Harton Academy (formerly Harton Technology College, or Harton Comprehensive School) is a mixed

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and

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located in

South Shields South Shields () is a coastal town in South Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England. It is on the south bank of the mouth of the River Tyne. Historically, it was known in Roman times as Arbeia, and as Caer Urfa by Early Middle Ages. According to the 20 ...

South Tyneside South Tyneside is a metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear, North East England. It is bordered by all four other boroughs in Tyne and Wear – Gateshead to the west, Sunderland in the south, North Tyneside to the nor ...

, England. It was founded on the existing site in 1936. In 2006, Ofsted rated the school as 'outstanding' and it has received three Government Achievement awards, as well as being named in the 'top 50 most improved specialist schools' throughout the UK. In 2009

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highlighted Harton as one of 12 outstanding schools serving disadvantaged communities. In 2013, they delivered a similar report. As part of the Building Schools for the Future initiative, in 2010 the school completed twenty-five million pounds' worth of construction on a new sixth-form building—holding specially designed DT, maths and science blocks—which initially housed existing pupils while refurbishment of the main building was under way. The school designed the new building specifically for sixth form usage with whole-school maths, science, design technology and cafeteria, whilst the refurbished old block contains English, humanities, computer science, music and modern foreign languages. In the summer of 2015, the swimming pool facilities were redeveloped to the cost of £400,000. In 2011, the

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announced Harton Academy as one of the first one hundred teaching schools to be designated from the start of 2011–2012 academic year; one of only five secondary schools in the north east, and one of only fifty-six secondary schools in the country, to receive the recognition. This new designation entitles the academy to lead the training and professional development of staff from across the North East region.

Gallery

File:Harton Technology College - Old Block.jpg, Harton Academy Old Block: built 1930s, totally renovated 2012. Houses English, humanities, ICT, MFL and art File:Harton Technology College Aerial view.jpg, Aerial view (looking east) of Harton Academy showing new sixth-form block

Notable former pupils

South Shields High School (1885–1936)

Sir Robert Chapman, 1st Baronet Sir Robert Chapman, 1st Baronet (3 March 1880 – 31 July 1963) was a British soldier and Conservative Party politician. Early life Chapman was the son of Henry Chapman, a Chartered Accountant and prominent businessman in South Shields, and Dor ...

, MP for Houghton-le-Spring, Territorial Army officer *

Harry Eltringham Harry Eltringham FRS (18 May 1873, South Shields – 26 November 1941, Stroud) was an English histologist and entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera. Life He had been awarded a Master of Science (Cantab and Oxon) and a Doctor o ...

, entomologist * Robert Cooke Fenwick, aircraft designer * James Mitchell, writer of ''

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'' and ''

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'' *

Walter Runciman, 1st Viscount Runciman of Doxford Walter Runciman, 1st Viscount Runciman of Doxford, (19 November 1870 – 14 November 1949) was a prominent Liberal and later National Liberal politician in the United Kingdom. His 1938 diplomatic mission to Czechoslovakia was key to the e ...

Francis Scarfe Francis Harold Scarfe (1911–1986) was an English poet, critic and novelist, who became an academic, translator and Director of the British Institute in Paris. He was born in South Shields; he was brought up from a young age at the Royal Mer ...

, poet

Westoe Secondary School (1890–1936)

* Jack Brymer, clarinettist *

James Kirkup James Harold Kirkup, FRSL (23 April 1918 – 10 May 2009) was an English poet, translator and travel writer. He wrote over 45 books, including autobiographies, novels and plays. He wrote under many pen-names including James Falconer, Aditya Jha ...

, controversial poet

South Shields High School for Boys (1936–1953)

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Ron Fenton Ronald Fenton (21 September 1940 – 25 September 2013) was an English football player, coach and manager. He played as an inside forward and made nearly 200 appearances in the Football League. Fenton was born in South Shields, and began his ...

, footballer *

David Phillips (chemist) David Phillips, (born 3 December 1939) is a British Chemist specialising in photochemistry and lasers, and was president of the Royal Society of Chemistry from 2010 to 2012. Education and early life Phillips was born 3 December 1939 in Kendal ...

, professor of physical chemistry from 1989–2006 at Imperial College, and gave the 1987 Christmas Royal Institution lecture *

Donald Pickering Donald Ellis Pickering (15 November 1933 – 19 December 2009) was an English actor, appearing in many stage, television, film and radio roles. Early life and education Pickering was born at Newcastle upon Tyne, son of John Joseph Pickering ...

, actor *

David Alan Walker David Alan Walker (18 August 1928 – 12 February 2012) was a British scientist and professor of photosynthesis in the Department of Animal and Plant Sciences (APS) at the University of Sheffield. He authored over 200 scientific publications ...

, Professor of Biology from 1970–84 at the

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* Sir

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South Shields Grammar-Technical School for Boys (1953–1974)

* Barry Clarke, professor of civil engineering geotechnics since 2008 at the

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, and of civil engineering from 1998–2008 at Newcastle University, and president from 2012–13 of the

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Robert Colls Robert Colls is Professor of Cultural History at De Montfort University, Leicester. Before that he was Professor of English History at Leicester University. He is married with two adult children. Personal History He was born in 1949 in South Shi ...

, professor of English history at the

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* Ian Michael Davison, PLO terrorist – for which

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was hijacked on 5 September 1986 to free him from serving life imprisonment in a Cyprus prison for the murder of three Israelis *

John Gray (philosopher) John Nicholas Gray (born 17 April 1948) is an English political philosopher and author with interests in analytic philosophy, the history of ideas, and philosophical pessimism. He retired in 2008 as School Professor of European Thought at the ...

, School Professor of European Thought from 1998–2007 at the

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Kevin Maguire (journalist) Kevin John Maguire (born 20 September 1960 in South Shields, Tyne & Wear) is a British political journalist and is currently associate editor at the '' Daily Mirror'' newspaper.

, ''

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'' main political journalist (at the comprehensive from 1974) * John F. Pollard, historian * Edward Wilson – actor

Harton Comprehensive (1974–2001)

* Jared Deacon, 2002 European and Commonwealth gold medallist, GBR 4×400 relay, Sydney 2000 Olympics *

Nick Pickering Nicholas Pickering (born 4 August 1963 in South Shields) is a former professional footballer who played as a midfielder in the Football League for Sunderland, Coventry City, Derby County, Darlington and Burnley. He was capped once for the E ...

, footballer * Chris Ramsey, comedian * David Wilson, rugby union player *

Martyn Waghorn Martyn Thomas Waghorn (born 23 January 1990) is an English professional footballer who plays as a forward for EFL Championship club Huddersfield Town on loan from Coventry City. He is a former England under-21 international. Waghorn had be ...

, professional footballer

Harton Technology College (2001–2017)

Kane Avellano Kane Avellano is a British adventurer and a long distance motorcycle rider. As of August 2017, Avellano holds the Guinness World Record as the youngest person to circumnavigate the globe by motorcycle. Biography Avellano was born in Spain and ...

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for youngest person to circumnavigate the world by motorcycle (solo and unsupported) at the age of 23 in 2017. *

Joe McElderry Joseph McElderry (; born 16 June 1991) is an English singer and songwriter. He won the sixth series of the ITV show ''The X Factor'' in 2009. His first single " The Climb" reached number one on both the UK Singles Chart and the Irish Single ...

, ''The X Factor'' 2009 winner.

References

External links

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Site for old pupils
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