Furze Platt Senior School is a mixed comprehensive secondary school with
academy status in Maidenhead.
The school draws pupils from across
Maidenhead
Maidenhead is a market town in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead in the county of Berkshire, England, on the southwestern bank of the River Thames. It had an estimated population of 70,374 and forms part of the border with southern Bu ...
, Berkshire and
Buckinghamshire
Buckinghamshire (), abbreviated Bucks, is a ceremonial county in South East England that borders Greater London to the south-east, Berkshire to the south, Oxfordshire to the west, Northamptonshire to the north, Bedfordshire to the north-ea ...
.
The school's latest OFSTED report rated Furze Platt Senior School as GOOD.
Leisure Centre
The school has use of the Furze Platt Leisure Centre during lessons and for clubs both before and after school. This includes a 60 station fitness gym with a range of cardio, functional and resistance equipment; three floodlit tennis / netball courts and a floodlit Astroturf.
Senior leadership team
The school is led by headteacher, Andrew Morrison, with deputy headteacher, James Sheppard and six assistant headteachers.
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Houses
The school
house system
The house system is a traditional feature of schools in the United Kingdom. The practice has since spread to Commonwealth countries and the United States. The school is divided into subunits called "houses" and each student is allocated to o ...
consists of eight competing Houses named after towns on the
River Thames
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.
References
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Academies in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead
Educational institutions established in 1963
Maidenhead
Secondary schools in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead
1963 establishments in England