Lister Community School
| Lister Community School | |
|---|---|
| Address | |
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St Mary's Road , , E13 9AE England | |
| Information | |
| Type | Academy |
| Trust | Newham Community Schools Trust |
| Department for Education URN | 148902 Tables |
| Ofsted | Reports |
| Head teacher | Alice Clay |
| Gender | Co-educational |
| Age | 11 to 16 |
| Enrolment | 1700 |
| Website | http://www.lister.newham.sch.uk/ |
Lister Community School is a co-educational secondary school located at St Mary's Road, Plaistow, Newham, London.[1]
The school uses vertical tutoring to integrate the community of students across the range of ages and year groups.[2] It is one of a few schools in Newham that provides specialist British sign language interpreters for students who have hearing impairments.[2]
History
[edit]The school was founded by West Ham Council in 1921 as Livingstone Day Continuation Institute, in Balaam Street Congregational schoolroom. It relocated a few times, was briefly absorbed into North West Ham Technical School after World War II, and was successively renamed as Lister Day-Continuation Institute (1933), Lister Technical School (1956), Lister Comprehensive (1972) and finally Lister Community School. Purpose-built facilities for the school were completed in the 1990s.[3]
In 2003, pupils staged a walk-out in protest against the invasion of Iraq.[4]
In 2005 Lister pupils won a poetry slam, and the school magazine Carbolic (named in honour of the school's namesake, local surgeon Joseph Lister) gained high praise from Benjamin Zephaniah and Michael Rosen.[4]
In November 2008, an Ofsted inspection rated the school "Good with outstanding features".[5] This was downgraded to "Satisfactory" following an inspection in 2012.[6] but upgraded again to "Good" in the recent inspection in November 2013, with 64% of lessons inspected rated as "good" or "outstanding" and none "inadequate".
The school moved into brand new premises completed in 2010 at a cost of £25 million under the Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme.[3][7]
In 2017 the school started teaching GCSEs from Year 9 instead of Year 10 with the first class graduating in 2020.[8]
Between 2018 and 2019 Lister Community School gained 7 more classrooms and a new "learning hub".
- A new classroom was created on the second floor by moving the EAL office to the library
- 4 new classrooms were created by an extension to W block which provided 4 new English classrooms
- 3 new classrooms and a new careers office were created in a new "E"
- A new classroom was built replacing a small office as "S001"
- The classroom S008 was removed and expanded to hold a computer room managed by the library.
- The Library was expanded.
- The E block was converted into the JFK Special Needs School
- A new 2 floor extension to the S Block was built in place of the old lunch hall, along with a revamped break area and a new dance hall
- A new "Rainbow Cafe" was added
- The former two story dance hall in the agora was revamped into a new lecture theatre.
- The north gate was relocated
In 2019 a plan to increase the schools capacity from 9 forms of entry to 11 forms of entry in 2021 was consulted on.[9]
In academic year 2020 Health and Social care started being taught at the school by the RS department.
Previously a foundation school administered by Newham London Borough Council, in December 2021 Lister Community School converted to academy status. It is now sponsored by the Newham Community Schools Trust.[10]
As of September 2024, Lister will discontinue their house system in place of a year group system. Each year group will have their own form class comprising only of people of the same year. Instead of a Head of House and a Pastoral Manager there will be a Head of Year and Assistant Head of Year.
References
[edit]- ^ "Department for Education: Lister Community School". EduBase. Retrieved 18 February 2014.
- ^ a b "Welcome to our School". Newham Council. Retrieved 21 February 2014.
- ^ a b "Lister Community School, 1973". The Newham Story. Newham Council. Archived from the original on 8 March 2014. Retrieved 21 February 2014.
- ^ a b "On the write lines". Times Educational Supplement. 4 August 2008. Retrieved 22 February 2014.
- ^ Ofsted Inspection Report, 2008. Retrieved 10 July 2013.
- ^ Ofsted Inspection Report, 2012. Retrieved 10 July 2013.
- ^ "Lister Community School, Newham BSF". Stantec. Retrieved 21 February 2014.
- ^ "Year 9, 10 & 11 – Curriculum | Lister Community School". lister.newham.sch.uk. Retrieved 19 November 2019.
- ^ "CONSULTATION ON EXPANSION OF LISTER COMMUNITY SCHOOL | Lister Community School". lister.newham.sch.uk. Retrieved 19 November 2019.
- ^ "Our Schools – Newham Community Schools Trust".