Rawlins Academy


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, Beaumanor, Swithland, Outwoods, Beacon, and Buddon.
Since the 2009 Autumn term there has been 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 coaching's. Each year group has 12 forms.
A revamped house system will launch in 2020, with the school reducing to four houses.

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.

Academic performance

Rawlins produces GCSE results are ordinarily above national average. It has one of the highest success rates in the county in completion of P16 courses.

Notable former pupils