and 16 years.

The headteacher is Helen Stead.

School inspections

In June 2014, the school was placed in special measures, after being rated 'inadequate' in every category of the latest OFSTED report. The inspectors stated that "marking is ‘inconsistent’, pupil attendance is poor and senior leaders and governors have failed to improve the quality of teaching and raise achievement since the last ‘satisfactory’ inspection in June 2012".[1]

Some areas of improvement in the June 2012 report were:

References

  1. Abbit, Beth. "Fearns placed in special measures after damning report". Rossendale Free Press. MEN Media. Retrieved 9 June 2014.
  2. "Fearns Community Sports College School Inspection" , Her Majesty’s Inspectors of Schools, Office for Standards in Education.

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