Oasis Academy Leesbrook
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| Oasis Academy Leesbrook | |
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Roxbury Avenue , , OL4 5JE England | |
| Coordinates | 53°32′06″N 2°04′56″W / 53.535°N 2.08221°W |
| Information | |
| Type | Free school |
| Established | September 2018 |
| Local authority | Oldham Borough Council |
| Trust | Oasis Community Learning |
| Department for Education URN | 145723 Tables |
| Ofsted | Reports |
| Principal | Sarah Livesey[1] |
| Gender | Mixed |
| Age range | 11–16 |
| Enrolment | 1,254 |
| Capacity | 750 ( 450 in 2021 with 3 years intake) |
| Website | www |
Oasis Academy Leesbrook is coeducational secondary school located in the Oldham in Greater Manchester, England. It is part of the Oasis Community Learning. It opened to pupils in September 2018. It moved to its new site on 9 November 2020. It has not had its first Ofsted inspection.
Oldham City Council and the Department for Education identified a need for 1000 extra secondary school places in East Oldham. Oasis Community Learning put forward a proposal to open a 1500 place Free School.[2] This was approved in April 2017, and the site in Lees was agreed by Oldham Council in July 2017.The site was controversial as it formerly was the site of the failed Breeze Hill School that was demolished in 2013. The proposal was for a free-school, and Manchester was still reeling from the failure and closure of both the Greater Manchester UTC and the Collective Spirit Free School.[3][4]
The school opened in a vacant GM-UTC building,[3] in Oldham town centre in September 2018 and into their new purpose-built building in November, 2020.
Description
Oasis Academy Leesbrook is part of the Oasis Community Learning group, and evangelical Christian charity.[5] The trust has guided forty schools out of special measures. 19 per cent of the 52 Oasis academies are classified as failing.[6] Oasis has opened two other free schools Oasis Academy South Bank and Oasis Academy Silvertown and senior management and teachers have experience in other Oasis schools. The Oasis philosophy involves engaging the community from the start so they have ownership, and offering facilities for the community to use. Almost 50% of the students are deprived receiving pupil premium and free school meals. Parents sign a Home-school agreement where they accept a fairly strict discipline regime.[7]
Oasis has a long-term strategy for enhancing the performance of its schools. Firstly it has devised a standard curriculum, that each school can safely adopt knowing it will deliver the National Curriculum. Secondly it has invested in staff training so they are focused on improving the outcomes for the students, and thirdly, through its Horizons scheme it is providing each member of staff and student with a tablet.[8]