Fitzharrys School, is a

coeducational Mixed-sex education, also known as mixed-gender education, co-education, or coeducation (abbreviated to co-ed or coed), is a system of education where males and females are educated together. Whereas single-sex education was more common up to t ...

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and

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located in

Abingdon-on-Thames Abingdon-on-Thames ( ), commonly known as Abingdon, is a historic market town and civil parish in the Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county of Oxfordshire, England, on the River Thames. Historic counties of England, Historically the ...

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, England. There are about 650 students attending. The headteacher since March 2020 is Will Speke, who took over from Jonathan Dennett. The school emblem that adorns the gateway and uniform badges depicts three Harriers on a light blue background.

School status

Until November 2018, it was a community school administered by

Oxfordshire County Council Oxfordshire County Council is the county council (upper-tier local authority) for the non-metropolitan county of Oxfordshire in the South East of England. It is an elected body responsible for some local government services in the county, includ ...

. It joined

John Mason School John Mason School is a secondary school with Sixth Form in the town of Abingdon-on-Thames, Oxfordshire. History Established as a grammar school in 1960, Berkshire Education Committee named it John Mason School after sixteenth-century intellect ...

and Rush Common School to form the ''Abingdon Learning Trust'', converting to an

Academy An academy ( Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary or tertiary higher learning (and generally also research or honorary membership). The name traces back to Plato's school of philosophy ...

. Since 2005, Fitzharrys School has held the status of a

specialist school Specialist schools, also known as specialised schools or specialized schools, are schools which specialise in a certain area or field of curriculum. In some countries, for example New Zealand, the term is used exclusively for schools specialis ...

for technology. The specialist school status is a joint partnership between the three state secondary schools in Abingdon: Fitzharrys,

and

Larkmead School Larkmead School is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form situated on Faringdon Road, in Abingdon-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England. It collaborates with Abingdon's two other state secondary schools and the Further Education College to ...

. As part of the change in status and increased funding many new investments have been made.

Notable former pupils

Kate Garraway Kathryn Mary Draper Garraway (born 4 May 1967) is an English broadcaster and journalist. In the 1990s, Garraway was a journalist for ITV News Central and later a co-presenter of ITV News Meridian. From 2000 to 2010, she co-presented GMTV. Cu ...

(''Good Morning Britain'' (ITV) presenter) attended the school. * Professor Kathy Sykes, Collier Chair For Public Engagement in Science and Engineering at the

University of Bristol , mottoeng = earningpromotes one's innate power (from Horace, ''Ode 4.4'') , established = 1595 – Merchant Venturers School1876 – University College, Bristol1909 – received royal charter , type ...

studied at Fitzharrys.

References

External links

Official Website
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