Great Cornard Upper School
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| Great Cornard Upper School and Technology College | |
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| Headteacher | Mr M Foley |
| Specialism | Technology College |
| Location | Head Lane Great Cornard, Sudbury Suffolk CO10 0JU England |
| LEA | Suffolk |
| Ofsted number | 124797 |
| Students | 1001 |
| Gender | Coeducational |
| Ages | 13 to 18 |
| Website | GCUS.net |
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Great Cornard Upper School and Technology College is an upper school in the village of Great Cornard, located near the town of Sudbury, Suffolk, England that educates just over 800 students aged 13-18 with a sixth form facility.[1]
It was granted the status of Specialist School in 1998, and was re-designated Technology College in 2001.[2]
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[edit] Facilities
Included in the school is the new Great Cornard Sports Centre, which is open to the public outside of school hours, funded in part by a £563k grant from the English Active lottery fund. The new complex features a youth drop-in centre, dance and martial arts studios, changing rooms, fitness studios, a coach education unit and a social area.[3]
The Prospect Theatre, also in the school grounds, puts on a range of plays and concerts throughout the year and, from 26 March 2007, it is the base for the Sudbury Light Operatic Society.[4]
[edit] Academic performance
In their report dated 27 March 2007, Ofsted gave an overall rating of the school as Satisfactory, point three on a four point scale.[1]
Its unauthorised absence rate of around 3% is significantly higher than the local and national averages.[5]
[edit] Incidents
- Former head of religious studies and head of year Steve Morris, who had moved to Aldershot, was sentenced to 15 months in prison in May 2007 having admitted three counts of indecently assaulting a pupil at a school in the south of England.[6]
- In April 2006, a boy was unable to comply with the school's 'black shoes' uniform policy because of the cost of size 15 shoes.[7]
- On 10 June 2004, three girls needed medical attention for the affects of gas after raiders struck at the hotel where they were staying during a school trip in Villepinte, France.[8]
[edit] Notable alumni
Martial arts expert Gemma Salter won the 2006 UK full contact fighting title and became the 2006 European champion in Chinese wrestling, shuai jiao.[9]
The school contains memorials to a former teacher, Shelley Baisden, who died of cancer and to a popular teenager, Yibi Matthews, who died of HIV contracted at birth.[10]. Yibi Matthews was remembered as the boy with the big smile and his father, Rev David Matthews described Yibi's times at the school as "among his happiest"[11].
Television actor Rocky Marshall studied at the school in the late 1980's. [12]
[edit] References
- ^ a b "Great Cornard Upper School and Technology College", Ofsted, 27 March 2007
- ^ Suffolk County Council, retrieved March 16, 2007
- ^ "Lottery Grant ‘Activates’ Great Cornard", retrieved 9 July 2007
- ^ "Sudbury Light Operatic Society, official site, retrieved 13 July 2007
- ^ "Great Cornard Upper School and Technology College", BBC News, 11 January 2007
- ^ "Inquiry launched after teacher arrest", David Gooderham, East Anglian Daily Times, 6 July 2007
- ^ "Family foots bill for size 15 feet", Suffolk Free Press, 28 April 2006
- ^ "Pupils caught in hotel gas attack", BBC News, 17 June 2004
- ^ "Martial Arts: Gemma eyes Euro title", Suffolk Free Press, 17 August 2006
- ^ "School remembers Shelley and Yibi", Suffolk Free Press, 20 March 2008
- ^ "Boy's ashes buried at school he loved", Suffolk Free Press, 20 July 2006
- ^ "Rocky Road to Success", Suffolk Free Press, 30 July 2007
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