Oldbury Wells School

Oldbury Wells School

Motto	Towards Excellence
Headteacher	Ms S Godden
Specialism	Science College
Location	Oldbury Wells Bridgnorth Shropshire WV16 5JD England
Local authority	Shropshire
DfE URN	123583
Ofsted	Reports
Students	1028
Gender	Coeducational
Ages	11–18
Houses	Castle (Red), Friary (Green), Northgate (Blue), Westgate (Yellow)

Coordinates: 52°31′50″N 2°25′36″W / 52.53063°N 2.42659°W / 52.53063; -2.42659

Oldbury Wells School is a comprehensive school in Bridgnorth, England. The 2010 Ofsted inspection lists the school as "the best school in shropshire" having 1,034 pupils, 224 of whom are in the sixth form. The school's motto is "Towards Exellence." The school is popular among primary school students, with competition occurring when a child progressing into secondary schools wishes to enter.

History

The buildings in which Oldbury Wells School is today based were originally two separate schools. What is now known as the East Side was opened as Bridgnorth Boys’ Modern School in 1958; the West Side opened as Bridgnorth Girls’ Modern School in 1959. The two schools merged to form Oldbury Wells during 1973/4. This gives the school its somewhat strange characteristic of being split over two sites separated by a quiet cul-de-sac.The gymnasium facilities for the separate sexes still remain on their original designated sites; east for the boys and west for the girls.

The school's intake covers a wide and mostly rural geographic area around the Severn Valley, and has the notable statistic that more than three-quarters of the pupils are bussed in from surrounding villages.

It is the only school in Shropshire to have a main road running through it as it has two sides East and West.

Awards and accolades

The school's buildings were listed during the 1990s. They were deemed to be of historical interest because of the way the concrete displays the grain of the wood shuttering into which it was poured. It was one of the first modern buildings to be built solely out of concrete.

It became a Science College in 2003, which sees it gain extra funding in return for developing science facilities and teaching for the benefit of its pupils and the wider community. The school won redesignation as a Science College again in 2007. The school was ranked 12th in 2008 in the most improved schools league tables.

6th Form

Oldbury is part of the Bridgnorth Sixth Form Partnership which allows students from Bridgnorth Endowed to take subjects based at Oldbury and Vice versa, although students are only technically attending one of the individual schools. Oldbury wells has proved the most popular with the students, with many pupils from Bridgnorth Endowed secondary school changing over to Oldbury for 6th form.

References

External links

• 2007 OFSTED Report
• 63 Bridgnorth Squadron Air Training Corps
• BP awards for teaching page on Alison Pearson

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