North Oxfordshire Academy

North Oxfordshire Academy
Established	2007
Type	Academy
Principal	Ms Sara Billins
Location	Drayton Road Banbury Oxfordshire OX16 0UD England Coordinates: 52°04′19″N 1°22′04″W / 52.07202°N 1.36783°W / 52.07202; -1.36783
Local authority	Oxfordshire
DfE URN	135365 Tables
Ofsted	Reports
Students	800 (approx.)
Gender	Coeducational
Ages	11–21
Website	www.northoxfordshire-academy.org

North Oxfordshire Academy is a coeducational academy school located in north west Banbury, Oxfordshire. It opened in September 2007, replacing the former local comprehensive, Drayton School. It caters for children and young adults between the ages of 11 and 21. The Principal of North Oxfordshire Academy is Sara Billins.

The Academy

North Oxfordshire Academy is run by United Learning. Students officially started learning at the academy on Monday 10 September 2007. Students had an opening ceremony on Thursday 13 September 2007 to commemorate them as the foundation (First) Students to be in the academy. They were presented with a certificate and a badge. At the end of the Summer Term 2007, two of the school’s four main blocks, A Block and C block, were cleared and sealed off ready for refurbishment work that was due to start in September 2007. Its sixth form opened in September 2008. In a recent Ofsted/HMI report the officials advised that the academy had innovative strategies to improve the teaching and learning and confirmed that the academy was continuing to move in a positive direction.

When the Academy was established a new block was built with a new hall, reception, canteen and student support classrooms. School meals are provided by The Brookwood Partnership Limited. In 2010 the vertical tutoring system started which introduced the five new sections of the school named after leading universities/colleges: University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, University of Warwick, King's College London, and Imperial College. Now in addition to the normal uniform students are also required to wear a tie with the corresponding college colours: red, blue, green, purple, and yellow.

It was originally to be called Banbury Academy but due to opposition from Banbury School, the name was changed to North Oxfordshire Academy. The cost of the academy is estimated to be around £20 million.

The school day

The academy day starts at 08:30 and finishes at 15:20 each day. The exception to this is Thursdays, when the students are expected to participate in a range of PEP activities, which change the school day to finish at 15:30. The timetable consists of four 1 Hour & 20 minute periods each day, and this includes one 20 minute break and one 35 minute lunch break.

Principals

Ruth Robinson (2007 - 2011)
Sara Billins (2011 - present)

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Schools in Oxfordshire

Secondary	Banbury Academy Bartholomew School The Bicester School Blessed George Napier RC School Burford School Carterton Community College Cheney School Cherwell School Chiltern Edge School Chipping Norton School Cooper School Didcot Girls' School Faringdon Community College Fitzharrys School Gillotts School Gosford Hill School Henry Box School Icknield Community College John Mason School King Alfred's Academy Langtree School Larkmead School Lord Williams's School Marlborough School, Woodstock Matthew Arnold School North Oxfordshire Academy The Oxford Academy Oxford Spires Academy St Birinus School St Gregory the Great RC School Wallingford School The Warriner School Wheatley Park School UTC Oxfordshire Wood Green School

Independent (preparatory)	Abingdon Preparatory School Christ Church Cathedral School Cothill House Dragon School Emmanuel Christian School New College School The Oratory Preparatory School Rupert House School St Hugh's School Summer Fields School

Independent	Abingdon School Al-Madina School Bloxham School Carfax Tutorial Establishment Cokethorpe School Cranford House School D'Overbroeck's College Education First EF International Academy European School, Culham Greene's Tutorial College Headington School Kingham Hill School King's School Magdalen College School The Oratory School Our Lady's Abingdon Oxford High School Oxford International College Oxford Montessori Schools Radley College Rye St Antony School St Clare's School St Edward's School St Helen and St Katharine Shiplake College Sibford School Tudor Hall School

Special	Bishopswood School Mulberry Bush School Parklands Campus Swalcliffe Park School

Further education	Abingdon and Witney College Banbury and Bicester College City of Oxford College Denman College Henley College

Former	Carmel College City of Oxford High School for Boys Drayton School Falconbury School Milham Ford School Peers School Southfield Grammar School Oxford Military College St Mary's School, Wantage

United Learning schools

Academies	Accrington Academy Barnsley Academy Carter Community School Goresbrook School Hurlingham and Chelsea Secondary School John Smeaton Academy Kettering Buccleuch Academy Lambeth Academy Manchester Academy Midhurst Rother College North Oxfordshire Academy Northampton Academy Nova Hreod Academy Paddington Academy Richard Rose Central Academy Richard Rose Morton Academy Salford City Academy Seahaven Academy Sheffield Park Academy Sheffield Springs Academy Shoreham Academy Stockport Academy Swindon Academy The Regis School Walthamstow Academy William Hulme's Grammar School Wye School

Emmanuel Schools	Bede Academy Emmanuel College The King's Academy Trinity Academy

Independent schools	Arnold KEQMS Ashford School Bournemouth Collegiate School Caterham School Guildford High School Hampshire Collegiate School Hull Collegiate School Lincoln Minster School Sunderland High School Surbiton High School

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North Oxfordshire Academy

The Academy

The school day

Principals

See also

External links