The Ilfracombe Academy
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The Ilfracombe Academy | |
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Address | |
Worth Road , , EX34 9JB England | |
Coordinates | 51°12′17″N 4°06′52″W / 51.20466°N 4.11435°WCoordinates: 51°12′17″N 4°06′52″W / 51.20466°N 4.11435°W |
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Type | Academy |
Religious affiliation(s) | Church Of England |
Established | 1970 (as comprehensive) 2013 (as academy) |
Department for Education URN | 139553 Tables |
Ofsted | Reports |
Principal | Steve Rogers |
Gender | Coeducational |
Age | 11 to 18 |
Enrolment | 1,094 |
Houses | Michelangelo, Da Vinci, Picasso, Dali |
Colour(s) | Blue, red and yellow |
Website | http://www.ilfracombeacademy.org.uk/ |
The Ilfracombe Academy is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form with academy status, located in the North Devon town of Ilfracombe, England.
Originally opened by then Education Secretary Margaret Thatcher in 1970 and known as Ilfracombe School & Community College, it was the first purpose built Comprehensive school in the country. Subsequently, called Ilfracombe College, since the early 1980s, facilities available to students have included a television studio with an editing suite. The buildings where designed buildings where designed by Messrs & stillman,[1] Following fundraising and negotiations from 2001, the college was awarded specialist college Media Arts status in 2004 and was renamed Ilfracombe Arts College. In 2007, the school built a £3.4 million arts block named the Beacon Arts Centre. The arts department relocated to this department, freeing up rooms for other uses in the school. The previous art rooms were refurbished into new Administration, Student Services, and Learning Support areas. The previous Student Services were refurbished into a Conference room with video conferencing facilities. The school converted to academy status in May 2013, but continues to specialise in the arts.
There are five periods in the school day, each lasting one hour. They are organized as tutorial (20 minutes), lesson one, lesson two, break (30 minutes), lesson three, lesson four, lunch (45 minutes), and lesson five. This system replaced the old schedule of three lessons in the morning and two in the afternoon in July 2006.
Year 9,10,11 and Sixth Form Students are given the opportunity to participate in the Annual Ten Tors walk.
The school used to broadcast the Students Radio Shows in stereo on frequencies 103.6 & 107.7 MHz FM, up until the completion of a new school building in November 2017, when the old school was demolished to make space for new outdoor areas for students. leftover concrete from the demolition has been crushed up for hardcore, which was used around the tarmac muga area to create a even ground
List of headteachers
1970 - unknown, Mr J. F. Gale
unknown - 2006, Mr Colin Eves
2006 - 2010, Mr Brian Sarahan
2010 - 2019, Ms Sharon Barnes/Marshall
2019–present, Mr Steve Rodgers
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- Secondary schools in Devon
- Ilfracombe
- Academies in Devon
- Buildings and structures in Ilfracombe
- South West England school stubs
- Devon building and structure stubs