Harris Academy Chafford Hundred

Harris Academy Chafford Hundred
Location
Mayflower Road
Chafford Hundred

Grays
,
Essex
,
RM16 6SA

England

51°28′55″N 0°17′34″E / 51.48206°N 0.29273°E / 51.48206; 0.29273
Information
TypeAcademy
MottoA School for the Future[1]
Established1 September 2001 (formerly Chafford Hundred Campus)
TrustHarris Federation
SpecialistsBusiness and Enterprise
Applied Learning
Gifted and Talented Education[2]
137549 Tables
OfstedReports
Chair
Phillippe Udrzal[3]
Executive Principal
Nicola Graham
Principal
J Maxted[4]
GenderCoeducational
Age11 to 19
Enrolment1420 as of March 2022
Capacity1200[5]
Colour  Sky blue
Websiteharrischaffordhundred.org.uk

Harris Academy Chafford Hundred (formerly Chafford Hundred Campus Business and Enterprise College) is a secondary school and sixth form with academy status located in Chafford Hundred in the borough of Thurrock, England. The building was designed by Nicholas Hare Architects. Previously a comprehensive school, it became an academy on 1 October 2011.[6]

Harris Academy Chafford Hundred is closely linked to Harris Primary Chafford Hundred, Harris Mayflower, and the newer Harris Academy Riverside and Harris Academy Ockendon, sharing executive principals and teaching staff. Before the Riverside building was completed in 2019, Chafford Hundred hosted the establishing school.[7]

History

In June 2000, with a budget of £10 million[8] and under the direction of Thurrock Council as part of the Building Schools for the Future programme, work began on the site for Chafford Hundred Campus Secondary School and Chafford Hundred Primary School. A month later the then-secretary of state for education and skills, Estelle Morris, attended its groundbreaking event as its host. During the event she compared the future schools to Stantonbury Campus and Countesthorpe Community College, stating that they "would be the Stantonbury or Countesthorpe of 2001."[9] Both schools opened on 1 September 2001,[10][11] after which the headteachers began to cooperate with the intention to merge both schools by 2004.[9][12] They shared the same site and operated de facto as a unified all-through school under the name Chafford Hundred Campus Schools. They shared teachers, the same system of governance and a senior leadership team.[13][12][14]

In 2003 the primary and secondary schools officially federated and began to share the same board of governors.[15] The secondary school had its first evaluation by government education inspectorate Ofsted in May. It was found to have secured a "satisfactory" grade,[16] meaning that it had underachieved.[17] The primary school had already been inspected and was also found to be satisfactory.[12][18][19][20] By 2006 the school was named Chafford Hundred Campus School and had become a specialist Business and Enterprise College.[21]

In 2007 Ofsted inspected Chafford Hundred Campus School and found it to be "performing significantly less well than in all the circumstances it could reasonably be expected to perform." Ofsted gave the school an "inadequate" grade as a result. It was given a year to improve or else it would be placed into special measures and be threatened with closure.[22] Ofsted returned in January 2008, by which time the school had changed its name to Chafford Hundred Campus Business and Enterprise College and gained an additional maths specialism. Ofsted found the school to be "making satisfactory progress in addressing the issues for improvement"[23] and graded the school as "good" five months later.[24] Improvements continued and the school was designated as a high performing specialist school in 2009,[25] gaining specialist status in Applied Learning as a result.[26] It was recognised as the "most improved school in England" by the Department for Children, Schools and Families in January 2010, with the number of students passing their GCSEs rising from 16% to 62% over a three-year period.[20]

Chafford Hundred Campus and its adjacent primary school jointly underwent academisation in October 2011, becoming members of the Harris Federation. Its sixth form opened just before an Ofsted inspection in November 2011.[27] Further expansion occurred with Harris Primary Academy Mayflower opening nearby in 2015, and Harris Academy Purfleet opening in 2019.

Premises

A new build.[28][29] The building was intended to combine a nursery, primary, secondary and public library for the local area. The building is three storeys tall with three halls, a cafeteria, and over 50 classrooms including specialised ones for science, computing and DT. The two primary and secondary schools, and the sixth form, are all accessible by Mayflower Road. The library, once open to the public, has since been closed. Since opening the school has undergone two extensions.[30]

Some time after, the sixth form was constructed at a cost of £1.2 million.[31] It is a two-storey building with extra classrooms and a cafeteria.

References

  1. ↑ "Harris Chafford Hundred on Twitter". Retrieved 12 March 2022 – via Twitter.
  2. ↑ "Harris Academy Chafford Hundred Inspection report". Ofsted. 8 November 2011. Retrieved 12 March 2022.
  3. ↑ "Harris Academy Chafford Hundred Governance". get-information-schools.service.gov.uk. Retrieved 12 March 2022.
  4. ↑ "Welcome to Harris Academy Chafford Hundred". Harris Academy Chafford Hundred. Retrieved 12 March 2022.
  5. ↑ "Harris Academy Chafford Hundred". get-information-schools.service.gov.uk. Retrieved 12 March 2022.
  6. ↑ "Education | League Tables | Performance results for Chafford Hundred Business and Enterprise College". BBC News. 15 January 2009. Retrieved 9 January 2011.
  7. ↑ "Harris Riverside". Purfleet-on-Thames Community Forum. 1 November 2018. Retrieved 20 October 2020.
  8. ↑ "The master builders". The Independent. 13 October 2004. Retrieved 13 March 2022.
  9. 1 2 "Two Heads Better than One?" (PDF). National College for School Leadership. Retrieved 13 March 2022.
  10. ↑ "Chafford Hundred Campus Business and Enterprise College – GOV.UK". get-information-schools.service.gov.uk. Retrieved 13 March 2022.
  11. ↑ "Chafford Hundred Primary School – GOV.UK". get-information-schools.service.gov.uk. Retrieved 13 March 2022.
  12. 1 2 3 "Chafford Hundred Primary School Inspection Report". Ofsted. 21 November 2002. Retrieved 13 March 2022.
  13. ↑ "Schools for the future – Exemplar Designs concepts and ideas" (PDF). Department for Education and Skills. Retrieved 13 March 2022.
  14. ↑ "Pupils learning skills not subjects". BBC News. 11 November 2001. Retrieved 13 March 2022.
  15. ↑ Walsh, Ken. "Leading and managing the future school – developing organisational and management structure in secondary schools" (PDF). National College for School Leadership. Retrieved 13 March 2022.
  16. ↑ "Chafford Hundred Campus Secondary School Inspection Report". Ofsted. 7 May 2003. Retrieved 13 March 2022.
  17. ↑ "Ofsted 'satisfactory' rating to be scrapped". The Guardian. 17 January 2012. Retrieved 13 March 2022.
  18. ↑ "Join us on the learning curve". The Guardian. Retrieved 13 March 2022.
  19. ↑ "Alison Banks Video". Retrieved 13 March 2022.
  20. 1 2 "School created five years ago is 'most improved'". The Guardian. 13 January 2010. Retrieved 13 March 2022.
  21. ↑ "Ofsted survey inspection programme – Curriculum Innovation Chafford Hundred Campus School". Ofsted. 6 November 2006. Retrieved 13 March 2022.
  22. ↑ "Chafford Hundred Campus School Inspection Report". Ofsted. 1 May 2007. Retrieved 13 March 2022.
  23. ↑ "Chafford Hundred Business and Enterprise College Monitoring Visit". Ofsted. 11 January 2008. Retrieved 13 March 2022.
  24. ↑ "Chafford Hundred Business and Enterprise College Inspection Report". Ofsted. 8 May 2008. Retrieved 13 March 2022.
  25. ↑ "Harris Academy Chafford Hundred Inspection report". Ofsted. 8 November 2011. Retrieved 12 March 2022.
  26. ↑ "List of specialist schools October 2009". Department for Children, Schools and Families. Archived from the original on 12 October 2010. Retrieved 13 March 2022.
  27. ↑ enquiries@ofsted.gov.uk, Ofsted Communications Team (15 December 2023). "Find an inspection report and registered childcare". reports.ofsted.gov.uk. Retrieved 17 August 2026.
  28. ↑ Architects, Nicholas Hare. "Chafford Hundred Learning Campus – Projects". Nicholas Hare Architects. Retrieved 20 October 2020.
  29. ↑ "Chafford Hundred Campus | Learning Campus | Crofton Consulting". crofton.consulting. Retrieved 18 January 2021.
  30. ↑ "HACH Virtual Open Evening – Harris Academy Chafford Hundred". harrischaffordhundred.org.uk. Retrieved 22 March 2022.
  31. ↑ Control, Bespoke Building. "Harris Academy Chafford Hundred | Bespoke Building Control". bespokebc.co.uk. Retrieved 22 March 2022.
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