Rawlins Academy

Rawlins Academy
Rawlins Academy
Address
	Loughborough Road; Loughborough, Leicestershire, LE12 8DY; England
Coordinates	52°44′42″N 1°10′16″W / 52.74508°N 1.17121°W
Information
Type	Academy
Religious affiliation(s)	Church of England
Established	1691
Founder	Thomas Rawlins
Department for Education URN	137640 Tables
Ofsted	Reports
Principal	Clare Derby
Gender	Coeducational
Age	11 to 19
Enrolment	1436
Houses	Ignis, Terra, Aqua and Spiritus
Colour(s)	School uniform for Key Stages 3 and 4. Each house also has their own colour.
Publication	Raw Release - weekly
Diocese	Leicester
Former names	Rawlins Grammar School Rawlins Upper School and Community College
Website	http://www.rawlinsacademy.org.uk

Rawlins Academy is a secondary school of about 1600 students situated in Quorn, Leicestershire, England.

History

Origin

Thomas Rawlins founded the school in 1691.

Grammar school

Rawlins became the Thomas Rawlins Grammar School, also known as Rawlins Grammar School.

Comprehensive

Leicestershire changed to comprehensive schools in the 1960s and 1970s, with its Leicestershire plan, implementing three-tier education with upper schools from the age of 14. The school was known as Rawlins School and Community College from 1967, before being renamed the Rawlins Upper School and Community College in the late 1970s.

In September 2013, Rawlins admitted over 240 year seven students as it moved from 14-19 provision to 11-19.

Academy

On 1 November 2011, Rawlins Community College officially gained academy status and became independent of local authority control. In September 2013 the name of the school became Rawlins Academy.

Traditions

Houses

At the beginning of the 2006 autumn term, Rawlins was divided into six houses: Bradgate (Purple), Beaumanor (Red), Swithland (Blue), Outwoods (Green), Beacon (Orange), and Buddon (Yellow).

In the 2009 Autumn term there were a vertical tutor groups with students from all years being placed in the same forms. Each form is assigned a house, with about 20 forms from each house. In 2017, Rawlins changed their coaching system to year tutor groups. At this point each year group had 12 forms (2 for each house).

A revamped house system has launched in 2020, with the school reducing to four houses: Ignis (Red), Terra (Green), Aqua (Blue) and Spiritus (Yellow). This meant that there are now 8 tutor groups for each year (2 in each house). The house names are the Latin translations of the words Fire, Earth, Water and Air. These names were chosen by a vote taken part in by the whole school, and the choice of Latin being used was decided upon by the Year 7 group of 2020-2021.

Media enterprises

Raw TV

Raw TV broadcasts programs from news to event coverage and general entertainment programming via the Rawlins VLE. The current regular programme is the Raw TV News. Other shows currently air as one-off specials and cover anything from sporting events to Rawlins film makers. Raw TV was featured on BBC East Midlands Today in December 2008 as it is one of the only student run college TV networks in the country. The students that run Raw TV work in partnership with other local schools. Programs are edited by students using Apple Final Cut Pro.

Notable former pupils

Tom Bayliss, footballer for Shrewsbury Town; (formerly of Preston North End and Coventry City - League Two Play-off final winner 2017/18)
Dorothy Bennett (biologist),^[1] Professor of Cell Biology, since 1999, at the Molecular and Clinical Sciences Research Institute at St George's, University of London
Louise Lear, née Barden, BBC weather presenter, from Rothley (only her A-levels), and her husband Ian^[2]^[3]
Billy Kee, footballer for Leicester City and Accrington Stanley
George Martin, rugby player for Leicester Tigers; Premiership Rugby winner 2021/22
Liam Moore, footballer for Reading FC and Leicester City; Championship winner 2013/14 with Leicester City
Matt Piper, footballer for Leicester City; scored the last goal at Filbert Street stadium
Willie Thorne, snooker player and BBC TV commentator
Jenny Tomlinson, née Mills, Archdeacon of Birmingham since 2019
Gothy Kendoll, Drag Queen; appeared on RuPaul's Drag Race UK (series 1)

References

^ Leicester Mercury December 2018
^ Loughborough Echo Friday 4 October 1985, page 66
^ Loughborough Echo Friday 28 September 1990, page 10

External links

News items

Smoking in June 2009

[1] Leicester Mercury December 2018

[2] Loughborough Echo Friday 4 October 1985, page 66

[3] Loughborough Echo Friday 28 September 1990, page 10

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