North Leamington School

North Leamington School
NLS logo since 2009
Motto	Believe and you will achieve
Type	Community school
Headteacher	Joy Mitchell
Deputy Head	Andy Hawkins
Chair of Governors	Councillor Sarah Boad
Location	Sandy Lane Blackdown Leamington Spa Warwickshire CV32 6RD England 52°18′35″N 1°31′51″W / 52.3098°N 1.5308°W / 52.3098; -1.5308Coordinates: 52°18′35″N 1°31′51″W / 52.3098°N 1.5308°W / 52.3098; -1.5308
Local authority	Warwickshire
DfE number	937/4237
DfE URN	125748 Tables
Ofsted	Reports
Students	1215
Gender	Coeducational
Ages	11–18
Houses	Binswood Blackdown Croft Manor Park (Known as Colleges^[1])
Colours	Blue
Website	North Leamington School

North Leamington School (NLS) is a mixed comprehensive school for pupils aged 11 to 18 located in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England. It now operates on one main site, whereas prior to September 2009 it operated from two sites in Leamington Spa.^[2] The new school is no longer in Leamington, but the parish of Blackdown just off the B4113 road on Sandy Lane.

Admissions

North Leamington is a mixed 11 to 18 comprehensive school maintained by Warwickshire County Council.^[3] The school mainly serves North Leamington. It has approximately 1350 students on roll, including 200 in the Sixth Form. Joy Mitchell is currently headteacher.^[4]

History

Binswood Hall 2005

The school was formed in 1977 from the merging of three schools: Blackdown High School (Park Road site), Leamington College for Girls, a girls grammar school (Cloister Way site) and Leamington College for Boys (Binswood Hall site) on Binswood Avenue. The sixth form centre at Binswood Hall was separate to the school until 1994, when the teaching staff was merged with the 11-16 school. This was not a simple operation, with the disparate nature of the sites.

Current site

In September 2009, a completely new school was opened, built where the existing Manor Hall building was located. This new complex merged both the main school and the Sixth Form. The old site of the school has been demolished and the land sold to developers. The new site was designed by Robothams Architecture, an architectural firm based in Warwick.

Sports Memorabilia

Inside the school's sports hall are various sports tops from notable pupils such as former England and Manchester United goalkeeper Ben Foster. There is also a signed Celtic F.C. Shirt from 2007 and a Ronaldinho signed match jersey from the same year.

Former sites

Prior to September 2009, the main site, located at the north of the town between the A452 and A445. This site consisted of the Lower School (Years 7, 8 & 9, approached from Cloister Way, previously called Croft Hall) and the Upper School (Years 10 & 11, approached from Park Road, previously called Park Hall). The Sixth Form Centre (Years 12 & 13) was situated in the centre of Leamington at Binswood Hall, Binswood Avenue. This was the former Leamington College for Boys, a Boys Grammar School, which opened in 1848. When it ceased being used as a school, it was empty for several years and is now a luxury retirement village (owned by Audley Retirement) with a health club and Whittles Restaurant.

Sixth Form

Binswood Hall is a listed building with previous incarnations as a Girls' Convent School and as a College for Boys. It offered 36 AS Level courses, leading onto A2 courses in Year 13. It had an overall pass rate of 97% with 40% of 435 individual exam entries attaining Grades A or B in 2004. The head of the Sixth Form was Robert Lowries, who was also Deputy Head of NLS as a whole. The Sixth Form gets good A level results, better than two Warwickshire Grammar Schools.

Academic performance

Arts College

NLS was granted school for specials as a Performing Arts College in 1999 thanks to sponsorship by EMI Music Sound Foundation, and, as a result of success in this role, the DfES confirmed the status for a further five years, 2003 to 2008. It was the first Arts College school in Warwickshire.

Artsmark

In 2002 the school also won the Arts Council's 'Artsmark Gold' Award and also gained 'Sportsmark' status from Sport England in 2004. Due to vast improvement in exam results between 2000 and 2003, NLS received a "School Achievement Award" from the Government and in addition, the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust Council has recently elected NLS to its 'Most Improved Schools Club'. It gets GCSEs just under the England average.

Alumni

Leamington College for Boys

Prof Sir David Baulcombe, Professor of Botany since 2007 at the University of Cambridge, and President from 2003 to 2004 of the International Society of Plant Molecular Biology
Thomas Byles
D. J. Enright OBE, writer
Edgar Jepson, novelist
Vivian Dering Majendie KCB, Chief Inspector of Explosives from 1871 to 1898
Wilfrid Mellers, composer
Adam Osborne, computing author and businessman
Norman Painting, actor^[5]
Charles Spearman, President from 1923 to 1926 of the British Psychological Society, and creator of the Spearman's rank correlation coefficient, used in statistics
Lytton Strachey
Sir Frank Whittle OM CBE CB, inventor of the jet engine^[6]
Henry James Grasett, Chief Constable of Toronto from 1886 to 1920

North Leamington School

Kelly Sibley, Olympic Table Tennis Player
Ben Foster, West Bromwich Albion and England International Goalkeeper
Oliver Quinlan, Author and Educator, ALT Learning Technologist of the Year 2011^[7]

References

↑ "The College System". Retrieved 9 November 2012.
↑ "Contact Us". Archived from the original on 7 September 2011. Retrieved 10 December 2011.
↑ "North Leamington School - Warwickshire Web". Retrieved 21 January 2012.
↑ "North Leamington School". Retrieved 27 August 2011.
↑ "Norman Painting". The Daily Telegraph.
↑ "Short History of the Royal Air Force, CHAPTER 3 - THE SECOND WORLD WAR 1939-45" (PDF). www.raf.mod.uk.
↑ Plymouth University, Staff Directory http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/staff/oquinlan

External links

Schools in Warwickshire
Primary	Clifton-upon-Dunsmore C of E Primary School Coten End Primary School St Mary Immaculate RC Primary School
Secondary	Alcester Academy Ash Green School Avon Valley School Aylesford School Bilton School Campion School The Coleshill School Etone College The George Eliot School Harris Church of England Academy Hartshill School Henley-in-Arden School Higham Lane School Kenilworth School Kineton High School Kingsbury School Myton School Nicholas Chamberlaine School North Leamington School The Nuneaton Academy The Polesworth School Queen Elizabeth Academy St Benedict's Catholic High School St Thomas More Catholic School Shipston High School Stratford-upon-Avon High School Studley High School Trinity Catholic School
Sixth Form Colleges	King Edward VI College Trinity Catholic School
Further Education Colleges	Stratford-upon-Avon College Warwickshire College North Warwickshire and Hinckley College
Grammar	Alcester Grammar School Ashlawn School King Edward VI School Lawrence Sheriff School Rugby High School for Girls Stratford-upon-Avon Grammar School for Girls
Partially selective	Ashlawn School
Independent	Arnold Lodge School The Crescent School Bilton Grange The King's High School For Girls Kingsley School Princethorpe College Rugby School Warwick School
Special	Exhall Grange School River House School RNIB Pears Centre
Former	Bishop Wulstan School Dunchurch-Winton Hall

Features of Royal Leamington Spa
Royal Leamington Spa Warwick and Leamington Constituency Warwick District District Council elections County Council elections
Suburbs	Lillington Milverton Old Town Sydenham
Notable buildings and structures	All Saints Church, Leamington Spa Church of St John the Baptist Holy Trinity Church, Leamington Spa Leamington Spa railway station Loft Theatre Company Regent Hotel Royal Pump Rooms Royal Spa Centre St Mary's Church St Paul's Church Woodbine Street Recording Studios
School and colleges	Campion School, Leamington Spa The Kingsley School North Leamington School Warwickshire College
Parks and geographical features	The Dell, Leamington Spa Foundry Wood Jephson Gardens Midland Oak Newbold Comyn The Parade Parr and Wisden's Ground River Leam Royal Pump Room Gardens Victoria Park, Leamington Spa
Sports clubs and organisations	Aga Rangemaster Group Leamington Cricket Club Ground Leamington F.C. Leamington Spa Bach Choir Royal Spa Brass

Warwick District towns, parishes and settlements
Warwickshire County Council elections District Council elections Warwick and Leamington Constituency
Towns	Kenilworth Abbey End Castle End Crackley Ladyes Hill St John's Whitemoor Windy Arbour Leamington Spa Lillington Milverton Old Town Sydenham Warwick Bridge End Emscote Forbes Heathcote Myton Packmores The Cape Warwick Gates Woodloes Park Whitnash
Parishes, settlements	Ashow Baddesley Clinton Baginton Barford Beausale Bishops Tachbrook Blackdown Bubbenhall Budbrooke Bushwood Cubbington Eathorpe Haseley Hatton Honiley Hunningham Lapworth Leek Wootton Norton Lindsey Offchurch Old Milverton Radford Semele Rowington Sherbourne Shrewley Stoneleigh Wappenbury Wasperton Weston under Wetherley Wroxall
List of Parliamentary constituencies in Warwickshire List of places in Warwickshire List of civil parishes in Warwickshire

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