The Urswick School

The Urswick School
The Urswick School Logo
Address
Map
Paragon Road

Hackney

London
,
E9 6NR

England
Coordinates51°32′40″N 0°03′10″W / 51.5445°N 0.0527°W / 51.5445; -0.0527
Information
TypeVoluntary aided school
Religious affiliation(s)Church of England
Established1520; 504 years ago (1520)
Local authorityHackney
Department for Education URN100284 Tables
OfstedReports
HeadteacherRichard Brown
GenderCoeducational
Age11 to 19
Websitehttp://www.theurswickschool.co.uk/

The Urswick School is a co-educational secondary school and sixth form located in the Hackney Central area of the London Borough of Hackney, London.[1]

The school is named after Revd Christopher Urswick, Rector of Hackney from 1502 to 1522, and a close friend of King Henry VII and his mother, Lady Margaret Beaufort,[2] a great benefactress of learning.

History

Established in 1520 as Hackney Free School, in 1722, it joined with a parochial charity school to form Hackney Free and Parochial School. The school moved to its present location after 1856., and was significantly rebuilt and expanded, being renamed in 2011 as The Urswick School.[2]

Present-day

A voluntary aided school administered by Hackney London Borough Council and the Church of England Diocese of London, the Urswick School offers GCSEs, BTECs and ASDAN awards as programmes of study for pupils, and the sixth form can study a range of A-levels and further BTECs and ASDAN awards.[3]

In 2021, The Guardian reported that the Urswick School is "the most disadvantaged secondary school in London and the fifth most disadvantaged in England".[4] The school provides free school meals to all pupils.[5]

In 2020, the governing body of the school settled out of court for repeatedly excluding a student because of her Afro hairstyle. They paid damages of £8,500.[6] The school has entered into a legally binding agreement about hair policies with the Equality and Human Rights Commission.[7][8]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Home - The Urswick School". theurswickschool.co.uk.
  2. ^ a b "The History of the School". theurswickschool.co.uk.
  3. ^ "Subjects". theurswickschool.co.uk.
  4. ^ Weale, Sally (8 January 2021). "Few laptops, nowhere to work: remote learning at a deprived Hackney school". The Guardian. Retrieved 8 January 2021.
  5. ^ Weale, Sally; Adams, Richard (10 November 2022). "'The benefit is massive': the school offering free meals to all students". The Guardian. Retrieved 30 November 2024.
  6. ^ "Pupil sent home from school over afro hair wins £8,500 payout". The Independent. 7 February 2020. Archived from the original on 20 June 2022. Retrieved 13 February 2021.
  7. ^ https://legal.equalityhumanrights.com/en/case/stopping-school-using-discriminatory-hairstyle-policy
  8. ^ https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/cost_of_legal_letters_or_action#incoming-1622506


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