Sawston Village College

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Sawston Village College

Established	1930
Type	Academy
Headteacher	Mr J Culpin
Founder	Henry Morris
Location	New Road Sawston Cambridgeshire CB22 3BP England Coordinates: 52°07′35″N 0°09′49″E / 52.12644°N 0.16373°E / 52.12644; 0.16373
DfE URN	110902 Tables
Ofsted	Reports
Staff	110
Students	1060
Gender	coeducational
Ages	11–16
Colours	Burgundy
Website	www.sawstonvc.org

Sawston Village College is an academy school in Sawston, Cambridgeshire, England. It was previously the first community college in the country and the first Village College. It was founded in 1930 and realised the vision of Henry Morris, then Secretary of Education for Cambridgeshire.

In 1924, Henry Morris wrote a ‘Memorandum on the Provision of Education and Social Facilities for the Countryside, with Special Reference to Cambridgeshire’. In his memorandum, Morris avowed that:

the village college would be ‘the community centre of the neighbourhood’;
‘it would not only be the training ground for the art of living, but the place in which life is lived’;
‘the village college could lie athwart the daily lives of the community it served; and in it the conditions would be realised under which education would not be an escape from reality, but an enrichment and transformation of it.’

Morris’ vision of a school indivisible from its community still holds true today at Sawston, his first village college. Its 1060 pupils aged 11 – 16 share the campus with adults who come to the college for a range of purposes, educational, social, leisure and sporting. The college has a partnership for community education and the arts: the Broadening Education Partnership, and a community sports centre that has 900 members.

The college also has the only youth-led cinema in the country. Its pupils take responsibility for the function of the cinema – front of house, projection, business planning, for example – offering regular screenings to the local community.

On 1 June 2011, Sawston Village College gained academy status, effectively ending Cambridgeshire County Councils control and funding of the school.

On 6 September 2012, 14:15 BST, one wing of the original college building was devastated by a fire. The Walnut Room (a community meeting room), Main Staff Room and Sawston Public Library were destroyed, and the Henry Morris Hall (the assembly area) was flooded from the hosepipes. The staff evacuated the children swiftly. Everyone was accounted for, and there were no casualties. The incident is thought to have been an accident rather than a deliberate act of arson.

Teacher List: .Head of Maths: Mr Burgess .Head of English: Mr Lockwood .Head of Science: Mr Whitton .Head of Art: Miss Tite .Head of RE: Ms Barnes .Head of Drama: Mr Higgins .Head of Music: Ms Macleod .Head of History: Mr Mastin

Feeder schools

Children from the following schools generally start attending Sawston Village College at age 11:

Fawcett Primary School
Duxford Primary School;
Bellbird School, Sawston;
Icknield Primary School, Sawston;
Great and Little Shelford Primary School;
Stapleford Primary School; and
William Westley Primary School, Whittlesford.
Babraham CofE Primary School

Destinations

Students continuing in Further Education beyond 16 generally attend one of the following:

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v t e Schools in Cambridgeshire (including Peterborough)

Primary	Hampton College St Andrew's Primary School St Matthew's Primary School

Secondary	Abbey College Arthur Mellows Village College Bassingbourn Village College Bottisham Village College Cambourne Village College Chesterton Community College Coleridge Community College Comberton Village College Cottenham Village College Cromwell Community College Ely College Ernulf Academy Gamlingay Village College Hampton College Hinchingbrooke School Impington Village College Jack Hunt School The King's School, Peterborough Linton Village College Longsands Academy Melbourn Village College Neale-Wade Academy Nene Park Academy Netherhall School North Cambridge Academy Ormiston Bushfield Academy Parkside Community College Sawston Village College Sawtry Community College Sir Harry Smith Community College Soham Village College Stanground Academy St Bede's Inter-Church School St Ivo School St John Fisher Catholic High School St Peter's School Swavesey Village College Thomas Clarkson Academy Thomas Deacon Academy The Voyager Academy Witchford Village College

Sixth Form Colleges	Hills Road Sixth Form College Long Road Sixth Form College

Independent (preparatory)	Cambridge Steiner School King's College School Cambridge Magdalene House St Faith's School St John's College School The Perse Preparatory School

Independent (senior)	Alconbury High School Cambridge Centre for Sixth-form Studies The Leys School Mander Portman Woodward College The Perse School St Andrew's College Stephen Perse Foundation Wisbech Grammar School

Independent (all ages)	Cambridge International School Kimbolton School The King's School, Ely St Mary's School Sancton Wood School Perse School for Girls The Peterborough School

Defunct	Cambridgeshire High School for Boys Deacon's School Ely High School for Girls John Mansfield School Malting House School Peterborough County Grammar School for Girls

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