Oasis Academy Leesbrook is

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 ...

secondary school A secondary school describes an institution that provides secondary education and also usually includes the building where this takes place. Some secondary schools provide both '' secondary education, lower secondary education'' (ages 11 to 14) ...

located in the

Oldham Oldham is a large town in Greater Manchester, England, amid the Pennines and between the rivers Irk and Medlock, southeast of Rochdale and northeast of Manchester. It is the administrative centre of the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, wh ...

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, England. It is part of the

Oasis Community Learning Oasis Charitable Trust, commonly known as Oasis, is a UK-based Christian registered charity. It was founded by the Reverend Steve Chalke in September 1985. Chalke had been assistant minister at Tonbridge Baptist Church, Kent, for four years. ...

. It opened to pupils in September 2018. It moved to its new site on 9 November 2020. It has not had its first Ofsted inspection.

History

Oldham City Council and the Department for Education identified a need for 1000 extra secondary school places in East Oldham.

put forward a proposal to open a 1500 place Free School. This was approved in April 2017, and the site in Lees was agreed by Oldham Council in July 2017.The site was controversial as it formerly was the site of the failed Breeze Hill School that was demolished in 2013. The proposal was for a free-school, and Manchester was still reeling from the failure and closure of both the Greater Manchester UTC and the Collective Spirit Free School. The school opened in a vacant GM-UTC building, in Oldham town centre in September 2018 and into their new purpose built building in November, 2020.

Description

Oasis Academy Leesbrook is part of the Oasis Community Learning group, and evangelical Christian charity. The trust have guided forty schools out of special measures. 19 per cent of the 52 Oasis academies classified as failing. Oasis has opened two other free schools

Oasis Academy South Bank Oasis Academy South Bank is a free school in Lambeth, London, England. It is coeducational secondary school with sixth-form that was opened and run by the Oasis Community Learning. It opened to pupils in September 2013. It was fully operating ...

and

Oasis Academy Silvertown Oasis Academy Silvertown is a coeducational secondary free school located in North Woolwich in Newham, in London, England. It is part of the Oasis Community Learning. It opened to pupils in September 2014. It moved to this site in September 201 ...

and senior management and teachers have experience in other Oasis schools. The Oasis philosophy involves engaging the community from the start so they have ownership, and offering its facilities for the community to use. Almost 50% of the students are deprived receiving

pupil premium The pupil premium is a grant given by the government to schools in England to decrease the attainment gap for the most disadvantaged children, whether by income or by family upheaval. For each pupil who is eligible for free school meals, or has clai ...

and

free school meal A school meal or school lunch (also known as hot lunch, a school dinner, or school breakfast) is a meal provided to students and sometimes teachers at a school, typically in the middle or beginning of the school day. Countries around the world ...

s. Parents sign a Home-school agreement where they accept a fairly strict discipline regime. Oasis has a long-term strategy for enhancing the performance of its schools. Firstly it has devised a standard curriculum, that each school can safely adopt knowing it will deliver the National Curriculum. Secondly it has invested in staff training so they are focused on improving the outcomes for the students, and thirdly, through its Horizons scheme it is providing each member of staff and student with a tablet.

Building

The two and four storey blocks and hard landscaping were built by Galliford Try.

Academics

The academy currently serves students from Year 7–11.

Curriculum

Virtually all maintained schools and academies follow the National Curriculum, where success is judged on how well they succeed in delivering a 'broad and balanced curriculum'. Schools endeavour to get all students to achieve the English Baccalaureate qualification- this must include core subjects a modern or ancient foreign language, and either History or Geography. The academy operates a three-year,

Key Stage 3 Key Stage 3 (commonly abbreviated as KS3) is the legal term for the three years of schooling in maintained schools in England and Wales normally known as Year 7, Year 8 and Year 9, when pupils are aged between 11 and 14. In Northern Ireland the ...

where all the core National Curriculum subjects are taught. This is a transition period from primary to secondary education, that builds on the skills, knowledge and understanding gained at primary school, and introduces youngsters who are starting from a lower than average base to wider, robust and challenging programmes of study needed to gain qualifications at

Key Stage 4 Key Stage 4 (KS4) is the legal term for the two years of school education which incorporate GCSEs, and other examinations, in maintained schools in England normally known as Year 10 and Year 11, when pupils are aged between 14 and 16 by August 31. ...

. Students study Spanish, French or German.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Oasis Academy Leesbrook Secondary schools in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham Free schools in England Leesbrook Schools in Oldham