A TWO-year lease has been signed allowing the new King’s School, Woolston, Warrington, to formally open in September.
The lease was signed on behalf of the school by Sir Iain Hall, a former head teacher and associate director of the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust.
Disused classrooms alongside Bruche Primary School, on Seymour Drive, will be converted and refurbished to provide accommodation for the King’s School. Work has already started.
In the meantime, King’s School claims to be fully staffed.
The school will have a strict dress code likely to be welcomed by many parents.
All pupils will be expected to wear the school uniform and delivery of the school blazer – black with wine piping – is expected before the end of the month.
Pupils will wear plain white shirts and a King’s tie bearing the school’s emblem.
Trousers and skirts will be a dark charcoal and will be worn with plain, black polished shoes.
Denims, cords and cotton trousers, trainers, suede shoes, boots, shoes with coloured stitching and “hoodies” will all be banned – as will make-up, including coloured nail varnish, lip gloss, fake tans and jewellery.
The school’s advice is that pupils should not take mobile ‘phones to school, but recognising that some parents will want their children to have them while going to and from school, they will be allowed provided they are switched off and put away during school hours. Inappropriate use will result in confiscation without notice.
During the summer, there will be five “summer challenges” set for pupils on the school website.
These are not compulsory, but will provide youngsters with something for them to do on rainy days.
The school’s first “leadership residential” will take place early in October, involving in an overnight stay at Brathay Leadership Centre in the Lake District.
It is hoped pupils will have time to take part in one land-based and one water based leadership activity.
Head teacher Shane Ierston (pictured), in a message to prospective parents, said: “In our first year, the exclusive Year 7 intake will afford us tremendous possibilities to truly nurture and develop the potential of all our students as we become established.
“Given the relatively small numbers, I am personally looking forward to getting to know every child as an individual.”
It is hoped the school will be able to move into new, purpose-built buildings off Hillock Lane, Woolston, in two year’s time.
Free school to open – with strict dress code
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The school’s advice is that pupils should not take mobile ‘phones to school, but recognising that some parents will want their children to have them while going to and from school, they will be allowed provided they are switched off and put away during school hours. Inappropriate use will result in confiscation without notice.
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Don’t these schools cost the taxpayer a lot more than normal state schools. I hope that the results are worth the investment, and that they don’t prove to be just an expensive “flash in the pan”.
PT. And your problem with the rules laid down as they are? Perhaps you don’t believe in discipline. Or are you one of these people who don’t believe in rules?
“fully staffed”?
I have seen reports elsewhere that this means three teachers – this may well be a good teacher-pupil ratio and would be marvelous for a village primary school . However, can such a small number of teachers , really cover the full range of academic subjects – maths, english (lit and lang), sciences (physics , history and biology), history, geography, etc. up to GCSE standard?
I don’t see why this is news? The dress code is exactly the same a other high schools, blazer, shirt, tie and trousers with black shoes. Other schools have enforced this code – see previous reports in the WG about kids with the wrong shoes, spikey hair etc. Likewise, alot seems to have been made of a no bullying policy. All high schools have a no bullying policy – I don’t know of any that actively encourage bullying!