Worcester Sixth Form College

Worcester Sixth Form College

Established	1983
Type	Sixth Form College
Principal	Mr Michael Kitcatt
Location	Spetchley Road Worcester Worcestershire WR5 2LU United Kingdom Coordinates: 52°11′02″N 2°11′05″W / 52.18391°N 2.18465°W / 52.18391; -2.18465
Local authority	Worcestershire
DfE number	???/8601
DfE URN	130719 Tables
Ofsted	Reports
Students	1,569 (daytime classes)^[1]
Gender	Mixed
Ages	16–25
Former name	Worcester Grammar School for Girls
Website	WSFC

Worcester Sixth Form College is a Sixth form college in Worcester, England. It is located in the south-east of the city and was founded on the site of the former Worcester Grammar School for Girls following reorganisation in 1983. ^[1]

Admissions

The campus of the college is over 10 acres (4.0 ha) in area and it shares playing fields and sports facilities extending a further 25 acres (10 ha). The college enrolled 1,569 students on daytime courses in 2008/09.^[1] As one of only two state schools offering sixth form education in Worcester, the school is specialised in mainstream education for students ages 16 - 19 most of whom were aged 16 to 18. The majority of students are full-time and follow National Curriculum GCE AS and A-level courses.^[1] A January 2009 Ofsted inspection accorded the school a Grade 2 (Good).^[1]

It is situated in Red Hill, next-door to Worcestershire County Hall and south of Worcester Woods Country Park. It is just over a mile north of junction 7 of the M5, accessed via the A44 and A4440. New College Worcester, a school for the blind, is nearby to the south. Worcester's running track at the Nunnery Wood Sports Complex is behind the college and Nunnery Wood High School. DEFRA have a large site south of the college.

History

Grammar school

As the City of Worcester Grammar School for Girls, it was situated on Sansome Walk in the centre of Worcester. This has now became flats. It started in 1908 as the Worcester Secondary School for Girls, which moved into new buildings on 2 November 1910, and moved again in 1929 to a site in Barbourne. It became the City of Worcester Grammar School for Girls in September 1945. In September 1962 it moved to the Spetchley Road site.^[2]

Royal Grammar School Worcester was the analogous boys' school, and was partly maintained by Hereford and Worcester until 1983 when it became completely independent. Due to the boys' school becoming independent, the LEA proposed changes to its education policy (under a Conservative government) during 1982 to create a 'super' co-educational grammar school on the girls' school site to educate 125 boys and girls (potentially) from the whole of Hereford and Worcester. Sir Keith Joseph had doubts about the scheme. The grammar school closed in 1983.

Sixth form college

The sixth form college opened in September 1983 - instead of a 'super' 11-18 co-educational grammar school and six 11-16 comprehensives in Worcester, the sixth form college model was chosen with six comprehensives. In 1998, the LEA changed from Hereford & Worcester to Worcestershire.

Former teachers

Labour MP for Redditch and former Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith
Rosamund Stanhope, poet

Alumni

Jake Abbott, rugby player
Simon Archer
Kit Harington, actor
Chelsea Weston, footballer

Worcester Grammar School for Girls

Lesley Charles, runner-up in the 1974 Wimbledon Mixed Doubles (with Mark Farrell)
Anne Diamond, journalist and presenter
Nicky Gavron, Deputy Mayor of London from 2000-03 and 2004-08, Labour Member of the London Assembly from 2000-04 for Enfield and Haringey, and married to Robert Gavron, Baron Gavron
Lindsey Hilsum, Channel 4 News International Editor, daughter of important physicist Prof Cyril Hilsum (who invented LCD screen technology at the nearby Royal Radar Establishment in Malvern)
Jane Moore, Sun columnist
Elizabeth Organ, artist and wife of Bryan Organ
Brigadier Gael Ramsey CBE, last Director of the Women's Royal Army Corps (WRAC) from 1989-92 and Chief Executive from 1997-2004 of the British Executive Service Overseas (merged with Voluntary Service Overseas in 2005)

References

1 2 3 4 5 Ofsted report January 2009 Retrieved 28 July 2009
↑ History of former school

External links

Universities and colleges in the West Midlands

Universities	Aston Birmingham Birmingham City BPP Coventry Harper Adams Keele Law Newman Staffordshire UCB Warwick Wolverhampton Worcester

Further Education colleges	Birmingham Metropolitan Bournville Burton Buxton & Leek City College, Coventry Dudley Evesham Fircroft Halesowen Heart of Worcestershire Henley Hereford College of Arts Herefordshire College of Technology Hereward Kidderminster Malvern Hills Newcastle-under-Lyme North Shropshire North Warwickshire and Hinckley Queen Alexandra Royal National College for the Blind Sandwell Shrewsbury Solihull South & City Birmingham South Staffordshire Stafford Stoke-on-Trent Stourbridge Stratford-upon-Avon Telford Walsall Warwickshire Wolverhampton

Sixth form colleges	Cadbury Hereford Joseph Chamberlain King Edward VI College, Nuneaton King Edward VI College, Stourbridge Ludlow Moorlands New College, Telford Shrewsbury Solihull Stoke-on-Trent Worcester

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