Joyce Frankland Academy
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| Joyce Frankland Academy, Newport | |
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Bury Water Lane ,, CB11 3TR | |
| Coordinates | 51°59′26″N0°12′50″E/ 51.990558°N 0.213817°E |
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| Former name | Newport Free Grammar School |
| Type | Academy |
| Established | 1588 |
| Founder | Joyce Frankland |
| Department for EducationURN | 138734Tables |
| Ofsted | Reports |
| Headteacher | Duncan Roberts |
| Gender | Coeducational |
| Age | 11 to 18 |
| Enrolment | 987 |
| Houses | ThompsonCaius SaxieBanstead MordenTrappes |
| Former pupils | Old Newportonians |
| Website | www |
Joyce Frankland Academy, Newport,formerlyNewport Free Grammar School,is a school inNewport, Essex,England. It was founded in 1588.[1]The school is amixedsecondary schoolwith asixth form.It previously existed in different forms including aboarding schooland agrammar school.The headteacher is Duncan Roberts and the vice headteacher is Ian Stoneham. As of 2012, there were 987 students, including 160 in the sixth form.[2]
It takes its current name (since 2012) after DameJoyce Frankland(1531-1588), the only daughter of goldsmith Robert Trappes, who founded it as the "free Grammer Schole of Newport". Dame Frankland also made a number of educational bequests in her will to colleges at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge.
Specialist and academy status
[edit]The school achievedSpecialistLanguage Collegestatus in July 2003 fromDfESand has been a Language College since September 2003.[3]The school achieved a second specialism inScience,commencing 1 September 2008 but this was later lost.
The school converted toacademy statuson 1 September 2012.
Academic standards
[edit]In 2011, Newport Free Grammar School was ranked 405th out of the 429 institutions supplying A-Level results to the Daily Telegraph's annual league table based on the percentages of A*, A and B grades achieved.[4]
Following an inspection on 15 March 2006,Ofstedrated the school asgood,the second-best grade on its four-point scale. Inspectors said teaching was "sometimes outstanding, even inspirational" in languages and the humanities but needed improvement in mathematics and IT.
Notable former pupils
[edit] | This article's list of alumnimay not follow Wikipedia'sverifiabilitypolicy.(March 2022) |
- Max Barrett,morbid anatomist and histologist
- Charles George Broyden,mathematician
- Martin Caton,MP for Gower
- Jimmy Doherty,BBC broadcaster and farmer
- Paul Epworth,music producer
- James Frain,film actor
- Matt Holland,Republic of Irelandfootballer
- Kate Johnson,novelist
- Shakila Karim,singer-songwriter and musician
- Jamie Oliver,television chef and author
- J. W. Pritchard,civil servant of the Indian civil service
- Pip Pyle,drummer with Gong and Hatfield and the North
- Laura Sugar,Paralympic athlete
- David Sutton,archivist and local politician
- Peter Warren,journalist
References
[edit]- ^"Tradition to Technology".Newport Free Grammar School. Archived fromthe originalon 9 October 2006.Retrieved11 January2007.
- ^"Ofsted Report 2012".2012. Archived fromthe original(PDF)on 9 October 2006.Retrieved27 December2012.
- ^"designated specialist schools listed by government regions and specialism excel spreadsheet".DFES.Archived fromthe original(XLS)on 21 July 2006.Retrieved11 January2007.
- ^Payne, Sebastian (19 August 2011)."A-level results 2011 school-by-school".The Daily Telegraph.London.Archivedfrom the original on 3 September 2018.Retrieved3 April2018.
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