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Barstable School
The Barstable School was a mixed intake secondary school in Basildon, Essex. It closed in 2009 to become a founding member of the Basildon Academies.
The school was for students aged 11–16 (school years 7–11). The headteacher was Alan Roach. The school received the Sportsmark designation and is part of Creative Partnerships.
The school was on the south side of the A1321, west of the A132 roundabout, around one mile directly east of Basildon town centre. The part of Basildon known as Barstable is named after the former Barstable Hall.
The Barstable School building first opened on 1 March 1962 as the Barstable Grammar and Technical School, a grammar technical school. The grammar school was designed by the Finnish-British architect Cyril Sjöström Mardall (of YRM Architects, Yorke, Rosenberg and Mardall).
The school started before the building existed. Students were housed temporarily in Woodlands Boys School from September 1958 and in Woodlands Girls School in September 1959. The boys and girls were joined as mixed classes after the February half term in 1962.
In 1968, the Grammar and Technical School under the Headmaster G G Whitehead merged with the Timberlog County Secondary School. When the two schools merged into one school, it took the name of Barstable School. Timberlog Secondary School became a housing estate in the 1990s, following a time as the site of the Lower School.
In April 1990, two young brothers Christopher, eight, and Asa, nine, were pulled unconscious from a burning storage shed on the grounds of the School. The boys and their friend Mark Kirby did not survive the incident.
On 30 March 1993 the building became a Grade II listed building. Around this time, the school was grant-maintained.
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Barstable School
The Barstable School was a mixed intake secondary school in Basildon, Essex. It closed in 2009 to become a founding member of the Basildon Academies.
The school was for students aged 11–16 (school years 7–11). The headteacher was Alan Roach. The school received the Sportsmark designation and is part of Creative Partnerships.
The school was on the south side of the A1321, west of the A132 roundabout, around one mile directly east of Basildon town centre. The part of Basildon known as Barstable is named after the former Barstable Hall.
The Barstable School building first opened on 1 March 1962 as the Barstable Grammar and Technical School, a grammar technical school. The grammar school was designed by the Finnish-British architect Cyril Sjöström Mardall (of YRM Architects, Yorke, Rosenberg and Mardall).
The school started before the building existed. Students were housed temporarily in Woodlands Boys School from September 1958 and in Woodlands Girls School in September 1959. The boys and girls were joined as mixed classes after the February half term in 1962.
In 1968, the Grammar and Technical School under the Headmaster G G Whitehead merged with the Timberlog County Secondary School. When the two schools merged into one school, it took the name of Barstable School. Timberlog Secondary School became a housing estate in the 1990s, following a time as the site of the Lower School.
In April 1990, two young brothers Christopher, eight, and Asa, nine, were pulled unconscious from a burning storage shed on the grounds of the School. The boys and their friend Mark Kirby did not survive the incident.
On 30 March 1993 the building became a Grade II listed building. Around this time, the school was grant-maintained.