Oasis Academy Immingham
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| address = Pelham Road
| city = Immingham
| county = Lincolnshire
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| postcode = DN40 1JU
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| enrolment = 622 {{As of|2021|03|lc=on}}
| gender = Coeducational
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Oasis Academy Immingham (formerly The Immingham School) is a coeducational secondary school with academy status located in Immingham, North East Lincolnshire, England.{{cite web|url=http://www.oasisacademyimmingham.org/ |title=Oasis Academy Immingham |publisher=Oasis Academy Immingham |access-date=2014-02-20}}
History
=Secondary modern school=
It opened as Immingham Senior School on 14 October 1936.Grimsby Evening Telegraph Thursday 8 May 1986, page 8 The headmaster was Herbert Wheatley.Grimsby Evening Telegraph Saturday 19 December 1936, page 1 The school magazine was called 'Pilgrim' due to local connection at Immingham Creek in 1608,Grimsby Evening Telegraph Friday 23 December 1938, page 4 It became Immingham Secondary Modern School in 1945.
The first headmaster of the secondary modern school was 37 year old Ernest Cowten, the former head of Worlaby Church of England School from 1940. He was later the head of Riddings Comprehensive School in Scunthorpe until July 1973, Scunthorpe Evening Telegraph Friday 9 February 1973, page 7 and remained at 40 Stallingborough Road in Immingham, where he was the organist of St Andrew’s Church Immingham.Grimsby Evening Telegraph Thursday 2 August 1973, page 6 moving to Barton, where he died in August 1993.Grimsby Evening Telegraph Friday 20 August 1993, page 7
By 1970 it was a seven-form entry school. 37 year old Michael Roper was headmaster from January 1971.Grimsby Evening Telegraph Friday 6 November 1970; he was the former deputy headmaster of Armthorpe Comprehensive School, and had served as a 2nd Lt in the South Lancashire Regiment.Grimsby Evening Telegraph Friday 7 December 1984, page 10 He retired in July 1984 due to health, aged 51.Grimsby Evening Telegraph Wednesday 25 July 1984, page 6
41 year old Roger Whyman was headmaster from January 1985, having joined in 1978 as a history teacher.Grimsby Evening Telegraph Friday 26 October 1984, page 8
=Comprehensive school=
It became comprehensive in September 1971.Grimsby Evening Telegraph Friday 16 March 1973, page 2
Previously a community school administered by North East Lincolnshire Council, The Immingham School converted to academy status on 1 September 2007 and was renamed Oasis Academy Immingham. As an academy the school is sponsored by the Oasis Trust, however Oasis Academy Immingham continues to coordinate with North East Lincolnshire Council for admissions.
Description
Oasis Academy Immingham is part of the Oasis Community Learning group, and evangelical Christian charity {{EW charity|1109288|Oasis Community Learning}} The trust have guided forty schools out of special measures. 19 per cent of the 52 Oasis academies classified as failing.{{cite web |title=Oasis leader on his vision for country's first secure school |url=https://schoolsweek.co.uk/oasis-founder-steve-chalke-england-first-secure-school-will-look/ |website=Schools Week |access-date=5 February 2021 |date=5 July 2019}} The trust's founder Reverend Steve Chalke says "Turning round a school is sometimes a quick fix, it really, truly is. And sometimes it’s a really long, hard, hard job".
Oasis has a long term strategy for enhancing the performance of its schools. Firstly it has devised a standard curriculum, that each school can safely adopt knowing it will deliver the National Curriculum. Secondly it has invested in staff training so they are focused on improving the outcomes for the students, and thirdly, through its Horizons scheme it is providing each member of staff and student with a tablet.{{cite web |title=Oasis Horizons - Oasis Academy Immingham |url=https://www.oasisacademyimmingham.org/about-us/oasis-horizons |website=www.oasisacademyimmingham.org |access-date=5 February 2021}}
=Curriculum=
Virtually all maintained schools and academies follow the National Curriculum, and their success is judged on how well they succeed in delivering a 'broad and balanced curriculum'.{{cite web |last1=Roberts |first1=Nerys |title=The school curriculum in England Parliamentary Briefing Paper |url=https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN06798/SN06798.pdf |website=parliament.uk |accessdate=6 July 2020}} Schools endeavour to get all students to achieve the English Baccalaureate qualification- this must include core subjects a modern or ancient foreign language, and either History or Geography.
The academy operates a three-year, Key Stage 3 where all the core National Curriculum subjects are taught. This is a transition period from primary to secondary education, that builds on the skills, knowledge and understanding gained at primary school, and introduces youngsters who are starting from a lower than average base to wider, robust and challenging programmes of study needed to gain qualifications at Key Stage 4.
At Key Stage 4 the focus is on the English Baccalaureate, and there are daily maths, English and science lessons- plus some options. French is the taught modern language.{{cite web |title=Our Curriculum - |url=https://www.oasisacademyimmingham.org/curriculum/our-curriculum |website=www.oasisacademyimmingham.org |access-date=6 February 2021}}
Oasis Academy Immingham offers GCSEs and BTECs as programmes of study for pupils.{{cite web|url=http://www.oasisacademyimmingham.org/content/ks4-9 |title=KS4 |publisher=Oasis Academy Immingham |access-date=2014-02-20}} The school also specialises in engineering, commerce and enterprise.{{cite web|url=http://www.oasisacademyimmingham.org/content/specialism-10 |title=Specialism |publisher=Oasis Academy Immingham |access-date=2014-02-20}}
Notable former pupils
- Richard Barnbrook, BNP London Assembly leader from 2008–12
References
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{{Oasis Academies}}
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Category:Academies in the Borough of North East Lincolnshire
Category:Educational institutions established in 1936
Category:1936 establishments in England
Category:Secondary schools in the Borough of North East Lincolnshire