Healing School

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Healing School A Science Academy
Type	academy
Headteacher	Ann Addisson
Specialism	Science
Location	Low Road Healing Lincolnshire DN41 7QD England Coordinates: 53°34′27″N 0°09′48″W / 53.5743°N 0.1634°W / 53.5743; -0.1634
DfE URN	118095 Tables
Ofsted	Reports
Students	803
Gender	Coeducational
Ages	11–16
Colours	black, orange, yellow and green

Healing School A Science Academy is a co-educational, specialist academy school located on Low Road in the village of Healing, North East Lincolnshire, England.

Admissions

It has a roll of approximately 800, serving the age group of 11–16 years, with students from both locally and from nearby villages. The school day lasts from 8:30 a.m. to 3:15 p.m.. The school is non-denominational and has no religious affiliation.

Academic performance

It gets the best GCSE results in North East Lincolnshire LEA which are well above the England average.^{[citation needed]} It does not have a sixth form. Most schools in Grimsby are under-performing, so the school does atypically well.

Past achievements

In 2007 Healing School entered and won several awards in the Rock Challenge competition, with a performance called "Global Shock".^{[citation needed]}

In 2009 Ofsted gave Healing School grade 1 (outstanding) in all categories,^[1] the only Comprehensive school in the United Kingdom to achieve this.^{[citation needed]}

In previous years, Healing School football team has won both national and European tournaments, including winning the PlayStation 5 aside European Championship Competition and playing at Old Trafford in the final of the Manchester United Soccer Skills Competition.

It also once entered a winning team into the North East Lincolnshire Inter-Schools Quiz League.

Healing School Council has recently been officially commended by the Speaker of the House of Commons, John Bercow MP, for their work on recycling and sustainability.^{[citation needed]}

Healing School was one of only 64 nationwide to have been given the Secondary Geography Quality Mark (SGQM) by the Geographical Association (GA) in October 2013.

Healing Technical Team

Healing School has a technical team that provides support for school productions and activities.

Notable alumni

Maxine Carr
Phillip Norton, BBC Look North reporter^[2]

References

↑ "Healing School, A Specialist Science and Foundation College", Ofsted report 2009 (pdf download required). Retrieved 2 December 2011
↑ BBC - Healing Hotline, October 2006

External links

v t e Secondary Schools in Lincolnshire

Lincolnshire	Banovallum Birkbeck Boston Grammar Bourne Academy Bourne Grammar Branston Caistor Grammar Caistor Yarborough Carre’s Grammar Charles Read Cherry Willingham Christ's Hospital Cordeaux De Aston Deepings Gartree George Farmer Giles Haven High John Spendluffe Kesteven & Sleaford Kesteven and Grantham Girls' King Edward VI Grammar (Louth) King Edward VI Academy Lafford Yarborough Middlecott Monks' Dyke North Kesteven Peele Priory (LSST) Priory (Lincoln) Priory Ruskin Priory (Witham) Queen Eleanor Queen Elizabeth's Grammar (Alford) Queen Elizabeth's Grammar (Horncastle) Queen Elizabeth's (Gainsborough) Sir John Gleed Sir Robert Pattinson Sir William Robertson Skegness Academy Skegness Grammar Spalding Grammar Spalding High St Bede's St George's St Guthlac St Hugh's St Peter & St Paul King's Thomas Cowley Trent Valley Walton Girls' William Farr William Lovell

North Lincolnshire	Baysgarth Brumby Frederick Gough Foxhills (FTC) Huntcliff Melior North Axholme St. Bede's Sir John Nelthorpe South Axholme St. Lawrence The Vale Winterton

North East Lincolnshire	Cleethorpes Academy Havelock Healing Holy Family Humberston Oasis (Immingham) Oasis (Wintringham) Ormiston Maritime St. James' Tollbar John Whitgift

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