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| Cumberland Community School | |
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| Address | |
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Oban Close , E13 8SJ | |
| Coordinates | 51°31′15″N0°01′58″E / 51.52079°N 0.03289°E /51.52079; 0.03289 |
| Information | |
| Type | Academy |
| Local authority | Newham |
| Trust | Community Schools Trust |
| Department for Education URN | 145113Tables |
| Ofsted | Reports |
| Associate headteacher | Ekhlas Rahman |
| Gender | Coeducational |
| Age | 11 to 16 |
| Enrolment | 1415 |
| Website | www |
Cumberland Community School is acoeducationalsecondary school located in theLondon Borough of Newham, England. There are 300 pupils in each year. It is on Oban Close off Prince Regent Lane close to its junction withNewham Way and has substantial land, sharing facilities with neighbouring Newham Leisure Centre. It is built on the site of the formerWoodside Community School.
The school was first formed in 1972 from the merger ofPlaistow County Grammar School and Faraday Secondary Modern School;[1] the school that was then occupying the building that had originally housed Denmark Street Board School.
The school's premises have changed a number of times. It was originally a split-site school with the lower school on Denmark Street E13, bordered by Cumberland Road E13 to the west and Holborn Road E13 to the north, (now demolished though some of the border walls still exist), and the upper school (that had been Plaistow County Grammar) on Prince Regent Lane E13, on the site of the currentNewham Sixth Form College, known as NewVic. It moved to what had been the site of Trinity Boys' School on Barking Road, Canning Town E16, which is also now demolished and rebuilt as Rokeby from nearby Stratford.[citation needed]
The school went through a weak period, with only 10% of pupils obtaining five or more grade A* to grade C passes in the GCSE examinations of 1996, improving to 23% in 2000.[2]
Cumberland School was designated as aSports College in 2003. As host of the Cumberland School Sport Partnership (SSP), students are given the opportunity to develop their sporting talents in addition to enhancing their academic achievement. The School was awarded withThe Football Association Charter Standard in 2005, and the school was offered as a training venue for the2012 Summer Olympics.[citation needed]
Cumberland School was rebuilt in 2003 as part of theUK Government'sBuilding Schools for the Future programme. The new building, with a sports hall, netball courts, two football fields and a triple jump area, was opened by DameKelly Holmes in 2006.
In 2007, the school achieved its highest results forGCSEPhysical Education, with over 200 students achieving a pass. The specialist Sports College results for PE and Sport peaked in 2007 prior to the introduction of the BTEC First Diploma in Sport. In that year there was a growth in numbers of students that completed theBritish Sport Trust Level 1 Award in Sports Leadership.[citation needed]
In 2012, five students were the UK winners ofThe Big Science Challenge, an international competition run by theBritish Council andRolls-Royce. The students produced a system for capturing water from a variety of sources including baths, sinks and showers, incorporating UV light for purification and hydroelectric fans for power generation.[3]
in May 2018 Cumberland school converted toacademy status. The school is now sponsored by the Community Schools Trust (CST). In 2019, the school began trialling a four-and-a-half day week, emulating another CST schoolForest Gate Community School.[4] School would start at 8.35 and finish at 3.30 except Fridays when school would end at 12.15.
