Lord Grey School
Coordinates: 52°00′00″N 0°45′00″W / 52.000°N 0.750°W
| Motto | Aspire, Learn, Achieve |
|---|---|
| Established | 1973 |
| Type | Foundation |
| Headteacher | Dr Tracey Jones |
| Location |
Rickley Lane Bletchley Milton Keynes Buckinghamshire MK3 6EW England |
| Local authority | Milton Keynes |
| DfE URN | 110531 Tables |
| Ofsted | Reports |
| Staff | 240 |
| Students | 1,405 |
| Gender | Mixed |
| Ages | 11–18 |
| Houses | Colossus, Enigma, Lorenz, Mercury & Ultra |
| Colours | Dark Green |
| Website |
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L Lord Grey School is a comprehensive co-educational foundation secondary school in West Bletchley, Milton Keynes.
General Information
Lord Grey has five school houses: Lorenz, Enigma, Mercury, Ultra and Colossus, representing the code breaking machines in Bletchley Park.
History
Lord Grey School opened in 1973 as a community comprehensive school following the amalgamation of Bletchley Grammar and Wilton Secondary schools. New accommodation was provided to supplement the existing facilities. The school was incorporated as a Grant Maintained School on 1 April 1993 and moved to Foundation status on 1 September 1999, under the New Framework for Schools. More recently, the school has enjoyed considerable success:
1998 – 2002
- Substantial improvement in GCSE results – an increase of 14% on the previous year
- Refurbishment and upgrade of most school areas
- Opening of Learning Resource Centre
- Links developed with Action Research – National College for School Leadership, Open University, and British Educational Research Association
- Specialist College status (MFL) gained.
2003 – 2005
- Additional buildings and refurbishments to prepare for expansion to accommodate Year 7 (2005)
- School roll to surpass 1,500
- Ofsted confirms that “Lord Grey is a Good School with a Good Sixth Form”
- Recognition as one of the “Most Improved Schools” in England by the Specialist Schools Academies Trust
- Securing the School Achievement Award from the DfES
- Achieving the Investor in People standard on our first attempt.
2006 – 2008
- Gained Second Specialism in Humanities
- Achieved the Rugby Union Development Award (RFU)
- Awarded the FA Football status
- Comenius status awarded with additional funding until 2009
- SATs results for Science and Mathematics increased by 9%
- Refurbishment of science laboratories
- £7.5 million capital improvement grant.
2009 – present day
- Exam results hugely improved; 5+A*-C including English and Maths increase by 18.5% over two years
- Milton Keynes South Sixth Form created and successful; graded ‘good’ by Ofsted in June 2011
- Health Schools Bronze Award achieved
- Classical singing star Jonathan Ansell opens new building, November 2009
- New Hair Studio built
- New administration building and classrooms opened
- Teaching and Learning Academy Status gained, February 2011.
- In April 2016, the school attracted controversy after turning away 29 girls for not "dressing demurely", with the headteacher claiming the policy "protects girls from boys advances" which prompted allegations of victim-blaming[1]
Ofsted 2012
The Ofsted criteria changed in September 2012, and the Department for Education, on instruction from the government, ‘raised the bar’ on the standards needed to achieve certain, and favourable, results. This had the effect of the criteria for achievement becoming much more rigorous and harder to get. This will apply to all schools eventually; Lord Grey was inspected in the sixth week of the new system, and so did not achieve a level as high as ones in previous years.
Sixth Form
Lord Grey School offers GCSEs and BTECs as programmes of study for pupils, while students in the sixth form have the option to study from a range of A-Levels and further BTECs.