Twickenham School

Twickenham School, is a co-educational secondary school located in Whitton, in the London Borough of Richmond, south-west London. It has two predecessor schools: Twickenham Academy and before that Whitton School.

Twickenham School
Address
Percy Road

Whitton
Twickenham
,
Greater London
,
TW2 6JW

England
Coordinates51.44433°N 0.36316°W / 51.44433; -0.36316
Information
TypeAcademy
MottoAspire, Achieve, Enjoy
Established2016
Department for Education URN143420 Tables
OfstedReports
HeadteacherAssal Ruse
GenderCoeducational
Age11 to 16
Websitehttp://www.twickenhamschool.org.uk/

Twickenham School is an academy operated by the Richmond West Schools Trust (RWST), a multi-academy trust who also run Hampton High. RWST are supported by other local secondary schools, including Waldegrave School.[1][2][3]

As with other schools, latest GCSE results and related data are published in the Department for Education's national tables.[4]

History

The first school to be built on the site of Twickenham School was named Whitton School. It was established in 1959, to cater for boys from the former Kneller School and girls from Stanley Road School.[5]

By 2001, the school buildings at Whitton, and other local schools, were considered inadequate for a modern education system.[6] In 2003, plans were put forward for it to be replaced by a Catholic Secondary School, with a new community school to be built on the site of Heathfield School, but these were not progressed.[7] The school was considered for rebuilding under the national BSF programme in 2007, but only one school in the borough could be selected and Teddington School was chosen instead.[8]

Whitton School was later re-built as part of the next Government's sponsored academies programme,[9] becoming Twickenham Academy in 2010, under the governance of the Learning Schools Trust.[10][11]

Twickenham Academy was closed at the end of October 2016 and was replaced by Twickenham School on the first day of November 2016, under the management of Richmond West Schools Trust.

Inspection judgements

As of 2019, the school's most recent inspection was in 2018 and resulted in an overall judgement of Requires Improvement. Though, Effectiveness of leadership was rated as Good; and Management & Personal development, behaviour and welfare was also rated as Good.[12]

Notable former pupils

Whitton School/Twickenham Academy/Twickenham School

Notes
  1. "We are Richmond West Schools Trust". RWST. Retrieved 20 November 2019.
  2. "The Richmond West Schools Trust". Twickenham School. Retrieved 23 October 2017.
  3. "THE RICHMOND WEST SCHOOLS TRUST". Companies House. Retrieved 23 October 2017.
  4. "Twickenham School". Find and Compare Schools in England. Gov.uk. Retrieved 19 February 2019.
  5. "Kneller School". Twickenham Museum.
  6. "Not enough classrooms says leaked report". Surrey Comet. 2 October 2001.
  7. Nott, Ian (10 January 2003). "Fears for Heathfield Rec". Richmond and Twickenham Times. Retrieved 20 November 2019.
  8. "Education Provision in the Borough - Update March 2007" (PDF). London Borough of Richmond Upon Thames. Retrieved 16 June 2018.
  9. "Richmond Council give the go ahead to £38m academies rebuild project". This is Local London. 8 May 2011. Retrieved 23 October 2017.
  10. "Academies open for business in Richmond". Your Local Guardian. 11 September 2010. Retrieved 23 October 2017.
  11. "PROPOSED CLOSURE OF WHITTON SCHOOL AND ITS REPLACEMENT WITH AN ACADEMY SPONSORED BY KUNSKAPSSKOLAN AND MANAGED BY THE LEARNING SCHOOLS TRUST" (PDF). London Borough of Richmond Upon Thames. Retrieved 20 November 2019.
  12. "Twickenham School". Ofsted. Ofsted. Retrieved 19 February 2019.
  13. Weich, Ben (20 January 2017). "Teenage football prodigy wins call up to England youth team". Richmond & Twickenham Times. Retrieved 19 February 2019.
  14. http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/20078.html



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