Plume School

Plume School
Established 1970 (1970)
Type Academy
Headteacher Mr Carl Wakefield
Location Fambridge Road
Maldon
Essex
CM9 6AB
Local authority Essex
DfE number 881/5402
DfE URN 137790 Tables
Ofsted Reports Pre-academy reports
Capacity 1841
Students About 1760 as of January 2015
Gender Mixed
Ages 11–18
Website www.plume.essex.sch.uk

Plume School is a secondary school with academy status located in the town of Maldon, Essex, England.[1] The school is split over three separate campuses. Mill Road houses years 7 and 8, Fambridge Road years 9, 10 and 11 and Fambridge Road Campus is home to the sixth form.[2] The headteacher is Mr Carl Wakefield.[3] Wakefield was previously principal of Bexleyheath Academy.

History

Plume School can trace its routes back to the mid-sixteenth century via the Maldon Grammar School, founded in 1608 the grammar school was established by Ralph Breeder, an alderman of the corporation, a haberdasher and linen draper who left £300 for 'for the maintenance of a schoolmaster to teach a grammar school within the town". The school bears the name of Thomas Plume who, on his death in 1704, bequeathed his library of 7,000 books to the town of Maldon (now housed at the Thomas Plume Library) and money for a schoolmaster and librarian to look after the collection. The Plume School in its modern form was established as a comprehensive in 1970 and merged with the Maldon County Secondary School located at the current site.[4]

Performance

Plume School is rated "good"[5] in all four Ofsted categories (achievement of pupils, quality of teaching, behaviour and safety of pupils and leadership and management) of its most recent inspection.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Plume School in Maldon closed after tragic death of teacher - Essex Chronicle". Essex Chronicle.
  2. ↑ "Why Choose Us". Plume School. Retrieved 4 December 2015.
  3. ↑ "Plume School". EduBase. Retrieved 4 December 2015.
  4. ↑ "Maldon Plume School - Four Centuries of Education 1608-2008" (PDF). Retrieved 4 December 2015.
  5. ↑ "Plume School" (PDF). Ofsted. Ofsted. Retrieved 9 December 2015.


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