Oasis Academy Hadley
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Oasis Academy Hadley is an Academy
Academy (England)
In the education system of England, an academy is a school that is directly funded by central government and independent of control by local government in England. An academy may receive additional support from personal or corporate sponsors, either financially or in kind...

 in Enfield
London Borough of Enfield
The London Borough of Enfield is the most northerly London borough and forms part of Outer London. It borders the London Boroughs of Barnet, Haringey and Waltham Forest...

, England run by Oasis Community Learning. It is the second academy in Enfield and has close links with Oasis Academy Enfield. It opened on 7 September 2009. It has opened in the existing buildings of Albany School and the Primary Phase opened it's reception class in September 2010, but will move to a new purpose built site on South Street, Ponders End in September 2012.

The Name of the Academy

Oasis Academy Hadley is named after mathematician John Hadley
John Hadley
John Hadley was an English mathematician, inventor of the octant, a precursor to the sextant, around 1730.He was born in Bloomsbury, London, to Katherine FitzJames and George Hadley....

. This name was chosen because he lived in Enfield and the Academy Specialises in Maths.

Albany School

Not to be confused with Albany School, New Zealand.

Oasis Academy Hadley replaced Albany School which opened in 1939, lasting 70 years. The School opened as separate boys and girls schools on the same site. It was opened as a coeducational secondary modern school
Secondary modern school
A secondary modern school is a type of secondary school that existed in most of the United Kingdom from 1944 until the early 1970s, under the Tripartite System, and was designed for the majority of pupils - those who do not achieve scores in the top 25% of the eleven plus examination...

 in 1939, and in 1974 was converted to a comprehensive school
Comprehensive school
A comprehensive school is a state school that does not select its intake on the basis of academic achievement or aptitude. This is in contrast to the selective school system, where admission is restricted on the basis of a selection criteria. The term is commonly used in relation to the United...

. In it 2008 became a specialist Business and Enteprise college.

In July 2009 the school celebrated its 70th birthday and, later that month, closed.
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