Kingswood Academy
Kingswood Academy (opened 2013)
Address
Map
Wawne Road

Kingston upon Hull
,
East Riding of Yorkshire
,
HU7 4WR

England
Coordinates53°47′54″N 0°19′34″W / 53.79836°N 0.32618°W / 53.79836; -0.32618
Information
TypeAcademy
Established1988 (Former), 2013 (New)
TrustAcademies Enterprise Trust
Department for Education URN139118 Tables
OfstedReports
ChairTony Clark
HeadRichard Westoby
Age11 to 16
Websitewww.thekingswoodacademy.org

Perronet Thompson (opened 1988)

Kingswood Academy is a secondary school on the northern fringe of the Bransholme housing estate in Kingston upon Hull, England.

The school opened in 2013, it was built as part of the Building Schools for the Future programme as a replacement on the same site for the Perronet Thompson School, (later known as Kingswood College of Arts) which originally opened in 1988.

History and design

Design of the Perronet Thompson School began in 1984 by the architects department of Humberside County Council. Construction began in 1986, with John Laing as the main contractor. The school had a non-conventional design designed to maximise heat efficiency, with a central atrium illuminated by a barrel vault.[1] The school opened 1988.[2] In 1999 the school was closed due to poor performance.[3] It was reopened and renamed Kingswood High School, receiving funding under the government's Fresh Start programme to specialise as an Arts College.[2]

In 2011 Hull City Council decided to demolish the school, and rebuild it with better facilities as part of the Building Schools for the Future programme.[4] This programme saw 17 new schools built in Hull, including Kingswood Academy, at a cost of £123 million.[5]

Construction of the new 1,350 pupil capacity school began in April 2011, with a stated construction cost of around £25 million. The school was designed by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, and built by the "Esteem Consortium" with Morgan Sindall as the main construction contractor. Initially planned to open in September 2012, opening was delayed to January 2013.[6] On completion of the new building the school changed its name to Kingswood Academy.[7] The new school building opened in January 2013.[8]

When the Academy opened as an Academies Enterprise Trust academy, free school uniforms were distributed in order to improve the image of the academy and its pupils in the local community.[9]

In 2009 1,067 pupils were enrolled at the school; in 2012 the number had dropped to 797 students.[10]

Dale Jackson replaced Bob Dore as principal in 2015.[11] As of 2016 the academy had 588 pupils.[12]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Perronet Thompson School, North Bransholme". www.steelconstruction.org. NSC. January 2010. Archived from the original on 1 October 2011. Retrieved 28 January 2013.
  2. ^ a b "BBC - Humber - Voices - Kingswood High School". BBC Humber. BBC. Retrieved 30 July 2011.
  3. ^ "Mixed reaction to school closure". BBC News. 13 January 1999. Retrieved 28 January 2013.
  4. ^ "Kingswood College building, 'the Starship Enterprise', will be torn down and replaced". This is Hull and East Riding. 13 January 2011. Archived from the original on 16 June 2012. Retrieved 28 January 2013.
  5. ^ "City schools project misses out on award". Hull Daily Mail. 28 May 2013. Retrieved 2 December 2015.[permanent dead link]
  6. ^ Sources:
  7. ^ "Sneak preview of new £25m Kingswood Academy". Hull Esteem Consortium. 27 August 2012. Archived from the original on 5 December 2014. Retrieved 13 August 2013.
  8. ^ "New Hull schools Andrew Marvell, Kingswood Academy and Oakfield to open to pupils". Hull Daily Mail. 8 January 2013. Archived from the original on 8 December 2015. Retrieved 2 December 2015.
  9. ^ Knass, Katie (7 September 2013). "Free new uniform is a smart move for Kingswood pupils". Hull Daily Mail. Archived from the original on 8 December 2015. Retrieved 2 December 2015.
  10. ^ Source:
  11. ^ Mackley, Elizabeth (30 November 2015). "'We have no limits on what young people can achieve' – Kingswood Academy head Dale Jackson". Hull Daily Mail. Archived from the original on 15 December 2015. Retrieved 2 December 2015.
  12. ^ "Kingswood Academy". Schools and College Performance Tables. Department for Education. Retrieved 2 January 2016.

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