Crispin School

Crispin School
Established 1963
Type Secondary Academy
Headteacher Paul Reddick
Location Church Road
Street
Somerset
BA16 0AD
England
DfE URN 136913 Tables
Ofsted Reports
Students 1,030 pupils (as of September 2017)[1]
Ages 11–16
Houses Corvus, Falco, Sturnus, Tyto
Website www.crispinschool.co.uk

Crispin provides secondary education for students aged 11–16 from Street and across Mid-Somerset. Crispin draws students from a wide range of local primary schools. The school is located to the eastern end of Street and shares a campus with Strode College.

Crispin’s motto is ‘Aspiration, Compassion, Excellence’. The school prides itself on learning, in all its senses, being at the centre of everything the school does. Crispin promotes traditional values of respect, good manners, and hard work, but harnesses these within an education preparing students for the challenges and opportunities of the future.

There are an extensive range of enrichment opportunities at Crispin. Students at the school take part in a wide range of activities.

There are an excellent range of musical opportunities which take place on a daily basis and performances are of a high standard these. Daily sessions focus on the school choir and senior choir, orchestra and a string group. There are a wide range of musical enrichment activities including the Annual Carol Service at Wells Cathedral, Joint Christmas Concert with Brookside Academy, Spring Concert where up to 150 students perform, Music Days for particular years, School of Rock Days, Orchestra visits an trips to London which have included attending musicals and a live rendition of the music and film of Ratatouille at the Royal Albert Hall.

School shows are a strength and are performed at Strode Theatre. A wide range of students are involved in the productions. In 2016 students performed Tales of the Arabian Nights and in 2017 Oliver was the main show. In 2018 Alice was performed over four nights around the Crispin site in June 2018. Year 10 Drama students also successfully performed ‘Find Me’ in May 2018.

Art and Photography has been recognised as being an area of excellence at the school and considerable amounts of student work are on display around Crispin. Large numbers of students choose either GCSEs in Fine Art or Photography and some choose both. Annual trips take place to galleries in London, Bristol Zoo and the Eden Project.

Students are also keen participants in a wide variety of sports. They have also been very successful in a wide range of sports including handball, netball, rugby and football. Other students have been successful in a range of other areas ranging from equestrian activities to walking to triathlon. There is a very well attended Sports Awards evening at the end of each year.

A number of residential trips take place including ones to Iceland, France, Italy, New York, Swaziland, and Kenya. Crispin has a link with a school in Kenya and the ‘Masana Block’ is named in recognition of this link.

Academic standards are high across the school and the majority of students progress to colleges with many taking A Levels and more technical options. A number of students have been very successful on apprenticeships as well. Considerable numbers also progress to university after successful study at college. The school has a wide range of academic options. Students can study a range of options at GCSE and BTEC. Recently these options have been increased to include Health and Social Care, Media and Sport. Students in Year 7 follow a course in Philosophy and this will be extended throughout Years 7-9 in September 2018. All students follow PSHE throughout the school and additional time is being devoted to this important area from September 2018. Students in the upper years will follow a course focusing on Society, Relationships and Values (SRV).

Crispin’s most recent Ofsted inspection took place in October 2017 and the school was rated as ‘Good’ in all areas. The school was seen as continuing to improve and had ‘a deep-seated moral commitment to serving the needs of all the young people in the area’.

Houses

In 2017 the school moved to a House system with 10 vertical tutor groups in each House. The four Houses consist of Corvus, Falco, Sturnus and Tyto: all bird genus. Each House has a Head of House, a House Learning Coordinator and a House Captain voted for by the staff and students with the House. The Houses were introduced to develop a clear sense of belonging and togetherness across all of the years. In order to promote this, the school has weekly competitions to allow students to participate in their Houses. The competitions range from Spellings Bees, Tug of War and Fastest Omelette.

Each month also has a theme to promote the social and moral culture within the school. The student have made notable contributions to the local Food Bank as part of Charity Month in December and Unicef’s Shoe Drive in April where over a thousand pairs of shoes were donated.

The competitions contribute towards a final house points total leading to a winning house for the year. The winning house is awarded with a day of treats to celebrate their success together as a House. Students are also rewarded with weekly Tutee of the Week awards, attendance certificates and house points for their readiness to learn each day.

Partner Primary School links

Crispin value the relationship they have with their Partner Primary Schools. Schools are invited into Crispin regularly to participate in subject specific days to prepare them for Secondary School life. Crispin encourages its students to develop leadership skills through assisting the Primary school children during the learning. Students have lead in Drama, English and PE days. Primary Schools have also attended Geography, Music and Art days.

Alumni

Crispin School has an active alumni programme with over 600 alumni registered with Future First. We have workshops for each year group where our alumni come back to talk to students about careers and raising aspirations. We have also had work experience visits with our alumni. Below is a list of some of our most widely-known alumni.

References

  1. ↑ "Crispin School Academy" (PDF). Ofsted. Retrieved 3 October 2017.


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