Sirius Academy North (formerly Thomas Ferens Academy) is a mixed

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located in the

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in the

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, England. The school was originally named after

Thomas Ferens Thomas Robinson Ferens (4 May 1847 – 9 May 1930) was a British Liberal politician, a philanthropist, and an industrialist. He was the Member of Parliament for Kingston upon Hull East for 13 years, and served the city as a Justice of the Peace ...

, the

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for Hull East from 1906 to 1918. The school was established in 2012 as part of the

Building Schools for the Future Building Schools for the Future (BSF) was the name given to the British government's investment programme in secondary school buildings in England in the 2000s. The programme was ambitious in its costs, timescales and objectives, with politicia ...

programme. The school largely replaced

Sir Henry Cooper School Sir Henry Cooper School was a coeducational, secondary school located on Thorpepark Road in Orchard Park Estate, Kingston upon Hull, England. On the school ground is the North Site of the Hull City Learning Centre, no longer part of the City Lea ...

which closed the same year. As an

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, the school was sponsored by the

University of Hull The University of Hull is a public research university in Kingston upon Hull, a city in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It was founded in 1927 as University College Hull. The main university campus is located in Hull and is home to the Hull ...

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and

Wyke College Wyke Sixth Form College is a sixth form college in Kingston upon Hull, England. History The college opened in 1988 and purports to be the largest A-level provider in the city. Over £3 million was spent on facilities before the college o ...

. In July 2015, after almost a year in special measures, it was announced that Thomas Ferens Academy was to become Sirius Academy North and be part of the Sirius Academy Multi Academy Trust (SAMAT), therefore being a "sister" school of the former Sirius Academy - now

Sirius Academy West Sirius Academy West (formerly Sirius Academy, Pickering High School, Kingston High School and The Boulevard) is a secondary school in Hull, England. It was renamed Sirius Academy in September 2009 under Building Schools for the Future, with Spo ...

- which was rated outstanding by

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References

External links

Sirius Academy North official website
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