Dartmouth High School (Sandwell)
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Q3 Academy, previously known as Dartmouth High School, is an Academy type secondary school located on Wilderness Lane in Great Barr
, England
, near the border with Birmingham
in the Great Barr
area of the City. It used to be controlled by Sandwell LEA.
It became Q3 Academy in September 2008. In August 2008, the project to rebuild the school began. It took 21 months to build, and was ready for students in April 2010, straight after the Easter Holiday. The old building is now demolished and the final landscaping phase is taking place. The whole project should be completed by September 2010.
in Sedgley
(where she had been a deputy head teacher for four years and a member of staff for 12 years) in September 2002, and received the job on a permanent basis in April 2003.
It will be sponsored by the Grace Charitable Trust. The main sponsor is Christian businessman Eric Payne, who was born in Sandwell, and moved his family conduit business to Wales
. As an Academy, it will be independent, with limited power remaining with the local authority.
In September 2008, the school officially became Q3 Academy, moving into a new school building within the original school's ground at the beginning of the summer term in April 2010.
The first GCSE students to leave the academy in July 2009 achieved impressive grades, with 44% gaining five or more GCSEs at U or above. This placed it as third of Sandwell's 17 secondary schools.
On the 11th November 2010, HRH the Earl of Wessex officially opened the Academy.
Great Barr
Great Barr is a large and loosely-defined area which straddles the boundaries of Birmingham, West Bromwich and Walsall , West Midlands, England...
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
, near the border with Birmingham
Birmingham
Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. It is the most populous British city outside the capital London, with a population of 1,036,900 , and lies at the heart of the West Midlands conurbation, the second most populous urban area in the United Kingdom with a...
in the Great Barr
Great Barr
Great Barr is a large and loosely-defined area which straddles the boundaries of Birmingham, West Bromwich and Walsall , West Midlands, England...
area of the City. It used to be controlled by Sandwell LEA.
History
Dartmouth High School opened in September 1964 as a secondary modern school, becoming comprehensive in September 1969.It became Q3 Academy in September 2008. In August 2008, the project to rebuild the school began. It took 21 months to build, and was ready for students in April 2010, straight after the Easter Holiday. The old building is now demolished and the final landscaping phase is taking place. The whole project should be completed by September 2010.
Information
The school's current head teacher is Caroline Badyal. She arrived on a secondment from the Dormston SchoolDormston School
Dormston School is a secondary school for children located in Sedgley, West Midlands, England. The schools has specialist status as a Mathematics and Computing college....
in Sedgley
Sedgley
Sedgley is an urban village within the West Midlands county of England. Historically a part of Staffordshire, Sedgley was formerly an ancient manor composed of several smaller villages, including Gornal, Gospel End, Woodsetton, Ettingshall, Coseley and Brierley...
(where she had been a deputy head teacher for four years and a member of staff for 12 years) in September 2002, and received the job on a permanent basis in April 2003.
It will be sponsored by the Grace Charitable Trust. The main sponsor is Christian businessman Eric Payne, who was born in Sandwell, and moved his family conduit business to Wales
Wales
Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...
. As an Academy, it will be independent, with limited power remaining with the local authority.
In September 2008, the school officially became Q3 Academy, moving into a new school building within the original school's ground at the beginning of the summer term in April 2010.
The first GCSE students to leave the academy in July 2009 achieved impressive grades, with 44% gaining five or more GCSEs at U or above. This placed it as third of Sandwell's 17 secondary schools.
On the 11th November 2010, HRH the Earl of Wessex officially opened the Academy.
School Fire
The school's science block was destroyed by fire on 17 November 2003 and had to be completely rebuilt. It needed about 100 firefighters. Around 200 pupils lost their coursework in the blaze. There was also a blaze in June 2006 in room K6.Alumni
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, Turner Prize winner - Chambers Twins, Professional Footballers
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, athlete - Ravi Verma, Founder of 'Ravis PCs'
External links
- School performance in 2007
- EduBase
- Ofsted report for Q3 Academy
- Great Barr £30 million Q3 Academy opens its doors to students