The E-ACT Burnham Park Academy
The E-ACT Burnham Park Academy (BPA) is a co-educational Academyin Burnham, Buckinghamshire, England. A small part of the campus is located in neighbouring Slough, Berkshire. It is an academy sponsored by E-ACT, and has approximately 611pupils.[1]
In April 2014 ofsted report stated that teaching, pupil achievement and pupil behaviour requires improvement.
Accreditation
In September 2005 Burnham Upper was designated by the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) as a specialist Sports College.[2]
In February 2007 and March 2011 an Ofsted inspection judged Burnham Upper to be "inadequate '" and recommended that it be placed on special measures.[3] However, a follow up inspection in December 2008 judged the school to be "satisfactory" and no longer in need of special measures.. This classification no longer exists and has been replaced by needs to improve. [4]
The special measures ended when E-ACT became the academy sponsor of the school.
January 2014 it was rated 'needs to improve' in quality of teaching, pupil achievement and pupil behaviour by OFSTED.[5] Provisional results for 2015 35 percent got 5 GCSEs including English and maths. Summer 2014 only 40% pupils achieved 5 A to C including English and Maths. This was a decrease in performance over a 3 year period from 54% in 2013 to 35% in 2015.
2014 top set science chemistry a to c 22 out of 28. Physics 19 out of 28.
Middle sets core science 38 out 77 a to c. Additional science a to c 6 out of 30 ( no a or a star)
For 2015 E-act declined a freedom of information request for the same information.
2014 English top sets 54 of 61 pupils got a to c in double GCSEs in language and literature.
English Middle set 17 out of 51 got a to c.
2014 maths 114 pupils entered 71 a to c. 50cs!
Phone mast
The E-ACT Burnham Park Academy is one of several Buckinghamshire schools which host mobile phone masts. Contracts between Buckinghamshire County Council and various mobile phone operators generate an income of £145,000 per annum, of which about £59,000 comes from contracts for masts that are installed in schools.[6][7]
E-ACT
On April 2012, E-ACT became the academy sponsor for the "Burnham Upper School" and the school officially converted to an academy which became The E-ACT Burnham Park Academy'. An Ofsted enquiry found that up until September 2013 that a percentage of e-act schools pupil premium funding went to head office for reasons that are not clear. Pupil premium funding is supposed to target the learning of disadvantaged pupils. In March 2014 a further 16 academies where inspected by Ofsted, 5 were placed in special measures and 5 where rated in need of improvement. A ofsted report on E-act found 'intervention and support provided by e-act was ineffective'. Subsequently E-act surrendered 10 of it 34 academies to other sponsors.
In 2014 -2015 Extra pupil premium funding was given to English maths and science to narrow the attainment gap. This funding was unsuccessful in science.
References
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