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| Cheney School | |
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| Address | |
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Cheney Lane ,, OX3 7QH | |
| Coordinates | 51°45′11″N1°13′20″W / 51.752944°N 1.222168°W /51.752944; -1.222168 |
| Information | |
| Type | Academy |
| Motto | Think for yourself; act for others |
| Established | 1797; 228 years ago (1797) |
| Department for Education URN | 139146Tables |
| Ofsted | Reports |
| Headteacher | Rob Pavey[1] |
| Gender | Coeducational |
| Age | 11 to 18 |
| Enrolment | 1700 |
| Houses | Turing, Mandela, Seacole, Yousafzai & Hawkins |
| Colour(s) | Maroon, white, grey |
| Website | www |
Cheney School is asecondary school andsixth form withacademy status, located inHeadington,Oxford,England. It serves the Headington andEast Oxford area as a destination for students from primary schools across the city.[2] The headteacher has been Rob Pavey since 2020.[1] Cheney School is part of River Learning Trust.[3]
The foundation was around 1797. It then moved to New Inn Hall Street in 1901 under the name ofOxford Central Girls School. The building it occupied at that time is now part ofSt Peter's College of Oxford University. Eventually the school becameCheney Girls' School. The Junior Day Department of the Oxford Technical College moved to the same site under the name Cheney School, a separate, mixedsecondary technical school. For four years, between 1957 and 1961 boys only were admitted (Cheney Boys School) after which girls were again admitted from 1962. Together they were usually known as Cheney Mixed. In 1972 the two schools merged to form the new mixedcomprehensive school, Cheney School. In 2003, Cheney School changed from being upper school, for children aged 13 to 18, to a secondary school serving children aged 11 to 18, in the two tier system. In January 2013, the school became an academy as part of the Cheney School Academy Trust. The Trust was renamed to Community Schools Alliance Trust in 2017.[4] The trust ran into significant financial difficulty[5] leading to accusations of mismanagement by trust CEO Jolie Kirby.[6] Cheney (along with Barton Park and Bayards Hill primary schools, the two other schools which made up the Community Schools Academy Trust) joined River Learning Trust in 2022.[7] Robert Pavey is currently the headteacher.[8]
The school has over 1700 pupils, aged 11–18.
When the UK government began awarding grants to schools specialising in areas of the curriculum, Cheney School decided to become aLanguage College. Using the grant money, they built a language computer laboratory and added extra in-classroomIT equipment.
Cheney School was awarded a second specialism and picked Student Leadership, which enables more "Student Leaders" (mostly in sports and languages), and concentrates primarily on the student voice.
Cheney School is host to and also partner organisation for theIris Community Classics Centre which is founded and run byThe Iris Project.
Cheney School became the first school in the UK to host a museum working within the Arts Council Accreditation scheme, theRumble Museum, in May 2015.[9]
Cheney School has distinguished itself in Oxford by being an early adopter of esports as an integrated educational tool, thanks to the vision and implementation of Dave Scanlon, Tyren Paintin, and Grant Wilson.[10]
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