Mick Strong. A new measure published for 2016 Results. These include a number of therapies, interventions, curriculum and access to outside agencies for support. There were probably 3 teachers during my time there that I did not take to, these being The Woodlands School: Predecessor: 1 August 2011: Regional schools commissioner (RSC) region West Midlands. Having worked in Education for most of my working life I can honestly say, looking back, that I had a fantastic all round experience. These canteens occupied two former Houserooms. By clicking Accept All, you consent to the use of ALL the cookies. And in 2020, a multi-million pound plan was submitted to transform it in to a special needs school for children with social, emotional and mental health needs (SEMH). Coventry teacher Paul Harris has been banned from teaching News By Rachel Stretton 05:00, 10 MAR 2020 File picture (Image: PA Wire) A married teacher who began a secret relationship with a. His brother lived in Hugh Rd, Stoke where I lived in the vacations a few doors up from them with my grandfather and aunt and I used to visit them then. The total number of pupils who remain enrolled in the school at the end of KS4. Registered Office: The Arthur Terry School, Kittoe Road, Four Oaks, Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands, B74 4RZ. The planning document which was approved by the council on Thursday (July 21), stated: "The funding of the new SEND school will come from the redevelopment of the two Woodfield School sites for housing the Primary School on Stoneleigh Road and the Secondary School on Hawthorn Lane. As one of England's first purpose-built comprehensives, Woodlands in Coventry, falls victim to competition, parents and students reveal the human cost Left to right: Sarah Illsley, Charlie. A higher ratio may mean the teacher is less able to give their attention to individual pupils' needs. I had great mates but 2 stick out in mind, Dave McDonald, who to this day was one of the best rugby players I played with, and Terry Hillyer, who went on to acting roles, in particular Coronation Street. As always you can unsubscribe at any time. Woodlands, Coventry, CV5. Senior Teachers became Assistant Headteachers and the school created the SMT or Senior Management Team, later to become the Senior Leadership Team. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics". These cookies track visitors across websites and collect information to provide customized ads. I guess I was lucky, that I got Bernard Tranter in his early years at Woodlands and I found him to be OK. Pupils with good attendance records at school are more likely to go on to succeed academically. We had a supply female Maths teacher which was wonderful after all the suffering we had from 'Pedro' (more especially if like me you hated Maths lessons and could easily be caught by the curlies and your head banged on the blackboard (this really did happen on more than one occasion). Also in Stringer was Bobby Arthur jnr, at that time he was a schoolboy boxing champion. Good luck, Edited by Midland Red, 10th Sep 2015 9:49 am (Telegraph link inserted above), School sees red over 13 year old boy's purple hair. There is a growing reliance by higher educational institutions upon predicted grades at A Level when offering places to pupils. The Woodlands intake was reduced from 300 to 240 provoking parental anger and 32 appeals for places, the highest for any school in the city. The contents would cover the history of the site, the post war expansion of the area leading to the need for more schools and interviews with ex- pupils and teachers. The Headmaster, Mr. F. West M.A., had previously been Head of the Coventry Technical Secondary School. Records your status as logged in, and hence having access to the members-only content. Tutor Hunt has been operating for over 15 years, during this time have built up a vast number of tutors and teachers, and have the widest range of tutors and teachers available covering all major academic subjects nationally. The Sixth Form were relocated, yet again, to their current home in the old library. Keeps a record of your consent to cookies. And Tim Hall, a Bristolian, was a decent man too. These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc. After having finished our meal and a few drinks, the time came to say our goodbyes. Schools and Education - Woodlands School Suitably Chastised This School has a 15:1 teacher/student ratio, which is very slightly below typical in the country. 115 of 306 Wed 30th Oct 2013 8:08pm. - Yes of course it did, I suppose I didn't too badly when I went out in the wide world. : Joined Apr 2011 Total posts:20. Woodland Elementary. 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Broad Lane, Coventry, West Midlands, CV5 7FF. You need to be signed in to respond to this topic. Woodlands pupils were taught in mixed ability groups for their first three years, and it was not until their fourth year that they were grouped for GCEs and CSEs. We are satisfied that the allegation did not relate to Woodlands School in any way and that no pupils or staff were placed at risk during his employment. Join to connect woodlands school. It is not necessary to enlarge on this point, except to say that the house system is not just a device for raising teams to compete with one another. West Coventry Academy If your school is seeking support with a different subject please contact us to see how we can help. To find a list of Teachers, Administration and Professional Support Staff, please open our Woodlands Staff Directory (Google Sheet opens in a new window) . Useful links Members' articles On this day. Contradictory answers .. has time blurred my memory . possibly, but saying that I have enjoyed reading the Woodlands pages so perhaps it was not so bad after all. It will be the first of what it is hoped will become an annual event for the Broad Lane school and sports college. Woodlands School Senior football team 1957/58. Woodlands School, a former all-boys school, was closed in 2016 as part of a merger with the all-girls Tile Hill Wood School to create West Coventry Academy. Teacher School Psychologist Special Education School: 763-315-6400 x65158 Laurel Cobb Teacher Library Media Specialist School: 763-315-6400 x65168 1 2 3 9 > showing 1 - 12 of 99 constituents. Stringer, Gibraltar and Leonardo were extensively damaged. He would have been at Woodlands nearly 30 years. However, the winds of educational change were blowing in 1983. Robinson, 36, was charged with attempting or engaging in sexual communication with a child and attempting, causing or inciting a female child under 16 to engage in a sexual act. 49.5 members of staff leaves Woodlands Academy below average in staffing numbers. I liked Harvey Wyatt as well. Such sympathy is quite misplaced. The facilities there were great; eight houses accommodated all pupils where they each had their own canteen. The all-boys school shut down in 2016 and has been left empty since, Our free email updates are the best way to get headlines direct to your inbox. 4501 Oak Grove Parkway Brooklyn Park, MN 55443. As a former pupil of Woodlands School it is disappointing to see that it is necessary to sell off playing fields in order to deliver the new school. In 2003, the school was awarded specialist status as a Sports College. The rebuild of Leonardo in 1992 cost 1.5 million. We also may change the frequency you receive our emails from us in order to keep you up to date and give you the best relevant information possible. Woodlands parents voted in favour of remaining all boys, leaving The Woodlands as Coventrys only boys school. The Woodlands Comprehensive School opened at 8.55 a.m. on Tuesday 21st September 1954, making it one of the first comprehensive schools in the country. This is to make preparations for a Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) School. Despite pressure and attempts by some to disband it The Woodlands has retained its physical House system throughout its 50-year history. We have the privilege to be able to teach and learn, as an 11-16 Academy, in a 26 million building. He supported his philosophy with hard evidence and demonstrated that pupils should not be streamed at age 11 but should be given a chance to develop and show their true talents over time. Blog. Thompson was still on the rampage when I was there, caned me for accidently treading on a bee, broke his cane on my back whilst frothing at the mouth and calling me a sadist! I first met Bernard Tranter in 1991 - times had changed by then. The school is a Grade II listed building so another application has also been submitted to the city council asking for permission to knock parts of it down. Discipline was harsh too, many of the lads tasted the cane as well as being whacked on their backsides with Burdetts size 10 plimsole. The amenities of the house are less than the advisory committee hoped for, but erection came during the years when the upper limit of cost was 240 per pupil (The Schoolmaster 1958) Coventrys post war planners had decided to build 12 new comprehensive schools, two all boys, two all girls and 8 co-educational. It achieved an average A Level score of 25.05, which is far below the nations average. Read. There is a study room which can be used by sixth formers, House officials or anyone else at the discretion of the Housemaster. 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We also may change the frequency you receive our emails from us in order to keep you up to date and give you the best relevant information possible. This might well be who you are seeking, and give you more info to use For driving directions, please click here. 1,356 were here. Woodlands Academy, Coventry . Coventry. I was in Ellis House and had a great House Master in "Bear Miles". Under his leadership the pupils had been organised into diverse, mixed ability groups whilst in Houses but into streamed groups for teaching, all this was about to change! These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. There we had two gyms as well as having our own playing fields a pool was added later. 264 of 306 Sat 12th Dec 2020 1:20pm. They will also evaluate the way the current curriculum is implemented, and how the progress of each student is tracked throughout their tenure. The sudden closure forced a merger with Tile Hill Wood making one big mixed-gender school and disrupting a lot of children's education. The Department of Education and the school governors are undergoing plans to close down Woodlands School and move them in with the Considering mitigating circumstances, the panel noted Robinson had "an unblemished and excellent record as a teacher" and said the incident was "a one-off which took place outside of school with no evidence of repetition". The TRA panel accepted the conviction as proof of the offences. Prof. Coventry City Council has been approached comment. Pupils achieving more A*-C in English and Maths, Average number of GCSEs (incl. These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use this website. The new facility will open on the site of the former Woodlands School, which closed its doors in 2016. A new measure published for 2016 Results. It remained a boys school; girls went to the nearby Tile Hill Wood School. I started teaching in 1974, and for the first ten years or so caning was still allowed. This is your first visit to my website today, thank you! Our thoughts went out to Malc Benny and in particular Garth Bonsor, whose indefatigable efforts to achieve our first reunion, brought about all of our subsequent ones he would be delighted to see that we are still carrying on the good work. He is the one who encourages them, guides them and if need be punishers them. The School Tutors Programme is open to all schools with no limitation on the amount of lessons booked. I now recognise that the teaching, or more importantly a wider education, was in many cases lacking and perhaps it was the system that didn't help, because there was early streaming, starting with the 11 plus that sent pupils in a direction that we were, in many cases, stuck with for the rest of our lives. Woodlands at that time was a true mixed ability Comprehensive School and I firmly believe that current educationalists could look at this model which offered equal opportunities for everyone. It also brought a new layer of management. Coventry City predicted team vs Huddersfield: Time to step up or formation change amid injury crisis? 214 of 306 Sat 12th Sep 2015 6:46pm. Something went wrong, please try again later. Through small classes, challenging . We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website. In the two schools in Coventry I taught at during this time I came across several bullying teachers. Principal Teacher : Ms Lainey Gow. Lofty Lee always treated me well too - contrary to his reputation. Good behaviour, no more black marks on report cards (all too regular with Pedro). Ofsted have been inspecting schools on a regular basis since 2005. Billybobs, I can't now find the relevant post when you mentioned Deputy Head at Woodlands R.E.S. Share Print All our tuition is provided for online through our own interactive whiteboard. Tile Hill Wood School and Language College, Class Charts (Rewards Points & Behaviour), https://web.archive.org/web/20090905234002/http://www.thewoodlandsschool.org/si_history.html. The carpenter teacher who would shave the hairs off his arm with a chisel to demonstrate how sharp they were and then, without fail during lessons throw a lump of wood at anybody not listening or mucking about. Are you a member of staff at Woodlands Academy? Activity. The school has a 94.4% attendance rate, which is about average for the country. Donald Thompson retired at Christmas 1980 aged 60. This means that we may include adverts from us and third parties based on our knowledge of you. At Woodlands School we offer a range of support for pupils, families and staff. In August 2011, Woodlands School converted to academy status and was renamed Woodlands Academy. The plans for the new school factor in hard and soft landscaping and an artificial playing pitch for pupils. Performance cookies are used to understand and analyze the key performance indexes of the website which helps in delivering a better user experience for the visitors. Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right. Please email info@westcoventryacademy.org using "FAO." in the subject line to contact any particular members of staff or. Would like to know what happened to Dave. Walter Hogarth retired in May 1996. Share your email to get all the latest Court and Crime news from Birmingham Live directly to your inbox. With only 0.6% girls against 99.4% boys, the school has slightly more males than females. What was once an all-boys school closed down in 2016. Bill Cleaver certainly had a school team of Morris Men and they performed the sword dance which ended up with the interlaced swords held up at the end to show the pattern. Mr. West was Headmaster from September 1954 until July 1962. If I were to be asked to name the things of which the school has become noted over the last 17 years I would have to place at the top of the list non-streaming or mixed ability teaching as some prefer to call it. He also developed two canteens serving hot meals on a cafeteria basis. In this time he successfully amalgamated the staffs of The Templars and The Technical School and built up an enviable reputation for The Woodlands School. The proposal was approved by Coventry City Council's planning committee last week. My time was slightly later than you - September 1965 to July 1970, in Perrens. The next item on David Hebdens agenda was the pursuit of Specialist School status. Inspectors will sit in on classes, assessing each teacher's teaching ability. The organiser, Woodlands sports complex manager Graeme Lloyd, said: "We are particularly trying to trace students from the 1950s-1980s. The secondary modern pupils came from the Templars School, a co-educational school Each of these schools contributed roughly 400 boys to the second forms upwards. The percentage of pupils who leave the school and further their education at college. Woodlands opened in September 1954 with 8 houses: Brook, Cresswell, Malins, McLachlan, Sparkes, Spencer, Stringer and Wilson. Peter Surtees, of Eastern Green, Coventry, was among Old Boys of The Woodlands School who enjoyed a reunion to marks its 60th anniversary. II Barn Farmhouse. History. Stephen Robinson began an online chatroom conversation with someone he. They were poor teachers but their classes were quiet - that was seen as the holy grail in those days. Bernard Tranter was IMO the best one there. Some were quite good This change fundamentally altered the nature of the Houses, leaving sandwich eaters in House but hot meal pupils in the canteens supervised by SLT and duty staff. Our tutoring programme aims to support this group. Above all I loved sport, in particular Rugby. The Woodlands was linked with Tile Hill Wood Girls School for many years. But now, an application submitted back in March has been sent to Coventry City Council which includes reconfiguration, refurbishment and partial demolition of the former secondary school. However, Cllr Pete Male, Conservative representative for Woodlands ward, also told CoventryLive he is lamenting the loss of the playing fields which were sold off to enable the introduction of the new school.. Cllr Male said: "I have consistently called for the former Woodlands School site to be used to deliver good quality education. The special careers advice from Harry Tope the TD master was inspiring, services, craft apprentice, tech apprentice or on the track were his ideas for my future, probably why ended up working for Greenpeace! Instead of the lavish classrooms they enjoyed, we had to make do with makeshift huts resembling those used to house prisoners during the war Stalag 17 comes to mind. There's also 192.com although if you find something of interest you would have to pay a small amount to extract full details Out of these, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website. The council was trialling comprehensives as an alternative to the grammar. Woodlands School closed its doors six years ago, Our free email updates are the best way to get headlines direct to your inbox. Each boy has a book locker and a kit locker. The Woodlands, TX 77381. We compared school life there to the relative luxury of The Woodlands. Ward In his 18 and a half years as Head he did not have one single day off through illness. Webberly, Bentley and I (in the Lower 6th at Woodlands) produced the first Woodlands School Magazine as joint editors. This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. It was decided to move the Main Office by the new security gate. READ MORE:Former Woodlands School to be turned into another school if plans approved, "The former Woodlands School site allows for the additional capacity required within the special school system that the current Woodfield primary and secondary school sites cannot provide and ensures benefits in terms of shared working practices, provision of more efficient and improved facilities and reduced revenue pressure from a site no longer being split over two school sites. Woodland School's faculty embody the mission and vision of the school. The average number of pupils in each class. The Housemaster has a room and there is another for his staff of five each of whom is in charge of an age group under his general direction. On 27th Oct 2013 11:40am, Suitably Chastised said: Kent & York blocks. As always you can unsubscribe at any time. Other uncategorized cookies are those that are being analyzed and have not been classified into a category as yet. Contact Us: 2501 North Coulter Amarillo, Texas 79124 806-326-5800 806-356-4926. The Headmaster, Mr. F. West M.A., had previously been Head of the Coventry Technical Secondary School. As part of our safeguarding arrangements, we have a two-way information sharing agreement in place with the local police authority. Does anyone have news of him or know where he is now. Coventry, CV4 9PW. Pupils from Woodlands Academy, Broad Lane, Coventry protest at the plans to merge their school with Tile Hill Wood School. The average number of GCSEs, and equivalents (such as BTEC's and NVQ's) taken by each pupil. 1995-2002 Coventry Internet Developments Ltd: This page updated 14 August 200814 August 2008 District Coventry. 49.5 members of staff leaves Woodlands Academy below average in staffing numbers. If you have any queries about the partnership policy, please contact Mrs S Bailey, ATLP Safeguarding Lead. Many have argued that it is not a cost-effective way to run a school, it does not make efficient use of the buildings and is expensive to staff. Those schools attaining an outstanding or good grade might not be re-inspected for as long as five years; while those receiving lower grades will be reassessed with greater frequency, with little or no notice prior to the inspectors arriving. Each has a hall large enough for a house assembly, for a mid-day meal and for indoor games. Only tutors who pass our strict eligibility requirements can join our School Tutors Programme. In all, with the improved facilities and extra space, apart from being more comfortable, our capacity to learn became greater as we never had the distractions that impeded our progress as at our old school. A middle prior attainment band is defined being as 24 - 29.9 points in a pupil's results, calculated from KS2 prior attainment, calculated from the pupil's average points score for English, maths and science. The newly merged co-educational school was renamed West Coventry Academy from September 2017. A woodwork shop, machine shop, science labs as well as warm comfortable classrooms were just a few of the facilities that we never had at the Tec.As our new school had not yet been completed, we shared lessons with painters and decorators the smell of fresh paint was always in the air. A spokesman for Woodlands School said: "In August 2021, the school were made aware of an allegation against an employee and acted swiftly to deal with the matter, which resulted in the employee leaving our employment. The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional". Writing in The Schoolmaster August 1958 Mr. West gave the reason for Woodlands being all boys. Why did he have the nick name Jock? Despite some opposition, the merger was approved, and all Woodlands Academy pupils transferred to the Tile Hill Wood site in September 2016. Roy Webberly and I composed some lines about him sung to a popular cowboy theme-tune! Headteacher: Mrs Angelina Lombardo. "Recaptcha" cookie to prove you are not a robot. Look on "FreeBMD". 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