Crofton School

Crofton School
Established 1974 (1974)
Type Foundation school
Headteacher Simon Harrison
Location Marks Road
Stubbington
Hampshire
PO14 2AT
England
50°49′23″N 1°12′18″W / 50.823°N 1.205°W / 50.823; -1.205Coordinates: 50°49′23″N 1°12′18″W / 50.823°N 1.205°W / 50.823; -1.205
Local authority Hampshire
DfE URN 116498 Tables
Ofsted Reports
Students 1080
Gender Coeducational
Ages 11–16
Houses Fire (Red), Water (Blue), Earth (Green), Wind (Yellow)
Website www.croftonschool.co.uk

Crofton School is a coeducational foundation secondary school, located in Stubbington, Hampshire, England. The school has around 1200 students aged between 11-16 (years 7 to 11).[1] The school accepts pupils from the areas of: Stubbington, Hill Head, Titchfield, Peel Common, Gosport and Locks Heath.

Crofton opened in 1974 as a purpose-built mixed comprehensive school. Currently the headteacher is Simon Harrison who was appointed in January 2017 from his role as Assistant Head at Swanmore College. Crofton was awarded Specialist Science Status in 2005 but this has since been revoked.

Crofton has three 'feeder' schools: The Croft, Crofton Hammond Junior School and Crofton Anne Dale Junior School. Attendance at one of these feeder schools is a factor in admission to Crofton School.[2]

Racist Emails

In July 2016 it emerged that a senior member of staff, Steve Glasspool, had quit his position as school business manager due to leaked emails sent by him to the school's assistant head-teacher, Luke Mulhall. Derogatory terms such as 'really proper black' or 'they all look the same to me' were used, when Steve Glasspool visited the University of Southampton in January 2016. Luke Mulhall did not reply nor report the matter. It is not known how the emails were leaked and the school conducted an investigation into the matter. It was made clear that the school did not condone his discriminatory views. Shorty after this Ciaran O'Dowda announced he would be stepping down at Crofton to take a new job as headteacher of a newly built college to be opened September 2017. He resigned in December 2016. [3]

References

  1. ↑ "Crofton School".
  2. ↑ http://www.croftonschool.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/admission_new_sept2014_20152.pdf
  3. ↑ "Racist and sexist emails lead senior staff employee at school to quit".



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