Twickenham School

Twickenham School
Motto Aspire, Achieve, Enjoy
Established 2012
Type Academy
Headteacher Assal Ruse
Location Percy Road
Whitton
Twickenham
Greater London
TW2 6JW
 England
51°26′40″N 0°21′47″W / 51.44433°N 0.36316°W / 51.44433; -0.36316Coordinates: 51°26′40″N 0°21′47″W / 51.44433°N 0.36316°W / 51.44433; -0.36316
DfE URN 136104 Tables
Ofsted Reports
Gender Coeducational
Ages 11–16
Website twickenhamschool.org.uk

Twickenham School, formerly Twickenham Academy and before that Whitton School, is a co-educational secondary school located in Whitton, in the London Borough of Richmond, south-west London.

A £24m refurbishment to the school was completed in July 2013 and reopened by then Twickenham MP Vince Cable.

Twickenham School is part of a Multi Academy Trust, the Richmond West Schools Trust, along with one other Richmond borough school, Hampton High. The Trust is supported by other local secondary schools, including Waldegrave School.[1][2][3]

GCSE results

  • In 2016, 55 per cent of students achieved A* - C grade at GCSE – an 11 percent improvement on the previous year. English results improved by 12 percent, while Maths grades were up by 13 percent. Headteacher Assal Ruse told the Richmond and Twickenham Times in August 2016: “It shows that the measures we have introduced since April are already starting to have a positive impact on the academic performance of our students.”[4]
  • In 2017, 55 per cent of students achieved five A* to C grades and 14 per cent got grades A* to A.[5][6]

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.[7]

By 2001, the school buildings at Whitton, and other local schools, were considered inadequate for a modern education system.[8] 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.[9]

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

The governance of Twickenham Academy was transferred to the Richmond West Schools Trust in September 2016.[12] Its name was changed to Twickenham School shortly afterwards.

Notable former pupils

Whitton School/Twickenham Academy/Twickenham School

Notes

  1. ↑ "We are Richmond West Schools Trust". RWST. Retrieved 30 March 2018.
  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. ↑ "Richmond's GCSE results: The round up". Richmond and Twickenham Times. 27 August 2016. Retrieved 23 October 2017.
  5. ↑ "GCSE results: Some 'outstanding' achievements in Richmond". Richmond and Twickenham Times. 24 August 2017. Retrieved 23 October 2017.
  6. ↑ "Improved New GCSE Results for Twickenham School". Twickenham School. Retrieved 23 October 2017.
  7. ↑ "Kneller School". Twickenham Museum.
  8. ↑ "Not enough classrooms says leaked report". Surrey Comet. 2 October 2001.
  9. ↑ "Education Provision in the Borough - Update March 2007" (PDF). London Borough of Richmond Upon Thames. Retrieved 16 June 2018.
  10. ↑ "Richmond Council give the go ahead to £38m academies rebuild project". This is Local London. 8 May 2011. Retrieved 23 October 2017.
  11. ↑ "Academies open for business in Richmond". Your Local Guardian. 11 September 2010. Retrieved 23 October 2017.
  12. ↑ "MAT Final Announcement". Teddington School. Retrieved 23 October 2017.


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