Ken Stimpson Academy
Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Template:Infobox school Ken Stimpson Academy is a co-educational secondary school and sixth form in Peterborough in the English county of Cambridgeshire. The school is a Business & Enterprise specialist school.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
History
Ken Stimpson Academy was founded as Ken Stimpson Community School in 1982, it was a tribute to Kenneth. W. Stimpson who was the Senior Area Education Officer between 1974 and 1979.Template:Cn The school closed as a Community School in August 2023 and reopened as Ken Stimpson Academy as part of the Four Cs multi-academy trust in September 2023.Template:Cn
Expansion
In September 2018, the local council approved plans for the school to build a new two-storey teaching block and to expand some of the existing structures to accommodate a planned rise in capacity from 1014 pupils to 1650 pupils.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Community
Ken Stimpson Academy shares its site with a sports centre (which has a gym and a sports hall) and is home to the Werrington Library.<ref>http://www.vivacity-peterborough.com/venues/werrington-leisure-centre Template:Webarchive Vivacity Sports Centre & Library</ref>
Subjects
The subjects that are taught at Ken Stimpson are:
- Art
- Business & Enterprise
- Careers
- Computing
- Design And Technology
- English
- Humanities
- Modern Foreign Languages
- Mathematics
- Physical Education
- Performing Arts
- Science
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E-Safety Mark
In June 2015, Ken Stimpson received the 360 Degree Safe E-Safety mark by the South West Grid for Learning and was the first school in Peterborough to get this certification.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> According to the Accreditation 360 Degree Safe website, this demonstrates that the school shows good practice in their e-safety policies and procedures.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Ofsted Inspection
The school's (under its previous name) latest Ofsted inspection result was Requires Improvement.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>