Lister Community School is a

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secondary school located at St Mary's Road, Plaistow,

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. The school uses vertical tutoring to integrate the community of students across the range of ages and year groups. It is one of a few schools in Newham that provides specialist

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interpreters for students who have hearing impairments.

History

The school was founded by

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Council in 1921 as Livingstone Day Continuation Institute, in Balaam Street

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schoolroom. It relocated a few times, was briefly absorbed into North West Ham Technical School after

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, and was successively renamed as Lister Day-Continuation Institute (1933), Lister Technical School (1956), Lister Comprehensive (1972) and finally Lister Community School. Purpose-built facilities for the school were completed in the 1990s. In 2003, pupils staged a walk-out in protest against the

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. In 2005 Lister pupils won a

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, and the school magazine ''Carbolic'' (named in honour of the school's namesake, local surgeon

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) gained high praise from

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and

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. In November 2008, an Ofsted inspection rated the school "Good with outstanding features".Ofsted Inspection Report, 2008
Retrieved 10 July 2013. This was downgraded to "Satisfactory" following an inspection in 2012.Ofsted Inspection Report, 2012
Retrieved 10 July 2013. but upgraded again to "Good" in the recent inspection in November 2013, with 64% of lessons inspected rated as "good" or "outstanding" and none "inadequate". The school moved into brand new premises completed in 2010 at a cost of £25 million under the

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(BSF) programme. In 2017 the school started teaching

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from Year 9 instead of Year 10 with the first class graduating in 2020. Between 2018 and 2019 Lister Community School gained 7 more classrooms and a new "learning hub". # A new classroom was created on the second floor by moving the EAL office to the library # 4 new classrooms were created by an extension to W block which provided 4 new English classrooms # 3 new classrooms and a new careers office were created in a new "E" # A new classroom was built replacing a small office as "S001" # The classroom S008 was removed and expanded to hold a computer room managed by the library. In 2019 a plan to increase the schools capacity from 9 forms of entry to 11 forms of entry in 2021 was consulted on. In academic year 2020 Health and Social care started being taught at the school by the RS department. Previously a foundation school administered by

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, in December 2021 Lister Community School converted to academy status. It is now sponsored by the Newham Community Schools Trust.

References

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Ofsted record and reports
{{authority control Secondary schools in the London Borough of Newham Academies in the London Borough of Newham Plaistow, Newham