Ormiston Chadwick Academy

Ormiston Chadwick Academy
Established	1958 (1958)
Type	Academy
Location	Liverpool Road Widnes Cheshire WA8 7HU England Coordinates: 53°22′21″N 2°45′34″W / 53.3724°N 2.7594°W / 53.3724; -2.7594
DfE number	876/4001
DfE URN	140864 Tables
Ofsted	Reports Pre-academy reports
Gender	Coeducational
Ages	11–16
Website	www.ormistonchadwickacademy.co.uk

Ormiston Chadwick Academy (formerly The Bankfield School) is a coeducational secondary school with academy status, located in Widnes in the English county of Cheshire.

It opened in September 1958 as a small secondary modern school, before becoming a comprehensive school in 1974. The numbers on the roll fell and in the 1980s the school was threatened with closure. Following a campaign by the local community it became a grant-maintained school in January 1990. In 1997 it opted to join the other schools managed by Halton Borough Council.^[1]

In September 2004 was awarded specialist status as a Science College, partnering with the Catalyst Museum and Science Discovery Centre and 16 industrial sponsors.^[2] In 2010 it became the first school in the Borough of Halton to be judged as 'Outstanding' by Ofsted.^[3] The school also gained a second specialism in Applied Learning, and also became a Gifted & Talented Lead School.

In April 2013, the school was deemed by Ofsted to 'require improvement'. This inspection found that standards in the school had significantly slipped. In January 2013 following an October Ofsted report, the school was placed into special measures. In January 2014, Headteacher, Carole Owen retired as headteacher of the school. The school was taken over by an Interim Executive Board, who aimed to improve the school around, and they appointed Mr John Rigby as the Interim Executive Headteacher. On 1 September 2014 the school re-opened as Ormiston Chadwick Academy. The school is now sponsored by Ormiston Academies Trust and is partnered with Ormiston Bolingbroke Academy in Runcorn.^[4]

Notable former pupils

Derek Twigg,^[5] Labour MP for Halton

References

↑ "Golden Year for Bankfield School", Inside Halton (Halton Borough Council), December 2008: 7
↑ The Bankfield School, The Bankfield School, retrieved 2013-10-29
↑ http://bankfield.com/pdf/Ofsted2010.pdf
↑ http://www.runcornandwidnesweeklynews.co.uk/incoming/widnes-schools-newleadership-confirmed-7084135
↑ "Golden Year for Bankfield School", Inside Halton (Halton Borough Council), December 2008: 7

External links

Ormiston Chadwick Academy website

Schools in Cheshire

Primary

Secondary

Cheshire East	All Hallows RC College Alsager School Brine Leas School Congleton High School Eaton Bank Academy The Fallibroome Academy Holmes Chapel Comprehensive School King's Grove High School Knutsford Academy The Macclesfield Academy Malbank School Middlewich High School Poynton High School Ruskin High School St Thomas More RC High School Sandbach High School Sandbach School Shavington Academy Sir William Stanier Community School Tytherington School Wilmslow High School

Cheshire West & Chester	Bishop Heber High School The Bishops' Blue Coat CE High School Blacon High School Chester RC High School Christleton High School County High School Ellesmere Port RC High School Hartford High School Helsby High School Neston High School Queens Park High School St Nicholas RC High School Tarporley High School University of Chester Academy Northwich University CE Academy Upton-by-Chester High School Weaverham High School The Whitby High School The Winsford Academy

Halton	The Grange School, Runcorn The Heath School Ormiston Bolingbroke Academy Ormiston Chadwick Academy St Chad's RC & CE High School Saints Peter & Paul RC College Sandymoor School Wade Deacon High School

Warrington	Beamont Collegiate Academy Birchwood Community High School Bridgewater High School Cardinal Newman RC High School Culcheth High School Great Sankey High School Lymm High School Penketh High School St Gregory's RC High School Sir Thomas Boteler CE High School University Academy Warrington

Independent

Special

Further
education
& sixth form
colleges

Former

Ormiston Academies

Birmingham Bolingbroke Bushfield Chadwick City of Norwich Cliff Park Cowes Denes Endeavour Forge Gateway George Salter Horizon Ilkeston Maritime Park Rivers Sandwell Shelfield Sir Stanley Matthews Six Villages Stoke Sudbury Tenbury Venture Victory Wodensborough

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