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Dormston School is a secondary school in Sedgley, West Midlands, England. The school has specialist status as a Mathematics and Computing college.[1] The school has approximately 1,100 pupils aged 11 to 16 on the roll, and approximately 80 members of staff (including non-teaching staff). The school's capacity was increased to around 1,400 in September 2016 when it took in some pupils of The Coseley School.{{cn|date=August 2018}} HistoryDormston School was established in 1935. The original site consisted of a single two-storey building that contained 19 classrooms as well as a dining hall, gymnasium, assembly hall and library. This building remains in existence to this day, although substantial alterations have taken place since the mid 1990s and several completely new buildings have been added since the late 1960s. The school was built by Sedgley Urban District council, but since 1966 has existed within the Borough of Dudley[1] In July 1996, the National Lottery granted the Dormston School £4 million to build the Arts and Sports Center, which was completed nearly four years later.[3] It includes a theatre, sports hall, art gallery and gymnasium. In 2000, Dormston School was credited with the Charter Mark in recognition of its excellent standards. During December 2001, the school raised well over £1,000 for the Birmingham Children's Hospital Cancer Unit - where a pupil was receiving treatment for lymphatic cancer. A memorial staff garden was created at the back of the main assembly hall in 2007 in memory of former school caretaker John Hopson, who died in 2005.{{Citation needed|date=September 2017}} In the summer of 2012, the school achieved the worst GCSE grades in the Dudley Borough. The school was inspected by Ofsted a year later and placed in Special Measures. Stephanie Sherwood retired at the end of the school year in July 2013 and her successor Ben Stitchman took charge in September 2013. After turning the school around to a "Good" Ofsted rating, Stitchman left the school and Steve Dixon took over as the new headteacher. Timeline{{prose|date=December 2011}}
School buildingsArt, Science and Technology blocks were added in the late 1960s and early 1970s. These were expanded in the early 1990s. A fourth block, housing music, drama, dance and English classrooms was built in 1990/91, followed shortly afterwards by three Modern Languages classrooms, two mobile classrooms (mostly for teaching English) and two Art rooms were added. These expansions took place to accommodate the extra pupils following the local authority's decision to reduce the secondary school starting age from 12 to 11, as well as an increase in the school's capacity to hold more than 1,100 pupils. It had provided capacity for some 700 pupils during its days as a 12-16 school. That figure had risen to more than 900 when the age of admissions was reduced, but high demand for places saw it increased beyond 1,000 by the mid 1990s. Two science laboratories were opened in the autumn of 2003, as was a Sixth Form Centre (owned by Dudley College) in September 1996. The sixth form block was demolished in about 2007 and transferred to the mobile classrooms which had been erected more than a decade earlier. The school blocks A to FA BlockOn the school's completion in 1935, this was the sole building, containing 19 classrooms, offices, a library, assembly hall and gymnasium. By the 1960s, however, the growing population of Sedgley meant that expansion of the school was necessary and new buildings were needed. The library was relocated to the new Personal Learning Centre in October 2008 and the original library was divided into two ICT suites. B BlockB Block was added in the early 1970s. It houses six Science laboratories as well as one Food Technology suite. Two further B Block classrooms - actually within C Block - were added in 1992 and house the Art department, which was previously accommodated in two downstairs B block rooms which were then converted into Science laboratories. It has not been substantially altered since its construction, although all of the laboratories have been refurbished, as have both of the Food Technology suites. C BlockC Block was built a few years before B Block in the late 1960s. The downstairs of the building includes two Science laboratories, a CAD/CAM centre as well as workshops for Graphic Design, Resistant Materials (which was opened in 1992 to replace a downstairs workshop in A Block) and Systems & Control. The upstairs of the block is given over to a Textiles suite, and two classrooms which have been used for the teaching of ICT since the 1980s. D BlockD Block houses the senior management offices, reception area, music studio, drama studio, dance studio, one music classroom and formerly five Old Languages classrooms. First planned in the early 1980s, its construction was finally given the go-ahead in 1989 and took place the following year as the school looked to improve its performing arts facilities and provide additional classroom space due to a growing demand for pupil places and the increased pupil numbers that the reduction of the secondary transfer age would see. It was opened during the 1990/91 school year and was detached from the rest of the school until the Dormston Centre was opened a decade later. E BlockE Block was completed in September 2003 and houses two classrooms used for Art and Science. An upstairs floor was added five years later - this houses the Personal Learning Centre. Mobile classroomsThere were mobile classrooms at the school from the 1970s, but all of these were removed by 2015. A single-storey temporary building was also opened in September 1996 for the teaching of sixth form students, with a second storey added the following year, but this was removed in 2010. F BlockF Block was completed by December 2017 and houses 5 new Modern Foreign Languages classrooms and a Staff Room. Dormston CentreThe Dormston Centre includes a sports hall, fitness centre, art gallery, theatre and cafe.[1] It cost nearly £6 million to build, £4 million of which was provided by a grant from the National Lottery. Around a decade after it was first planned, the go-ahead for the centre was finally given in July 1996 when the Lottery grant was given, and the facilities were in use by March 2000 - six months behind schedule. The official opening took place on 1 December 2000. The theatre in the Dormston Centre has hosted pupil productions of West Side Story (March 2000), Oliver! (March 2001), Macbeth (July 2001) and We Will Rock You (March 2009). Pupils worked and are working on a series of new productions including, Hairspray (9–12 February 2010), The Blues Brothers was shown in February 2011, Our House in February 2012, Grease in February 2013, We Will Rock You in February 2014, Fame in February 2015 and the upcoming Return to the Forbidden Planet for 2016. On 5 March 2009 the Dormston Centre hosted an edition of the BBC's Question Time. Dormston School's lottery grantThe Dormston School received a National Lottery grant in July 1996 to contribute towards the cost of building a high quality sports and arts centre on its site. Work began in early 1998, with the facilities opening in March 2000 and being officially opened on 1 December that year.[2] Two years later, the Dudley News criticised the project as a "failure" as few people in the local area were making use of it.{{cn|date=November 2018}} Head teachers
The '1999 Short skirts débâcle'In March 1999, the school made the headlines when 41 girls were either sent home, made to put on baggy trousers or isolated from lessons for wearing excessively short skirts as part of a local crackdown on 'sexily dressed' school pupils.[2][2][3] 21 female pupils aged from 11 to 16 were suspended and the rest segregated away from the other pupils.[2][3] Notable former pupils
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References1. ^1 2 3 4 {{cite web |url=http://www.dormston.dudley.gov.uk |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2011-03-05 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100318061338/http://www.dormston.dudley.gov.uk/ |archivedate=2010-03-18 |df= }} [{{cite web |url=http://www.dormston.dudley.gov.uk |title=-05 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100318061338/http://www.dormston.dudley.gov.uk/ |archivedate=2010-03-18 |df= }}/]. Retrieved on March 5, 2010. {{Schools in Dudley}}2. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 cdnedge.bbc.co.uk .Retrieved on March 10, 2010. 3. ^1 2 http://www.highbeam.com {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020331041952/http://highbeam.com/ |date=2002-03-31 }} [https://web.archive.org/web/20121105173137/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-60402158.html].Retrieved on March 10, 2010. 3 : Comprehensive schools in the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley|Community schools in the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley|Secondary schools in the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley |
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