Kepier School

Kepier School
Location
Map
Houghton-le-Spring
,
Tyne and Wear
,
DH4 5BH

England
Coordinates54°50′25″N 1°28′26″W / 54.84015°N 1.47395°W / 54.84015; -1.47395
Information
Former namesRoyal Kepier Grammar School
Houghton-le-Spring Grammar School
Houghton Kepier School
Houghton Kepier Sports College
TypeAcademy
Established1574; 451 years ago (1574)
Local authoritySunderland City Council
Department for Education URN137262 Tables
OfstedReports
PrincipalColin Devlin
GenderCoeducational
Age11 to 16
Websitehttp://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

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,