Kineton High School

Kineton High School
Location
Banbury Road

Kineton
,
Warwickshire
,
CV35 0JX

England
52°09′24″N 1°30′08″W / 52.15656°N 1.50230°W / 52.15656; -1.50230
Information
TypeAcademy
MottoAchieving personal best
Established1957
Local authority
Warwickshire
147432 Tables
OfstedReports
Headteacher
Helen Bridge
GenderCoeducational
Age11 to 18
Enrolment1038[1]
HousesAvon, Castle, Fosse and Verney
Colours    Black, Red and Silver
Websitehttp://www.kinetonhighschool.org.uk/

Kineton High School is a mixed secondary school located in South Warwickshire, England within the village of Kineton. It is a non-selective academy school with a sixth form.

History

A need for a new school was expressed by people of South Warwickshire.[2] In the 1950s, County Education Officer Mr N. A. Y. Yorke-Lodge proposed his high schools scheme with aims to raise standards and cater for all abilities outside of the eleven-plus. Within years, this became schools including in Bidford-on-Avon, Henley-in-Arden, Kenilworth and Shipston-on-Stour as well as Kineton.[3] This lead to children from Kineton and the surrounding area transferring to the newly built school in 1958.[4][5]

The building was expanded over the first years and decades to accommodate rising enrolment.[6] A youth club opened in its own building onsite in early 1964.[7] In 1972, the swimming pool opened, dug with help from the local community and money raised by a pool committee including through students doing three sponsored walks.[2][4] Later the same year, an annexe of Kineton, for administrative purposes, was set up at RAF Gaydon resettlement camp to educate Ugandan Asian refugee children.[8] In 1978, another sponsored walk raised funds to install solar heating panels for the pool.[9] Around 1980, additional laboratories were constructed.[10]

In October 1998, caretaker Ken Thompson found a spider web covering the 4.54-hectare playing field, recognised as world record for the largest spider web outdoors.[11] In the early to mid-2000s the school gained extensions in two classrooms next to the school kitchen,[12] an ICT suite by the library[13] and a fitness suite next to the changing rooms.[14] Specialist Sports College status was obtained in 2003.[15][16] The school celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2008.[4] There was a fire in the sports centre in 2009.[17] An artificial turf pitch for use in P.E. was built on the field in the early 2010s. A new science block was completed in 2017, replacing seven dilapidated mobile classrooms, a significant development. A similar block was planned for across from it in a second phase.[18][19]

The school became an academy in September 2019, joining Stowe Valley Multi Academy Trust, having been a community school run by Warwickshire County Council previously.[1] BBC Midlands Today interviewed students for a report on schools staying open during the COVID-19 pandemic in November 2020.[20]

The school was rebuilt after being named one of the first 50 schools chosen as part of the government's School Rebuilding Programme.[21] All the school buildings were demolished with the exception of the recent science block, replaced by a new three-storey block and separate sports hall, moving in in September 2024.[22] That academic year, the four Houses Adlington, Ainslie, Hoy and Redgrave, named after Team GB Olympians, were replaced by Avon, Castle, Fosse and Verney, local landmarks.[23][24]

Headteachers

There have been six permanent headteachers since the school opened:[4]

Headteacher Duration
Melvyn H Turner −1978
John M Baker 1978–1990?
Paul Logan 1990–2002[25][26]
Julia Morris 2002–2014[15]
Siona Robson 2014–2018
Helen Bridge 2018–present[27]

Academic performance

In 2013 the school was in the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust list of top 20 percent of schools for high attainment in end of Key Stage 4 and the Financial Times’ top 1,000 schools list for post 16 performance.[15]

The school is partnered with Sanghamitta Balika Vidyalaya, a girls' school in Sri Lanka.[28]

Notable former pupils

References

  1. ^ a b "Kineton High School – GOV.UK". get-information-schools.service.gov.uk. Retrieved 2 May 2026.
  2. ^ a b "Superb year for Kineton High". Evesham Journal. 20 October 1977.
  3. ^ Thompson, J. W. M. (8 December 1958). "I visit the schools that could mould your child's future". Evening Standard. p. 5.
  4. ^ a b c d "Kineton High School Turns 50". Warwick Courier. Retrieved 4 January 2015.
  5. ^ "Kineton Village Appraisal & Plan Report 2003" (PDF). Stratford-on-Avon District Council. Retrieved 7 November 2020.
  6. ^ "Kineton extension". Coventry Evening Telegraph. 11 May 1967.
  7. ^ "Kineton's New Youth Club". Coventry Evening Telegraph. 10 February 1964.
  8. ^ Phillips, Bob (8 December 1972). "ENOCH SCRUBS UP FOR HIS COLOURED PUPILS". Coventry Evening Telegraph.
  9. ^ "Pupils earn a 'sun bathe'". Coventry Evening Telegraph. 8 November 1978.
  10. ^ "Heavier load on staff at Kineton High School". Evesham Journal. 30 October 1980.
  11. ^ "Largest spider web outdoors". Guinness World Records. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
  12. ^ "00/02298/COUNTY". E-Planning. Retrieved 22 April 2025.
  13. ^ "02/02999/COUNTY". E-planning. Retrieved 22 April 2025.
  14. ^ "04/00377/COUNTY". E-planning. Retrieved 22 April 2025.
  15. ^ a b c "Kineton's Headteacher is Sad to Leave". Kenilworth Weekly News. Archived from the original on 4 January 2015. Retrieved 4 January 2015.
  16. ^ "823765". Ofsted. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
  17. ^ "Fire at Kineton School". Leamington Courier. Retrieved 4 January 2015.
  18. ^ "Kineton High School Science Block". lungfish-architects.co.uk. Archived from the original on 20 September 2020. Retrieved 20 August 2020.
  19. ^ "New high school science block unveiled". Stratford Herald. Retrieved 2 May 2026.
  20. ^ "BBC Midlands Today". Twitter. Retrieved 7 November 2020.
  21. ^ "School Rebuilding Programme: first 50 schools". Retrieved 19 May 2021.
  22. ^ "Redevelopment Factsheet" (PDF). Retrieved 19 May 2021.
  23. ^ "KHSUpdate-25thOctober24" (PDF). Retrieved 18 April 2025.
  24. ^ "Pastoral System – Kineton High School". Retrieved 18 April 2025.
  25. ^ "Continental class". Coventry Evening Telegraph. 25 June 1991.
  26. ^ "New head for school - at last. - Free Online Library". www.thefreelibrary.com. Retrieved 4 June 2021.
  27. ^ "Kineton High School". Kineton High School website. Retrieved 23 November 2018.
  28. ^ "Jet-setting Kineton Pupils Go On Two Contrasting Trips Abroad". Leamington Courier. Retrieved 4 January 2015.
  29. ^ "Notable Facts". The William Beck Website. Retrieved 4 January 2015.
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