Great Academy Ashton

Great Academy Ashton
Motto “Inspiring Greatness”
Type Academy
Headteacher Jenny Langley
Location Broadoak Road
Ashton-Under-Lyne
OL6 8RF
United Kingdom
53°30′17″N 2°05′00″W / 53.5047°N 2.0833°W / 53.5047; -2.0833Coordinates: 53°30′17″N 2°05′00″W / 53.5047°N 2.0833°W / 53.5047; -2.0833
Gender Coeducational
Ages 11–18
Website gaa.org.uk

Great Academy Ashton (formally New Charter Academy) is a coeducational secondary school with academy status in Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester, England.

The school was formed on 1st of September 2008 as a result of a merger Hartshead Sports College and Stamford High School. New Charter Academy was originally based over the two former school sites, but moved to a new £40 million sole campus in September 2011.

Great Academy Ashton is formally part of the Great Academies Education Trust which also includes Copley Academy and Silver Springs Primary Academy in Stalybridge.[1]

Great Academy Ashton is sometimes informally known as GAA and used to be called New Charter Academy up until September 2017.

The school was placed in special measures in January 2017 and as a result the former headteacher left. The current headteacher has been working at the school since April 2017.

Notable former pupils

Hartshead County Secondary School

New Charter Academy

  • Ben Eckersall, drummer, The Lost Seas

References

  1. ↑ "Great Academies Education Trust - GAET". Retrieved 20 October 2016.
  2. ↑ "David Tom POTTS". Debretts. Archived from the original on 1 March 2015. Retrieved 1 March 2015.
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