Weavers Academy

Weavers Academy
Type Academy
Location Brickhill Road
Wellingborough
Northamptonshire
NN8 3JH
 England
52°18′03″N 0°42′46″W / 52.3008°N 0.7129°W / 52.3008; -0.7129Coordinates: 52°18′03″N 0°42′46″W / 52.3008°N 0.7129°W / 52.3008; -0.7129
DfE URN 139819 Tables
Ofsted Reports Pre-academy reports
Students 964
Gender Coeducational
Ages 11–18
Website School homepage

Weavers Academy (Weavers School) is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form with academy status, located in Wellingborough in the English county of Northamptonshire.[1]

Formerly a Technical Grammar School, it went on to become Weavers School, a community school administered by Northamptonshire County Council. It then briefly became a foundation school before converting to academy status in September 2013, and was renamed Weavers Academy. The school is now sponsored by the Creative Education Trust, but Weavers Academy continues to coordinate with Northamptonshire County Council for admissions.

Weavers Academy offers GCSEs, BTECs and OCR Nationals as programmes of study for pupils, while sixth form students can choose to study from range of A Levels and further BTECs.

Feeder schools

The school gains over lot of its Year 7 students from four local feeder schools.

  • Redwell Primary School
  • Olympic Primary School
  • Ruskin Junior School
  • Freeman's Endowed Church of England School

Sixth form provision

The school's sixth form is part of the Tresham College of Further and Higher Education Northampton College and Moulton College

References

  1. ↑ http://www.weaversacademy.org.uk/


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