Welcome

The Swanage School will be a human scale cooperative secondary school opening in September 2013 for all 11-16s in the local area. 


We hope that this site will provide a good understanding of what we want to achieve and answers some of your questions. It will be updated as more information becomes available.

Education Swanage

The school is being set up by Education Swanage, a community group of teachers, parents, governors and residents who are working voluntarily to see full secondary education returned to the town for the first time in 40 years. 

The group Education Swanage is now set up as a limited company and it will operate as the School Trust. Education Swanage will be a co-operative, which means that anyone interested in supporting the school can join. The Swanage School will be the first community co-operative free school in the country and an exemplar human scale free school. It is being set up with help from the charity Human Scale Education. 


For our children's future • For our town's future

As well as providing an excellent local education, another key aim of the group is to bolster the economic sustainability and social mix of Swanage. Every other town in Dorset has secondary education and we cannot find another town in the UK that has to send so many children 10 miles to the nearest school. After campaigning for several years for the local authority to provide a school, the group is taking the free school route.

 

We are planning a gem of a school that will set a benchmark for outstanding teaching, community engagement and local accountability. 

 

Our statutory consultation ended on 10 May. Thank you to everyone who sent us their comments. A report will be published here shortly.

 

Read more about the Principal Vacancy

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details about the Principal vacancy

 

 

Latest News

Principal Recruitment Begins

Recruitment of a Principal for The Swanage School is now underway, with advertisements in the TES and online.

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Outline Planning Permission Granted

Purbeck District Council grant outline planning permission for The Swanage School!

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Plans for grammar school site submitted

Another milestone reached as the Welfare Dwellings Trust submit their plans for developing the grammar school site, which includes a fifty per cent mix of affordable housing.

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Swanage School Proposals Accepted

We're very excited to announce the fantastic news that the Swanage School proposals have been accepted and we'll be opening a brand new secondary school in Swanage in September 2013!

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