St John Fisher Catholic College is a
mixed secondary school and
sixth form
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located in
Newcastle-under-Lyme in the
English county of
Staffordshire. The school is named after
Saint John Fisher, a
Roman Catholic
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bishop
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and
theologian
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who was executed by order of
Henry VIII during the
English Reformation
The school was originally named after the Blessed Thomas Maxfield and changed to St John Fisher in 1980.
Previously a
voluntary aided school
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administered by the
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Birmingham and
Staffordshire County Council
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62 councillors sit on Staffordshire County Council. Staffordshire operates a cabinet-style council
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, St John Fisher Catholic College converted to
academy status in April 2014. The school is now part of Christ the King Catholic Collegiate, a Multi Academy Company, administered by the Archdiocese of Birmingham.
St John Fisher Catholic College offers
GCSEs
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as well as BTECS as programmes of study for pupils, while students in the sixth form have the option to study from a range of
A-levels and
BTECs. The sixth form provision is offered as the Trinity Sixth Form, a collaboration between St John Fisher Catholic College,
St Margaret Ward Catholic Academy, and
St Thomas More Catholic Academy.
References
External links
St John Fisher Catholic College official website
Secondary schools in Staffordshire
Newcastle-under-Lyme
Catholic secondary schools in the Archdiocese of Birmingham
Academies in Staffordshire
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