Trinity Academy, Thorne

Trinity Academy, Thorne
Trinity Academy, Thorne
	View from the north (2015)
Address
	Church Balk; Thorne, DN8 5BY; England
Coordinates	53°36′46″N 0°57′07″W / 53.61275°N 0.95182°W
Information
Type	Academy
Religious affiliation(s)	Christian
Established	2005
Local authority	Doncaster
Department for Education URN	135007 Tables
Ofsted	Reports
Head teacher	Gibson
Gender	Mixed
Age	11 to 18
Enrolment	1225
Colour(s)	burgundy
Website	http://www.trinity-academy.org.uk/

Trinity Academy is a non-selective co-educational secondary school in the English Academy programme, at Thorne near Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England.

It is a member of the Emmanuel Schools Foundation,^[1] established by entrepreneur Sir Peter Vardy to educate pupils within a Christian ethos.

History

The school opened in September 2005 and replaced Thorne Grammar School, established in 1930, which became a comprehensive school in 1973. The majority of the Grammar School's building was demolished, but its war memorial plaque and window were moved to the new Academy building and re-dedicated. The main, Georgian style frontage of the school was subsequently converted into apartments in 2009, with new mews style houses built on the former grass tennis courts along the frontage facing Church Balk.^{[citation needed]}

The school has received rewards from the Specialist schools and Academies trust for being the 'Most Improved Academy in England & Wales' in 2008 and 'Most Improved Academy in Yorkshire & Humberside' in the years 2008, 2009 and 2010. The school was deemed 'Outstanding' by Ofsted in March 2011. However, in December 2013 Ofsted placed the school in 'special measures.' As of 2015, the school is no longer in 'special measures.'

Notable alumni

Thorne Grammar School

Peter Davies (politician), Mayor of Doncaster from 2009 to 2013, and father of Conservative rebel MP Philip Davies
Lesley Garrett, opera singer and Principal Soprano from 1984 to 1998 with the English National Opera^[2]
Leslie Hodson, physicist from Fishlake^[3] who discovered the kaon (K+ meson) sub-atomic particle in 1954 and did important work with cloud chambers
Jill Morrell, author,^[4] campaigner, motivational speaker, and Head of Public Affairs with the British Lung Foundation
George Porter, Baron Porter of Luddenham,^[5] awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1967, knighted in 1972, President from 1985 to 1990 of the Royal Society, and Chancellor from 1986 to 1995 of the University of Leicester
E. A. Smith (historian)

Trinity Academy

Connor Swift, cyclist.^[6]

Other Emmanuel Schools

School	Location
Emmanuel College	Gateshead
The King's Academy	Middlesbrough
Bede Academy	Blyth
Grace College	Gateshead
Christ's College	Sunderland

References

^ "Emmanuel Schools Foundation, registered charity no. 1093739". Charity Commission for England and Wales.
^ Ewing, Sarah (19 May 2024). "Posing naked paid my way at the Royal Academy". The Sunday Telegraph. No. 3, 282. p. 33. ISSN 0307-1235. But the best job I had and the one that really sustained me at the Royal Academy was nude modelling at the Hampstead Garden Suburbs Insititute. I loved it – it was easy and while sitting for hours naked, I'd be learning music in my head
^ Leslie Hodson
^ John McCarthy and Jill Morrell "Some Other Rainbow" Bantam Press 1993 524pp Jill Morrell, attended TGS 1971–76 (approx)
^ Archer, Mary (May 2007). "Porter, George, Baron Porter of Luddenham (1920–2002)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. Retrieved 26 June 2009. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ "Tour de Yorkshire Hopes For Local Cyclist". Thorne Times. 10 April 2018. Retrieved 27 July 2024.

External links

Video clips

Tour of the old school in 2005

[1] "Emmanuel Schools Foundation, registered charity no. 1093739". Charity Commission for England and Wales.

[2] Ewing, Sarah (19 May 2024). "Posing naked paid my way at the Royal Academy". The Sunday Telegraph. No. 3, 282. p. 33. ISSN 0307-1235. But the best job I had and the one that really sustained me at the Royal Academy was nude modelling at the Hampstead Garden Suburbs Insititute. I loved it – it was easy and while sitting for hours naked, I'd be learning music in my head

[3] Leslie Hodson

[4] John McCarthy and Jill Morrell "Some Other Rainbow" Bantam Press 1993 524pp Jill Morrell, attended TGS 1971–76 (approx)

[5] Archer, Mary (May 2007). "Porter, George, Baron Porter of Luddenham (1920–2002)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. Retrieved 26 June 2009. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

[6] "Tour de Yorkshire Hopes For Local Cyclist". Thorne Times. 10 April 2018. Retrieved 27 July 2024.

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