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

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. 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.http://furzeplatt.ng2.devwebsite.co.uk/page/?title=Contact+Us&pid=2

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

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References

{{authority control 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