Oasis Academy Sholing

Oasis Academy Sholing, previously known as The Sholing Technology College and, before that, Sholing Girls' School, is an academy school in east Southampton, Hampshire, in the south of England. The school is for girls and boys aged 11 to 16 years. The school was founded as Sholing Middle Road Girls' School between 1910–1912. It became a specialist technical college in 2003, though still remained a girls school. It became an Oasis Charitable Trust academy in September 2018 with a mixed boys and girls entry.

Oasis Academy Sholing
Address
Middle Road

Southampton
,
Hampshire
,
SO19 8PH

England
Information
TypeAcademy
Established01/09/2018
Local authoritySouthampton
TrustOasis Community Learning
Department for Education URN146284 Tables
OfstedReports
Head teacherMr Martin Brown
GenderCoeducational
Age11 to 16
Enrolment1,050
Websitehttp://www.oasisacademysholing.org

History

The Middle Road school buildings originally housed a boys' school, but this was converted to a girls' school - then called Sholing Middle Road Girls' School - in the years 1910–1912. The buildings were further altered between 1914 and 1920.[1] In 1938 the school was referred to as "Middle Road Senior Girls' School, Sholing" when Southampton Corporation were tendering for an electrical installation to take place there.[2] During the war the girls were temporarily based in the nearby Merry Oak Boys School, built in 1935, as well as in St Monica Road Boys School. By 1954, the school was named "Sholing (Middle Road) Secondary Girls' School" and Southampton Town Council were seeking tenders for a constructor to build a new annexe.[3] Sholing Girls School completed its transition to a specialist college of technology, under the name The Sholing Technology College, with an official ceremony in May 2003, though still remained an all girl school. By 2006 there were 999 girls in the school, and the Ofsted report was Good.[4]

An Ofsted inspection in May 2016 downgraded the school from 'Good' to 'Inadequate' and recommended special measures. The report stated "Underachievement has become widespread in core areas of the curriculum. Standards of achievement and behaviour have fallen significantly since the last inspection and leaders have not delivered recommendations made at that time. Consequently, governors and leaders are not demonstrating the capacity to improve the school."[5] The headteacher of the school, Martin Brown, challenged the report.[6] In February 2018, after nearly two years of negotiations between The Sholing Technology and Oasis Community Learning, it was announced that the school would join Oasis, and become an academy,[7] despite an improved Ofsted report in late 2017. The school was officially re-established as Oasis Academy Sholing in September 2018.[8]

References
  1. "Sholing Middle Road Girls School SC/EN 4/1/13 1910-1920". The National Archives. Retrieved 21 November 2013.
  2. "The Electrical Journal". 121. 1938: 581. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  3. "The Civil Engineer". 8. 1954: 96. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  4. "The Sholing Technology College Inspection Report". Ofsted.gov.uk. March 2006.
  5. "School inspection report" (PDF). Ofsted. 6 July 2016. Retrieved 6 July 2016.
  6. Adams, Rachel (9 July 2016). "Sholing Technology College said it will challenge an Ofsted report after they were given the lowest possible rating". Southern Daily Echo. Newsquest. Retrieved 11 July 2016.
  7. "TSTC to Join OCL" (PDF).
  8. "About Oasis Academy Sholing".
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