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Impington Village College

Field	Value
name	Impington Village College
image	Maxwell Fry Gropius Impington Village College front 2006.jpg
image_size	250px
caption	The school in 2006
coordinates
established
type	Academy
r_head_label	Principal
r_head	Johanna Sale
address	New Road
city	Impington
county	Cambridgeshire
country	England
postcode	CB24 9LX
urn	137826
ofsted	yes
enrolment	1,324
gender	Mixed
lower_age	11
upper_age	18
website	https://www.impington.cambs.sch.uk

Impington Village College is a co-educational comprehensive secondary school and sixth form with academy status, located in Impington in Cambridgeshire, England. The buildings of 1938–1939 by Walter Gropius and Maxwell Fry are Grade I listed.

The school opened in 1939, two weeks after the outbreak of World War II. It was the fourth village college to be opened in Cambridgeshire. As a village college, it was originally intended to encompass all aspects of learning in the village, and included prominent space for adult education and the First Histon Scouts, who are now based in a hut on the grounds of the college.

In 1998 the school was awarded the Sportsmark by Sport England and was also granted international school status by the British Council's central bureau for education visits and exchanges, the first of eleven schools to be designated that way. In September 1999 it built on this with a successful application to the Department of Education to become a specialist Language College. The school converted to academy status in January 2013.

Building

Adult education wing of the college in 2006.

Henry Morris, founder of the village college system in Cambridgeshire, employed prominent architects to design the colleges, and Impington was designed by Walter Gropius, founder of The Bauhaus School of Architecture, and his partner Maxwell Fry. It is the only example of Gropius's work in Britain and the building is now Grade I listed building. In 2014, the college received a £100,000 grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund for important repair and restoration works to the listed part of the site. Work began in the August of that year.

Music students at Impington College in April 1944.

House system

Starting in the 2014/15 academic year, the college introduced a house system for pastoral care in years 7–11. These houses were named after Helen Keller, Rosa Parks, Alan Turing and Raoul Wallenberg. The following year, a vertical tutoring system began, based around these houses.

Impington International College

Impington Village College has an international sixth form, educating pupils aged 16–19 from a mix of nations and cultures. The sixth form offers both A Levels and the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme. It also offers its own course called 'Ideal' which is for students with learning difficulties and teaches them essential life skills, as well as some basic qualifications. Impington has also offered an extra year for year 13 performance students, helping them apply for drama school and audition for companies.

Ofsted intervention

Impington was operating a two year Key Stage 3, where pupils are required to experience 'broad and balanced curriculum', as well as spending three years training for the GCSE examinations.

During a Section 8 inspection in November 2019, Ofsted informed them that it was not possible to be considered for the 'Outstanding' grade using such a model. This has had consequences for other schools and academies across the country.

Notable former pupils

Lew Adams, trade union leader
Liz Barker, television presenter
Ken Cheng, comedian
Alicia Kearns, Conservative MP
Tim Key, comedian
Carlton Morris, footballer
Che Wilson, footballer

References

[https://get-information-schools.service.gov.uk/Establishments/Establishment/Details/137826 Impington Village College]. Government of the United Kingdom. Retrieved 5 September 2018.
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(6 December 2019). "Three year GCSE? No 'outstanding' for you".
(11 December 2019). "Harris Federation schools to ditch three-year GCSEs".

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