Goole Academy

{{Infobox school

| name = Goole Academy

| image = Goolehighschool.JPG

| caption = Goole Academy

| image_size =

| coordinates = {{coord|53.708170|-0.883780|type:edu_region:GB_dim:100|format=dec|display=inline,title}}

| motto = exceed expectations

| established = 1909

| type = Academy

| head = Kirsty Halt

| address = Centenary Road

| city = Goole

| county = East Riding of Yorkshire

| country = England

| postcode = DN14 6AN

| local_authority = East Riding of Yorkshire

| ofsted = yes

| urn = 145929

| enrolment = 1850

| gender = Mixed

| lower_age = 11

| upper_age = 16

| publication =

| free_label_1 = Former name

| free_1 = Goole High school

| website = {{URL|gooleacademy.org.uk}}

}}

Goole Academy is a mixed 11–18 secondary school in Goole, East Riding of Yorkshire, England.{{cite web |title=Goole High School |url=https://get-information-schools.service.gov.uk/Establishments/Establishment/Details/145929 |website=get-information-schools.service.gov.uk |publisher=Department for Education |accessdate=1 June 2018 |language=en}}{{cite web |title=Welcome to Goole Academy |url=https://www.gooleacademy.org.uk/ |website=www.gooleacademy.org.uk |accessdate=1 June 2018 |language=en}} It is just off the A614 road in the east of Goole.

History

The school's original motto was Alta Pete, Latin for "Aim High".{{citation needed|date=October 2013}}

=Grammar school=

The school was first opened as Goole Grammar School in 1909,[http://www.goole-on-the-web.org.uk/main.php?key=195 *Schools - Goole Grammar School"], Goole-on-the-web.org.uk. Retrieved 25 October 2013 making it the longest-running school in Goole. It was administered by West Riding County Council, based in Wakefield. It was a four form-entry coeducational school on Boothferry Road with 750 boys and girls. Goole Secondary Modern School was on the opposite side of Boothferry Road, which was built in 1936, and had 1,100 boys and girls.{{citation needed|date=September 2014}}

=Comprehensive=

In September 1973 the school became a twelve form-entry comprehensive upper school for ages 13–18. It initially retained the name Goole Grammar School with 1,100 boys and girls. From April 1974 it was administered by Humberside Education Committee. The former secondary modern school became Bartholomew Middle School (became Goole College, which closed in 2021{{cite web|url=https://feweek.co.uk/hull-college-group-to-close-down-goole-campus/|title=Hull College Group to close down Goole campus|date=20 January 2021|website=feweek.co.uk|accessdate=24 October 2024}}).

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In the 1980s the school was still a 13–18 upper school and called Goole Grammar School. In 1990 the school's name was changed to Vermuyden School, after Cornelius Vermuyden.{{citation needed|date=September 2014}}

In 2009, following consultation with students and the local community, it was renamed Goole High School and, after a student survey, a new school uniform was introduced. The motto was changed to 'Daring to be Excellent'.[https://web.archive.org/web/20090701094924/http://www.gooletimes.net/news/7974/new-name-for-vermuyden-school "New name for Vermuyden School"], Goole Times, 21 May 2009 (web archive). Retrieved 25 October 2013{{cite web|url=http://www.eastriding.gov.uk/public_reports/TheCabinet/14July2009/Instrument%20of%20Government%20-%20Variation%20Order%20No.%207%202009.pdf|title=Instrument of Government - Variation Order No. 7 (2009)|date=14 July 2009|publisher=East Riding of Yorkshire Council|accessdate=8 December 2009}}

=Academy=

Goole Academy gained academy status in 2011. The school receives funding directly from central government but still has links with the East Riding of Yorkshire Council.{{citation needed|date=September 2014}}

The school underwent transformation with a stage two of a £15 million new build. Subsequently, partly through the school being one of the first three nationally to receive funding through the government's Priority Schools Building Fund, a further multi-million pound sum is to be spent on the next phase of the creation of a three-storey new build to house the CREATE Studio School, an Academy School suite and a creative arts suite, with drama and dance halls, and a library.{{cn|date= December 2024}}

It will also fund renovation of the original Edwardian building and reinstatement of the Edwardian listed gardens fronting Boothferry Road, the return of the car park on Airmyn Road to tennis courts and the demolition of some non-historical parts of the site to make way for the creation of landscaped outside areas.

Academic performance and inspections

In 2013, as Goole High School Academy of Excellence, the school was inspected and found inadequate and requiring special measures.{{cite web |last1=Blakelock |first1=Lynne |title=Goole High School Academy of Excellence |url=https://files.ofsted.gov.uk/v1/file/2328109 |publisher=Ofsted |access-date=9 December 2024 |date=2013}} It was inspected again in 2015, as Goole Academy, and found to have improved "beyond recognition", although sixth-form provision was inadequate; the overall judgement was requires improvement.{{cite web |last1=Young |first1=John |title=Goole Academy |url=https://files.ofsted.gov.uk/v1/file/2527665 |publisher=Ofsted |access-date=9 December 2024 |date=2015}} {{As of|2024}}, the most recent inspection was in 2022, with an outcome of good.{{cite web |last1=Greatrex |first1=Louise |title=Inspection of Goole Academy |url=https://files.ofsted.gov.uk/v1/file/50198565 |publisher=Ofsted |access-date=9 December 2024 |date=2022}}

Notable staff

Peter Teed was headteacher of the grammar school for 21 years, and his wife, artist Shirley Teed, designed costumes for school plays and mentored staff and students.{{cite web | title=Peter Teed, headmaster, and Shirley Teed, artist | website=Yorkshire Post | date=30 August 2018 | url=https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/peter-teed-headmaster-and-shirley-teed-artist-260638 | access-date=10 December 2024}} Peter Teed was reported by The Yorkshire Post to have introduced to the school "innovative practices as vocational qualifications and coursework assessments long before they became standard practice", and to have "adopted an inclusive approach, opening the sixth form to pupils from Goole’s Secondary Modern school and steering it through the transition to a comprehensive unit".

The actor Ian McElhinney taught drama at the school in the 1970s.{{cite news | title=Former drama teacher takes Game of Thrones starring role | work=York Press | date=20 August 2014 | url=https://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/11420401.former-goole-teacher-ian-mcelhinney-takes-game-of-thrones-starring-role/ | access-date=10 December 2024}}

Notable former pupils

=Goole Grammar School=

Gavin Bryars, composer and double bassist{{cite news | last=Clinch | first=Dermot | title=Arts: Quiet at the back of the class | work=The Independent | date=19 December 1998 | url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/arts-quiet-at-the-back-of-the-class-1192291.html | access-date=10 December 2024}}
Edwin A. Dawes, biochemist and magician{{cite news| title=Edwin Dawes, Hull biochemistry professor who delighted his friend Philip Larkin with magic tricks – obituary | work=The Telegraph | date=13 March 2023 | url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2023/03/13/edwin-dawes-hull-biochemistry-professor-who-delighted-friend/ | access-date=9 December 2024}}
Colin Graves, entrepreneur, founder of Costcutter, chair of Yorkshire County Cricket Club{{cite news | last=Jewell | first=Alan | title=Colin Graves: The 'fiery' millionaire set to run English cricket | work=BBC Sport | date=20 March 2015 | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/31965874 | access-date=9 December 2024}}
John Brian Helliwell, mathematician{{cite book|title=Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002|date=July 2006|publisher=The Royal Society of Edinburgh|isbn=0-902-198-84-X|url=https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf|access-date=21 October 2016|archive-date=24 January 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130124115814/http://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf|url-status=dead}}
Barrie Rickards, palaeontologist and angler{{cite news|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100523100741/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article6925870.ece |work=The Times|title=Professor Barrie Rickards: palaeontologist and angler|date= 21 November 2009}}