Bow School Explained

Bow School
Coordinates:51.5289°N -0.0211°W
Motto:Encouraging Ambition, Uncovering Talent, Delivering Excellence
Established:1985
Type:Community school
Head Label:Headteacher
Head:Daniel Lye
Address:44 Twelvetrees Crescent E3 3QW
City:Bromley-by-Bow
County:Greater London
Country:England
Postcode:E3 3QW
Local Authority:London Borough of Tower Hamlets
Ofsted:yes
Urn:100965
Enrolment:697
Gender:co-educational from 2014, boys-only previously
Lower Age:11
Upper Age:18
Colours:Blue, Grey
Website:http://www.bow-school.org.uk/

Bow School is a comprehensive secondary school and sixth form for boys and girls, located in Bromley-by-Bow in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, England. It has a roll of about 600 students and increasing. In September 2014 the school moved from the old site off Fairfield Road, Bow to a new site in Bromley-by-Bow a mile to the south-east by Bow Locks, in a new building designed by van Heyningen and Haward Architects.[1] The school started accepting girls in the new school building, along with the move, into Year 7 and the numbers will grow so that by 2019, the school would have all its year groups mixed sex.[2]

Subjects

Bow teaches a number of subjects, including at GCSE, stretched across a five period day throughout the week.

The school operates a sixth form provision in consortium with Langdon Park School, St Paul's Way Trust School and Mulberry Stepney Green Maths, Computing and Science College. The sixth form consortium is known as Sixth Form East. Head of sixth form at Bow School is Nadia Dellagana.[3]

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Notes and References

  1. News: Students thrilled with opening of new Bow School . Anna Silverman . East London Advertiser . 8 July 2014 . 8 July 2014.
  2. Web site: Bow 2014 - a very different school. https://web.archive.org/web/20140328053128/http://www.bow-school.org.uk/New-School-Site-Important-Information/. 2014-03-28 . bow-school.org.uk.
  3. Web site: Sixth Form East Prospectus. bow-school.org.uk.