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词条 Outwood Academy Bishopsgarth
释义

  1. History

  2. Controversy

     Exclusions  Flattening the grass assemblies  Consequence rooms 

  3. References

  4. External links

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}}Outwood Academy Bishopsgarth (formerly Bishopsgarth School) is a comprehensive secondary school with academy status in the Bishopsgarth area of Stockton on Tees, England. It has a mixed intake of both boys and girls, ages 11–16, and had 537 pupils on roll in January 2017.[1]

The school is operated by Outwood Grange Academies Trust, and the current principal is Stephen Merifield.[1] Ralph Pickles is the current chair of governors.[2]

History

Bishopsgarth School was a community school operated by the local education authority.[3]

Following an inspection in January 2016, Ofsted rated Bishopsgarth School as "requires improvement" in all areas.[4] In June, the school began working with support from Outwood Grange Academies Trust to tackle low-level disruptive behaviour. On the first day of new "no-nonsense" rules coming into force, 15 pupils received fixed-term exclusions for various misdemeanours.[5]

In November 2016 the school converted to academy status, joining Outwood Grange Academies Trust, and changed its name to Outwood Academy Bishopsgarth.[1]

Controversy

Exclusions

Outwood Academy Bishopsgarth excluded 34% of its pupils on fixed-term exclusions in 2017-2018, the second highest figure in the country, only to be beaten by Outwood Academy Ormesby who excluded 41%. [8]

Flattening the grass assemblies

In 2019 former teachers at the school reported a practice of intimidating 'flattening the grass assemblies', which the trust denied.[6]

Schoolsweek described what happened at a flattening the grass assembly at Outwood Academy City Fields. They quoted a teacher.

“I’ve never seen anything like it. They were shouting in the faces of any children that were slouching.

“Those first assemblies were very, very harsh… The atmosphere was poisonous… The people that were in there were just downright nasty towards the pupils.”

[7]

Again the trust denied the accusation.

When a school is rebrokered from a failing trust into Outwood Grange Academies Trust (OGAT), there is a behaviour ethos-setting exercise called “flattening the grass” rolling assemblies. Here the Trust executives visit the school, en masse, to stand around the edge of the assembly hall whilst the local headteacher strongly outlines, to year each group OGAT’s expectations of students’ behaviour. It is fixed so individual students are preselected to be single out to be humiliated in front of their yeargroup; until they break down in tears. If the head of school is not forceful enough, the Trust CEO walks forward and takes over. The students are the “grass” which is “flattened” by the experience.[8]

Consequence rooms

After being threatened with a court action, the Trust is reviewing its use of consequence rooms and isolation booths in its 31 schools. Here pupils were required to sit in silence in isolation for six hours a day while receiving no teacher input. The Trust had issued 31,000 of these punishment orders to pupils across 14 schools in the trust in the 2017-18 academic year. 1,400 went to children receiving free school meals and 90 to children with education health and care (EHC) plans.[9]

References

1. ^{{cite web|title=Outwood Academy Bishopsgarth|url=http://www.education.gov.uk/edubase/establishment/summary.xhtml?urn=143146|website=EduBase|publisher=Department for Education|accessdate=21 August 2017|language=en}}
2. ^{{cite web|title=Academy Council|url=http://bishopsgarth.outwood.com/academy-council|website=bishopsgarth.outwood.com|accessdate=6 October 2017}}
3. ^{{cite web|title=Bishopsgarth School|url=http://www.education.gov.uk/edubase/establishment/summary.xhtml?urn=111733|website=EduBase|publisher=Department for Education|accessdate=21 August 2017}}
4. ^{{cite web|title=Bishopsgarth School|url=https://reports.ofsted.gov.uk/provider/files/2545000/urn/111733.pdf|publisher=Ofsted|accessdate=21 August 2017|date=24 February 2016}}
5. ^{{Cite news|url=http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/academy-renowned-strict-discipline-takes-11485358|title=Tough discipline academy to take over struggling Stockton school|last=Blackburn|first=Mike|date=2016-06-17|work=gazettelive|access-date=2017-07-12}}
6. ^{{cite news |last1=Perraudin |first1=Frances |title=Academy trust accused of using assemblies to intimidate students |url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2019/mar/16/outwood-grange-academy-trust-accused-assemblies-intimidate-students-discipline |accessdate=16 March 2019 |work=The Guardian |date=16 March 2019}}
7. ^{{cite news |last=Dickens|first=John|title='Flattening the grass': what's really going on? |url=https://schoolsweek.co.uk/flattening-the-grass-whats-really-going-on-at-ogat-and-delta/ |accessdate=16 March 2019 |work=Schools Week |date=14 February 2019}}
8. ^{{cite web |last1=Tomsett |first1=John |title=This much I know about…behaviour management, “flattening the grass” and Mary Myatt |url=https://johntomsett.com/2019/02/03/this-much-i-know-about-behaviour-management-flattening-the-grass-and-mary-myatt/ |website=johntomsett |publisher=self |accessdate=17 March 2019 |language=en |date=3 February 2019}}
9. ^{{cite news |last1=Perraudin |first1=Frances |title=Legal action prompts academy to consider isolation unit criticisms |url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2019/jan/30/legal-action-prompts-academy-to-consider-isolation-unit-criticisms |accessdate=16 March 2019 |work=The Guardian |date=30 January 2019}}

External links

  • {{official website|http://www.bishopsgarth.outwood.com}}
{{Schools in the Borough of Stockton-on-Tees}}{{Outwood Grange Academies Trust}}{{Tees-school-stub}}

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