The Westwood Academy

The Westwood School

Motto	Design for Success
Type	Academy
Headteacher	Ms Jane Benton
Location	Mitchell Avenue Coventry West Midlands CV4 8DY England Coordinates: 52°23′25″N 1°34′13″W / 52.3902°N 1.5704°W / 52.3902; -1.5704
DfE number	331/4043
DfE URN	137225 Tables
Ofsted	Reports
Students	590 (approx.)
Gender	Coeducational
Ages	11–18
Website	thewestwoodacademy.co.uk

The Westwood Academy (formerly The Westwood School) is an academy school for children aged 11 – 18 in Canley, Coventry, England. Although a small school (with just under 600 pupils) The Westwood School is gaining a reputation in the UK for leading learning - already leading and advising on many National, as well as local, initiatives. With its new sports centre completed in July 2008. Students from the Westwood school can benefit from the centres facilities, such as the astro turf pitches as the centre is open to Westwood school students until 5 p.m., when it is then handed over to the public. In 2008, The Westwood School gained a 'Trust' school status with the Local Authority, Warwick University, Coventry Sports Foundation and a local ICT company. The school recently gained The BECTA ICT Mark in recognition of its use of ICT in teaching and learning (the only school in Coventry to have gained this award).

The school was previously known as Alderman Callow School and Community College, built to serve the nearby Canley housing estate; however the estate was never completed to its original anticipated size, meaning the school has always had a significantly smaller intake than other schools in Coventry.

The Westwood Academy girls and boys basketball teams have won many local and regional accolades.

Notable former pupils

Tamla Kari, British actress

Schools in Coventry

Secondary	Barr's Hill School Bishop Ullathorne RC School Blue Coat CE School Caludon Castle School Cardinal Newman RC School Cardinal Wiseman RC School Coundon Court Ernesford Grange Community Academy Finham Park School Foxford School Grace Academy Lyng Hall School President Kennedy School Sidney Stringer Academy Stoke Park School Tile Hill Wood School The Westwood Academy Whitley Academy WMG Academy Woodlands Academy

Special	Riverbank Academy

Independent	Bablake School King Henry VIII Preparatory School King Henry VIII School Pattison College

Further education colleges	City College Coventry Henley College Hereward College

Former	Woodway Park School

List of schools in Coventry

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