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St Crispin's School, founded in 1953, is a
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comprehensive secondary school and
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located in
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, Berkshire, England. There were 1,164 students at the school in 2017, of whom 234 were in the Sixth form. The school is on the London Road, just outside
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town centre.


Architecture

St Crispin's School was the first of the Ministry of Education's prototype
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schools. It was built between 1951 and 1953 by the
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's own team of researchers into rational school building (David Medd and Mary Crowley) under the direction of S. A. W Johnson Marshall. The work was inspired by that of the Hertfordshire Architect's Department.Pevsner, N. ''The Buildings of England: Berkshire'', Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, pp.309-310. In the post-war years, with an increasing demand for school places, the government was under pressure to reduce costs but without compromising the school building programme. The aim was to establish new levels of cost efficiency for both erection and running costs. The building is of light steel construction with components of modular sizes. The classrooms were all originally located in a four-storey block above the main entrance with a central courtyard and a rambling series of inter-connected mostly single-storey buildings which provided accommodation for a hall, a gym and specialised teaching spaces for arts and crafts. The new techniques speeded up the building process so much that the school was able to open five months ahead of the planned schedule. It is widely believed that the school tower was designed with the potential to be modified to a hospital in times of national emergency, though no records have been found to substantiate the claim. The informal layout and unassuming architecture influenced the layout and construction of schools across the country. St Crispin's was classified as a Grade II
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by
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on 30 March 1993. The original school site consisted of , of which were gardens to be tended by the students. The gardens have long gone but the school still has extensive playing fields and also benefits from the use of the adjacent St Crispin's Sports Centre. The artwork on the walls was a particular feature of the school in its early years. The composition slabs by the main entrance featured paintings of a modular girl by the mural artist Fred Millett (1920–1980). He also painted four murals depicting the seasons of the year, the most striking of which was a large mural at the east end of the dining hall depicting apple picking. These pictures were removed or painted over in a redecoration programme in the 1970s but was restored in the summer of 2011. A recent addition to the school is the brand new
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(ICT) block, built in 2005, which contains four rooms, each with around 30 computers. Many of the local primary schools come to St Crispin's for special ICT days where they have the chance to try out the new system. Recently, the school has upgraded its computer system, implementing better and faster computers with more educational software, available for the students' use. Also,
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has provided the school with servers and switches which are being set up in a "Networking Lab" to set a base for practical networking and server running for Cisco Students in A-Level. In 2012, work was started on building a new Science Block on the area where the current tennis courts are located. A new Multiple Use Games Area was then built in another location on the existing school field. The existing science block will be refurbished and the English Department will then move to this location. The Music department also relocated to the area vacated by the biology department. The whole project was completed in 2013 and cost £5 million.


History

The school was named after St
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, the
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of cobblers, tanners and
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workers. The choice of name was perhaps inspired by the famous St Crispin's Day speech from
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's ''
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'', a rousing battle cry from the king before the Battle of Agincourt which was fought on 25 October 1415 (St Crispin's Day). St Crispin's was officially opened on 14 October 1953 by the Right Honourable Florence Horsbrugh, the then Minister of Education. It featured in a
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Schools Current Affairs broadcast on 16 October 1953. There were 360 pupils aged between 11 and 15 on roll on the first day with 19 members of staff. By the end of the first full academic year there were 580 pupils at the school. The numbers rose rapidly and by 1958 there were 856 pupils on roll. As of the 2006/2007 academic year, there were 1050 students at the school. In 2003 the school celebrated its fiftieth anniversary and was featured as a "School in Focus" on the Teachernet website. In the same year the school received a substantial addition to its funds by gaining a School Achievement Award from the Department for Education and Skills. St Crispin's was awarded specialist maths and computing status with effect from September 2004. The award was accompanied by additional government funding of £600,000 spread over four years to allow the technology to be used across all areas of the curriculum. In July 2008 St Crispin's became the first secondary school in the
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to be awarded the prestigious ICT Mark from
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, the (now-defunct) Government-funded agency for promoting ICT in schools and colleges. In the summer term of 2008 St Crispin's was recognised as a High-Performing Specialist School by the
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. The status was granted as a result of the school's overall performance and, in particular, for its high-level GCSE results and good OFSTED report. As a result of this recognition the school was invited to apply for a second specialism. A plan for a specialism in Leadership was submitted in January 2009 and approved on 14 February. The school was formally designated as a Leadership Partnership School with effect from April 2009. In 2010 the school was inspected by OFSTED. As a result of the inspection, the school achieved the status of being an 'Outstanding' school. Later, in 2013, the school was again inspected by OFSTED and had its rating changed to 'Good'. Previously a community school administered by Wokingham Borough Council, in February 2018 St Crispin's School converted to academy status. The school is now sponsored by The Circle Trust.


The school in film

Pupils from the school have on two occasions been required to act as extras in films. In 1957 the school's playing fields were used to show scenes of a sports day in the eight-part cinema/TV thriller ''The Great Attraction''. The shooting took place over three days and a number of pupils were used in the film. In 1989 around 150 pupils from the school acted as extras in ''Back Home'', a television feature film starring Hayley Mills and Hayley Carr. The film was set in an English school in 1946 and told the story of an English girl returning home after spending the war years in the US. The students were selected if they had the appropriate look for the period, and they were paid £5 each for their contribution. Bearwood House was used as the location for many of the school shots and other scenes were filmed in
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in West Sussex.


Curriculum

In Years 7, 8 and 9 ( Key Stage 3) students study the core subjects of
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, Mathematics and
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plus the following foundation subjects: French,
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,
Information and Communication Technology Information and communications technology (ICT) is an extensional term for information technology (IT) that stresses the role of unified communications and the integration of telecommunications ( telephone lines and wireless signals) and computer ...
(ICT),
History History (derived ) is the systematic study and the documentation of the human activity. The time period of event before the invention of writing systems is considered prehistory. "History" is an umbrella term comprising past events as well ...
,
Geography Geography (from Greek: , ''geographia''. Combination of Greek words ‘Geo’ (The Earth) and ‘Graphien’ (to describe), literally "earth description") is a field of science devoted to the study of the lands, features, inhabitants, an ...
, Religious Education,
Art Art is a diverse range of human activity, and resulting product, that involves creative or imaginative talent expressive of technical proficiency, beauty, emotional power, or conceptual ideas. There is no generally agreed definition of wha ...
,
Music Music is generally defined as the art of arranging sound to create some combination of form, harmony, melody, rhythm or otherwise expressive content. Exact definitions of music vary considerably around the world, though it is an aspe ...
and
Physical Education Physical education, often abbreviated to Phys Ed. or P.E., is a subject taught in schools around the world. It is usually taught during primary and secondary education, and encourages psychomotor learning by using a play and movement explorat ...
. In addition lessons are offered in
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,
Citizenship Citizenship is a "relationship between an individual and a state to which the individual owes allegiance and in turn is entitled to its protection". Each state determines the conditions under which it will recognize persons as its citizens, and ...
and
Drama Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on radio or television.Elam (1980, 98). Considered as a genre of poetry in general, the dramatic mode has b ...
. Pupils are taught in sets for English, Maths, Science and French. German is offered as a second foreign language from Year 8 onwards to those in the top French sets. The subjects offered at GCSE are shown in the table (right). St Crispin's is one of a small number of state schools which still offer the three separate sciences at GCSE. The following Design and Technology options are offered at GCSE: Food and Nutrition; Graphic Products; Resistant Materials; Systems and Control; Textiles. The subjects offered at
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are also shown in the table (right). St Crispin's participates in the
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Programme and is one of the relatively few schools in the UK to offer this globally accepted professional course in networking. Pupils on this course have networked the computers in the school's IT suite and also those of the neighbouring primary school
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. St Crispin's has pioneered an innovative science buddy scheme, which was featured on Teachernet, the website for teachers and educators. The scheme involved around 30 pupils from the top three sets in
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helping the younger children in
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to conduct experiments and investigations in a lunchtime club. The buddies also visited local primary schools during National Science Week and led practical sessions with
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and
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pupils.


Sports

Pupils at the school participate in the following sports:
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,
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,
basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's h ...
,
cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by str ...
, football, health-related fitness,
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,
netball Netball is a ball sport played on a court by two teams of seven players. It is among a rare number of sports which have been created exclusively for female competitors. The sport is played on indoor and outdoor netball courts and is specifical ...
,
rounders Rounders is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams. Rounders is a striking and fielding team game that involves hitting a small, hard, leather-cased ball with a rounded end wooden, plastic, or metal bat. The players score by running arou ...
,
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,
tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ...
and
trampolining Trampolining or trampoline gymnastics is a competitive Olympic sport in which athletes perform acrobatics while bouncing on a trampoline. In competition, these can include simple jumps in the straight, pike, tuck, or straddle position to more co ...
. There are school teams which play regular fixtures with other local schools in rugby, football, hockey, netball and basketball. Pupils also participate in the Reading Cross Country League. A number of pupils play at county level.


Extracurricular activities


Competitions

Pupils participate in the Economics Challenge,
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, the
Mathematics Olympiad Mathematics competitions or mathematical olympiads are competitive events where participants complete a math test. These tests may require multiple choice or numeric answers, or a detailed written solution or proof. International mathematics comp ...
, and the Wokingham Schools' Debating Competition. In 2004 St Crispin's School, represented by Ella Dolan and Joe Rogers, were the winners of the
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Cup in the inaugural Wokingham Schools' Debating Competition. In 2014, St Crispin's went through to the national finals of Mock Trial Competition (a school record) and were one of the two schools that represented Berkshire in the national finals, held in Birmingham.


Music

Music tuition is provided by Berkshire Maestros at discounted rates. Pupils can learn to play woodwind, brass, percussion, violin, viola, guitar and keyboard. On 23 October 2008, the school hosted the REME wind and soul band for an all day music workshop with the St Crispin's students. During the first two periods of the day, the students who played wind and percussion instruments were invited to take part in a wind band workshop alongside the REME wind band. pieces played included=- Children of Sanchez, El Cumbanchero, King Kong and Here's That Rainy Day. During the third period, all music students were invited to listen to a presentation given by the REME band on life as an army musician. During the fourth and fifth periods, students who played instruments such as percussion, guitar and brass were given the opportunity to play with the excellent REME soul band, along with many St Crispin's students providing vocals on the songs Valerie (Amy Winehouse/Mark Ronson version) and Lady Marmalade. A string workshop also took place during this time. Later that evening, a concert took place in the school hall, which displayed all the work that the students had done during the day. All students, members of the REME band and audience enjoyed the evening. Both the day and the evening were a huge success. St Crispin's School performs a large production every summer. These are usually well known musicals (schools editions) which involve all of the arts departments to create the show. The shows are directed by the drama and music staff, and performed almost exclusively by St Crispin's Students, although some musicians have been known to have performed in some of the shows. The shows get progressively better each year with the performances of Les Misérables and Sweeney Todd arguably being both the most ambitious, yet most successful shows. Recent performance history:


School clubs

A range of clubs are available both at lunchtime and after school. There are clubs for music, drama, dance, art, Warhammer, various sports, computing (including a computer club specifically for girls) and Christian Union.


School trips

The school provides a regular programme of school trips to enhance the curriculum. Pupils have visited
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,
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, Cheddar Gorge,
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and the Black Country Museum. Lower school pupils have the opportunity to participate in a residential team building weekend. Overseas trips have included visits to the First World War battlefields, the art galleries in
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, trekking in
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and Mexico, ski-ing in
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, Italy, and the US, and trips to Moscow and
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. A Level Historians are taken on an annual trip to the Houses of Parliament. German Exchange also takes place in the school.


Achievements and specialisms

St Crispin's is a specialist school in
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and a Leadership Partnership School.St Crispin's School, March 2009 newsletter
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Academy and a
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Systems Networking Academy. The school has
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Status and also holds the
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Award and the ICT Mark. St Crispin's has strong links with the local community and has a special link with
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through its building awareness programme. The school celebrated its best ever GCSE results in 2011 with 89.1% of pupils achieving five or more passes at grades A* to C and 74.5% receiving five or more grades A* to C including maths and English. At
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51% of papers were awarded an A*-B grade.


Admissions

In common with all other schools in Wokingham Borough, school places are allocated by the
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based on designated catchment areas and feeder primary schools. Around 190 places are available at St Crispin's every year. The feeder primary schools for St Crispin's are: * Gorse Ride Junior School * Hatch Ride Primary School * Keep Hatch Primary School * Nine Mile Ride Primary School * Oaklands Junior School * All Saints Primary School * St Theresa's Primary School *Bearwood Primary School * Westende Junior School * St Sebastian's Church of England School In addition the school receives a significant number of students from the primary schools in Bracknell Forest Authority. The 2006 intake was made up of 180 students from 26 different primary schools.


Headteachers


Eric Bancroft (1953-1971)

The first headteacher of St Crispin's was Eric Bancroft who joined the school in 1953. He moved to Wokingham from
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where he was formerly the headteacher of Sheffield County School. Drama was one of Bancroft's particular passions and the school has always had a strong tradition in the subject. Bancroft retired from teaching in 1972 and continued to live in Wokingham. He died on 13 July 1981.


John Cole (1972-1992)

John Cole was selected as headteacher designate on 10 July 1971 and formally took over from Eric Bancroft in January 1972. He was responsible for overseeing the change to comprehensive status and the extension of the facilities to create new science, maths and sixth form blocks. Originally trained as a French teacher, he had a deliberate policy of teaching every pupil in their first year so that he knew every child in the school. He retired in 1992 and died of cancer on 4 January 2007 at the age of 75.


Alex Biddle (1992-2012)

Alex Biddle was appointed as headteacher in November 1991 and took office on 27 March 1992. He has presided over a significant growth in the school roll from a low of 701 in 1993 to 1050 in the 2005–2006 academic year. He retired at the end of the 2011–12 academic school year.


Ginny Rhodes (2013-2022)

Miss G Rhodes started in Spring Term 2013.


Notable alumni

* Luke Bedford, composer *
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, producer and drummer in Does It Offend You, Yeah? * Stephen Hughes, footballerSt Crispin’s School website page on famous students
accessed August 2007 * Peter Lewington, Berkshire and Warwickshire cricketerPeter Lewington profile from Cricinfo
/ref> *Jennifer Rae Daykin, actress. * Robert Dickie, footballer *Harry Cant, footballer


Further reading

*''St Crispin's School: The Story So Far''. Wokingham, Berkshire: St Crispin's School, 2003.


References


External links


St Crispin's School website
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