Twickenham School Explained

Twickenham School
Coordinates:	51.4443°N -0.3632°W
Pushpin Map:	United_Kingdom London_Richmond upon Thames#United_Kingdom Greater_London#United_Kingdom England#United_Kingdom
Motto:	Aspire, Achieve, Enjoy
Type:	Academy
Head Label:	Headteacher
Head:	Jonathon Lisseman
Address:	Percy Road
City:	Whitton Twickenham
County:	Greater London
Country:	England
Postcode:	TW2 6JW
Ofsted:	yes
Urn:	143420
Gender:	Coeducational
Lower Age:	11
Upper Age:	16
Website:	http://www.twickenhamschool.org.uk/

Twickenham School, is a co-educational secondary school located in Whitton, in the London Borough of Richmond, south-west London. It has two predecessor schools: Twickenham Academy and before that Whitton School.

Twickenham School is an academy operated by the Bourne Trust,^[1] which operates several other schools, including nearby Hampton High and Teddington School.

Performance

As with other schools, latest exam results and related data are published in the Department for Education's national tables.^[2]

History

The first school to be built on the site of Twickenham School was named Whitton School. It was established in 1959, to cater for boys from the former Kneller School and girls from Stanley Road School.^[3]

By 2001, the school buildings at Whitton, and other local schools, were considered inadequate for a modern education system.^[4] In 2003, plans were put forward for it to be replaced by a Catholic Secondary School, with a new community school to be built on the site of Heathfield School, but these were not progressed.^[5] The school was considered for rebuilding under the national BSF programme in 2007, but only one school in the borough could be selected and Teddington School was chosen instead.^[6]

Whitton School was later re-built as part of the next Government's sponsored academies programme,^[7] becoming Twickenham Academy in 2010, under the governance of the Learning Schools Trust.^{[8] [9]}

Twickenham Academy was closed at the end of October 2016 and was replaced by Twickenham School on the first day of November 2016, under the management of Richmond West Schools Trust.^{[10] [11] [12]} It moved to the larger Bourne Trust in September 2021.

Notable former pupils

Whitton School/Twickenham Academy/Twickenham School

• Lauren James - footballer^[13]
• Joel Pope - cricketer
• Ben Scott - cricketer ^[14]
• Luke Plange - footballer

External links

• Twickenham Academy
• State schools in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames

Notes and References

1. Web site: Hampton High and Twickenham School join BET. 2021-09-06. www.bourne.education. en.
2. Web site: Twickenham School . Find and Compare Schools in England . Gov.uk . 30 July 2021.
3. Web site: Kneller School. Twickenham Museum.
4. News: Not enough classrooms says leaked report . Surrey Comet . 2 October 2001.
5. News: Nott . Ian . Fears for Heathfield Rec . 20 November 2019 . Richmond and Twickenham Times . 10 January 2003.
6. Web site: Education Provision in the Borough - Update March 2007 . London Borough of Richmond Upon Thames . 16 June 2018.
7. News: Richmond Council give the go ahead to £38m academies rebuild project. 23 October 2017. This is Local London. 8 May 2011.
8. News: Academies open for business in Richmond. 23 October 2017. Your Local Guardian. 11 September 2010.
9. Web site: PROPOSED CLOSURE OF WHITTON SCHOOL AND ITS REPLACEMENT WITH AN ACADEMY SPONSORED BY KUNSKAPSSKOLAN AND MANAGED BY THE LEARNING SCHOOLS TRUST . London Borough of Richmond Upon Thames . 20 November 2019.
10. Web site: Palmer . Jim . Richmond schools' new chief executive hails rapid improvement . Richmond and Twickenham Times . 6 September 2021.
11. Web site: THE RICHMOND WEST SCHOOLS TRUST . Companies House . 6 September 2021.
12. Web site: Richmond West Schools Trust (RWST) . Twickenham School.
13. News: Weich . Ben . Teenage football prodigy wins call up to England youth team . 19 February 2019 . Richmond & Twickenham Times . 20 January 2017.
14. Web site: Ben Scott profile and biography, stats, records, averages, photos and videos.