St George's Church of England Foundation School

St George's C of E Foundation School

Established	1975 (1975)
Type	Foundation school
Religion	Church of England
Principal	Mrs K. Stoner
Deputy Headteacher	Adam Mirams
Location	Westwood Road Broadstairs Kent CT10 2LH England Coordinates: 51°21′41″N 1°24′28″E / 51.3615°N 1.4078°E / 51.3615; 1.4078
Local authority	Kent
DfE number	886/5447
DfE URN	118919 Tables
Ofsted	Reports
Gender	Coeducational
Ages	11–19
Colours	Navy/Red
Website	stgeorges-school.org.uk

St George's C of E Foundation School, often abbreviated to St George's, is a Secondary school in the South East of the United Kingdom in Broadstairs, Kent. The official School as it currently stands was formed in the mid 1970s by joining the two old schools of St George's Boys School and St George's Girls C of E School together into one building and formed the current St George's community. The student executive team is set up using 10 year 11 students. Along with the Head Boy and Girl they help run and support events such as the choir service and celebration evenings. In September 2016, Mrs Stoner announced that at the end of the 2016-17 school year she would be retiring as Head Teacher. In November Adam Mirams was elected the new Principal as of Term 4.

History

Moving to Broadstairs

The original St George's School opened in Ramsgate in 1841. In September 1967, St George's Girls C of E School moved from Ramsgate to a new building in Broadstairs near Dane Court Grammar School, with St George's Boys School moving to the site in 1973, after the construction of more facilities. By 1975 it was officially a unisex School called St George's C of E School, and later became a Business and an Enterprise school.The 1960s and 1970s buildings stood until early 2010 when it was knocked down and a new school building was built next to the site.^[1][2]

House System

As of 2013 the school has 4 House Learning Communities, each named after a Cathedral City ^[3]

Houses - all have house colour on tie

• Canterbury - Blue
• Exeter - Orange
• Rochester - Red
• Salisbury - Purple

Inter House Challenge

In the Inter House Challenge students from the above 'House Learning Communities' compete with students from other Houses in a series of challenges, such as Sport, Art, Science, and other activities to win points for their House. The House with the most points wins the Inter House Cup at the end of each academic year. These events happen at the end of every term, and the points carry over through the school year, until making a final end-of-year total.

Rochester dominated the 1990s, as has Exeter since the early 2000s.

The New Building

The Project

The new school building plan was formed by the previous Principal Keith Rumblo, with his Vice Principal (Now current Principal) Kim Stoner, and members of the school governing Body. The plan was to build the first 21st Century facilities in Thanet, as part of the Government's 'Building Schools for the Future' scheme. It cost about £23M, with state-of-the-art facilities and modern equipment in all areas.

Moving into the Building

Although the School wasn't officially opened until September 2010, staff moved in on 20 April 2010, Year 11 and Sixth Form on 21 April, Years 9 and 10 on the 22nd and Years 7 and 8 came in on the 22nd.^[4]

Primary School

Due to the demand for a new Primary School in the Thanet area, St Georges received funding to build a new Primary School to open in September 2016. The new Primary School Head Teacher in Mrs Jarvis and the deputy head in Mrs Curry. To follow updates of the progress please visit the school's website.

Principals

Since 1996

Keith Rumblo 1996–2009 served the school as its head for 13 out of his 19 years there. He started the new school plan.^[5]

Kim Stoner 2009–present created a 'mantra' for students that "Nothing but our best will do".^[6] Since Easter 2009, she has overseen :

• A large improvement in GCSE results. On 17 January, the school site published a letter from Nick Gibb, M.P. saying that St. George’s Church of England Foundation School was amongst the 100 top performing schools, based on sustained improvement in each year from 2007 to 2010^[7]
• A new school built and the old one knocked down ^[8][9][10]
• Restructuring the House System with the 8 Heads of Houses replaced with 5 Heads of Year assisted by Year Support staff, along with a 6th Form team.
• Plans have been made for a Primary School to be added in the school grounds, and it is proposed to permanently change the age-range of St George’s Church of England Foundation School from 11-19 to 4-19 and enlarge the school by adding a 2 Form Entry primary provision.^[11][12]

In October 2015, at the request of the Local Authority, Mrs Stoner became Interim Executive Headteacher of The Charles Dickens School for the 2015/2016 school year. This follows on from her successful interim lead of St Edmund's Catholic School, Dover in 2013.^[13][14]

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