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Landau Forte Academy Amington (previously Landau Forte Academy Tamworth), is a high school situated in
Amington Amington is a area of Tamworth in Staffordshire, England. Formerly a distinct village, it is now part of the Tamworth borough, with no gap between it and the neighbouring wards of Bolehall, Glascote, Glascote Heath and Stonydelph. Consistin ...
, a suburb of Tamworth,
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. The school has around 100 teaching staff and over 900 pupils.


History

Formerly a state school known as Woodhouse High School, it was opened in 1971 (by then Secretary of State for Education
Margaret Thatcher Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher (; 13 October 19258 April 2013), was a British stateswoman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party (UK), Leader of th ...
) as Tamworth's first purpose-built mixed comprehensive high school. The school was one of the first in
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to gain the prestigious Staffordshire Partnership Award for outstanding school industry links. After being placed in
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by
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in 2007, the school continued to improve its
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results for three years and currently around 80% of pupils achieve the government's target of 5 A*-C grades at
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. The changeover to Landau Forte briefly provided the school with better results before dipping for two years in succession like many academies nationwide. The same benchmark for 5 A* to C GCSE results including English and Maths then showed a drop to 42% in 2012 and a further decrease to 37% in 2013 with the school once again performing in line with the old Woodhouse High School despite the massive investment, restructuring and rebranding. In 2020 and 2021 the school praised a number of high performing students at GCSE after traditional exams were cancelled. OFSTED conducted two monitoring visits in 2021 and both occasions reported that the school was taking effective action in order to become a good school. In May 2022 the school was rated as Good by Ofsted. The school was renamed in 2007 from 'Woodhouse High School' to 'Woodhouse Business and Enterprise College' where the school specialized in
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classes. The school was a member of the
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. As a part of
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programme, Landau Forte Charitable Trust took over the management of the school and the school became an
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in September 2010. Pupils and staff moved into a custom-built facility in September 2011, opened officially on 21 September by the Duchess of Gloucester. Simultaneously, the Sixth Forms of the other Tamworth schools - QEMS, The Rawlett School, Belgrave High School and Wilnecote High School closed in 2011 and re-opened at the new Landau Forte Sixth Form next to Queen Elizabeth's Mercian School and South Staffordshire College in the town centre. In 2020, the school was praised for producing a charity advent calendar where staff donated a different item each day until the end of term, with the donations then being given to a local food bank and charity. In 2021, the school was one of the first in the country to be awarded the Remote Learning Accreditation quality mark.


Facilities

Facilities include the school's sports centre, floodlit astroturf playing surface and tennis courts open to both students and the local community after school hours.


Incidents

In 2015, a female student was spotted with multiple knives on Academy grounds. A police inquiry was opened shortly after the incident. In March 2017, an unknown man was caught outside the academy masturbating by a student's mother. The same type of incident occurred later in the month although it is assumed that the public indecency was committed by a different perpetrator.


Notable students

In 2022, Catherine Morris who attended Woodhouse High School (1989–94) was awarded an OBE for services to Healthcare and Child Welfare in India Ryan Stirk - SEMI Professional Footballer Marc Albrighton - Professional Footballer


References


External links


LF Academy Tamworth
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