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Oasis Academy Mayfield
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Motto To Live is to Learn
Established 2008
Type Academy
Principal John James Toland
Deputy Principals Bernadette Hanley
Elizabeth Wagner
Jane Hibbs
Lou West
Specialism Global Communications
Location The Grove & Porchester Road
Southampton
Hampshire
SO19 9LX
England England
LEA Southampton
Students 850
Gender Coeducational
Ages 11 to 16
Colours Red      Blue     
Website http://www.oasisacademymayfield.org
Coordinates: 50°53′16″N 1°21′31″W / 50.8878°N 1.3586°W / 50.8878; -1.3586

Oasis Academy Mayfield is a city academy in Southampton, England run by Oasis Community Learning (a foundation established by the Oasis Trust) with approximately 900 pupils.[1]

The school operates on the sites formerly occupied by Woolston School and Grove Park Business and Enterprise College. Years 10 and 11 currently occupy the Woolston School site and will until 2011 with years 7, 8 and 9 on the Grove Park site also until 2011, when the academy will merge onto the Grove Park site.

Initial Difficulties

The school was criticised by parents and teachers after an alleged 150 pupils (the figure was later revised to 40)[2] reportedly caused hundreds of pounds of damage, including multiple smashed windows on the Porchester Road site.[3] Ofsted insectors were called to investigate the school[4] after more criticism from the local MP, John Denham and local Labour councillors.[5] Several parents have transferred pupils to other local schools, including Chamberlayne College for the Arts[6]. After a meeting between parents and local MP, John Denham, headteacher Ruth Johnson resigned, to be replaced by John Toland on 24 November 2008.[7][8][9] The school was extensively criticised in Private Eye as a bad example of Labour's City Academies scheme.

John Toland officially took the title of Principal on Monday 2 March 2009 after spending time as Acting Principal following the resignation of Ruth Johnson who previously worked at Cantell Secondary School.[10]

References

  1. ^ "School's out... forever". The Southern Daily Echo (Newsquest Media Group). 1:17pm Friday 4th July 2008. http://www.webcitation.org/5eg3Rt42F. Retrieved 2008-08-21.  
  2. ^ Smith, Matt (23 October 2008). "Oasis Academy Mayfield head Ruth Johnson speaks out". NewsQuest. http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/search/3784048.Head_of_troubled_school_defends_decisions_made/. Retrieved 2009-01-22.  
  3. ^ "Dozens of pupils go on rampage at school". The Southern Daily Echo (Newsquest Media Group). 12:10pm Monday 20th October 2008. http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/3772566.Dozens_of_pupils_go_on_rampage_at_school/. Retrieved 2008-10-20.  
  4. ^ "Ofsted inspectors called into Oasis Academy Mayfield". The Southern Daily Echo (Newsquest Media Group). 12:20pm Friday 24th October 2008. http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/briefing/oasisacademy/3788036.Ofsted_inspectors_called_into_city_academy/. Retrieved 2008-10-25.  
  5. ^ "Oasis Academy Mayfield needs experts says John Denham". The Southern Daily Echo (Newsquest Media Group). 10:58am Wednesday 22nd October 2008. http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/briefing/oasisacademy/3781018.School_needs_troubleshooters/. Retrieved 2008-10-25.  
  6. ^ "Fathers says why he took sons out of Oasis Academy". The Southern Daily Echo (Newsquest Media Group). 6:30am Friday 21st November 2008. http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/education/3865625.Why_I_took_sons_out_of_school/. Retrieved 2008-11-21.  
  7. ^ "City's new academy head resigns". BBC News (BBC). 19:05 GMT, Monday, 24 November 2008. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hampshire/7746955.stm. Retrieved 2008-11-24.  
  8. ^ "Head teacher resigns from city school after parents complaints". The Southern Daily Echo (Newsquest Media Group). 11:10am Monday 24th November 2008. http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/briefing/oasisacademy/3872026.Head_of_troubled_Oasis_academy_quits/. Retrieved 2008-11-24.  
  9. ^ "New Principal for Oasis Academy Mayfield". 2008-11-24. http://www.oasisacademymayfield.org/news/63. Retrieved 2008-11-24.  
  10. ^ "John Toland is here to stay!". 2009-05-03. http://www.oasisacademymayfield.org/news/104.  

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