Kidbrooke School

Kidbrooke School

Motto	"Learning together, enjoying success"
Established	1954
Type	Community School
Headteacher	Trisha Jaffe
Specialism	Arts
Location	Corelli Road Shooters Hill Road London SE3 8EP England
Local authority	Greenwich
DfE URN	100185
Ofsted	Reports -->
Gender	Coeducational
Ages	11–19
Colours	Navy blue and Sky blue
Website	kidbrooke.greenwich.sch.uk

Coordinates: 51°28′10″N 0°02′37″E / 51.46947°N 0.04353°E / 51.46947; 0.04353

Kidbrooke School (Corelli College from 1st September 2011) opened in 1954 as the first purpose-built comprehensive school in Britain. The school is located on Corelli road and near the Kidbrooke area of the London Borough of Greenwich. The school has specialist status as an Arts College

Leading the food revolution

Kidbrooke was the focus of TV chef Jamie Oliver's campaign to improve school dinners in Britain as part of his TV series Jamie's School Dinners. Jamie Oliver's campaign was particularly important at a school like Kidbrooke, where the majority of students receive free school dinners and thus rely on it as their main source of nutrition.^{[citation needed]} Nora, the head cook, had success with her book "Nora's Dinners" and left the school on the 24 May 2007.

The present

A recent Ofsted inspection found Kidbrooke to be "one of the top schools in the borough" and rated it with 15 outstanding fetures including an "outstanding curriculum"^[1].

This meant Kidbrooke was eligable to become a Co-operative type 2 Academy(Corelli College).

Arts and drama

From September 2005, Kidbrooke has been re-designated as a single Specialist Arts College specialising in Media, Drama and Art which will mean significantly more funding and even greater opportunities for students, staff, our family of schools and partner community groups.

The Kidbrooke School drama department's production of "Romeo and Juliet" was performed at Riverside Studios, Hammersmith, in October 2009 following a sell out run at Greenwich Theatre.^{[citation needed]} The last Kidbrooke School production to be performed at this venue was the largely successful "Hotel World" by Ali Smith, a performance which earned the title of Best Play in the Edinburgh Fringe Report Awards.^[2] In August 2010, Romeo and Juliet ran for a successful week at the Edinburgh Fringe festival led by director L. Cuthbertson^[3]; earning several four to five star reviews^{[citation needed]}. The play was modernized to highlight issues of knife crime and social disorder prevalent in the Kidbrooke community, in association with the Jimmy Mizen foundation^[4], and this, as well as powerful representations of characters such as Tybalt, Juliet, and Nurse Angelica^[5] were particular points of acclaim from Fringe critics.^[6]

Attack of student

On 24 January 1997 students from neighbouring school Thomas Tallis attacked and murdered one of the school's pupils, CJ Rickard, 14, with a 17-inch machete. ^[7]

Notable alumni

• Jude Law - Actor

References

1. ^ http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/oxedu_reports/display/(id)/100708
2. ^ http://www.fringereport.com/08awards.php
3. ^ http://www.divamag.co.uk/diva/article.asp?AID=2811
4. ^ http://www.jimmymizen.org/
5. ^ http://www.kidbrooke.greenwich.sch.uk/creative/dramaproducts/romeoandjuliet/GRITTY.pdf
6. ^ http://www.broadwaybaby.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=7362:romeo-and-juliet&catid=46:current-edinburgh-festival
7. ^ - News Story[1]

External links

• Kidbrooke School Home Page