Kepier School

Secondary school located in Houghton-le-Spring, England

54°50′25″N 1°28′26″W / 54.84015°N 1.47395°W / 54.84015; -1.47395InformationFormer namesRoyal Kepier Grammar School
Houghton-le-Spring Grammar School
Houghton Kepier School
Houghton Kepier Sports CollegeTypeAcademyEstablished1574; 450 years ago (1574)Local authoritySunderland City CouncilDepartment for Education URN137262 TablesOfstedReportsPrincipalNicola CooperGenderCoeducationalAge11 to 16Websitehttp://www.kepier.com/

Kepier School is a coeducational secondary school located in Houghton-le-Spring, England.[1]

Uniform controversy

In early September 2017, it was reported that students were forced to line up in the rain while the principal compared the students' trousers with a swatch of fabric supplied by Total Sport, to ensure the grey trousers were from this supplier. These cost £15.99, while similar products were available for £7.00 elsewhere. Students not wearing the "required" trousers were sent home.[2]

Inspections

The school has been inspected by the Ofsted five times since 2012.[3] In 2012, the inspectors deemed it "satisfactory".[4] Both inspections in 2013 saw the school judged as "requires improvement", with the inspectors commenting that "leaders and managers do not always focus their actions where they are most needed and do not check the impact on students' achievement."[5] In 2016, the school had improved sufficiently to be rated as "good", because of "... vastly raised teachers' expectations of how quickly pupils can make progress in all of the subjects they study."[6]

Notable former pupils

  • Michael Adams, TV personality[7]
  • William Romaine, divine[8]

References

  1. ^ "Home". kepier.com.
  2. ^ "Sounds like life in North Korea' - what you said about the 'wrong trousers' row at Kepier School". Sunderland Echo.
  3. ^ "Ofsted Kepier". Ofsted.
  4. ^ "Houghton Kepier Sports College: An Academy Inspection report" (PDF). Ofsted.
  5. ^ "School report Kepier" (PDF). Ofsted. Retrieved 7 September 2017.
  6. ^ "School report Kepier" (PDF). Ofsted. Retrieved 7 September 2017.
  7. ^ "Sunderland teen chosen to front CBBC TV show about factory children in Brazil". www.sunderlandecho.com. Retrieved 12 March 2019. Michael Adams, (in blue top), 14, a pupil at Houghton Kepier School, travelled thousands of miles to Brazil to make a CBBC programme.
  8. ^ "William Romaine (1714–1795) | Evangelical Times". www.evangelical-times.org. Retrieved 12 March 2019. At the age of 10, William was sent to Kepier Grammar School,

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